Anderson Lough, recently unemployed bartender ready to resume his education, was always interested in alchemy as a child. After losing his parents'''' support, he powered through years of hard work and even harder saving to finish his degree in Alchemy''''s modern secular successor: Chemistry. However, he was surprised to find a new passion for metal working and jewelry making while taking an elective class chosen on a whim. His teacher, impressed by his enthusiasm, introduced him to an old friend who owned a long-standing jewelry shop: Alexander Athanasiou.