Editing Promethean: The Created (section)

===Alchemists===
The newly introduced antagonists of 2e, mortal alchemists interested in Pyros tend to be known as the Insatiate by the more temperate practitioners of the trade, because they're so damn desperate to make their alchemy work that they're willing to torture and murder Prometheans in order to rip the Pyros-rich Vitriol from their bodies so they can use it for their alchemy- turning lead into gold, brewing the Elixir of Life, that sort of thing. They also tend to try mixing up various tonics to give themselves superpowers, Jekyll-style.  This is pretty insane to begin with, but add in the fact that it's ''really'' not a good idea to go injecting raw transmutational energy into your living brain, and the Insatiate tend to go screaming off the deep end in pretty short order. In effect, their complete disdain for their own humanity effectively makes them attempt the Pilgrimage in reverse, trying to learn more about monsters so that they can throw their humanity away forever by slurping down the Vitriol to become them.  And, unfortunately for the Prometheans, alchemy tends to pay ''very'' well (unsurprising, given the "lead into gold" thing), so they have a lot of resources at their disposal.

Alchemists who don't go doing this tend to be far less hostile to Prometheans, because, you know, they're not hopped up on pure liquefied madness and know enough about Prometheans to conclude that it is unwise to provoke them. That said, Prometheans try to avoid the sane ones too: all it takes is a little Disquiet for them to realize they have a free source of Vitriol sitting right in front of them.

Closely related to these are the "Rathbens". Named after the rogue Cheiron Group scientist that first perfected the procedure of cloning (a man so insane that even ''the Cheiron Group'' thought he was going too far), these scientists are single-mindedly fixated on creating clones, and the effects of the clones themselves inevitably push them right off the deep end if they weren't already insane to start with.