Chrysopoeia

From Absit Omen Lexicon

Chrysopoeia is a wizarding bank of similar stature to Gringotts in Britain.

About

Based in Frankfurt, Germany (Frankfurt also considered Germany's banking center in the Muggle world) the bank has branches across Northern Europe, through Scandinavia. It employs both goblin and human employees.

The bank manages and keeps its customer's wills as required, and executes them on death. It has contacts and ties with many other businesses including furniture removals and property sales.

In alchemy, the term chrysopoeia means transmutation into gold (from the Greek khrusōn, gold, and poiēin, to make), although it is also symbolically used to indicate the philosopher's stone as the completion of the Great Work.

The bank's logo is a snake eating its own tail.

At Absit Omen

Johann Storm's parents, Wolfgang Storm and Camille Storm met while managing the goblins (a role neither of them carry out now). Wolfgang is a senior account manager, in charge of the Durmstrang account. Managing the investments of the school takes up 80% of Wolfgang's attention at the bank.