"You will remain yourself, if that's what you're worried about. The way you act will always be how you act. That is you. However, knowing all that there is to know without any experience is grating." He took another sip of his ginger ale, and looked down. "It is how I was made. I didn't need to learn, I already knew all that there was to know. Things that your kind has yet to learn, things that have passed on into obscurity. Science, magic, nature, and the stars hold no mystery to me, but as you know, Ariel," he looked up at the alchemist, catching a momentary bit of eye contact, "it is not about the knowledge itself, but the experience and wisdom that comes with it that is our drive. You will hold all this knowledge, but you will seek to find things to do with it. It is why Alchemy exists, why science is an art."
He smiled faintly. "And you will find more happiness in it, I feel, than any other part of this entire venture."