The second character to feature a last name, and the third of the "new" Pathfinder classes, Alchemists like Damiel are kind of like an combination wizard who uses potions and stuff instead of spells and a drug dealer or mad scientist. Damiel certainly lives up to that promise; his backstory is that he got so involved in his alchemical mad scientists experiments—on himself—that he was kicked out of his home and had to become a wandering PC. (There seems to be a certain theme with the iconic character bios. Can't anyone just have had a regular, mostly happy upbringing?) Yeah, he's another James Sutter creation. Sigh.
Damiel, like all of the new Pathfinder classes wasn't revised for 2e, or at least his artwork wasn't. In fact, he was replaced; the new 2e iconic alchemist is now a goblin named Fumbus or something. Which I'm a little bit surprised by, because he appeared in a lot of art, it seems.
I'm not really a fan of the concept. I don't like magic-users of any kind, honestly, although a mad scientists who's "magic" actually comes from potions and the like is maybe something that I'd like better than a super traditionalist wizard or even a sorcerer.
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