Fullmetal Alchemist

by Hiromu Arakawa

Edward and Alphonse Elric attempted the forbidden: human transmutation. Ed lost limbs; Al lost his body, his soul bound to armor. Now state alchemists, they search for the Philosopher's Stone while uncovering a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of government. Brotherhood is widely considered one of the greatest anime ever made.

60 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Edward Elric — The Fullmetal Alchemist — a fifteen-year-old prodigy who sacrificed his right arm and left leg in a failed human transmutation and now hunts the Philo
• Alphonse Elric — A gentle soul trapped inside a seven-foot suit of armor — Edward's younger brother who lost his entire body in a failed human transmutation and now se
• Roy Mustang — The Flame Alchemist — a brilliant and ambitious Colonel who incinerates enemies with a snap of his ignition gloves while secretly maneuvering to becom
• Riza Hawkeye — Mustang's most trusted subordinate and deadliest protector — a sharpshooter who carries flame alchemy's secrets tattooed on her scarred back and a sta
• Scar — An Ishvalan survivor-turned-serial killer who hunts State Alchemists with a destructive arm tattoo, gradually evolving from instrument of vengeance in
• Father — The Dweller in the Flask — an artificial being born from Hohenheim's blood in ancient Xerxes who consumed half a million souls to gain a body, created
• Lust — The Ultimate Lance — a seductive and lethal Homunculus whose fingers extend into razor-sharp spears, serving as Father's primary infiltrator until Mus
• Gluttony — A childlike Homunculus with an insatiable hunger and a failed Gate of Truth inside his stomach — loyal to Lust above all others.
• Greed — The avaricious Homunculus who wants everything — freedom, power, friends — and ultimately merges with Ling Yao to become Greed-Ling, an unlikely ally
• Envy — A shapeshifting Homunculus seething with hatred for humanity — responsible for triggering the Ishval genocide and secretly jealous of the human connec
• Sloth — The fastest and largest Homunculus — a massive brute who dug the underground tunnels forming Father's transmutation circle and considers everything, i
• King Bradley — Fuhrer King Bradley — the Homunculus Wrath, a human-based Homunculus with the Ultimate Eye who rules Amestris as its military dictator while secretly
• Selim Bradley — The oldest and most powerful Homunculus disguised as the Fuhrer's adorable adopted son — a shadow monster who can devour anything light touches and co
• Alex Louis Armstrong — The Strong Arm Alchemist — a massively muscular Major who fights shirtless, weeps openly, and transmutes with gauntlets passed down the Armstrong line
• Maes Hughes — A brilliant intelligence officer and devoted family man whose investigation into the military's secrets got him murdered by Envy — his death becoming
• Olivier Mira Armstrong — The ice-cold commander of Fort Briggs — a ruthless, uncompromising general who rules the northern border with an iron fist and despises weakness in al
• Jean Havoc — A loyal soldier in Mustang's unit — chain-smoking, perpetually unlucky in love, and paralyzed from the waist down after Lust impaled his spine.
• Vato Falman — A grey-haired officer in Mustang's unit with an encyclopedic memory for facts and regulations.
• Heymans Breda — A stocky, sharp-minded strategist in Mustang's unit who compensates for his unassuming appearance with tactical brilliance.
• Kain Fuery — The youngest and most soft-hearted member of Mustang's unit — a communications specialist who can repair or build almost any radio equipment.
• Ling Yao — The twelfth prince of Xing who crossed the desert seeking a Philosopher's Stone to secure the throne — only to become the vessel for the Homunculus Gr
• May Chang — A tiny Xingese princess and alkahestry prodigy who crossed the desert with her miniature panda Xiao-Mei, seeking the Philosopher's Stone to save her i
• Lan Fan — Ling Yao's devoted bodyguard who severed her own arm to escape a Homunculus and returned with automail to continue protecting her prince.
• Fu — Lan Fan's elderly grandfather and Ling Yao's veteran bodyguard who gave his life trying to take down King Bradley on the Promised Day.
• Winry Rockbell — Resembool's automail prodigy and the Elric brothers' childhood friend — she builds and repairs Edward's mechanical limbs with a wrench in one hand and
• Van Hohenheim — The Elric brothers' immortal father — a living Philosopher's Stone containing half a million souls, wandering for four centuries to undo the sins born
• Izumi Curtis — A terrifyingly powerful alchemist and butcher's wife who trained the Elric brothers — she also attempted human transmutation to revive her stillborn c
• Solf J. Kimblee — The Crimson Alchemist — a refined, sociopathic bomber who revels in the aesthetics of destruction and views the Ishval genocide as a beautiful symphon
• Tim Marcoh — A former State Alchemist who created Philosopher's Stones from living Ishvalans during the war, then fled into hiding under the crushing weight of his
• Shou Tucker — The Sewing-Life Alchemist — a pathetic man who fused his own daughter Nina with the family dog to create a chimera and retain his State Alchemist cert
• Barry the Chopper — A serial killer whose soul was bound to a suit of armor by Laboratory 5 researchers — he now serves as an unlikely informant, gleefully chopping enemi
• Captain Buccaneer — A massive Briggs soldier with a chainsaw automail arm who guards Fort Briggs with unwavering loyalty to General Armstrong.
• Trisha Elric — The Elric brothers' beloved mother whose death from illness drove them to attempt the forbidden — human transmutation — setting the entire story in mo
• Father Cornello — A false prophet who used an incomplete Philosopher's Stone to perform 'miracles' in Lior, deceiving the populace until Edward exposed him.
• Yoki — A former corrupt military official stripped of his rank after the Elrics exposed his extortion of a mining town — now a sniveling companion following
• Maria Ross — A loyal military officer falsely accused of murdering Maes Hughes, whose staged death by Mustang allowed her to escape to Xing.
• General Grumman — An elderly, deceptively cunning general who commands Eastern Command and ultimately becomes Fuhrer after the fall of King Bradley.
• Sig Curtis — Izumi's massive, quiet husband who runs a butcher shop and fights with raw physical strength that rivals any alchemist.

Locations

• Amestris — A militaristic nation governed by a Fuhrer and shaped — literally — as a massive transmutation circle, its borders drawn by centuries of calculated wa
• Central City — The capital of Amestris and seat of the Fuhrer's power — a grand metropolis built directly above Father's underground lair and the nexus of his transm
• Eastern Command — The eastern military headquarters where Colonel Mustang commands his hand-picked unit, far enough from Central to plan in relative safety.
• Fort Briggs — An impenetrable northern fortress carved into the mountains — commanded by Olivier Armstrong and garrisoned by the toughest soldiers in Amestris, hard
• Resembool — A quiet farming village in eastern Amestris — the Elric brothers' hometown, where they burned their house down and where Winry Rockbell still maintain
• Rush Valley — The automail capital of Amestris — a boomtown where mechanics hawk their wares on every corner and losing a limb is practically a fashion statement.
• Xerxes — The ruins of an ancient and advanced civilization that was annihilated in a single night when Father's transmutation circle consumed every soul within
• Ishval — A desert region in eastern Amestris whose people were systematically exterminated in a genocidal civil war engineered by the Homunculi to create a blo
• Xing — A vast eastern empire across the Great Desert from Amestris — ruled by a dying emperor whose fifty heirs compete for succession, practicing alkahestry
• Laboratory 5 — A supposedly condemned military building in Central that secretly houses a Philosopher's Stone production facility, using death row prisoners as both
• Central Command — The military headquarters of Amestris in Central City — seat of the Fuhrer's power and the nerve center of a government that serves a monster hiding i
• Lior — A desert town that fell under the sway of a false prophet using a Philosopher's Stone, then descended into bloody civil war — all by the Homunculi's d
• Underground Tunnels — A vast network of tunnels beneath Amestris dug by Sloth over decades, forming the lines of Father's nationwide transmutation circle and connecting to
• Gate of Truth — A white void beyond reality where Truth resides — accessed only through forbidden human transmutation, it shows all knowledge and extracts a devastati
• Rockbell Automail Workshop — The Rockbell family's automail workshop in Resembool — where Winry and her grandmother Pinako build and maintain the prosthetics that keep Edward figh

Items

• Philosopher's Stone — A crimson stone forged from concentrated human souls that amplifies alchemical power beyond natural limits and bypasses the law of Equivalent Exchange
• Automail — Mechanical prosthetic limbs connected directly to the user's nerves — agonizing to install, requiring months of rehabilitation, and granting full func
• Transmutation Circles — Geometric patterns that channel alchemical energy to reshape matter — required by all alchemists except those who have seen the Gate of Truth and can
• Gate of Truth — A metaphysical portal that appears during forbidden human transmutation — it grants the alchemist total knowledge of alchemy while extracting an equiv
• State Alchemist Watch — A silver pocket watch issued to every State Alchemist — proof of their certification, their leash to the military, and for Edward, a reminder inscribe
• Alkahestry — The Xingese art of transmutation that channels chi through the earth's Dragon's Pulse — capable of healing at a distance and immune to Father's abilit
• Ouroboros Tattoo — A red tattoo of a serpent devouring its own tail — branded on every Homunculus as a mark of their creation by Father and their nature as beings trappe

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