Greetings, Salutations!... Hiya.

First things first.. the introductions. My name is sunny elfie. Its not really my fault for having such a name, you know. i am something of a mage.. not a combat mage as some.. no, most... might have you believe.. but a healing mage. I heal and thats really quite good enough for me. I was quite happy in my former place of living.. that much I am certain, but.. the details anymore.. escape me. I -do- recall being within my patron's study when the swirling vortex appeared next to the table I was sitting at. Proving impossible to ignore, I set my book down and reached out to touch it, if anything to prove to myself, like some small child seeing oddly horrifying shapes in the darkness might, that this simply couldn't be what it appeared to be. Now. I suppose that must have been something of a mistake because in the next moment of startled awareness, I was standing in a town square next to a slowly rotating blue stone. Wobbling a bit uncertainly, I laid a hand gently upon what I thought was the brace for the stone to steady myself and.. a strange sort of charge went through me at the slightest touch of the cool stone. In automatic response, I raised my hands to the sky while white stars dazzled my eyesight... much like the stars I have seen just after having hit the study ladder. How curious! (Now, of course, I know this object as a lifestone. A magical stone of returning. Able to bring people quickly to its location as well as to revive them from death. Quite a useful thing really.) This town was, I soon descovered, called Shoushi.. in a place..a world.. called Dereth.. to which there was to be no return to my patron's study.. that I have thus far descovered. It wasn't long before I met several others having just stepped through a portal from elsewhere and it was quickly decided that we should stick together for added safety in this strange world. It was within only a short time thereafter that we moved in under the same roof and I began to collect books, essays and research for my own study. Inderiel, called Indi, for short, is rather the unoficial leader of our house as she was the one to quickly have earned enough for its rent. A rather strange woman, to be sure. She has a taste for exploration like none other in our house and yet, it seems, she has unique failings.. such as her insistance that she is a wingless angel.. or showing such terror at the very sight of the little pixies this land boasts of. Belmont the Bear... what really can be said of him? He's big, carrys an axe or hammer, and roars a lot. He also seems to have caught the interrest of a gnomish sort. (I shall, in the tradition of Bloggers everywhere, refer to her as lady M.) Whom, while he finds her amusing, is often rebuffing her. (Or like I have heard said.. "playing hard to get".) Kitaya, called Kita by most who know her, is something of pain. She thinks that just because she can use a mace as well as magic, this makes her unique or somehow special. Well to give her equal thought... she is quite the adventurer when she can get out from under the mantle of magical studies. There is also Lume. This fellow had difficulties finding his niche at first but eventually seemed to settle into an alchemist's trade. He is also a wonderful cook and a fine fletcher as well. and Admetus.. who, I think, might be a whole other story. He never really descovered a calling, unless a 'supply officer' is considered a calling in this world. He was never really good at much else. and last to join us is Tan. He is Admetus' brother (so Admetus says), but they are not much alike really. Tan has hopes of someday entering into the tinkerer trade. Very unlike Admetus though, he has a good disposition for spending time keeping track of all the salvage bags. With Indi's help, we were brought into a wonderful clan called the Mystic Warriors... where we have met many wonderful people and good friends in this wonderfuly amazing new world. *For more info about the wide world of Dereth, look up 'Asheron's Call' on the web and read up on some of it's rich history.. much of which is still being created. :) *