Before the war they were in communities small enough to make collective decisions by conference among all the adults. They tended to coalesce into larger groups, arriving here, and those have leadership roles that seem partially hereditary, but I still think most important decisions are either made collectively or made by those who disagree splitting off into a different group. They fight among themselves a lot. The Men who are vassals of Elves have adopted our government system and don't fight at all but that's also not ideal for many reasons.

Do they not fight because your government system is magic or because they're supervised?

Supervised. Our governance system is decidedly not magic and we came very close to a civil war ourselves when we were all younger and less wise. But we can't give Men thousands of years of personal experience of why to avoid war.

Yet.

I have every expectation that by the time they are as old as we are, they will be as disinclined to murder each other over questions of succession. 

I'm hoping succession is just irrelevant on my planet. I guess I might wind up with subdivisions of some kind as it grows and those could have succession issues.

Don't think in a few thousand years you'll get tired of being in charge?

Not especially. I guess I could be wrong, but, no, I don't expect that.

And the reset power means the murder that sparked our succession crisis is less plausible a concern.

Yep. I didn't find out I reset when I die on purpose but it's very handy.

Except it would drop us all back to before the Enemy died, wouldn't it?

Going to fix that, get a floating reset point, soon as I have a candidate wisher. I'd re-run the pattern about the same, though, it worked.

It did. I don't have a good candidate wisher for that but I have several for a general mechanism of non-Mandos resurrection, and if we had that we'd have lots more people alive and favorably inclined to you.

Civil war issue all worked out?

Findekáno advised you to keep my father dead?

Advised circumspection.

I am actually tempted to have Luthien take him off to Earth. He'll be deliriously happy there and can't contest anything of political delicacy.

What would he like about Earth?

The number of languages spoken, the number of scientific fields to catch up on, the pace at which people work and think...

Sounds good to me, assuming that's in fact what he'd do.

I am very sure of it. You could ask an oath if you desired.

I am pretty sure it doesn't work such that you can make binding oaths on your father's behalf and I don't think you're lying. I might want to wait until I've got a better reset point just in case, though.

I meant ask one of him, though he also wouldn't have me forsworn if I made one myself. What sort of traits would make someone good at wishing for a floating reset point?

Some people have really high generic bandwidth - those are the ones the fluffs used to recruit, people who could wish for any fool thing on a whim and still produce enough to make it worth their while. One of those'd do the trick. Somebody with specific bandwidth for it - I might try one of my parents, they could maybe work themselves up enough about helping me.

Do you know what traits predict high generic bandwidth?