of stating what may be obvious, "Alkymst" is a variant on the spelling of the old medieval "Alchemist". The monniker is most apropos since I am or was a chemist who spent ~40+years in various hoods trying to convince Mother Nature that I really knew what I was doing - She never caught on, not only was I on the wrong page in the wrong book but my book was in a completely different language, hence, I never did find the philospophers stone to transmute lead into gold but I certainly transmuted many an organic compound over the years, some more successfully than others.

I don't look as much the part since unlike Merlin and other Fantasia-like wizzards my beard resembles steel wool once it gets long, not the free flowing "wizzardly" image that most people think of.