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Book Chapter
Alchemy
2011
Overview
Of the many types of magic at work in the computer game medium—and we have discussed several in the course of this book—arguably none is more potent and pervasive than alchemy. Commonly (though not necessarily accurately) understood as a pseudo-science focused on discovering a way to convert lead into gold, alchemy can be traced back to ancient Egyptian and Greek words that refer either to the cadaverous black silts that form the bed of the life-giving Nile River or to the hazardously transformative arts of early metallurgy. Tellingly, neither the geological nor metallurgical etymology is definitive; the word
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
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ISBN
0817317376, 9780817317379
