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Upon noticing that everyone had finished their interaction with their Ancestor/Predecessor, the cloaked female finally pulled her hood down to reveal the face of a young looking female. Her eyes were a piercing crimson color framed by dark lashes, eyes that seemed to miss nothing. Her hair fell around her shoulders in auburn colored curls that did nothing to hide the horns that were set just behind and above her ears, they went straight back with a slight curve to them. As she looked around, she rested her hand on the glass globe that held the 6 gems within. The moment her hand came in contact with the glass, it shattered and a blinding white light accompanied the shattering.
 
When the bright light subsided, Damien's bow was bestowed back upon him. However, it looked much more different than when he last saw it. The ends and curves of the bow were more elegantly pointed and the whole bow had a silver-brownish hue to it. The most eye-catching pieces, however, were the six gems embedded into the bow. Just above the handle was a ruby, followed by a topaz gem just above the handle, with the diamond halfway up and an oval Opal at the tip. An emerald gem lay just below the handle, with a black diamond half-way down, and an aquamarine at the bottom tip. 
 
Aegar was the next to notice a difference when it came to his weapons. He looked down at his belt only to find that his swords had returned to their previously empty sheaths, though it seemed they had changed. He pulled both swords out, one in each hand, to examine them: both 2-foot long, slightly curved blades made of a dark grey non-reflective metal, with a black leather grip. Unlike before however, the cross guards were richly decorated with a variety of colored gems. The center of both cross guards held a large black diamond, in the shape of a half skull, the left and right sword holding the left and right half respectively. Around each black diamond were five much smaller gems - diamond, emerald, ruby, topaz and aquamarine - laid around the skull gem like a pentagon. On the blade, just above the hand guard, sat a large half Opal on each blade, reflecting every elemental color already present.
 
Once his eyes readjusted to the normal, faded light of [i]Tenebra[/i], he held up both of his hands, and gazed at the augmentations made to his gauntlets. The steel rim of the right gauntlet had been adorned with the Diamond, the Emerald, and the Blue Topaz. His left hand, respectively, now bore the Ruby, the Aquamarine, and the Black Diamond. When he turned his hands over to inspect the underside of each, Jade Fist noticed that there was an oval Opal embedded in the steel rim. [b]"Hmph..."[/b] He muttered, with a sense of intrigue, [b]"Alright. This'll work."[/b]
 
Calixta was confused when she saw she had nothing in her hand, [b][i]I thought we were to be given something,[/i][/b] she wondered as she went to rub her forehead, only to be met with the brief, cold bite of metal. Confused, she removed what was on her head only to find a circlet within her grasp. It was made of yellow gold and rose gold bands that spiraled and intertwined to make a tiara-like shape. It dipped down along the hairline, almost touching the forehead region with an intricate swirly flourish. The circlet itself was scattered with small, golden leaves and flowers that resemble the florae native to Nymph; there are five flowers on each side with each holding a small jewel representative of the other elements: Ruby, Emerald, Blue Topaz, Black Diamond and Diamond. In the center of the circlet, above the swirly flourish, lies a much larger Aquamarine stone that is also decorated with swirls of rose gold. Attached to the large Aquamarine at the bottom sat a half size smaller Opal, outlined in the same rose gold that decorated the Aquamarine.
 
When Ostel's eyes readjusted from the bright flash of light, he felt the weight of Dawnbringer in his hands. As he took the time to re-inspect the hammer, he noticed that the ruins seemed so much brighter. The white diamond that stood for his element hung from the curved point of the hammer on a chain made of gold. Spaced evenly on either side of the hammer, from flat head to curved point, the remaining gems lined up starting with the Black Diamond at the flat end of the hammer, followed by the Aquamarine, Ruby, Emerald and closest to the clear Diamond was the Blue Topaz that signified Summer's element. As he lowered his arm to his side, a glint of multiple colors caught his eye and he spotted an oval Opal, the same size as his diamond, on the very top of the hammer just before the curve.
 
Finally, Summer opened her eyes after the brilliant flash of light, she wasn't sure what to expect, but it sure wasn't what happened next. The wind around Summer began to swirl in front of her. As she looked on, a staff began to take form. The swirls in the wind solidified as it jumped from one point on the staff to the next, creating twisting spheres around different areas of the staff. Embedded into the center of every twisting sphere starting from the center of the staff up are the Emerald, Black Diamond, Aquamarine, the Clear Diamond and lastly, the Ruby. Each gem shifts into the shape of a perfect sphere as the cyclone of wind twists and turns until it meets at the top, creating a large Blue Topaz on the top that twists out and spreads tendrils along the Opal stone that now created the main body of the staff. Within the opening of the top was a never dying, visible, swirling, ball of air.
 
[b]"Well then, now that you all have what was meant for you, I would like for you to follow me please,"[/b] the woman said, [b]"Oh, and my name is Amalia for those of you who wish to know... and I'm a Warlock."[/b] She offered a smile as she made a small motion for them to follow her. 
 
When they all finally got over their initial shock, each Sage and their companion (for those that had one), proceeded to follow Amalia to a gate on the other side of the Courtyard, a gate that lead into Darkness. Without another word, she opened the gate with the wave of her hand and led them into a cave that was so dark that they could barely see their hand in front of their face. They walked like this for what felt like hours, but was only seconds, before the cave came to an end and they stood in front of a portal. Before stepping through, she smiled at everyone and motioned for them to follow her once more.
 
When everyone was through the portal, they found themselves in a vast field with rolling hills and not a tree in sight. No, no trees, but there was a large castle like structure about 300 yards away from them. The castle was built of a mix of Black Onyx and Gold laced Marble stone with three towers aligned behind the structure, nearly reaching the sky. The Towers themselves were black in color with the gold-laced marble acting as the roof. The Gothic structure looked out of place in the sunny fields, actually, the whole "Sunny fields" seemed out of place with [i]Tenebra[/i].
 
[b]"Parallel dimension so to speak,"[/b] Amalia said with a smile as everyone looked around, [b]"If you like the outside, wait until you see the inside, it's literally whatever you want it to be."[/b]

She led them all to the University, once they reached the large front doors, they opened silently revealing a large Front Hall decorated in vibrant colors with the Dining hall branched off to the left. On the right side of the hall were 7 doors, 7 doors that seemed so out of place when it came to everything else. Each door was the color of an element, except for the seventh door, the seventh door was a mix of all the colors and seemed more… foreboding. 

[b]“Don’t mind those doors just yet,”[/b] Amalia said with a smile as they walked up to a young woman that was paler than Summer, [b]“They will come into play when you are ready for them. Now, please follow Evelyn here to your respective towers… Summer, you will be rooming with Damien, Ostel with Jade Fist and you Aegar… you will be with Calixta. Calixta, don’t even think about arguing understand? You will try to get along like your life depends on it because… well… it does. Now on your way.”[/b]

Amalia made a shooing motion with her hands just before she turned on her heel and walked away.