Alma/Lore
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Profile[edit]
Introduction Dialog[edit]
I’m Alma, a first-rate alchemist… In training, anyway. I’ve got a lot of research to do, so if you don’t mind, I’d appreciate it if you’d return me to the Guild. Hm? What’s that? You’re in desperate need of someone with my ability? Well… If you put it that way! Perhaps I can help you after all! Now, off we go!
Character Traits[edit]
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Other Info[edit]
- Episode, Story, Side Quest Appearances
- Appears in Apocrypha Wanderer in the Vortex
Story[edit]
Character Quest 1: Unchanging Things[edit]
Walking in Acteul, Alma and Aldo overhear a commontion. It seems a father and son are arguing.
Aldo, Alma, and Hom overhear a father and a son arguing in Acteul. The son broke his doll and is upset that his father cannot fix it for him. Alma takes a look at it and states that she can repair it if the young boy begs for it. Since he has never heard of alchemists, however, the kid takes his toy to the palace magician instead. Alma is offended and wants to help him, so she and Aldo go after him.
They find him at Palsifal Palace begging a magic soldier and a mage, but they are busy making new golems to protect the palace. When Aldo and Alma arrive, the magicians are surprised to see an alchemist and Alma is saddened that alchemists have become so unknown that magicians don’t even see them as rivals anymore.
Alma then takes another look at the boy’s doll and is able to figure out the materials it was made of. They go to Zol Plains, where Alma creates some homunculi to show off and have them gather the materials for them. However, Alma forgets to specify how to do it, so they just start running around. One of the them attracts some dinosaurs that they are forced to kill.
After the fight, Alma acknowledges her mistake and collects the runaway homunculi with Aldo’s help. Finally, they gather the needed materials and go back to Acteul, since Alma wants to show her alchemy to the kid’s father as well, although the kid seems a bit reluctant.
Alma shows off her alchemy again by not only repairing the broken doll, but creating many more of it. Both Aldo and the father are impressed, but the boy isn’t happy, since he can no longer tell which of the dolls is his. He explains that his father made the original doll to make him feel less lonely, because he is always busy at work.
However, since his father didn’t get mad at him when he broke it, he might not truly care about him. His father apologizes for not realizing how important the doll was for his son and explains that he was just going to make a new one for him. After analyzing the materials, Alma thus identifies the original doll and assures the boy that she will fix it as many time as he needs if he drops it again.
Leaving the father and son behind, Aldo comments on how generous Alma was and she admits that she can understand the value of something irreplaceable, although she didn’t get to spend a lot of time with her birth parents.
Apocrypha Wanderer in the Vortex: Fatum Argentauri[edit]
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True Ending[edit]
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After completing Fatum Argentauri, Aldo is considered to be acquainted with Alma regardless if the player has Alma.
Character Quest 2: Like Unto A Soul[edit]
In Elzion, Alma witnesses an android holding a natural conversation. She seems very interested in it.
Aldo and Alma spot an android holding a natural conversation with a young man in Elzion. Alma is surprised and wonders if it has a soul, thinking that she could create even more refined homunculi if she learns how androids are made. They are interrupted by Nonold, who has overheard their conversation about homunculi. He is interested in alchemy and the philosopher’s stone, but doesn’t believe Alma to be a real alchemist due to her young age. She in turn question Nonold about being a true scientist and the two decide to prove themselves to one another.
They head to Laula Dome, where there is the natural earth and wood that Alma needs. There, Nonold shows off a drone with with newly-created AI, while Alma creates a homunculus. Nonold thus acknowledges her as a true alchemist, but his drone isn’t impressed and starts praising its creator and making fun of Alma.
Nonold explains that his drone is the same as Alma’s homunculus, which acts according to the orders given to it, but the drones’ orders are simply more complex. Alma asks Nonold if he will please teach her, so he invites her to Xeno-Domain to give her a crash course on AI. After his lecture, Alma concludes that she could create a homunculus that is given the order to enhance itself, as Nonold offers to teach her everything she needs to know.
Alma is able to understand everything that Nonold teaches her and goes to Tower Argentauri with Aldo to make a new homunculus. Since the tower is off-limits to outsiders, Nonold will meet them in Gamma District. Alma is thus able to create a new homunculus that she names Lus, since Hom and Munc are already taken. Lus is able to talk and quickly learns more words. Although Lus says some weird things, Alma wants to make it into her new assistant and teaches it alchemy.
She then proceeds to show him off to Nonold. Aldo meets him first, and Alma appears soon after being chased by some homunculi. Apparently, Alma had Lus make some homunculi of its own and it has now gone wild and disrespectful. Aldo, Alma, Hom, and Nonold run to Route 99 out of Elzion to prevent civilians from getting hurt.
After Alma creates some homunculi to get rid of Lus’ homunculi, she admits to Nonold that she didn’t place any safeguards on Lus, because she didn’t want to steal its freedom to grow and learn. Lus arrives and asks Alma if she truly cares about it, but they are interrupted by synth humans who are planning to attack Elzion.
Hearing that they are rebelling against humans for creating them first and not appreciating them later, Lus joins forces with the synth humans. However, it has a change of heart when it realizes that they want it to kill his creator Alma. A synth human thus prepares to kill it as well, but Alma rescues it and kills the invading synth humans with the help of Aldo and Nonold. Finally, Lus realizes that Alma is special to it and they promise to stay close to one another. Even Nonold is touched, although he tries to hide it.
Character Quest 3: Bonds of Gold[edit]
While cleaning her master’s old rooms, Alma finds an old stack of diaries. Just then, a visitor arrives.
While cleaning up her master’s office, Alma finds an old stack of diaries. Aldo and Lele join her and she tells them that she has eliminated the segregation among ranks to let everyone share their knowledge with one another. Lele then tells her that she has something to give her, but wants to give it to her while moonbathing.
They are interrupted by an unregistered alchemist named Jan, who claims to have studied under Paracelsus before Alma. Apparently, he left the guild and his tutelage in disgrace, but shows his Argentum badge as proof that he is telling the truth. He also knows that Alma is their master’s daughter, having been told in strict confidence, and even held her as a baby, even though she tried to bite him before she really started liking him.
He offers his support to Alma, since she is still so young, but Alma is reluctant to accept it. Aldo and Lele almost convince her, but they are interrupted by an alchemist, who informs them that soldiers from the palace are demanding that everyone comes out of the guild immediately. They thus rush to the entrance, as Jan notes to himself that the vultures have already shown themselves.
At the entrance, the Palsifal Palace soldiers want to perform a search of the tower and order everyone to vacate the premises, claiming that they have received reports of Paracelsus dying under suspicious circumstances. Jan arrives and blames the court magicians for plotting to crush the guild. As the alchemists refuse to obey, someone summons a tempered arms and attacks the soldiers.
Aldo shields them and they run away to report to the palace. Jan then introduces himself as Paracelsus’ first student, as confirmed by an old alchemist, and rallies everyone to fight for the survival of alchemy. Alma and Lele object, but Jan informs everyone that he will be preparing in the Argentum chambers for a fight and hopes that some of the other alchemists will join him.
Aldo, Alma, and Lele follow him and confront him about attacking the soldiers. He admits that he was the one who summoned the war automaton produced by his own formula and that it has a magic-resistant formula inscribed in it. He calls it armored arms. They realize that Jan was planning to fight them from the beginning and tell him that what stopped Paracelsus’ dangerous experiment was Lele and Alma working together. However, Jan still doubts that the guild can survive under their leadership.
He says that Alma can leave the guild, as her role is representing the heights that can be achieved by alchemy, being a homunculus who reached the Aurum rank. Their talk is interrupted by the old alchemist, who informs Jan that they will join him. Jan thus goes to make some preparations and Alma tells Aldo and Lele to leave, not wanting them to be dragged into a war.
Alma runs back into her office with Hom, but Aldo follows her. She admits that she is worried that Lele would have to fight her grandfather Simon and that she doesn’t actually have a vision for the guild, since she worked so hard until now only to be acknowledged by her master. Aldo tries to assure her that he and Lele want to help her, but Hom interrupts and scratches Alma’s badge, where it is revealed that the badge was originally a gift from Simon.
Alma suddenly remembers her master’s diary and goes back to check it out. She reads that he was planning to achieve the greatest transmutation in history: magic and alchemy working together. Alma finally realizes that her master wasn’t working alone and is ready to accept her friends’ help. She thus goes with Aldo to moonbathe with Lele, who gives her a necklace with her name on it that matches with Lele’s and says ‘Friends Forever.’ Alma then formally requests the cooperation of High Magistrix Lele in deescalating tensions between alchemy and magic. Lele accepts when Alma asks her in an informal way, so they work all night to come up with a plan to stop Jan.
In the morning, the magicians enter the tower to disband the guild. The magic soldiers summon a golem, but Jan’s armored arms easily destroys it. The court magician tries to take it down with magic, but it doesn’t work. Aldo and Lele come to his rescue and Alma breaks down the armored arms’ magic-resistant formula. They destroy the armored arms, but don’t let the court magician arrest Jan.
Alma is about to come clean about everything to stop the war, but Jan claims responsibility for everything. They are suddenly interrupted by a soldier, who informs everyone that the dissolution of the guild must be halted immediately as per the request of a mage of higher standing. The magicians are thus forced to withdraw.
Back at Alma’s office, they think back about a conversation they just had with Jan, who admitted that he was only joking when he said that a homunculus reaching Aurum rank was the alchemy’s highest achievement and told her that hiding her true identity might be the safer option for the time being.
Before going to Palsifal Palace to shoulder all the blame for what happened, he revealed that he distanced himself from Paracelsus after showing him the armored arms meant to protect alchemy from the court. Finally, he warned Alma of the dangerous path she has chosen, but
