**Availability**: Cities only
**Wage**: By job, see below
Masters of the obscure arts of purifying, mixing, and transmuting substances to achieve spiritual and magical effects.
**Analyzing potions**: An alchemist can analyze the effects of a potion, working from a small sample. Costs 200gp and takes 1d6 days. There is a 1-in-6 chance of a false result.
**Brewing potions**: An alchemist can be hired to brew a potion. Costs the potion’s standard value and takes 1d6 days per 500gp value. There is a 1-in-6 chance of failure.