"Matches except Space Arda it wasn't swords. Or trees. ...We're working on a better name for Space Arda."

"I am extremely curious about the differences between worlds, here. There are other dimensions that have the same history up to a single point of divergence? Is that it?"

"Not exactly - you might match Elentári that closely but Space Arda's different, higher tech level and entire planets standing in for continents in Eru's charmingly repetitive narrative. Also there's human alts of your entire family in a world that is not an Arda at all!"

"And the two of you are the same person from different worlds?"

"Caught that quick, you don't even have one of us here and he hasn't been saying much."

"I could say more but I'm not as well acquainted with any Maitimos."

"And she has more of a diplomatic background," he says, nodding, "and more personal animosity for the Enemy - longer war? It's - I form a model of a person in my head after a few minutes of paying them my full attention, and yours was like hers, so much so I was trying to figure out if I was missing something or if you were an illusion of hers or if she'd done something like what Melian did - if that's a feature of any of your universes..."

"I did not stare at her for centuries. And yes, she had a longer war and he made it more personal with her over the course of it. The diplomatic background is because she's a princess."

"- forgot to introduce ourselves! Sorry. I'm Loki, this is Cam."

"It is a pleasure to meet you!!! If I have not just extradimensional visitors but extradimensional princesses I should put on the diplomat hat myself - I know I have it around here somewhere - but I can't seem to muster the mood while the Enemy still lives. Arda's honored to become acquainted with whereveryou'refrom and looks forward to a long and lovely relationship. Care to go check whatever you need to check to see him safely ended?""

"Yeah, sure, if you don't have a better idea I'll just ask the Valar."

She touches the Tesseract and is slightly at Taniquetil. "Hello," she says there. "My name is Loki and I'm from another world and I can help you with your Melkor problem."

Cam watches her crackling blue and wags his tail.

Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you. I am Manwe but you probably already know that if you know we have a Melkor problem. 

Yeah, Ardas turn out to be variations on a theme, so to speak. The last time I killed a Melkor, well, nothing happened, but the corresponding Sauron had a deadman switch which was a mess to clean up. Do you happen to know if this set has anything like that?

He had at one point invested himself in the continent thoroughly enough that destroying him would cause it to crumble. He has since changed his priorities, I think, and might be differently vested.

I can hold the continent together. I can also round the planet! Anything other than that which you know of? It might help if they haven't been expecting godslayers to turn up, last time they had warning that that sort of thing might be coming.

I think Elspeth observed to him that godslayers were bound to show up eventually, but his hope was interdimensional travel or possibly negotiating with them, not a means of taking Arda with him.

Is he particularly negotiable-with? I did hear about a ceasefire. Not sure what I'd want a live Melkor for regardless... Should I know who Elspeth is?

Elspeth was an interdimensional visitor to this plane! he sends an image. Her magic was that she could explain things and she explained incarnates to us and explained Melkor into the ceasefire. It was very useful, but she desired to return to her home plane so we sent her back.

...that, uh, explains why you are so personable for a Manwë.

I can explain incarnates to other versions of me who don't understand them! It aids us in making Valinor blissful tremendously! The Elves gave us a lot of credit for trying, before, but we were pretty bad at it.

Loki giggles. I can pass the offer along. Well, if Melkor is expecting to negotiate with godslayers maybe I should just go see if he has anything tempting to say, although considering the history of parole violation it'd have to be really good.

We concur.

I will be back presently to discuss dead people and stuff like that.

And she depresences from Taniquetil and presences - just a little bit - where Melkor is.

"Heard you were expecting godslayers."

"It was made apparent that there are much bigger players than the Valar in the multiverse."