Ummm... I think it would be best if the Fower Carrier was not a sage herself, but the Mother of the Sages (or something like that) and that we Sages are not like very minor Powers, but something else completely. Any ideas? Once we actually establish the Sages (and maybe come up with an unique name for them <- suggestion, not command) we can then start role-playing. :D

GUYS MY CAPCHA WAS FYOR THAT WOULD BE AN AWESOME NAME FOR A FIRE POWER SAGE!!

Sybill and I will choose the remaining five of us, and the best name for us. If you would like to join us then submit you name and... Ability as a comment. Gratia vos!

I can't help it!! I am having this insane urge to role play Albero!!! Agh!!

Albero ~

Rose and Sybill weren't back yet. Not that I expected them to be back so  soon.

But now, with Yin gone, it's too quiet. I miss her sweet honey laugh, her serene, pale, unseeing eyes, and her soft, soprano voice.

But I feel her, watching, singing in my heart with her crystal clear love.

I fly to the trout stream, where I caught that fish for her and Sybill and Rose only this morning. My accordion hangs around my neck, as I lay down next to the stream.

And suddenly there is a mermaid. She's extremely lovely, and there is a flower unlike any other in her hand. She places oone of its golden petals in my palm, curling my finger over it, before gliding down the stream again.

Suddenly, I feel a connection with six other beings, much like me. And an understanding of herbs, and a connection with a very certain wolf named Yin.

And then suddenly a map appears in my mind, leading me to a meeting place. To find the other Sages.

Because that's what I am now. A  Sage.

I wrote a  quick note back at Sybill's caves explaining everything.

And then I fly.

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Piiri~

I fly on dragon wings, following the pull I the other Sages or Keepers or whatever. We still have to work on our name. Once we find each other. One is very close, I can feel him. Suddenly, something big, long, and scaley shoots out of the trees below me. I circle, waiting for him to reach my altitude. As he gets closer, I receive more and more information about him. Healer. Woodlands dragon. Stuff like that. He flies up higher and higher, and then he's level with me. He looks around and sees me coming toward him. Surprisingly, he shrieks!

"AHHH ITS CLAAWS!!" Judging by the fact that I am in the form of a black dragon, that is completely understandable. Grudgingly I change from my favorite form onto a sparrow hawk. He relaxes from his first impression and his eyes flash gold, as do mine. "I'm Albero, Healer." He says.

"Piiri, um... I haven't figured that out yet." I return. He laughs, which makes me smile. I don't remember doing that since the Flower Carrier's petal turned me into what I am now. I like it!

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Hi Albero! 

Are there seven Sages, or were you referring to the Powers when you mentioned six other beings? Because the Powers did not come from the flower of the Flower Carrier.

Never mind, I just read the Calling All Powers thread.

Piiri-

I look around. I've changed back into a dragon, but now I'm blue instead of black. I tap my index claw on the ground. As I scan the area, my eyes catch on a golden ray of light, peeking through the trees.

"Oh?" I grin mischieviously and Albero stands up to follow as I creep towards the light. I step into the clearing. Albero follows. The clearing is perfectly round, and quite big. the ground curves upward, and at the top of the small hill is a round slab of white marble. I caress the marble, and some white marble dust floats up and away, carried off by an unfelt wind. Albero and I stand there, watching the dust until it floats out of sight. Albero looks back down at the marble and gasps. I glace down. Where the dust rested is now golden letters reading:

"Welcome, Blessed Ones. Welcome to the Sacred Meadow."

"So, we're aparrently called the Blessed Ones. That solves that problem," I remark. 

At once flowers push up out of the grass, budding and opening before our very eyes. Albero touches one gingerly.

"Marigold. I love marigold. So pretty..." His face grows sad. "Yin, my friend, had marigold pulp in her cave. She used to smear it around the medicine plants she liked to use to keep away bugs." At his sadness the flowers reverse course, closing up and dissapearing underneath the grass. Albero smirks. "I guess the flowers like happy thoughts." The flowers peek out and point their heads towards us. I turn back to the marble. The words had changed while we were watching the flowers grow.

"Yup. This is a place of refuge for the Blessed. Refuge even from sadness and regret."

Albero smiles. I do too.

"Let's stay here to wait for the others," I say. Albero doesn't say anything, but he nods his head enthusiastically.

Hey, so I don't really know how this whole sage thing works. What is their purpose? Do they suppliment the powers? Can it just be any rando or do they have to have something special about them? I'm not trying to be rude (I actually think it would be fun to be one), I just want to know more.

Albero ~

The flowers take an instant disliking to me.

Reminds me of Rose, a bit.

Somehow, I always manage to have a small sad thought in my mind. It's absolutely annoying to have flowers twisting in complicated rhythms just to escape me.

It's a nice place though. There is a small river, I assume it's for the Flowr Carrier to visit when needed, a small circular dais of marble in the center, many different flowers, and cliffs rising all around it. There is a path down and up the cliff side, it's a tunnel, both entrances hidden by vines. 

And in the cliff are seven small caves. Each one is for a different Blessed One, as there are golden signs next to each entrance. Only two of the signs have names carved into them. 

My cave has many rows of shelves in the walls, filled with herbs and other medicinal things. There is a large ledge, which has several white deer pelts on it, a lantern, and an accordion case. There are also shelves filled with spices for cooking, and in the center of the room is a stone fireplace. The entrance to the stove faces the sleeping ledge.

I put my accordion in its new case, and head back out in the center to meet Piiri. '"Your cave nice? " I ask. She nods.

This place is lovely.

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Piiri~

Albero yawns. He stands up to go to his cave and streaches.

"Night Piiri." he says over his shoulder. I grunt in reply. Honestly, I've never been a very verbal keentheif. I shift form into a human and lay back on the grass, gazing up a the stars. Suddenly, my attention snaps away from the stars and I jump up in the form of a lioness. Something stirs in the trees. Glowing eyes watch me and I watch them. A lithe form slithers down the trunk. It is almost as  big as Albero, and has the form of a body and face of a fox, but it has three tails that, although are coated in fox fur and are the size of a normal foxs' tails, have the form and tip of a scorpion's. It peers at me and grins.

"Hello. I am Fyor, fire user." Fyor's teeth glint in the moonlight. Its voice is smooth, deep, feminine. "I was drawn to this place." Immediately, fire flickers over her fur, sparks come together to make fantastic glowing designs. I smile at the newcomer. Then I cock my head.

"I've never in all my life seen anything like you. What are you?" I ask. Fyor laughs.

"I am a Vulpes Scorpiones. There aren't many of us, and we don't show ourselves often. I was drinking from a stream when a mermaid slipped a golden petal into my fur. I felt a pull towards this place. There's another one of us already here, correct?"

"Yeah, but he's asleep. We'll suprise him in the morning." Fyor giggles.