At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"I think a daeva I'd spoken to identified me as Revelation and he objected for economic reasons."

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"Openly committing murder seems unlikely to be to someone's economic advantage."

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"I don't think he was a hit man, I think he wanted revenge on me for making summoning less of an edge."

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"My condolences."

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"Thanks."

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"So, uh, before we leave this star system far behind us, it would be nice to find a way to smuggle information about summoning to Valinor, if it even works there. People are traditionally not allowed to leave, and I would be entertained by having an opening to change that. You wouldn't happen to have any ideas -"

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"I haven't been able to conjure anything of or pertaining to Valinor. Where is it, how does it work...?"

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"It used to be a continent that could be found by sailing west of here. Then Eru intervened and now I have no idea. Nothing? You can't conjure Elves but can you conjure, say, plastic scale models of what Elves look like..."

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"I can only do materials substitutions if I know what I'm substituting for what else, are you made of water and protein and stuff?"

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Cam thinks about it for a while and then tries for a plastic model.

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That is a small plastic Elf. 

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"Okay..." If he tries for a model of Valinor with all of its bits replaced with appropriately colored glass?

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There are a lot of holes in the thing that comes through but something comes through. It does in fact look like a continent ringed by unfriendly tall mountains.

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"Okay, so I can do material replacement models of magic things, with exceptions..." He pokes a hole. "Do you happen to have a guess what might be supposed to go in the gaps?"

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"That's where Lórien should be - it's probably just too magic -"

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"Material replacement conjurations of mildly magical things."

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"Things that have a consistent shape and appearance, maybe."

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"What's Lórien and why doesn't it have that?"

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"Forest, and it takes whatever form - within constraints, but pretty broad constraints, I've gotten it to have different gravities - the people in it will find most restful and soothing."

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"That sounds nice."

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"It's not the worst thing a Vala has ever done."

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"Anyway, so here's a model of Valinor, let's see if I can get surroundings -" Likewise in glass, out and out -

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Valinor appears to be floating in empty space except for this very narrow patch of the Atlantic Ocean.

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