The Awakening

The Awakening is considered the official birth (or rebirth) of the Materia Prima. With mankinds home world under constant strife and limited resources, an Alchemyst named Drakis Saurius proposed a forgotten aspect of thought in which there are multiple planes of exisence on both Orbis, and as many worlds of our choosing. Even more radical was his declaration that Orbis itself had been the creation of a forgotten art. He deemed this art the Materia Prima, and called his discovery 'The Awakening'.

Origins
Prior to the Awakening, Drakis Saurius was held in high regard in the alchemysts guild. He held his title in the old capital of Orbis and had many agents, including Draconysts, at his disposal to perform tasks given by his Lord, and these successes led him to conduct his own research. While at first these searches were benign, they began to increase in scope and coin, as did his eccentricities.(might be interesting if his journeyman was using his contacts under the guise of Drakis to carry out this awakening, or master work. The journeyman is so young, his intelligence comes into question, until we realize he swapped bodies from a necromanticc ritual in order to evade the draelons and anyone else who might be on his tail.  Drakis was one of his primary foes who sold him out and left him to die.)

Saurian Discovery
During the height of Drakis' prestige, he had nearly 13 agents at his disposal to conduct business all across Orbis that was secret even from his Lord. These travels included anything from acquiring mineral properties, lost texts, or mammalian beasts including Saurian blood, which Drakis fancied the most.

Soon enough, the Lord became impatient with Drakis' studies and demanded he present where his coin was going. That was when he made his first announcement for the Materia Prima. Announced in front of his lords council, he was met with immediate scrutiny by both his patrons and the guild itself, who began breaking ties with him.