But the Champions had the weird luck of running into bad weather that forced them to detour and land in a stretch of forest renowned to be cursed! Once there they encountered some unexpected company!
This stretch of forest is reputed to be haunted and cursed. It's one of those delightful places which from time to time detaches itself from reality and acts like a small pocket universe.
People from nowhere showing up. People disappearing, never to return...
Being that the place also warped certain rules of physics, like the criteria for lift, the dragons found that once they'd crash landed here they couldn't get off the ground again. Flapping all day wouldn't do anything but create a nice breeze.
In this cases, the Champions don't disappear into thin air, but unbeknownst to them this area of the forest has gone into it's "pocket universe" mode. Time outside is passing at a different rate here than outside. Instead, it's other people who the Champions meet.
It's a weird piece of real estate that an old associate of the native Malachi had come to study, Sigin. The native Synizn had also been an associate of the native Malachi, but since this Sigin had gone missing quiet a while ago (got caught up in the timewarp here), Malachi thought him dead. The Champions, however, recognize Sigin because of so many analogs of the guy in Eternity Incorporated's ranks.
But before the odd meeting could get very far, one of the weird phenomena occurred, dumping two male centaurs come stumbling out of a magical portal from another world. The magical portal is called a "Transform Door" and from that and other clues the Champions believe that the centaurs were perhaps, before their present forms, been human's named Belboz and Frederigo D'Honaire who came from a world where that nutty "Two Girl Prophecy". This was given more evidence when the male centaurs suddenly shifted into female centaurs right before the other's eyes. The elves of the group have a time calming the disoriented centaurs down and win them to the Champions' side, but they manage it:
And if that wasn't odd enough then we have an Alliance (the Mirror version of the Military that Terra Prime is so familiar with, the group that gave birth to Inquirer's kind) dropping in on things.....