"I will inquire into Maiar when I leave Milliways. Actually, I can probably just conjure something to check but I need to think it over to avoid needing to interpolate a room full of paper."

"Or you could ask Bar to loan you something? Sounded like she can do that."

"That's such a better idea. Bar?"

Maiar in the world you have been visiting are shapeshifting swarm intelligences.

"Whoa. ...Cool."

"Swarm intelligences?"

They are made of many pieces, which individually are not sapient, and assemble into groups, which are.

"My friend's dog is a shapeshifting swarm intelligence. Huh."

"It's also possible he's a dog. Don't know how the parallelism works."

"Bar, do you have access to any relevant information?"

According to what I have available he is a Maia.

"Cool."

"Do swarm Maiar do osanwë?"

With one another. There is an interpreter available for chip-loading.

"Ooh, I don't think I got that one."

"There's some tempting stuff - do you also have the non-chiploaded blessings?"

"I might sort of have every blessing on Maitimo's list."

"Nice."

"Emily looks...very angelic, with hers."

"Does she go in for the halo too?"

"Yeah, but I meant more in terms of 'no one else goes in for that kind of body modification that casually' than 'Earthly images of the divine'."

"Ah, gotcha."

"Granted she looks much less tacky than usually happens when daeva try doing things with gems."

"I'm not forming a clear mental image here."

Edie conjures an image! Emily has an actually attractive design of various blessing-jewels set into her skin.