At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Not without having one, yeah. Also Elves have strong feelings about kids and it would be... fraught... to find a gene donor."

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"Demons can't do, like, 'this person as an Elf', or things like that?"

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"Nah. Well, not without convenient genetics discoveries that no one has made yet, I guess it could be as simple as adding a chromosome or replacing one."

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"If they're magic it's probably more complicated than that."

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"Seems likely. It's also the approximate sort of thing that would maybe prompt attention from the Valar's, like, boss, who is somehow even worse at his job than most of them."

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"I kind of liked it when religion was more abstract."

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"I don't think of it as a matter of religion so much as amounts of magic for which English has a convenient monosyllable. Them being very magic doesn't carry moral force. They suck."

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"Yes, I got an earful from Ziria."

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"About Shipka? Yeah. She got fixed."

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"That's good. It sounds like it was otherwise going to work out really badly."

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"Ohhh yeah."

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She sighs. 

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"It's honestly really sweet how all of Fairyland was rallying but..."

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"But being the good guys doesn't make war prettier. Let alone make it achieve its objectives."

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"Yeah. So. At least they tried sending letters first and that worked."

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"Brave of whoever sent the letters."

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"One of her roommates brought them. And crashed in Valinor when he couldn't arrest his own momentum all of a sudden. But it worked out."

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"Could the whole thing have been avoided if we'd, like, had the State Department send people in the first place, or was it pretty much going to be a disaster no matter what -"

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"I think that would probably have been worse. More posturing, the Valar already have opinions on humans as a group and the opinions are basically 'no' but fairies are new..."

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"Hard to imagine handling them even worse. But, yeah."

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"Humans invaded Valinor once. If I tell you what happened to them do you promise not to do anything reckless?"

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" - would I be tempted? Um. Promise."

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"Eru destroyed the entire continent they came from and made the invaders immortal - that's what they wanted from Valinor, see - and buried them alive under some mountains."

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" - immortal like indestructible the way daeva are or -"

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"My understanding is that no. However, they have already been there for tens of thousands of years, so they are not urgent on a scale of days or even decades and it's very much an 'optimize chances' and not an 'act now' situation."

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