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In FMA Brotherhood, It is said that Truth watches over all alchemic exchanges
in the world.

_The entity at the Gate calling itself Truth:_

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NiJoym.jpg)

My question is if Truth didn't exist would impossible feats such as Human
Transmutation be _possible_? Would such a thing be possible?


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If the "Truth" didn't exist, would that mean that feats such as Human Transmutation would work?


Resurrections, a method of human transmutation, only has a problem with the
soul. Since it is gone, you cannot call it back. Think of it like a chemical
change, e.g. burning paper, you cannot restore it. The only real successful
attempts of human transmutations are the homunculi though, but they still need
souls too. To make up for the lack thereof, they run on Philosopher's Stones,
which incidentally is made from trapped souls.

So Human Transmutation is possible. Just not all methods will achieve desired
intent.

This is really simplified from memory of the show but should get the point
across.

EDIT: PS: Alchemy is still used medicinally. You could argue that without
Truth punishing people attempting to reclaim souls that at best they would
just craft human shells or fresh corpses (as weird as that sounds). Remember,
this is basically high-speed 3D printing.


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