Great Work

The Great Work, or Magnum Opus, is a regimen of alchemical study which Prometheans often pursue. The purpose of the Great Work is to attain the Aurora, or New Dawn - a human soul.

Prometheans who pursue the Great Work see themselves as alchemical works-in-progress. The Promethean's base matter - their body and mind, associated with the element lead - has passed through the alchemical stages of putrefaction, dismemberment, and resurrection - but the Promethean has not yet reached the Dawn.

However, the Great Work is not one course, but many, all (hopefully) leading to the same goal - the end of the Promethean's Saturnine Night, and a New Dawn as a mortal human. Prometheans also use the various courses of the Great Work to control the Inner Fire, so it will never control them.

The various courses of the Great Work are known as Refinements.