Philosopher's Stone (Fullmetal Alchemist)
The Philosopher's Stone are artifacts that feature in Fullmetal Alchemist.
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History
Records spoke of a Celestial Stone that was responsible for destroying the city of Xerxes in one night. In reality, the souls of its inhabitants were used to create a Philosophers Stove that became the heart of the Homunculi Envy.
Research into the nature of the Philosophers Stone was being conducted secretly at the Amestrian Fifth Laboratory. As part of his experiments, Father had numerous orphans raised and trained to become the future leader of Amestris. The purpose was creating a human vessel for the last of his Homunculi with this representing his Wrath. Numerous experiments were conducted with each of the subjects perishing as they had the Philosopher's Stone injected into their bodies. This was until one subject managed to survive the process who was the twelfth to undergo such a procedure. The individual was given the name King Bradley and he was to be an agent of Father in ensuring his future plans.
During the war against Ishval, State Alchemist Colonel Solf J. Kimblee was given a Stone for use in the war against that nation's inhabitants. After killing numerous Ishvallans, he was required to give back the Stone to the Amestrian superiors but Kimblee refused whereupon he killed them. This eliminated those aware of the existence of the Stone that he swallowed to hide whilst he was sent to prison.
Envy freed Kimblee and set him to find as well as kill Doctor Marko who had escaped his imprisonment with the aid of Scar. To aid him on his mission, Envy gave Kimblee a second Philosopher's Stone for the task. In the North, Kimblee offered one of the stones to Edward Alric in exchange for his service to the Fuhrer and elimination of the Ishvallan Scar who was in the region with Dr. Marko.
Overview
The final ingredient of the Stone was the souls of human beings. It was for this reason that study into this field was called the Devil's research.
Thus, on appearance, it was seemingly able to ignore the laws of equivalent exchange.
In some cases, it could be used to transform an ordinary into a Homunculi hybrid. Such individuals went through the biological aging process of a human being but the enhanced traits of a Homunculi such as rapid healing. This occurred when a distilled Philosopher's Stone was injected into a host body where the human experienced incredibly pain as the Stone destroyed and then regenerated their body. In the majority of cases, those subjected to such a process died but some were able to survive and being a Homunculi.
The recuperative powers of a stone coukd be exceeded by powerful repeated attacks that can kill a Homunculi. Such was the case with Lust who was burnt to death by Colonel Mustang. A Philosopher's Stones power could be taxed to even prevent instant healing such as when Gluttony did not recover immediately following being repeatedly killed by Scar.
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Appearances
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