![]() There’s a lot of mix and matching of those in FMA, which might cause doubts on Arakawa’s intent depending on which code/tradition/emblem/etc she was being inspired by, but I tried to be as mindful as possible with considering all most likely meanings to construct a coherent narrative about the Flame Alchemy Scheme.Īlso this is as good a time as any to point out there’s been a lot of cultural/religious appropriation from Eastern cultures and peoples by white European alchemists and occultists with utter disregard to the weight of what they were doing, particularly (but not exclusively) in the 19th century onwards. As you can imagine, alchemists developed different signs, symbols, and formulas throughout the centuries and around the world, often borrowing from each other but sometimes making things as they found fitting. The material that is more accessible to us in the West have been created between the 15th and 19th centuries, but Alchemy has been around for at least 2.000 years and never stopped evolving, even today. ![]() Importantly, I’ll remind you what I mentioned earlier: Alchemy is a collection of disciplines that have existed in all of the Ancient World (Eurasia and Africa) for millenia. I probably missed a lot of stuff because there’s so much content available there, and a lot of it is scattered, so if you look around and find something I missed please feel free to add/tell me! However, if you ask “why didn’t you add X someone else talked about”, there’s a good chance that I couldn’t find it on The Alchemy Website or outside links it provided. Therefore I had Adam McLean’s Alchemy Websiteas my “gold standard” for 85% of research: everything I found around the web I’d go and bring back to double check with it, especially if it was directly connected to alchemy. This is the internet, though, so sometimes sources need sources I couldn’t just collect everything and slap it on if I wanted to make this as accurate as possible. So, to make that tattoo breakdown, I went through all sources I possibly could. Please read part 1 to know wth I’m talking about here. That includes alchemical concepts must take that into consideration.īecause those have been thought over, even correct assumptions may sound shallow if you take them without digging a bit deeper to find more roots.Īnd I’m positive I can show you evidence that will prove Roy Mustang and his relationship with Flame Alchemy and to the Hawkeyes (particularly Riza) is amazingly deep. ![]() Works in order to make it make some sense as a magic system in Fullmetal Lengths she went to understand intrinsically how alchemic knowledge irl Random magic hocus pocus and slapped the name of alchemy in it, the While it’s obvious that she didn’t just make stuff from thin air like a I’m ready to show you my extensive research in deciphering the flame alchemy array.įirst we ned to understand that Arakawa is a goddamn monster. Jokes too but also with a lot of content from the past 10 years, you Livereading thread with my interpretations and impressions and stupid I was obsessed with FMA between 2006Īnd 2010.
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