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There are a lot of Amentan countries. Vanda Nossëo representatives are dispatched to all of them. These Elves (two with black hair, one with silver) take a shuttle down from the lightleaper to a country called Calado, and radio ahead to request permission to land at a elegant modern spaceport.
okay by comparison Voa and Tapa look like thriving modern democracies
"They taught us to do the chip blessings, which aren't magic, they sometimes maybe do real magic - good luck, protection from danger -"
" - the Doom -"
" - yeah - but small things, things that would be hard to notice except in the aggregate. You can specifically ask them for more if you have something specific in mind."
"And after three hundred Years they paroled Melkor. He'd been saying he was really sorry and - well, we didn't want to imprison him for all eternity..."
"...well, we were wrong. He went, uh, right back to it. And the King - uh -"
No one volunteers to finish the sentence for him.
" - Melkor said that he'd stop all the torture and killing forever if they destroyed Valinor, which they had the means to do and he didn't."
"He could bind himself to that promise, that's a thing Valar can do."
"Anyway. The King said to do it."
"Which he can decide. If he sees fit."
"That's kind of beside the point."
"They resurrected us as soon as they had somewhere to put us."
"Yeah. That's why it's called Afterlife - it's the same, they made a copy of everything - except the animals - and people lost pregnancies -"
"And the war stopped and Melkor went off to, I don't know, kick cats or something, and they worked on it for a while and got a way to contact other dimensions and found someone who could kill him and now he's dead. And I guess it was worth it."
"But it wasn't okay."
"Yeah."
"The Valar were dead longer than us. They weren't expecting to ever have a way to resurrect them. And they were worried the Valar would be mad. But then eventually they sorted it."
"...I think the Valar might have gotten resurrected conditional on not hassling the person who did it. Which is fine, we don't have anything against the person who did it, the King said to."
"They haven't acted mad."
" - uh, no, the people who fought the war stayed in Endorë. His brother is King here now. It wouldn't be good for him to be our King now, considering."