Vincent Von Reigns

Vincent Von Reigns is an alchemist who lives near Gromkar in the Sürgün Günlükleri ("Exile Chronicles") campaign. At Karak's suggestion he came to the Tahta Bacak inn to meet Kemp Corvus, Sarah and Ephorus: a thin man with a fine moustache, a goatee and small spectacles, carrying a bag of bottles almost as tall as himself. He said he had been knighted for healing a noblewoman's daughter, though he did not in fact use a sword.¹

He said he had long known Karak, who regularly bought potions of strength from him. His house on the mountainside held a fully equipped alchemical laboratory, where he tried his potions on animals so as not to harm his customers. He described his workshop as lying within walking distance on the north road from Gromkar, near great fields of sunflowers, and said that if he was away his apprentice would help.²³

Potions

He offered healing potions and elixirs of health, potions of fire breath, speed, flight and invisibility, though he said the speed potion had been promised to someone else. He could brew a potion for seeing in the dark in a day, but not a speed potion with the equipment he had there, and he explained that a poison he sold was meant to be drunk, not put on a blade. The companions bought a bundle of healing potions and elixirs with one potion of speed and one of fire breath, bargained the price down, and shared them out among the three.⁴⁵⁶

He told them that a dragon's heart, eyes and scales were very valuable; a potion of fire breath could be made even from a dragon's lesser remains, but stronger materials made stronger potions. For their wolf pup Kısmet he sold a tonic, to be mixed into meat over three days, which he said would help the pup grow healthy and come close to the best of his kind.⁷⁸

The white powder

Later the companions looked for someone versed in alchemy but found no one as good as the alchemist they already knew, and went back to him. They asked him to examine a white powder found inside a black stone. To test whether it might be false, he set up a vessel and crude spinning devices for an analysis that lasted hours.⁹¹⁰

At the end he pronounced it true angel-wing dust, the celestial dust that can be had only from certain celestial beings: from the remains of angels that fell on Victory Day, or very rarely from an aasimar with wings. He called it a very rare and valuable material that could strengthen potions within the bounds of alchemy, and thought that mages might use it for other ends; the legality of trading in it was also discussed. He promised to keep the matter secret and to help them again when they needed it.¹¹¹²¹³