Some bards like specific songs for specific effects. I feel that that is quite dull. I like to keep my foes on their toes and my friends out of the deep ends.

I could sing a lullaby and ask a person to reveal their mother's secret pie recipe.

[Huh! He brought up a good point.]

You know, I suppose there is an overlap. I think when it comes to transmutation, precise math and ingredients to forge something out of its base components, I could call it a science. But to create something from nothing... I think that right there is magic.

Oh! The Magnum Opus is but one name for the Philosopher's Stone.