Strange...he wears a suit of armor? It must be heavy. He doesn't quite seem alive in the standard sense, but he certainly isn't some kind of ghost...

Alchemist? Pardon me -- we don't have any kind of magic where I come from. Does this mean you can, for example, turn lead into gold?


[ooc: whoa, okay, it's more complex than I had thought! Sure, I'll go with your proposal. It sounds right for the weird situation. So ignore his first thought there.]