Yeah.

Anyway, I'm hoping someone can come up with a better plan, and asking you and your siblings to think about it seemed like an obvious thing to do.

Can you set up a portal so we can observe? Have you checked if there are other new species, or other populations of this one?

I can make you a portal, sure. I haven't looked for other species or more of this one; I don't have a way to target it like that - I can look for places with a lot of people in them, that would have found them, but I'm not sure it'd work for any other species.

Why not? Do you have to have the kind of people in mind?

Headshake. I can't aim by species at all, it's just not something the magic can do. It's a little bit weird that I can aim based on how many people are around in the first place.

So then you'll get Angband, and us, and Doriath and the Nolofinweans and the Dwarves...

And any groups we don't know about, yeah. And Valinor, too, I think.

It'd be important to know. Probably worth it. Especially if you can do it a way that won't make Angband risky.

Hm.

There's probably a way to avoid making portals to Angband but I'd need to know more about it, I don't actually know much. Physical traits, if it's made of a kind of stone that's unusual in the rest of the world or all underground or something.

He sends images, That help any? I don't know the kind of stone and it's not all underground but most of it is.

Not really. If I only do aboveground places it's less risky, and I can close the portal again as soon as I notice, but I'm not sure that's enough.

Might not be. Better to be careful.

Yeah.

But we need to know how many other vulnerable populations are out there -

...yeah.

...I can do way, way up above? Does that seem like it'd be safer? And then once we've checked that I haven't found Angband, make another portal lower over the same spot?

That should be safer, yeah.

Okay. -do you want to help, I don't know if this is the kind of thing you'll feel better or worse doing yourself-

Well, I need help with the portal part, don't I?

Right, I do the portals, and then I need an Elda to look 'cause my eyes aren't that good. Don't know if you want that to be you or not.

I can do it.

She nods. Okay, back in a minute, and then she pops by the Ñolofinwëan camp to get the pile of cloth scraps she was using earlier and give Findekáno a quick update, and then she's back and starts in on the portals.

And he lends Elven eyes.

Dwarven city.

City he identifies as one in Valinor.

Angband close it right away.

Yup. He can just rip the cloth next time, it'll be faster.

And they keep going. Forest. Another forest. Presumably there are people in these forests, but he can't see them.

Well, that's what the second round of checking is for, she can open another portal down where the people actually are and have a look around at those spots.