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 Medium-tier make up the majority of spellcasting, generally considered as having a sweet-spot between risk and pay-off. This is usually where you handsomely pay a professional sorcerer to do something that e.g. would take your culture maybe a decade of menial work to achieve (maybe significantly diverting a river to a more convenient spot), or e.g. does useful alchemical things such as “make lots of fuel for this space ship we have from this lake of water”. Medium-tier make up the majority of spellcasting, generally considered as having a sweet-spot between risk and pay-off. This is usually where you handsomely pay a professional sorcerer to do something that e.g. would take your culture maybe a decade of menial work to achieve (maybe significantly diverting a river to a more convenient spot), or e.g. does useful alchemical things such as “make lots of fuel for this space ship we have from this lake of water”.
  
-Practically all alchemy, be it mass-preserving or otherwise, is medium-tier on the high end, usually requiring five to six runes.+Practically all alchemy sorcerers use in practise, be it mass-preserving or otherwise, is medium-tier on the high end, usually requiring five to six runes.
  
 Note that it's usually comparatively easy to turn a medium-tier alchemy spell into a high-tier alchemy spell, as the structure of spells //"instantly turn the entire core of this planet to gold"// is remarkably similar to //"slowly turn the substance under the runes to gold until you run out of substance or I tell you to stop"//, about equivalent to adding a suffix to a word, although care must be taken to pick the right suffix. Note that it's usually comparatively easy to turn a medium-tier alchemy spell into a high-tier alchemy spell, as the structure of spells //"instantly turn the entire core of this planet to gold"// is remarkably similar to //"slowly turn the substance under the runes to gold until you run out of substance or I tell you to stop"//, about equivalent to adding a suffix to a word, although care must be taken to pick the right suffix.
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