Fragments from the Vault #041: The Alchemist's Progress

"The true method of knowledge is experiment." - William Blake

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Game: Prince of Persia

Location: The Observatory, the Vale

More information: The Vale | Prince of Persia Wiki | Fandom

The Temple. Photo credit: FetchQuester

"Beyond the rain-wrapped calderas of the Caucasus

Where the sky burials await in their towers of silence, 

Lucid and trophic, 

Lie the great salt flats of the horizon. 

Too austere to be goaded by the pull of the equinox 

The brogue of a distant engine can be heard,

Harkening the realm of the Alchemist - 

His vast workshop a musicry of pipes and pistons 

Buoying the galleons as they thread into the holdfasts of the altitudes,

Propelling up, up, beyond the steppes, 

Below the stratosphere, 

Staunch above the stirring wastes."

The Windmills in the Ruined Citadel. Photo credit: FetchQuester

The Royal Gardens. Photo credit: FetchQuester

The Construction Yard in the Vale. Photo credit: FetchQuester

- Lucy A.

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Sources: 

Prince of Persia (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft); fandom.com

*For the engineers, architects, and alchemists.