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Kiadony wrote: What you've described sounds more like FMA alchemy :P Actually, FMA took their entire premise and lore from the real-world alchemy.

Of course alchemists were mixing liquids as well, but the potionmaking of Elder Scrolls is more akin to the potion brewing of the witches than the alchemical research of the medieval scientists.

In fact, enchanting is closer to the real-world alchemy than the in-game alchemy is.