He stands there, swishing his tail, until he is sent home. Poof.

"Not a thing. They do not sound fun."

"Darkspawn are horrible creatures that come from deep underground and kill anyone they see. My country is currently being invaded by them, and it looks like it might turn out to be a Blight, which is when a darkspawn-tainted dragon called an 'archdemon' leads an army of darkspawn to try to take over the world and destroy all life."

"...Not at all fun. Are they killable?"

"Yes. Well, ordinary darkspawn are. I get the impression that archdemons are more difficult, and not necessarily just because they're enormous dragons. But I'm not a Grey Warden - the people whose job it specifically is to deal with darkspawn and darkspawn-related things - so I don't know the details."

"Can the enormous dragons be restrained? Or, just as a for instance, launched into space, I can get you boilerplate summons for fairies."

"I'm not sure launching one into space would particularly help. Their ability to control darkspawn doesn't seem to be substantially limited by distance, although from what I can gather they prefer to personally accompany their armies at least most of the time. The same problems apply to restraining one."

"And how are darkspawn in general killable?"

"In the ordinary ways any person or animal can be killed. But their blood and bodies carry the taint, so don't get any on you. I would not like to find out by experiment whether or not apsels can become ghouls."

"What are ghouls, and how exactly is taint passed?"

"It's known to happen if you eat darkspawn, or get their blood in your blood. I think certain magical artifacts can also spread it, but that's much rarer and may only be a baseless rumour. A ghoul is a tainted person; they lose their minds, become obsessed with darkspawn, and eventually run away to serve them. Or die. Many tainted people just die."

"I can't die, as far as I know, unless local magical effects can kill me, and I wouldn't want to bet on it. I don't know if I can become a ghoul either, but I don't want to test it. If a ghoul-me could also use my magic, me becoming one would be sufficiently awful that I should probably engage with darkspawn only with the help of binoculars, if at all."

"At what distance and speed can you create arbitrary matter? How quickly could you destroy an army of darkspawn from a comfortable distance?"

"Distance is basically immaterial for these purposes - I could put stuff on the moon from here - but I have to know where to put it, which means seeing or having extremely detailed maps of where things are going. Assuming I can destroy darkspawn in some relatively straightforward way, such as by filling their abdominal cavities with liquid nitrogen - uh, very very cold partial air? - then I can handle any army I can see roughly as fast as I can look at them, and I don't know if you've invented binoculars yet but I can see things from quite a long way away with a pair and I can make them myself. I'd want to be very sure that I could distinguish darkspawn from non-darkspawn without fail, how easily recognizable are these things, are we talking forty legs and poison dart frog color schemes or, like, zombies?"

"I don't know what a zombie is. Darkspawn are... very obviously not the same as ordinary people, but they have the same number of limbs as the rest of us, and I suppose you might not even know what all the kinds of ordinary people are. Humans, dwarves, elves, qunari?"

"...Are dwarves and elves respectively short compact humanoids and humanoids with pointy ears? No idea what a qunari is."

"Elves are also shorter than humans but taller than dwarves. Qunari are large humanoids with horns and greyish skin. Darkspawn also come in four varieties: hurlocks, genlocks, shrieks, and ogres. They seem to correspond to the kinds of people, but I haven't been able to find out why. Hurlocks are similar to humans, genlocks to dwarves, shrieks are similar to elves but with longer limbs, and ogres are similar to qunari but much, much bigger. All darkspawn have sharp pointed teeth."

"I might need to look at at least a competently drawn picture of these things before I know exactly how close I have to be to pick out adequate distinguishing features. I can produce the picture if you can specify one that already exists sufficiently."

"The clearest illustrations of darkspawn I've seen were in a book called History of the Blight that I read back at the tower. Is that specific enough?"

"Who wrote it?"

"It was a collaboration between groups of scholars from several different kingdoms and species. No one put down their individual name on it."

"Uh, what year was it published? I can almost never do title alone."

"8:60 Blessed."