I am alive! I researched A LOT of alchemy. Yes. Alchemy! So there are actual texts from the middle ages that revolve around it and I tried to read them. And their attempts of deceiver these texts.
because while you can read it, they are written in verse form (like a poem), and all the words have a different meaning. So here I was, trying to learn about an old "science" (lol), but all I got was drafted into a philosophical poetry slam.
So now, I, euuuuh.... let's say I needed some time away from my emotions to cope with what I found and the headdache it gave me. We (the books and I) are cool now...kinda.
Anyway, here is an example of what I read: The Book Of Lambspring. I....didn't read it to the end. My brain is cooked, lol.
And at the end, I wondered why tf I actually read it, because I don't write about deceivering this, I write a regular fantasy book ffs...
I must refrain from crawling into every rabbit hole there is. Geezus!