In the anime/manga Fullmetal Alchemist, the Philosopher's Stone is the central element that drives the plot, and the object of the the Elric Brothers' (the story's protagonists) search. A scene from the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime ) is an abbreviation of the Japanese word アニメーション (animēshon), which is based on the English word animation. ... 2nd English edition of InuYasha Vol. ... Fullmetal Alchemist , Alchemist of Steel), commonly abbreviated as FMA or Hagaren by fans, is a manga series created by Hiromu Arakawa and serialized in Monthly Shonen Gangan. ...

It is based on the legend of the Philosopher's stone, able to transmute inexpensive materials into gold and grant immortality to its user. In Fullmetal Alchemist, it is a likewise legendary item said to allow the holder to completely bypass the law of Equivalent Exchange. It's rumored that the Stone could give its owner the ability to perform a flawless "human transmutation", thus the Elric Brothers search for the Stone, in order to gain back what they lost during the failed transmutation to bring back their mother from the dead. The philosophers stone, in Latin philosophi lapis, is a mythical substance that supposedly could turn inexpensive metals into gold and/or create an elixir that would make humans younger, thus delaying death. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... Immortality (or eternal life) is the concept of existing for a potentially infinite, or indeterminate, length of time. ... Equivalent Exchange (sometimes called Equivalent Trade or Equal Trade in unnofficial translations) is a concept quoted and believed by alchemists from the anime Fullmetal Alchemist, most notably the Elric Brothers. ... // Transmutation is the conversion of one object into another. ...

In the adapted anime version, there are incomplete Philosopher's Stones called "Red Stones" or even simply "Philosopher's Stones" which can be transmuted from a toxic liquid known as Red Water. Because it is incomplete, this stone will usually use up its power after just a few uses, sometimes backfiring on its holder. Much less expensive, and much easier to obtain than the real Stone, it can amplify the power of its holder to various extents, bypassing the law of Equivalent Exchange to a minor degree, acceptable for many practical uses. A scene from the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime ) is an abbreviation of the Japanese word アニメーション (animēshon), which is based on the English word animation. ...

Obtaining a Stone

A crystallized Red Stone

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In the Manga

The raw material of Philosopher's Stone is a very large amount of human lives, ranging from ten to millions. The first stone in history was transmuted by "Father", using the souls of the people of Xerxes. This event inspired the legend of a country which was destroyed in single night. The later Philosopher's Stones were transmuted by Doctor Tim Marcoh and his fellow alchemists who were instructed to make the Stones by Lust and the other Homunculi, using the lives of Ishbal prisoners, and later the makers themselves to cover it up. This series of Philosopher's Stones wasn't complete - they were made from only about 13 prisoners (based on the count shown in chapter 59). The stone that Father Cornello used was also one of this series. Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ... This page lists the main characters from the anime series and manga Fullmetal Alchemist, covering the characters who are widely considered to be primary to the plot of the story; while the Elric Brothers are the heroes of the story, there are also those who are greatly affected by their... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In the Anime

• A "Red Stone" can be obtained by crystallizing the highly toxic "Red Water." As the water emits highly toxic vapor that can kill over a wide area, the easiest method to crystallize it is to insert the substance into the womb of a pregnant woman, and leave it to became solid, killing the woman and the unborn child. Then it can be surgically removed. A slow and expensive chemical process is also possible, but the Stones created are usually very small, and not very useful.

• The real Stone takes a high toll. Only an expert alchemist could transmute it, using as raw material a very large amount of human lives, ranging from thousands to millions. In the series it appears that Hohenheim used Red Water to begin the process and provide the power to generate a Stone.
  

  

  The array used in Lior to transmute a true Philosopher's Stone
  The lives of plague victims and those sentenced to death for witchcraft were transmuted by Hohenheim, and later the sacrificed lives from the Ishbal and Lior Massacres were harvested by Scar and his brother to create a Philosopher's Stone. In the Fullmetal Alchemist anime history, only Hohenheim and Scar were able to perform such a terrible feat. Though Dante possessed the knowledge, she feared to do it herself as the transmuation can be fatal to the one who creates the stone. Hence the saying "those who seek the Philosopher's Stone are destined to die".

The obtained Stone is not bound to a fixed form. The first Philosopher's Stone stone transmuted by Hohenheim was shown as a glowing diamond-like stone not much larger than a tennis ball; a sort of "perfect red stone". However, Scar's arm (and before, his brother's entire body) was an Imperfect Philosopher's Stone, able to perfect itself in the armored body of Alphonse Elric, who retained his metallic appareance, only with a red glow in his inside, and glowing red marks, reminiscent of the tattoos on Scar's arm, that appeared whenever he was touched by an Alchemist or a Transmutation Circle. Even this form, due to the metal impurity that was Alphonse's body, was not a truly perfect Stone - only after Gluttony consumed Alphonse would it be perfected. Crystal (disambiguation) Insulin crystals A crystal is a solid in which the constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a regularly ordered, repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. ... Female internal reproductive anatomy The uterus or womb is the major female reproductive organ of most mammals, including humans. ... A chemical substance is any material substance used in or obtained by a process in chemistry: A chemical compound is a substance consisting of two or more chemical elements that are chemically combined in fixed proportions. ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ... Ishbal is a fictional region in the world of Fullmetal Alchemist. ... Leto, the Solar God of Lior Lior (spelled Liore a scene in the english dub of Conquerer of Shamballa) is a fictional city of Fullmetal Alchemist, on the East border of Amestris, the country in which almost every fact stated in the story happens. ... This page lists the main characters from the anime series and manga Fullmetal Alchemist, covering the characters who are widely considered to be primary to the plot of the story; while the Elric Brothers are the heroes of the story, there are also those who are greatly affected by their... This page lists the main characters from the anime series and manga Fullmetal Alchemist, covering the characters who are widely considered to be primary to the plot of the story; while the Elric Brothers are the heroes of the story, there are also those who are greatly affected by their... This page lists the main characters from the anime series and manga Fullmetal Alchemist, covering the characters who are widely considered to be primary to the plot of the story; while the Elric Brothers are the heroes of the story, there are also those who are greatly affected by their... This page lists the main characters from the anime series and manga Fullmetal Alchemist, covering the characters who are widely considered to be primary to the plot of the story; while the Elric Brothers are the heroes of the story, there are also those who are greatly affected by their... Leopard on shoulder A tattoo is a mark made by inserting pigment into the skin: in technical terms, tattooing is micro-pigment implantation. ...

Using a Stone

The backfiring of a Red Stone

The Philosopher's Stone has many potential uses for an alchemist. The State Alchemist Tim Marcoh researched it for the military, and was forced to turn over his research, including several vials of liquified Red Stones, to Basque Grand in order to improve the already incredible military efficiency of the State Alchemists involved in the Ishbal Massacre. The stones rendered the alchemists nearly invincible, and contributed in large part to the Ishbal genocide. After deserting from the military, Marcoh became a medical doctor, using the imperfect Philosopher's Stones only as a way to help the sick. It was hinted that even for those relatively unskilled in alchemy, like Father Cornello, could perform amazing feats like the transmutation of chimeras and temporary reanimation of dead animals. Scar's arm, an imperfect Stone, gave him the ability to decompose matter by alchemy and an instinctive understanding of a material's makeup. Image File history File links Backfiringstone. ... Image File history File links Backfiringstone. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Referred as a most inhumane form of Alchemy by some, a Chimera is the fusion of two or more different species into a single being. ...

A genuine Philosopher's Stone is capable of amazing feats, among them complete human transmutation and allowing a soul to be transferred into a new body. Such transferrence comes at the cost of a fraction of the alchemist's soul, and runs the risk of the new host body decomposing into a living corpse. In the manga, the Philosopher's Stone is the main ingredient in the creation of a homunculus, while in the anime the homunculi seek it to obtain humanity. Even a true Philosopher's Stone is not immune to Equivalent Exchange: every time it is used, a bit of it vanishes, and its power is likewise reduced. Spoiler warning: Homunculi are artificially generated beings, retaining human physical form and mental capabilities, but having an abnormality of the definitive trait of life that is a soul, whose existence is replaced and replicated, to some slight degree, with the material created from uncountable amount of soul called philosophers...

The Mechanism of the Stone

The two types of Stone operate in the same manner. When a transmutation is performed, the matter is usually supplied by the alchemist himself. A broken radio can be reshaped into a fully functional radio, some scrap iron can build a sword, a spear, a gun, etc., but the source of the energy necessary to the process is only revealed in the final episodes. This energy is supplied by the mysterious Gate, a passage present in every human soul, linked to the "real" world (in the movie, the Fullmetal Alchemist world was thought to be the mystical Shamballa by the Thule Society). Every death in "our" world generates energy, meaning the souls of our dead became the energy harnessed by alchemists to perform their transmutations. The Philosopher's Stone supplies an additional energy source, utilizing not the souls from the other side of the Gate, but souls collected in the alchemy world which are transmuted into the Stone. This allows amazing feats, such as human transmutation and incredible alchemic augmentation, to be performed as the souls from the stone are sacrificed as Equivalent Exchange for the desired power, effectively meaning giving up more than what you initially had. But as you use the stone the souls used in making it are sent through the gate as energy,so over time the stone "rots" by using it In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Shambhala (also spelled Shambala or Shamballa) is a mystical kingdom hidden somewhere beyond the snowpeaks of the Himalayas. ...