Alchemists Dream

Target	Object (metal)
Ritual Points	50
Requirements	Mana, Wealth, Time
Oppositions	Sacrifice

With the aid of this ritual, a mage can permanently change one kind of metal into another. For example, lead to gold, copper to orichalcum, iron to aluminum. Those performing the ritual can alter up to a one foot cube worth of metal.

The universe requires balance in all things, and so the mage cannot permanently increase or decrease an object's mass — only tinker with the existing mass. For instance, steel is much heavier than aluminum, so if this ritual was used to turn a hunk of aluminum into steel, it would shrink. Also, since it probably will take a considerable amount of cash to enact this ritual, changing zinc into gold is not going to be an effective way to get rich quick or ruin the local economy.