Nod. Assuming that's all true does it sound satisfactory or close enough to you? Bella asks Lúthien.

I don't know. I am sort of inherently suspicious of a long list of bad behavior all of which has a soothing explanation. What do you think?

That's why I'm conditioning on the soothing explanations being true.

Oath's still worrying. If there's misbehavior we don't know about I'm not confident he'd volunteer it. If it's true what do you think of him?

Finds himself in a position to make awful tradeoffs. Makes 'em. I might want him to guarantee he's not withholding anything to make himself look good, or something.

I think that'd satisfy me. Assuming that's the kind of person you want with immense destructive power.

Tradeoffs can get less awful if you have more oomph. If what he says is true then with one magical - person - and a happiness song they could have skipped the boats and just had the person teekay everybody over the ocean and would've preferred it.

...that's a good point.

And like, I of the seventy-something time loops and the threatening-to-end world have made awful tradeoffs, I just got to cheat my way out of them in the end...

Yeah. 

You didn't do things like that, though.

Like what? Kill people? Witches are people, turns out, you saw - I had to fight unwitched magical girls sometimes when I needed charge and there weren't enough witches and I knew it mattered more that I have enough magic to get through the day than if they did, and they're all alive now but before - and if you're going to ding him for all the seducing mortal vassals he apparently didn't even do what does it mean about me that I went up to Raine and knew exactly how to get her to give me what I wanted -

It means that you had a ridiculously hard job and you did it and saved the whole world. You wouldn't do it just for fun.

My read on this guy is that he hasn't had any fun in three hundred years.

Yeah. 

Okay.

If all that's true I'm okay with it.

Can you confirm that all that is true and that you aren't withholding information to make yourself look good? Bella inquires.

"I swear that everything I've said to you has been true as far as I know and that there's nothing I can think of that'd substantially change your judgment and nothing I'm deliberately withholding toward that end."

...really? he prods him.

They like each other, didn't you notice? And my read is she wouldn't care anyway.

And when Lúthien's translated that -

Okay. Making a wish alone won't do anything except mean that you can't make any more wishes, but doing the whole magic package thing involves some stuff, which I don't consider likely to be a dealbreaker but somebody might and which you should know about in advance anyway. I am technically not inhabiting my body; I'm this rock, she taps the back of her hand, operating my body by remote control, range limit a hundred meters. This costs magic to do and it's the only magic cost you can't stop paying unless you want to just be a rock without a body, which is pretty unpleasantly sensory-deprivationy. Amount of magic is signified by brightness of gem. It's a ratchet on emotional state; you can't get happier than your gem is bright - the gem will also dim if you get upset. I am unusually good at working around that and avoiding depressive spirals when I get low. The infinite energy hack is a happiness song of which I have a recording I can provide you a copy of, charges us right back up, obvious side effects are obvious. With the version I'm offering, which is better than the one I got, running entirely out of magic will leave you unable to operate your body until you're recharged and you will have the obvious happiness ratchet problem; I don't know whether an uncharged soul gem can still hear-for-magical-purposes through its body's ears if the body still exists to do that with, probably not, but somebody can donate charge to you from their own soul gem if this happens. Magic is quite intuitive to do but gem dimming is not intuitive to track and if you're trying to do anything with magic that isn't on the standard everyone-can-do-this list or one of your theme thingies you should be prepared for it to be unexpectedly expensive. For some reason the entire process comes with a costume change - out of costume the soul gem is a ring, in either form it can adopt a bauble shape, in costume it defaults to being on the costume somewhere. It breaks, you die. It does require considerable concentrated force to break one. Costume'll subconsciously customize somewhat to your tastes but it seems to have a thing for skirts and I don't know how much of that is the thing where in my world it's girls only. Questions?

Can you armor your soul gem, encase it in something harder to break than it is? Do you need to be in your costume to use your magic?

You'd have to put the armor on over the gem every time you changed but if you find something harder to break than it is and it happens to be in an armorable location, or you want to bauble it and put it in something, no conceptual reason not to. Doing magic with the exceptions of transforming, dowsing for my world's unfortunate despair monsters which you don't have here, switching between ring and bauble, operating your body, and moving charge around requires being in costume. You can alter your costume with magic but I have literally never seen one without a skirt so I'm not sure if I just run into a lot of people who like skirts okay or if that's some kind of bizarre hard limit.

I think that's an acceptable tradeoff.

Okay. Ready when you are. I think I can take the wish over osanwë.

Without destroying anything else in Arda, I want Melkor and all of the Maiar that serve him irrevocably dead from this minute forward.

And Bella wills the wish granted -