No osanwë among Dwarves? he guesses. Yeah, I think I can pick up enough verification just in the process of getting to know enough people to hit the right power level. Did you want me to explain how to manifest your soul so you can have someone check if they can do it? And uh, speaking of introducing oneself, I don't think I caught your name...

Maitimo. 

Pleased to meet you, he says, very sincerely. Of situations I could've landed in after inexplicably vanishing from my world, this is one of the better possibilities. I could've landed somewhere I'm no use at all, I could've landed near unfriendly people or people with no workaround for the language barrier, and instead, friendly telepathic king with an evil god in need of solving.

And we are certainly outrageously lucky to have had you land on us. And everyone is lucky you landed here rather than a couple hundred miles north. It's really lovely to meet you and I am outrageously excited about all of this.

Taliar grins. It's so delightfully affirming when people are excited about his ability to help them solve their problems!

Can I assume that you need the same things in terms of accommodations as humans on this planet, or will that leave us with some sort of terrible omission?

If you have humans and they match up pretty well with my idea of humans, minus the soul part, then I can't think of any terrible omissions I'm in dread of, but of course if I could think of them they wouldn't end up omitted...

Well, if anything comes up you should of course raise it to our attention right away. We do have humans. You are shorter than our humans and look like you'd be of a different human racial group but I think the same species.

I'm shorter than my humans too, I am in fact just short.

He thinks of other humans he has known - his family, his emperor - and they are indeed all within approximately normal human height range. There's variance in racial groups, too, and some of the examples that cross his mind match the locals more closely than he does.

(Oh, and he bruises really easily - which is again a personal quirk and not a species thing - but these days he can just activate the tiniest fraction of his healing aura and be cleared of accumulated injuries in short order, so he doubts he will ever be majorly inconvenienced by that particular fragility again.)

Yep, those look like humans! We should exchange geopolitics and histories and so forth but I would rather like to introduce you to everyone first. I am very eager to have this war ended.

I will be delighted to be introduced to everyone! And subsequently delighted to end your war!

So he makes an announcement, and broadcasts it to Taliar as well, explaining the healing aura and his presence and that in order to win the war he will require lots of people in their capacity as their best selves, and that he can heal people and people in need of healing should come by the palace in the following organized manner.

Taliar helpfully remembers for Maitimo the trajectory of his healing aura's range - he's been able to get a pretty consistent few more feet per day out of it even in between making new friends, although that might be borrowing from the problem-solving section of his powers, which hasn't seen much use lately because his whole life is now structured around touring the world with his city-sized healing aura. By rough estimate he's currently working at a power level somewhere between a hundred and a hundred and twenty times what he'd have if he wasn't cheating, and every new friend is approximately one more person's worth added to that multiplier, with variance depending on his personal investment in them and how exalted they are. So they should expect that in the course of him getting powerful enough to fight an evil god, the maximum size of his healing aura will expand by about fifty feet per friend. It's not always that precise or immediate, but that's what his memory suggests.

Okay. And will the problem-solving bit sort out how exactly this can be used against the Enemy, or do we need to figure this out ourselves?

The problem-solving section of my soul is generally pretty good about landing on a set of magical powers that will solve the problem in front of me, although sometimes I have to think for a bit before I figure out what my angle is supposed to be, my soul is apparently cleverer than I am. The Enemy is definitely the biggest problem in front of me right now. I'm not sure exactly what it's going to look like, but at some point I will turn up with a set of magical powers capable of solving the Enemy, and it will probably be reasonably obvious when that has happened. If we're really outrageously lucky it'll happen three days from now. I don't think we're that lucky; I think I'm going to need to work pretty hard to get up to an Enemy-solving power level. And I don't think I'm going to get the powers until they'd be big enough to actually work. It - wouldn't fit, for them to show up in advance and then grow to the right size.

Huh. Okay. Making friends it is, then. Is the healing thing only physical or does it affect psychological damage or manipulation, do you know? The Enemy's servants are all sworn to him...

(and he'll need to keep Findekáno well clear until the war's won if the aura is oath-affecting -)

Sworn?

He can tell that that means something ominous in the local context, but he's human, from a world populated entirely by humans; he's never heard of the local kind of oaths before.

Elves and orcs can bindingly give their word. We usually use this to do things like promise to abide by agreements that are beneficial but otherwise hard to enforce, or promise we're telling the truth, or similar. But the Enemy has orcs, as soon as they're old enough to speak, swear to obey him. So they do, all of them, no matter what.

...

That is completely unacceptable. It might in fact be the most completely unacceptable thing Taliar has ever heard. And he is certainly going to find a way to solve it. But it's not the sort of thing his healing aura could take care of automatically, at least not yet, maybe not ever; it sounds like a magical effect, and it has to do with minds, and both of those are harder to manage than ordinary healing - he's only recently gotten the healing aura to the point where it can restore memories lost to time or injury or disease, and it needs sustained focused personal attention on specific people to do it, he can't just turn it loose on a city and have everyone start remembering things they've forgotten. If - when - he gets anywhere on erasing forced oaths, it's likely to be more like that than like reversing aging and fixing broken bones.

Do you get a sense of progress - will you know when you're close -

Sometimes, yeah. But I'm not even sure I should be trying to liberate the Enemy's soldiers yet. If it works really well it'll be useful, but if it doesn't work well enough and I get attached to the idea anyway...

It would be strategically unwise for Taliar to get personally invested in rescuing hundreds of thousands of orcs from their forced oaths if it turned out that he could only do it one at a time with great effort. A small population of freed orcs sounds like a huge vulnerability without much practical benefit. But Taliar's soul does not care very much whether things are strategically unwise: erasing forced oaths is definitely the sort of thing that would exalt his soul, and abandoning people he cares strongly about rescuing is definitely the sort of thing that would debase it. If he starts seriously pursuing orc freedom, there will come a point where he can't stop seriously pursuing orc freedom without having a moral crisis and setting back his power growth timeline by months. Probably best to save it for cleanup.

Makes sense. We can appeal to Mandos, after the war, so once we can do it at all we can do it for ones we've had to kill in the meantime as well.

Wow - wait, who's Mandos? You have an afterlife?

The closest thing to an afterlife in Nuime is the tendency of soul artifacts to persist after the soulbearer's death, for a duration anywhere from a few weeks to a year or two. If you can get the soul to someone with resurrection powers while it's still solid, you can bring the person back. No one's ever been able to resurrect someone without that person's soul right in front of them - Taliar means to get to it eventually, of course, but he has no idea how powerful he'll have to be before it starts working.

Elves and orcs live forever. If you destroy our bodies our souls linger, and Mandos is a god who can build you a new body. Humans here die just like humans in your world, mostly very young, though we've been trying to change that - your healing aura should help a lot -

I've been around the whole empire with it. Even with me gone, nobody's going to die of old age there for at least eighty years. Do you have any disembodied friends I should be trying to resurrect, or does Mandos have it covered? And I can definitely go on healing tours here, to whatever extent that's possible to do safely.