Flame Sages

Many legends involving Deffdrians tell of a group of Deffdrians known as the Flame Sages, or one of the handful of other names they go by, such as the Followers of Fire or simply the Flames. In all but one of these legends they're in, they play major roles, often preventing cataclysm on grand scales. An example of this is in the Balyom tale, "The Sealing of the Ash Beast," in which the Sages were able to capture the menacing Kamaharo.

The Flames appear in the same manner in all of the tales they're in, which is that they push themselves across some body of water with a long rod while standing atop a canoe-like craft. They never share a canoe, regardless of how many of them appear in a story. They always wear robes that cover their whole bodies except for their hands and face, though their hoods are said to cover their faces perfectly. These robes are almost completely black and have white dots across them, possibly in imitation of the night sky. This is consistent even in the Wandrarrian tale, "The Battle of the Dunes," which is the only legend involving the Flame Sages that takes place on Ferindune as well as the only one involving them in which they didn't actively participate in the events taking place. Instead, they merely watched Ferin from a distance along one of the few rivers on the planet.