Winzy becomes imMortal after drinking an elixir belonging to his mentor, the alchemist Cornelius Agrippa.
At the start of the story, the narrator claims more than three hundred and twenty-three years have passed since he drank the elixir at the age of twenty..
Over the years his health gradually worsens and his mentality comes into question.
His mentor soon dies, as does his one love Bertha.
Winzy becomes imMortal after drinking an elixir belonging to his mentor, the alchemist Cornelius Agrippa