Friþareiks Karitonow

Friþareiks Fairguneissunus Karitonow (Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌲𐌿𐌽𐌴𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌿𐍃 𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌽𐍉𐍅 German: Friedrich Fargonsohn Karitonow) is a Gothic-Alemannic alchemist, author, philosopher, and adventurer. He is known for his advances in alchemy, as well as his practices in the occult.

Childhood
Karitonow was born April 15, 594 in Alemannia to Gothic nobleman Fairguneis Amadaiussunus Karitonow and Borussian explorer Lilia Karitonow. Karitonow went to school at the Alarichsburg Youth Academy from 601 to 611.

Career
After graduating, Karitonow married his school sweetheart, Amalaswinþa Peitrussdauhtar Sunidaga. Karitonow began work as an herbalist before joining the Alemannic Army in 613. He participated in the of 614, where he wrote his first book, Infantry and Valour. After his successes during the war, he was discharged and continued his work as an Herbalist in Alarichsburg. In late 615, Karitonow travelled with his wife across Alemannia documenting the many sightings and reports of rare, often unseen animals known as Cryptids, categorizing them in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Moving to x, Karitonow opened his own herbalist shop and began to delve into Alchemy.

Alchemical Theory
Karitonow believes that The Deluge was a Götterdämmerung that destroyed and renewed the world. In the renewal of the world, Karitonow proposes that the properties and laws of matter have changed since before the deluge. Karitonow states in Alchemy, "Now, new elements have been created via intense nuclear transmutation. These transmutations have paved way for vast changed in the actual properties of matter on earth and has in fact opened up many new opportunities."

Karitonow claimed to synthesize Ether in liquid form in his laboratory, as well as the transmutation of lead into gold.

Travels in Europe
After becoming a successful herbalist and an alchemist selling elixirs to civilians and the Alemannic Army, Karitonow decided to take a break from his studies and business. After delegating the herbalist shop to his wife, Karitonow and his life-long assistant and friend,

Selected works

 * Infantry and Valour (Gadrauhts und Swerei) (614)
 * Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them  (616)
 * Alchemy in the New Era (618)
 * The Wend and the Goth (Венд и гот) (620)