What are the laws of alchemy?

Question

Kinda a weird question, I know. But I was just wondering if there were any laws of alchemy that you must abide by, like say "You cannot transmute humans" or something

Answer 1

i always wanted to be a alchemyst............

Answer 2

what are the laws of fantasy....they're the same...

Answer 3

Alchemy is a language of symbols. The most widely accepted text is the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, the thricefold magus. The truest words upon the tablet I take as my own motto and might work well for your story - "As above, so below. As below, so above."

A basic interpretation of this - one that will work for you - is that everything is repeated both upon the microcosm and the macrocosm, the large and small things will mirror one another. There are no rules to alchemy, it is a search for understanding by the individual.

Answer 4

only one "it can't be done".  Alchemy is no science and therefore it has no laws, some may claim rules but they are entirely contrived