My First Alembic

Quest giver: Severian
Location: Ul'dah - Steps of Thal (X:9.2, Y:13.6)
Class: Alchemist
Level: 1

Required items: 1 Distilled Water
Experience: 300
Gil: 0
Previous quest: Way of the Alchemist
Next quest: The Second Principle
Patch: 2.0
Links: EDB GT

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Guildmaster Severian wants you to use the weathered alembic to perform your first alchemic miracle.

— In-game description

Rewards

Walkthrough

The game can never tell where you get your items from. NPC vendor or Market Board is fine. That said, some later crafts are UNTRADABLE, so you must make those yourself.

Steps

Deliver a bottle of distilled water to Severian. 0/1

Journal

Guildmaster Severian wants you to use the weathered alembic to perform your first alchemic miracle.

Guildmaster Severian has instructed you to use your alembic to create a bottle of distilled water. The pail of muddy water required for this task can be purchased from the supplier by the guild's entrance. Once you have successfully synthesized a bottle of distilled water, you are to deliver it to the imposing alchemist at his workbench.

You have delivered the distilled water to Guildmaster Severian, thus completing your first task as a novice alchemist. He excitedly bids you continue your training, and revel in the joy of each small alchemical miracle.
- ※The next alchemist quest will be available from Severian upon reaching level 5.

Dialogue

Severian: Ah, I see you've managed to take hold of the alembic without injuring yourself. An auspicious beginning!
Severian: Let us see if we can continue this trend of unexpected success. For your first lesson, I want you to use your weathered alembic there and make me a bottle of distilled water.
Severian: Distilled water is simply the end result of purifying a murkier sample of life's most vital element. As such, it provides the perfect introduction to one of alchemy's most fundamental processes: taking a material and refining it into a purer form.
Severian: To perform this rudimentary exercise, you shall require a pail of muddy water and a water shard. The impure water can be purchased from the supplier standing near the entrance to the guild. The name momentarily escapes me... Esmenet? Yes, that was it.
Severian: If it happens that you find this basic task beyond your abilities, then mayhap alchemy is not the discipline for you. Which would be quite upsetting, as I detest the thought of having to select a new...assistant. Try not to disappoint me.

System: To synthesize a bottle of distilled water for Guildmaster Severian, select [Logs] from the main menu, followed by [Crafting Log].

Severian: Your task is to provide me with one bottle of distilled water. Come, come, we are wasting time. Purchase a pail of muddy water from Esmenet, if you must.
Severian: Hm hm hm. Heh heh heh. Mwahahahahaha! Magnificent! Your transformation into an alchemist has begun!
Severian: Do you understand the liquid treasure you have made? Yes, it is still simply water, but now possessed of almost limitless potential! In a properly distilled state, water provides the base ingredient for all manner of wondrous concoctions.
Severian: On the other hand, a potion created with impure water is not only unlikely to have the desired effect─it may very well poison the imbiber!
Severian: Look well upon the substance you have refined. See how crystal clear it has become. Not the most flavorful of libations, but still refreshing to pour over one's head on a stifling summer afternoon!
Severian: Tell me, how did you feel in the instant of its purification? Such a fine result must have sent thrills of excited satisfaction down your spine. Yes...I know well that sensation.
Severian: To glean a pristine drop from filthy swill─it is a miracle born of mortal artifice. Nothing can compare to that rush of triumph in the moment when physical laws bend to one's will! Nothing!
Severian: The greater your mastery of alchemy, the more ecstatic that feeling becomes. Go, fill your chambers with bottles of distilled water and revel in each success!
Severian: I return now to my experiments. When next you disturb me I shall expect your skills to be worthy of a guildmaster's chosen assistant.

System: The next alchemist quest will be available from Severian upon reaching level 5.