"Does it work on them repeatedly? Are there side effects?"

"I don't think I've ever had to resurrect the same person more than once so far but there's no reason it wouldn't. I can't restore in-progress pregnancies."

"I can do human resurrection - it just requires the death of too many sapient people to be worth it generally."

"...oh. Well, then I guess if you had a demon and a bunch of Elves and a Silmaril you'd be all set, but I did not bring a Silmaril here.

- just humans?"

"Should work for any sapient life?"

"Do you need remains or to be near where they died or - anything -"

"Nope."

"There's about a million - gods - dead -"

"I am probably against resurrecting evil gods but otherwise I am happy to help resurrect them."

"Not the evil ones. The evil ones are alive. It's - it's what he wanted more than everything else."

"He?"

"The main evil one. Melkor."

"Ah."

"You can see a copy of the oath I got from him and his, if you want. - they can make binding oaths and I can verify that they did that."

"Sure,"

Here it is.

Lucien starts reading.

"Are you the demon mentioned here?"

"Yeah."

He finishes reading.

"Oh, wow."

"This seems like it must have been an excruciating decision. Um. I'm pretty sure we can get them all back and it won't void the deal it looks like?"

"Right. He didn't know I could get Elves back."

Nod.

"He sounds worse than any evil god we have as far as I know."

"Yeah. Really bad. I don't know if you even have context to understand the magnitude, it involves a lot of computers."

"The oath didn't really mention..."

"The reason I can resurrect the Elves is because they have brain chips - not like mine, chips that store their whole personality and all their memories for them. And that also mattered to Melkor. He could take those chips, if he captured somebody. Copy them. Edit them. Make them have experiences without bodies to have them with. Any experiences he wanted. Faster than they would have been able to normally. He had trillions of them."

Lucien attempts to wrap his mind around a million instances of this. And then multiply that by a million. It doesn't really work.

"Ah. ....I'm glad he can't do that anymore."