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On their fourteenth birthday, everyone is gifted with a power of some sort. The most common are mental powers, mind reading, telekinesis, or other abilities of the sort. Then you have the elementals, people who can control fire, water, earth or wind. Often elementals and mind wielders have more than one gift. Someone who controls fire may also control Earth or water, Telepaths may also be telekinetic and so on. There is one more kind of gift, the most powerful, a transformer. Not like the movie franchise, but someone who is gifted with the ability of a animal. Most great leaders have been transformers, George Washington of America had the talons and wings of an eagle, and Nepolitan of France supported the ears and tail of a red fox, Augustus of Rome was rumored to have the tail of a horse. Where children want to become a transformer, most parents dread their child waking up on their fourteenth birthday with ears, a tail, or other animal trate, because transformers often come just before something awful. The more powerful your gift, the more dangerous you are.  There have never been reports of anything other than transformers causing huge world problems, so when one shows up with nothing dangerous going on, what happens next?
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