User blog comment:Timeoin/Another podcast/@comment-205.236.126.15-20110527025022

He does not say "Alchemy is in the SPELLS category" but in the STEALTH category. Which actually makes plenty of sense given the actual usefulness of alchemy in the game. Mages might have needed alchemy in Morrowind to restore magika. But in oblivion it was useless for mages since they can use spells instead. However the addition of poison was a HUGE addition for the stealth players. It was sweet to shoot a troll off in the distance with a poison arrow and look at it charge at you, only to see it die from the poison just before reaching you. Alchemy is useful for non-magick users. It actually makes a lot of sense to put it under stealth, and I'm glad they did.