Charles le Sorcier is an Alchemist and antagonist in The Alchemist. After his father was murdered wrongfully murdered by the ancestor or Count Antoine de C-, he cursed the family line, stating that no member in Comte de C- bloodline would be any older than 32. Charles le Sorcier then drank an elixir of eternal life and set a lab in the hidden confines of the castle ruins where de C- lived. He then carried out the curse by personally murdering each male in the lineage on or before the age of 32. The method of assassination varied between poison, arrows, to dropping a dislodged stone.