How does transmutation work?
Transmutation breaks down the things we see into their basic materials, rearranges them, and reassembles them into a new form. The process is a lot like taking soil and mixing it into mud, adding straw and drying it to make brick, then assembling the bricks into a building. A bricklayer transmutes soil, water, and straw into a building; but in transmutation, the breakdown, arrangement, and assembly happens at the microscopic level. It can change one thing, like sand, into another, like a staff, by rearranging everything within it. To perform transmutation, an alchemist needs some tools. An alchemist draws a transmutation circle which helps focus energy and which provides instructions of a sort for the transmutation. The alchemist then activates the circle, using their will to breakdown and rebuild the matter according to the instructions in the circle.
