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At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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For three months after Revelation he ignores his father's calls.

 

Yes. It should be possible to summon a demon and, depending how their powers work, either get a Silmaril from them or get the location of the patch of ground closest to the Silmaril from them or at worst do binary search over conjured models of parts of the planet to find the Silmarils. Yes, it should be possible to summon an angel to then dig the thing out of bedrock. And then they won't live life walking against the currents of fading, they will be whole again, they can summon some more for spaceship plans and head away from Earth much sooner, and much more powerful, than they imagined.

 

Also, the curious demon might go back to Hell and conjure some more Silmarils, if their powers happen to shake out that way, and might start handing out Silmarils to anyone on Earth who wants one, because why not, and the oath might still be in force, the risk is unimaginable - 

 

- they can of course get a Silmaril and then, if it turns out they can be conjured, not let the demon go home, that is merely incredibly rude and might strand someone a dimension away from their family for centuries. It at least does not risk unleashing the oath on this innocent world that has, at last, left the scars of the last time that happened beyond the reach of living memory.

 

For three months after Revelation he ignores his father's calls because he is childishly frightened, because his well-polished coping skills are fraying, because if he feels the tug of that oath on him again it will be too late to kill himself and therefore he wants, very badly, to do it now. For three months he wavers.

 

And then he answers the calls, and takes some vacation, and goes home for a Fëanorian planning session. He doesn't remember what loving them felt like but he remembers that he loved them, that it was once very important to him, and he knows he would do this for someone he loved. They plan and they read and they learn and they practice - without summoning, because daeva get the languages you speak when you summon them and so the first daeva they summon will know, if observant enough, they're not of this society - 

- he gets two weeks vacation a year, they plan very very slowly - 

 

- and six years after Revelation they have a binding and a few possible options for payment and a plan for the case where Silmarils turn out to be trivially conjurable and conjurable ones oath-relevant. Maedhros is terrified, and miserable, but no one can tell. He prides himself on that. 

 

Curufin doesn't want to do it because he speaks Khuzdul and the Dwarves who taught him it in confidence did not give him permission to share it. (They did give him permission, when it came up one optimistic night, to share it with his father should his father ever return to life, and so Fëanor speaks Khuzdul too.) Maglor's pretending to be a currently-dead pop star and that invites its own host of complications. 

Maedhros does not speak Khuzdul. He speaks the Black Speech in addition to a few human languages and Thindarin and Quenya, but the language won't scare daeva in itself (if they get his exact vocabulary, they might be frightened.) Maedhros picks a place in the castle in Canada that could be a room in an unusually wealthy human's house, unremarkable, and he painstakingly copies all but one bit of the circle they decided on together, and he calls in everyone to look and make sure he did it right, and he dismisses them all - one Elf alone is not obviously inhuman, two or more together raises suspicions -

- and he completes the circle.

 

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Couldn't find evidence on whether they still change peoples' orientations for them.

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And not in a fun 'met my boyfriend at pray the gay away camp' way?

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I mean, if you're going to do it at all it seems kinder to have it actually work. But yeah, that's another reason not to let humans find Valinor.

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But they're between us and the Dwarves and the Dwarves seem great.

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And it'd be very hard to keep quiet forever.

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Yeah.

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Do you know if the other remaining Elves are all ones who never went to Valinor at all -

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Got a better idea than timeslicing it or going to Chicago and saying hi?

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Not really. I could guess ethnicity off models but that still wouldn't answer it with any certainty.

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I could just go to Chicago and say hi, I guess.

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I don't recommend mentioning us.

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Yeah I was thinking 'some demons noticed you, thought I'd visit'.

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Might be worth it.

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Failure modes?

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They notice your Thindarin's ours - no one else even calls it Thindarin, actually. They panic at the information, they panic at the unbound demon, they panic at something I'm not anticipating, and they have more powerful artifacts than we're anticipating - they have had an awfully long time for it -

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I was gonna talk to them in English, they live in Chicago. And not let on about being, personally, a demon.

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People can tell if they think to look, right?

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If they know the parlor trick. ...And I'm actually not sure what an unbound daeva looks like, it might be different from a snapped binding.

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Unlikely they've picked it up this quickly.

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That was my thinking too.

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Have fun, be safe.

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Will do.

Cam roadtrips to Chicago.

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The Elves run a small company that does artwork for video games; they have an office building downtown and a hundred acres of land bordering a wildlife preserve upstate.

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Cam tries the office building. Seems politer than bugging them at home.

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He could guess which building; it's the prettiest one. There's a receptionist. "Hi, I'm Emily, do you have an appointment?"

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