2022/099: Notorious Sorcerer — Davinia Evans

2022/099: Notorious Sorcerer — Davinia Evans

"Alchemy's just a word. Just a box so they can say inside yes and outside no. You know what people called the Art, before they started dressing up fancy with their longvests and glassware?" Her smile curved wicked and clean as a blade. "Magic." [loc. 879]

Siyon Velo comes from the wrong side of town, Dockside, but he's built a successful business retrieving alchemical supplies from the other planes -- the Empyreal, the Abyssal, and the Aethereal -- and selling them to various alchemical practitioners. His clients are mostly azatani, or aristocrats: Siyon is well aware that they have privilege he can't even imagine. ( Read more... )