"Are Edie and Idaia from Ardas?"

"No, but they ended up in them."

"Huh. One in each of yours?"

"Edie and Emily in Abaddon, Idaia and Imliss in Ozymandias."

"My sister's name is Illia. Which of you is from which?"

"I'm from Abaddon, Matt's from Ozymandias, Midnight who hangs out upstairs because everyone hates him because he is evil is from Mirror, my Singularity alt isn't here because they were on a different planet when Cam got the door."

"...Okay. Why is he evil?"

"Do you mean 'why is it the case that he is the sort of person who does evil things' or 'what evil things has he done such that I'm comfortable calling him that'."

"Mostly the latter, although any insight you had into the former would probably help."

"Well, his world is by far the most fucked up of any of them, so perhaps he just had bad influences, but he kidnapped someone and kept them as a personal slave for three hundred years mostly by using mind-altering oaths."

"Oh. Kay. Noted."

"The bar has security, you get kicked out if you attack him."

"Also noted. So what are Ozymandias and Abbadon and Singularity like?"

"Ozymandias had a war against their Melkor. They lost. Eventually the Valar stepped in. Thirty thousand years later the Feanorians got released from the Halls of Mandos and reintegrated with the human world; unknown to them, Imliss and Idaia, who had died very early in the world, reincarnated."

"Wow. That's awful."

"Yes. Abaddon found the door very early in our war with Melkor and are staying here with ten of my father until we figure out how to win it cleanly.

...Singularity won their war, it's over, but that door's staying closed until we figure out how to bring back the dead, because it was won by feeding an inhabited planet into a black hole."

"Uh."

"I am the person to ask if you have questions about that."

"What's a black hole, and how does feeding the planet to something constitute a victory?"

"A black hole is an astronomical phenomenon. The relevant information is that the planet and everything on it was instantly destroyed. Counts as a victory because we can rebuild it and almost everyone on it, and Melkor can't ever hurt anyone again, and he was torturing over a hundred million people using - technology you probably haven't heard of but which makes that even worse than you're imagining."

"Gotcha."

"He's doing the same thing in Abaddon but we're going to find a better way to stop him."

"Good."

"And yours, assuming you have one."

"Well, I was already going to kill him, but yeah, much better to do sooner than later."