Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-82.15.119.118-20160629073354

I've been wondering this for some time now. Alchemy is the art of transmuting (changing) one thing into another. It usually works on the principle of equivalent exchange, i.e. to get one pound of gold you need to use ingredients of equal value and weight of one pound of gold.

However in Skyrim, Alchemy is the process of brewing potions.

In most cases, that would be called brewing or potionmaking.

It's especially odd when you consider that there is a transmutation spell, which works like you'd expect alchemy to work. 