<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/22/Nemesea.jpg)</div>Nemesea Oci Faldra (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1975503)<br/><br/>Elohim replies to the gnome's questions first "My name's Elohim...and while I've studied the arcane arts for quite some time now I have no idea what happened to us.  a Big tangle of vines grabbed everyone and, well you remember how I was rolling around in pain at first, the vines seemed to stretch my body out and somehow swapped my gender.  I was a male until a few minutes ago, Ayreth's mention of cocks was actually referring to the absence of our male sexual organs.  I'm surprised you didn't know that 'cock' is a term for the male penis, not just for poultry.  As for where I'm from, my parents moved just below the surface world to make their business much easier to run.  It's difficult capturing slaves when you have to trudge through miles of tunnels each way, so we live close enough to the sun that it sometimes hurts their eyes in late evening"<br/><br/>It takes a few more moments to realize he's the only one following the gnomes  "I understand that travelling with the kobolds has one advantage, you get to learn how they view everyone else around them so it wouldn't be a bad idea to go along with them.  Lies or not, how others react to them would reveal more than words...of course your demonstration of magical potential has me much more interested in following you than the kobolds.  What were those spells you cast?  I'm not familiar with either of them...at all"<br/><br/>Elohim doesn't appear to care about the party splitting up, the potential for arcane learning outweighing any other concerns he may have about the current situation.