...the "lord prince" thing is weird. "Yeah, I'm Loki, hi. Your Bell decided on a nickname, it's Gem - there's another one of us also named Bella."

"Is there a standard introduction somewhere? Come on in, both of you -"

It's a very boring room. The window gives Elven eyesight a lovely view of Angband.

"There isn't a standard order in which to receive the information but there is a standard set of information - but it's most readily accessed as a computer file -" She repeats the explanation about computer model availability.

"I'd love one. Thank you."

She scribbles a note to Cam with a picture of the local Himring attached in the air and then disappears it. "He'll stop by on our way out."

"...how does that work, exactly?"

"Interdimensional magic I was going to explain when I next had occasion to visit Himring. Cam can make arbitrary objects which means he can access anything that's ever been committed to recorded form."

"Fascinating."

"It's handy. If you ever don't want to wait for the courier to make a pickup from your mailbox you can title something 'letter to Cam' and he'll get it, he checks pretty often when nothing else is going on."

"Is there a lot else going on?'

"Cam's not the only person with the make-material-objects power but he's the only intersection of that with high trust and freedom of movement, and there are tons of people in the multiverse and some of them have material scarcity, so he bops around making all kinds of stuff for various purposes."

"Useful. I assume he can't make more of the wish-granting mechanism?"

"He can't make magic things, minds, antimatter, or vacuum."

"Silmarils?"

"He's only tried the kind from Space Arda, which are different from the ones here. He got an attractive shiny rock but it was missing the intelligence they need to work properly. The other kinds probably fail outright on the 'magic' criterion but I don't think he ever had a reason to try."

"It would almost certainly be a terrible idea. Is 'trustworthy people who can make arbitrary material objects' your primary bottleneck on ending material scarcity?"

"That and logistics with recipient populations."

"Who are the people who can make arbitrary material objects, is there a process to screen them for trust, who's handling the recipient population logistics..."

"They're called demons, Space Arda is mostly handling evaluating demons and the other two kinds of daeva but I'm not up on their current division of labor but probably at least one of each of your space alt forks has a hand in it somewhere, and recipient population logistics are mostly a Vanda Nossëo thing - that being the planet the Noldor from my Arda moved to after the war."

"So what can we do for you?"

"...I didn't bring you a to-do list. Get up to speed and call in whatever you need to square away this Arda, I guess?"

"All right. Thank you. My father's deliriously excited about the implications of other dimensions, I think he's working with Curufinwë on narrowing down a wish that'll let him do things with that without breaking Gem's lovely wish-granter. I should apprise him of what his alts are doing so he can make sure he wishes himself knowledge on something they don't already have covered."

"Yeah. There's a think tank's worth of them on Space Arda and individual ones scattered around, they are in their own way always excited to have more of them."

"Wishes for information might actually be a fairly high-leverage approach, considering how Hex's magic works - if your father wants to wish for enough knowledge of how alts and templates work that Hex's crowd could chart template-targeted spells, or something..."

"I assume I need the computer to evaluate that idea."