Seven Swords of Sin - Alchemy Room Paintings *possible spoilers*


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The description for this room says that the paintings provide clues to the function of the cauldron. I get some of the hints. These colors together summon a demon. These colors have something to do with undeath. But They neither elaboate all outcomes, nor say which color is the liquid and which the powder for the ones they do indicate.
So I was curious if I could get a DM's cheat sheet for what, exactly, the paintings are supposed to show.


I wondered the same thing. I studied the paintings for quite a while, feeling dumber by the minute. I need better clues (or at least more simplistic ones - the demon one was the only one I fully understood). Also, why only three paintings when there are more than three serious outcomes from color-combinations?


Let’s start with the third painting; the demon is holding a gold (yellow) goblet and a red object. Yellow liquid (represented by the goblet) and a red solid (powder) makes aqua demonic, and summoning a demon. The second painting shows blue water crashing into a keep; notice the out of place red bit on the keep. Blue liquid and a red solid makes alkahest, the destructive property of the acid is represented by the keep collapsing. The first painting has both red and blue but no real way to identify what the solid is and what the liquid is, except we already used a blue liquid and red solid for the second painting, so it must represent a red liquid and a blue solid, making aqueous aperture. The skeleton is a perfect representation the negative energy plane.

RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32

Except that the skeleton also has yellow: The gold ring in his chest. And there are still the reversed combinations.

Also, what happens if I mix a like fluid and power? (i.e. Yellow and yellow.


IIRC nothing happens, when you mix like colours.

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What I want to know, is how do those paintings tie in with the legends of Nicholas Flamel?????

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