What's in a name?

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 40412

Synizn

"How do you know my name?" this Sigin asks me and my brother's group.

Tiamat's blood! I've never met this dragon before (trust me, a dragon can tell a dragon in whatever form he takes, something I found out much to my sorrow).

....

Seems....kind of obvious now. Did I ever really think that my newly gained toy (that human seeming) was enough to fool my old enemy, Minestus?! I mean, I was able to accomplish a feat of skill that only a few others long ago of my species were able to accomplish....

Note: Earlier on in this particular thread before the Champions came into the mix, it had been rumored that dragons of the ancient past had been able to assume human form. In this world, unlike Terra, the human seeming is a rare . . . . well, skill.

Which actually wasn't such a clever idea after all. Should have probably studied my new talent more, the ability to assume a human "seeming". Maybe I would have realized after careful study I would have stumbled across the fact that when dragon assumes a human seeming, the disguise is close enough to be subject to curses normally only reserved for humans.

That and perhaps I might have . . . . learned how to act more human before I arrogantly went into the midst of Minestus' lair, believing I would never be discovered. That or perhaps now that the breeze shifts my way.....

Hadn't actually noticed it before with the others, but this stranger (a fellow dragon mage named Sigin) smells . . . . like a dragon.

Oh Goddess, I....

Never mind acting, my very scent gave me away! Apparently due to long time practice or experience, my brother and his mate know how to mask that tell tale scent because all I smelt from them was the scent of human! If this Sigin is typical of all dragons who can assume human form (and where did HE learn? Only was able learn from the clues Malachi traded me so long ago) then I smell of dragon as well!

....

And I thought that it was just my aura of power and might that scared horses whenever I went to the market before becoming a werebear....

Well, whatever the case it's just another sign that I have much to learn! Being that case, I feel that I best leave this meeting to my brother, who somehow knows this dragon's name.

How, I'm not exactly sure. Maybe he's of this strange land were mirror images walk the world....

Dragon Synizn

Okay Synizn, I think drolly to myself. Now that you've unsettled him to give you time to think, you'd better get thinking!

Okay, here's what we have right now besides a Sigin analog who's rather out of date, fashion wise (most unlike him!) if I'm any judge of this world's human fashion. He's not hostile, yet, but he might turn that. Especially if he's not the good type like my friend from Terra Prime!

We also, if I don't miss my guess from that Transform Door and the other little clues (the oily young snot of a mage must have been Elaine, the others told me about him) means that these centaurs must be a Belboz and Fred analog (subject to some kind of asinine prophecy called the "Two Girls prophecy"), banished here (as well as transformed)! If the tale that Frieda (who'd been subject to similar events from her world) then the blonde male centaur with bright blue eyes may be called Auzu Brighteyes if he's forgotten he'd been a necromancer human male named Belboz. The other male centaur with the utterly dark mane and tail (with purple highlights like some kind of raven) might be named Ravenmane if all knowledge of ever having been named Fred has been wiped from his mind!

The telling thing will be if..... And speak of the devil, as some of the humans are in wont of saying! The still stunned centaurs are squirming and crying out in pain, transforming!

  1. Gender wise, that is! Rather disconcerting to those not expecting it! Enough to make Sigin stop and stare!!

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