Accept our Terms of Service
Our Terms of Service have recently changed! Please read and agree to the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy
At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
Permalink

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.

 

Total: 309
Posts Per Page:
Permalink

"No, he knows some Elves. There are a few of them on Earth. That's how he knows Quenya. I think he probably just didn't know how to say about the hair in any languages I knew at the time."

Permalink

"The Elves on Earth don't speak Quenya, I don't think. Quenya's a Valian language."

Permalink

"He knows Sindarin too."

Permalink

"Maybe he knows Sindarin and Silvan, or one of the Avarin languages? That'd make more sense."

Permalink

"Well, I didn't know it was Quenya when he sent me a list of what he spoke but now I have Quenya so I'm pretty sure it was that."

Permalink

"Hmmm - oh, maybe he knows the Fëanorians. They might not have mentioned the hair thing because of being the Fëanorians."

Permalink

"I guess I could write him and ask, if it matters."

Permalink

"Oh, it doesn't. I mean, if he's getting all his information from them that would be no good but now that there are people here he won't have to do that, and that should fix it."

Permalink

"Okay."

Permalink

"Did you want to see the city?"

Permalink

"Yes! I like pretty buildings. I have copies of a few of the ones here at home, little models. They're so nice."

Permalink

"Valimar's really pretty!!" And outside they go. People courteously give the demon way way way more space than the binding requires.

Permalink

It's kind of depressing but she distracts herself with the buildings. A few blocks along she copies somebody's hair; it appears braids and all in a slightly silverier color and with different ornaments.

Permalink

This produces a muffled eep but it's braided so that's all right.

Permalink

"- is it rude to copy or something -"

Permalink

" - no? It's - just weird to see someone just suddenly have hair but it's not rude, it looks very nice..."

Permalink

"That's why I copied it, I like it so much I might keep it all week."

Permalink

"- I really don't understand."

Permalink

"It's just really unusual to go around changing out your hair for different hair. It'd be - not a good thing - for Elves. It's sort of vaguely unpleasant to think about."

Permalink

"I can't keep it very long, when I get bored of it it doesn't feel like me any more and stops being indestructible and won't stay."

Permalink

" - the Valar could maybe help with that?"

Permalink

"...I don't think I want the Valar to do magic to make me get bored less often."

Permalink

"No, I mean magic so your hair doesn't fall off!"

Permalink

"...I don't think I want them to change how my indestructibility works either."

Total: 309
Posts Per Page: