"Feh, to think that this pack of brats would awaken before me." A voice said from one of the blurs, as a small knot of roots and flesh began to form in it's center. "I must be getting weaker in my old age."

As he spoke, Ualla's body continued to form, wood and bone sprouting and fusing until he had regained the base body he had used every cycle. Of course, it was missing his modifications, and he currently only had the two arms and two legs many would consider 'normal'. He would have to work on that soon.

Before he could get to work on his own goals however, he turned to the other deities who had formed, and his eyes widened as he realised that something was wrong. Unlike the others though, Ualla knew immediately just [i]what[/i] that something was. After all, he was life in all it's aspects. He could sense the presence of life wherever it may be, and for those gods and goddesses he had known throughout the cycles, he could even recognize the energy from their lives quite well. And there was [i]one[/i] life that was quite clearly missing.

As he came to the realisation of just what had taken place, and how it would no doubt affect the coming cycle, Ualla's eyes drooped slightly in sadness. Putting aside his own pain over the matter, he had no doubt that many deaths would spawn from this. Looking over the gods that surrounded him, he decided that it would be better to get it the reveal over with now.

"Well, glad as I am to wake up surrounded by fools and children, Anacahe included, I'm afraid I have some bad news. I can't feel Brother's presence amongst those who've yet to awaken, and while it hurts to say it, it looks like he's faded during the roil. Now I know how this might make this cycle a little more difficult, but I'm beggin' ya, don't do anythin' rash. The last thing we need is to be bogged down by unnecessary bloodshed."

He looked to the new god, and even as he did so, a few additional limbs started to sprout from his body, each of them already beginning their work on the construction of a few basic lifeforms to seed the planet with.

"Now, seeing as you're new, I think I know what's going on. You magic, time, or both?"