"That was gratuitously adorable," Odette sighs.

It really was. She's so cute. And it's good to get some social interaction if we're not going to see anyone until you have a teleport.

There'll be other patrons, hopefully, but yeah.

Sure but most people suck.

And there's the giant squid.

I have yet to go befriend the giant squid. I will get on that.

Now, or should I do some remodeling without the need for us not to disturb the kid?

Maybe that first.

Large-scale magic is deployed.

Odette: best person ever. Just look at that.

Not the only Great Mage ever, you know.

Prettiest one, though, and the only one who's going to kill a god!

I'd argue the prettiest part but you apparently think I'm prettier than elf girls so I don't think most peoples' taste is salient here. The godslaying part I'll grant you. Multiple gods, if Thauron counts. Ooh, do Balrogs count, because if so I already have.

Gonna say nah, they're like really really minor things also made up of the stuff that makes up gods.

Just the Balrogs, or also Thauron?

Thauron counts.

So I have not yet killed any gods but am going to kill multiple, she nods.

Any minute now, objective-time wise.

I shall have to fetch Illia and possibly Andreth and then afterwards Macalaure and--hmm. Might be a good idea not to do the resurrection in Feanorian territory after all, just because Beth Miqlat has more space that is both empty/comfortable for a person to be in and defensible. You've got fortresses that already have people in them and areas not surrounded by walls, as far as I can tell, an almost-empty city is a rare commodity.

You could do it there, but I expect people will want to make a beeline for their loved ones wherever it is they start out, doubt they'll stay even overnight. Unless getting reembodied is really traumatic somehow.

At that point I shall be able to teleport them wherever they like.

Great.

...And it might be convenient for some people if their method of getting-places isn't wholly under their own control, if who they'd want to see and who they'd want people to think they want to see aren't the same person for some reason.

And so we don't get a civil war immediately.

Is that likely?