"Jealousy, I'm sure," he murmured with a small shrug of his shoulders. "And there are some out there who dislike the skill for what it represents rather than for what it can actually do in a beneficial light." Also, some simply didn't have a hand for the skill even with vast amounts of training. Some had it, but others did not.

Nodding his head to the choices, it was a good base to continue studying from. All of them had means to coming together for creating weapons. "I take it you have seen how to meld those aspects of alchemy together to save time then?" A waste of time and energy if not, since it would require too many transmutations to reach a finished product. "Certainly. I can show you wood-based alchemy then. Dead wood is easier than live."