At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Holy fuck."

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"I mentioned that he needed to be dead? That's - not even the primary reason. But. Yeah. Sufficient."

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"What was the primary reason?"

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"It's related. So Elves - related to the being scripted - can make binding promises about our future actions. If we swear to do something, we do it, there's no changing your mind, there's no space for error. I swore a long time ago to stop Melkor and now even if I learned that stopping him somehow destroyed the whole world I would be stuck. - worth it, because he can do mind control and if I found myself in the position of believing I shouldn't stop Melkor it was much likelier to be mind control - but still, it's terrifyingly powerful. And it can be used for mind control. You can swear to believe something, you can swear to hate someone. You can swear to trust and obey Melkor and pursue his goals your whole life. And all orcs did, as soon as they were old enough to talk."

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"What a horrorshow."

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"You can see why we want to get the magic and go somewhere without these people in charge."

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"If you can't beat 'em run the fuck away to Alpha Centauri, yep."

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"And then become gods and then get a rematch. But yeah. We tried fighting, and we lost, and a fight today would be more destructive but not any better fated, I don't think."

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Nod.

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"The continent crumbled, during the war. And even if we didn't have to worry about collateral damage - I'm pretty sure nukes wouldn't kill him. I wouldn't want to test daeva indestructibility."

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"Holds up to black holes and other daeva but yeah."

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"Black holes? What about the time dilation -"

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"It just sort of acts Newtonian relative to us."

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"That's convenient. Wait, though, wouldn't you still be stuck?"

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"We can add parts to ourselves and accordingly to the indestructibility."

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" - huh. Can you add other people that way -"

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"No, but I could encase one."

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Nod. "Elves, should it ever come up, can't handle being imprisoned."

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"I was not planning to encase anybody, let alone an Elf, I don't really want to drag people around by my toenail."

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"I wasn't worried per se but it would be a shame for you to think you were doing something mildly upsetting to someone to prevent a fight or shield them or whatever and then it turns out you were doing something lethal."

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"Lethal amounts of can't handle? That's... okay, what counts and how fast?"

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"Constraints on where we can go, full generality. How fast depends on a bunch of things but mostly how pretty the surrounding environment is, how generally distressing the situation is, how much space we have and how, uh, hostile the barrier - snowed in in a cabin would take longer to become a problem than locked into the cabin - more than a week in something like a prison cell would be very hard to survive. We stay out of trouble with the law."

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"These are locked-in problems, not locked-out problems, it's not an issue that people lock their homes or can't get into Fairyland?"

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"Yeah, that's not a problem. Unless, like, all territory in the world was privately owned and you didn't have permission to go there except a house-sized space."

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"How in the world does this actually kill you?"

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