I'm writing a manuscript! At least, the prologue of one. :P
A great many years ago, before time was a concept and before we had the instruments with which to measure it, there lived people who were, above all else, creators. They would focus all their energies and spend all their lives striving towards what would potentially be a single thing. Some created devices with which to make their collective lives easier, whilst other created spells with which to defend themselves from whatever might come to pass. But one thing that all these creators, geniuses they may have been, overlooked. They looked at the vast world and saw only a pool of resources, or an inspiration. It was only when a minority of these creators began to look at the world in a different light did they create a new art, unlike anything previously seen. This art focused on the science of the world around the creators, and bent it to their will â for the world, in their eyes, was not just a resource, but something that could be used as a tool in its own right. This few were able to advance because they did not accept the world for what they saw, but dared to see it for what it could be. This is how the art known as alchemy came to be.
Interesting.