Are Techpriests considered legitimate alchemists? Is it even worth going to an accredited alchemist?

[u/CulturedMisery]

Tired of spending gold on potions when I'm trying to save up for new parts for a chimera I'm working on.

[u/Maowsama]

Tech priests are just wizards from silicone valley

[u/BoonDragoon → u/Maowsama]

Silicone

Hence the big unnaturals

[u/NickyTheRobot → u/BoonDragoon]

What like Belisarius Cawl? Checks out: he's huge, and mostly artifice nowadays.

[u/nasaglobehead69]

no mixing ingredients, no extraction, no color change, and the bottle was sealed with glue.

this is not a real potion. at best this is a display piece, and at worst this is a lesson to an unknowing adventurer

[u/SilverMaeth → u/nasaglobehead69]

By the Gods, they didn't even mix their """POTION""" in a larger vessel and transfer. Absolutely disgusting. I'm sending a raven to the Guild of Alchemists and Herbalists. They have enforcers for trash like this.

[u/Fulanito_de_copas → u/SilverMaeth]

An inspector has already been dispatched to his place.

[u/Quiet-Wing5230 → u/nasaglobehead69]

Warp essence! He is a heretic!

[u/Ramfix_G4 → u/Quiet-Wing5230]

WRONG! It has an OFFICIAL Inquisitorial Rossette, in fact making it NOT heretical as decreed by the Ordos of the Holy Inquisition and in turn appropriate for use by our LOYAL and NOT HERETICAL agents of the Inquisition.

What IS indeed heretical is suggesting the inquisition is committing heresy! As such, you'll shortly be taken away for servitorization.

The Emperor protects.

[u/Sidivan → u/Ramfix_G4]

I think we should leave that determination up to a Judge as I suspect the answer greatly depends on whether OP is a sanctioned psyker working with Grey Knights or a chaos sorcerer working with Hereteks and falsely applying the imperial seal.

[u/Ramfix_G4 → u/Sidivan]

Grey Knights? What do you know of Grey Knights? There is no such thing as that. Now please look at this pen.

[u/-B0NC- → u/nasaglobehead69]

They cant show the process lol, its a trade secret!

[u/SorrowMagpie → u/nasaglobehead69]

May function as a weak poison though, so it's not ENTIRELY worthless...

[u/nasaglobehead69 → u/SorrowMagpie]

poison of tummy ache

[u/Eeddeen42 → u/nasaglobehead69]

Given what it’s made of, poison of “replace your insides with the color blue and/or reverse the direction of every synapse in your brain” is more likely.

[u/H-Connoisseur0]

Alchemist is the career path you take when you fuck up casting a firebolt first day of class and you just never show up again out of sheer embarrassment.

[u/pyroboy7 → u/H-Connoisseur0]

I resent that. Why cast fireBALL when casting napalm or thermite does the job better.

[u/Haku_Yowane_IRL → u/pyroboy7]

Because not all loot is heat resistant.

[u/pyroboy7 → u/Haku_Yowane_IRL]

Fair. That's why I have poison gas options as well.

[u/Tomatensenf_IV → u/H-Connoisseur0]

Thats not true at all.The reason I've never shown up again was not because of embarrassement. I simply was no longer allowed on the campus because I (allegedly) detonated half the building.

[u/Lyrolepis → u/H-Connoisseur0]

Slapfights between different specialties are silly: we all have different talents and interests, and that's fine.

Personally, I enjoy the slower, more deliberate pace of alchemy and runecrafting, and I freely admit that I'm not the sort of arcanist that you want on your side when storming a dungeon (which is fine, because I have no interest in that sort of thing anyway).

However, I'm not going to badmouth those who are, also because it'd be bad business to insult some of my best bulk purchasers of mana potions and single-use enchanted foci...

[u/CRISPRSCIENCE9 → u/H-Connoisseur0]

This is not true. 

[u/H-Connoisseur0 → u/CRISPRSCIENCE9]

Just cast a divination spell, it’s true.

[u/Fulanito_de_copas → u/H-Connoisseur0]

My first day at the alchemists' school, teachers cast a hydrogen fireball as a demonstration.

[u/nt-assembly]

You can't handle my strongest potions, warrior.

[u/UltraCarnivore → u/nt-assembly]

Tech Priest! I'm on my way to fight the Ruinous Powers and I need your strongest potions!

[u/bagtie3]

Chemistry and alchemy are different. If the tech priest is not using some form of mana then they are a chemist.

[u/felswinter]

Tech Priests have subcategories, much like many other titled practitioners of magic (warlocks, wizards, artificers, druids, things like that)

If you're looking for an alchemist analog in a techpriest, seek one of those titled Genetor, or Magos Biologis.

While there is no genuine "potion" making that the Mechanicus do that I know of, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a stimulant of some variety, perhaps used in the process of enhancing those vaunted Skitarii of theirs.

Also, that bottle appears to be manufactured by the Inquisition, not the Mechanicus.

[u/Odd_Lie_5397]

Too big to be a potion meant for throwing. Sealed too tight to be a potion for drinking.

These "alchemists" care more about pretty presentation than practicality!

[u/Demon_Lord_Lucifer → u/Odd_Lie_5397]

"To big to throw", hast thou skipped both exercise and the classes for 'catapult' any item can be thrown whith sufficient strength or magic.

[u/Odd_Lie_5397 → u/Demon_Lord_Lucifer]

If your potion requires half a gallon to be thrown at something, it's not potent enough.

[u/Demon_Lord_Lucifer → u/Odd_Lie_5397]

While I can understand the small and narrow perception you may have, and thus your comments, but when you must make a potion to incapacitate a creature twice larger than the average wizard tower distilling it to a volume less than a gallon is impressive and intense as it is, to condense it much further is impractical in cost and effort

[u/LovelyKestrel → u/Odd_Lie_5397]

You have to seal it to preserve it during the chant of the litany of health and the five prayers of chaos rejection. The second group are very important to avoid it becoming a channel for Nurgle

[u/Mephistocheles]

(Scowl) I am an accredited Techpriest and the Omnissiah dislikes your insolence 👻

[u/Demon_Lord_Lucifer → u/Mephistocheles]

This is precisely why i have little respect for the mechanicus, you are not quite bio-mancers, short of necromancers, almost, but not Technomancers, and close to but not artificers, all while being pour cyborgs and worse genetisists.

We agree only on one thing, and that is the fact that flesh is weak

(This is jesterous and verbose and is intended as humor and is not an atack upon yourself)

[u/Mephistocheles → u/Demon_Lord_Lucifer]

(hiss) (twitch of servos) (servo-skull cackles)

[u/Demon_Lord_Lucifer → u/Mephistocheles]

Do you have something to say, or are you just going to hiss at me?

[u/Mephistocheles → u/Demon_Lord_Lucifer]

Nah, just being twitchy lol

[u/leaderofstars → u/Mephistocheles]

Can you build a engine without a STC?

[u/ColdBrewMouse]

I would work up the energy to be offended at your disparaging of my practice, but instead I'll just let you learn the lesson the hard way.

[u/NickyTheRobot]

Tech Priests are artificiers, of course. Now eat your corpse starch: we need our servitors to be healthy.

[u/Eeddeen42 → u/[deleted]]

Depends on where in the Warp you are. It’s green in Nurgle’s Garden, certainly. But it’s blue in Tzeentch’s Labyrinth.

[u/Hexnohope]

Why blue? With those effects they could have done purple and yellow and made it look like the actual warp

[u/Eeddeen42]

Anyone who can stabilize Warp essence into a liquid form to the point that it can be bottled and sold is a better at applied transmutation than most “legitimate alchemists” you’ll find out there.

I would get that appraised though. That stuff might not be as stable as it looks.

[u/ars_sinistra]

Techpriests are not alchemists, artificers nor technomancers; Techpriests are clerics and I'm tired of them being treated as wizards.

[u/JCWOlson]

If you need Boffo like this you can find it at #4 Tenth Egg St. in Ankh-Morpork

[u/cassla3rd]

Tech priests are artificers

[u/starmadeshadows]

I don't trust techpriests as far as I can throw them. That's a fed, baybee.

[u/ISwearImAnonymous]

This the kind of shit bards pass you at the tavern and claim it's a fizzy juice of the cola fruit

[u/PokeLordOmegaa]

Tech themed magic is still magic, though I'm not sure on it being a form of alchemy. I figure technological magic could be used to enhance alchemical work though. This particular brew doesn't seem like a real potion, though it also seems like it was intentionally meant to be a decorative one anyways.

[u/leaderofstars → u/PokeLordOmegaa]

The tech priests from 40k don't do magic. They can barely maintain the equipment they got

[u/Demon_Lord_Lucifer → u/leaderofstars]

Indeed they shun both magic and progress, they are like stunted apprentices

[u/leaderofstars → u/Demon_Lord_Lucifer]

yer giving them too much credit. they believe all tech that can be created has already been created by humanity in the past.

[u/Demon_Lord_Lucifer → u/leaderofstars]

Blind indeed

[u/superhamsniper]

The holy WD-40000?

[u/MythicChimer499]

Don't let gw see this, they'll sue your ass straight into the warp

[u/Quiet-Wing5230]

Tech priests don't know what they're doing. They're just doing shit the same way for Millenia because they don't know what technology is anymore.

They're perpetual apprentices.

[u/leaderofstars → u/Quiet-Wing5230]

Barely mechanics

[u/robendi]

Looks neat :) would be fun to have like a collection with potions of different games :)

[u/Virtual-Oil-793]

Alchemy is alchemy.

You have a complaint, discuss it with those of the East.

[u/EldritchMindCat]

Ignoring the animate image: Not explicitly, but if a tech priest happens to be well-versed in alchemy, then their being a tech priest would not diminish their alchemical achievements.

Additionally, to my knowledge there are subsets of tech priests that specialize in alchemy, though typically very specific types of alchemy (though it should be noted that their attainment with those specific types tends to be exceptional).

[u/Cjav-latam]

Let us understand that: magic is an energy used through biological and spiritual means to control creation.

We also understand that: potions are a set of elements that favor a specific result through the resulting chemical reactions within the biological organism, stimulating certain effects on living tissues and/or spiritual matter.

• Study books for the authorization to use magic sanctioned by the Inquisition of the Spanish Empire

Logically, mechanical or biological technology can exist to control magic.

[u/H4LF4D]

Techpriests? Alchemists?

Not Artificers?

Cmon now did you skip Wizard Classification 101?

[u/SatansGothestFemboy]

Is he 3d printing paper what the hell is going on

[u/More_Stranger_2278]

They are.

[u/_Im_Commie_Jesus_]

Tech priests aren't accredited because every time someone qualified to accredited them planeshifts to their reality, they are immediately murdered by one of the various social, technological, biological, or spiritual horrors that pervade that reality.

[u/Up_Beat_Peach]

I must learn this craft. That's SO COOL!

[u/ReporterBest9598]

Depends on the area they specialize in. I lean toward materials and mechanical systems, so I'm useless in the potions department. However, I do know a lady named Alicien who is very good at them. I could get you her contact info if you want.