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Akibel Mowar is on his way home from the blacksmith's when he spots it. People are shrieking and fleeing from it, which seems reasonable, as it's a fuckoff huge snake with a mirror for a face. A big mirror.
Kib can't so much flee. He can shriek - he can lurch in the direction of the nearest house and try the door - it's locked. He can amble briskly...
He can break into a run when the snake gains on him and fall flat on his face.
And he can get eaten up.
And it's too bright too bright too bright and he flings his arm over his eyes.
secondchance
"His rebellion against the Valar and against Eru. We do not know what prompted that, or we would change it."
secondchance
What an unhelpful self-serving deliberately oblivious sort of answer. "Do you have anything shortly prior to his rebellion against the Valar and Eru that might be more informative examined from other perspectives?"
They do. They have a circle of Valar pleading with Fëanáro for a Silmaril so they can restore light to the world, and Fëanáro refusing, calling them 'Moringotho's kin'. They have Fëanáro drawing a sword on his half-brother. They have Fëanáro having a fight with his wife.
secondchance
...Kib would, if he did not suspect Valar were incapable of shame, suspect they were picking and choosing scenes to make themselves look really good. "What is a Silmaril?"
He gets shown one. The gem in the necklace that had appeared in the Dwarf-Elf war and in Maitimo's sacks of two cities.
secondchance
...that's something. Scribble scribble. "Those things may be important, anything else with them in?"
Sure! A festival in a few decades, Fëanáro fawned over, the Silmarils worn on his head in a circlet. They are very pretty.
secondchance
...
"Do you know what they're for besides being shiny, by any chance?" Being shiny and driving people nuts?
"Do you know what they're for besides being shiny, by any chance?" Being shiny and driving people nuts?
"We cannot assess the capabilities of things in our visions, only what we in fact observe them used for."
secondchance
Hm.
"And -"
Kib's just gonna keep asking questions until he can't elicit more visions that way because he doesn't think much of the Valar's ability to distinguish relevant from useless.
"And -"
Kib's just gonna keep asking questions until he can't elicit more visions that way because he doesn't think much of the Valar's ability to distinguish relevant from useless.
He can get more visions. A city burning, Findekáno's brother fighting to buy his people time to escape it. A different city whose inhabitants kill themselves as the Enemy approaches. Findekáno hiking in a cold wasteland.
secondchance
He gets times when he can, tries to put it all in some sensible order, and when they're all clammed up he thanks them as solicitously as he can (he manages fairly well).
Hey, Findekáno says, thank you for not bringing down the wrath of the gods on anybody. Was that useful?
secondchance
Well, I think I know when Maitimo's doomed brother dies, now. If it didn't seem to be out of step with their emotional repertoire I'd think they were picking and choosing scenes specifically to avoid telling me what they do that has Fëanáro so extra pissed off at them in fifty Years.
They may not know. If they didn't do anything wrong according to their lights, then 'why is he mad' would make more sense to answer with 'because he's Fëanáro' than with 'because we did something awful'.
When and how does Maitimo's brother die? And how does any of this lead to Maitimo pillaging cities?
When and how does Maitimo's brother die? And how does any of this lead to Maitimo pillaging cities?