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Introduction
Throughout the millenia, sentient beings have been evolved, created and born throughout all the different universes, dimensions and planes. These sentient beings differ from the common life force because they are able to reason, able to think their actions ahead and are, most of all, able to come up with reasons for their existance. They can choose to do things that nature deems unnecesary. They create, they destroy, they change...

It is because of this that sentient beings stand out from the normal flora and fauna that may surround them: they can choose to be unlike their surroundings. They have the ability to imagine things that normal life would never even begin to question and make these imaginations come to life. Be it out of necesity or out of the mere ability to manifest that power at will, these creatures decide to bring out things that help them execute normal survival activities with much, much more effectivity. Instead of hunting they gather herds. Instead of looking for fruits they create harvests. Instead of having to walk, they ride other creatures that are faster than them, or even create their own intricate methods of transportation. Everything is created to make their daily living simple and easier. But with everything good something is wasted. They exhaust their resources, they exhaust the environment about them for their own greedy needs. And what's worse... Among the many ambitions of the sapienskind also exists the need for superiority, competition and the ability to destroy. Although they may have their survival already just about taken for granted, they do not kill their own kind over mere sustainance needs, but over greed.

These things they imagine, they can be horrible, horrible things. Sometimes, they can be beautiful, yet at the expense of others' well being. And when the plan is set to bring these imaginations of theirs to life... something is created when something else is destroyed. In order to create bigger spans of territory for themselves, they fight against eachother to have more of what they already have. Instead of sharing their intellect, they pit it against eachother, giving themselves no quarter for trascending the basic animalistic behaviors that they are bound to and using their power of knowledge to further worsen the conflict. Wars, masacres, slaughters, murders, slavery, abuse, harrasments, deceits, hasslings, theft... These are all things that happen commonly within a sentient being's community that causes the society around it to be unruly. Little by little, as their desires for expansion increase, more and more greed is swollen within the heart of the ever-hungering ambitions of these creatures. In eventuality, their massive creation falls under the black hole of desires these creatures crave. The black hole sucks it's surroundings dry, and as it continues to mindlessly feed off the vacuum, it ends up consuming itself. And then, there's nothing but darkness...

Those that Overcome
Some sentient beings are not as arrogant and selfish as to feel the need of a constant desire. Some of them are able to transcend, to realize what their actions have brought onto the world and find a way to deviate from the standard of what they are. They are rich in explinations and reasons of why they exist, and why they must allow others to have such same aspirations to explain themselves and their surroundings.

This enlightenment is thought by many, but among them are the ones that actually try to do something with their knowledge. They try to convince those ambitious beings around them, their neighbors and brothers in sentience, that they are doing wrong on their quest to satiate their hunger for power and domination. That they must live only off what's necessary, only off what they need, not what they want. They know that their place in the world they live in is not that of dominance, but of being the guardians of their world. The knowledgable ones. The only ones able to create and destroy for a purpouse, not simply for survival.

Those that know this, those that are truly able to grasp the concept of what their true responsabilities are towards their environment, those beings feel the responsability of keeping sapienskind in their place. It was this sense of responsability that once brought a wise sage, Orion, to create an organization that would ensure the sentient beings would follow these orders. They would study and analyse situations, and then create new pathways for the history of these sentient beings and ensure their safety, their world's safety, and the safety of all sapienskind... throughout the multiverse.

The Sages: The Reunion
Orion, the Venerable Sage, was the one to start an organization of people that upheld such physical doctrines of the multiverse and proceeded to engage in the action of ensuring that they be carried out. There was only one place where this could be: the only place that touches all of the planes at the same time. Master of all arts, Orion made his tower there, and from there watches all dimensions, big and small. Selected are those that follow and enforce the rules of the sages by their own and may therefore join.

The sages are selected secretively by their tasks and by their influence upon others of protecting their environment and protecting the ability of straying from ambition.

"No more than what we need."

"Our surroundings depend on us. We are their guardians, for we are the only ones that can decide it so."

Those that say this, and are willing to enforce it with all their might, with all their will and their strength. Those are the ones that are willing to die over these ideas. Those are the ones that become one of the Sages of Wisdom. For they truly are wise. They are allowed to join, or atleast are made Honorable Sages.

Through hundreds of years, the organization continued to grow, until finally it had enough members. Following their own ideal of not having anymore than what they need, they obtained a reasonable number by which they would be able to construct the future of several sentient societies in other worlds.

The Sages of Wisdom's main goal is to mantain their doctrines in every world they can see from the backstage. They keep balance in worlds, between the sentient and the non-sentient. Empires fall, societies break, metropolis after metropolis shrunk or destroyed because of their suggestions; and whatever they cannot stop (which isn't a lot), stops on it's own when it has no more room to spread through or feed from.

And so, the Sages of Wisdom work behind a smoke screen, performing their activities unseen by other worlds, but affecting the worlds they perform on greatly. Little do civilizations know that they are being watched and guided carefully into a life of prosperity with their environment and with themselves.