"We'd be happy to put together a deployment list for that, yes."

"And - I hesitate to speak of conditions - but the way to make that work is to tell Dawn 'sorry for spying on you, let's mutually swear not to aggress against each other' and probably propose mutual freedom of movement, which is the one sort of check on his powers that Tivarante will tolerate."

"Can you be more detailed about the content of 'aggress against' and 'freedom of movement'?"

"Keep in mind I don't live there, I just - know him well. And I'm sure he'll agree not to do anything at all in your jurisdiction without your explicit agreement and guidance, on the condition that its citizens be permitted to leave if they want, and accept the reciprocal of that."

"It complicates the matter that leaving involves proprietary magic unless Nuime soulbearers ferry them around."

"Nuime would be glad to help move people around without the use of stolen magic if we had the teleporting soulbearers to spare, which admittedly at the moment we mostly don't," says Corino. "I know of a few people whose souls might shift in that direction, myself included, but even if the number of active teleporting soulbearers increased from one to five..."

"There's a wizardry dimensional teleport, right? Scales a little better than soulbearers, wasn't stolen from the designer..."

"Requires Maiar or Materia adjacency to charge. Also the designer of the wizardry dimensional teleport we have is a yea high alt of your uncle Fëanáro." Gesture. "It hasn't been stolen, but I don't actually know what his opinion on giving it away under these circumstances might be."

"Dawn's not short on Maiar and he seems, ah, likelier than an alt of yours to be okay with sharing his inventions, if too young to explain all the relevant considerations -"

"My template isn't generically averse to sharing."

"Yes, I gathered. You sound like lovely people when collaborating with other lovely people, but you could not be better tailored to make Tivarante paranoid and you did express a preference that teleport not continue to be shared."

"The system may be reverse-engineerable and doesn't inherently have limitations. The wizardry teleport is also much less useful as a weapon. I'll ask Epic if he'd object." Message.

If all of the people in an evil Arda can leave, then we don't have to worry as much about the evil Maitimo, right? They can all have it. 

Well, there is a certain logic to that. "Epic doesn't object to sharing the wizardry teleport. The system is also reverse-engineerable but it's clear we're going to need to come to some kind of comfort with evil Ardas or whatever we wind up calling the variety possessing escalating magical power."

"I assure you I'm not coming to this from a position of sympathy for him, but he's far, far more dangerous when cornered than when possessed with the resources to run a peaceful, prosperous empire. Since he acquired - ah - access to nearly arbitrary power in the form of his now-husband - he has not done anything I think you'd find objectionable."

"While he is the most attention-getting concern he is not the only person or even the only monarch in the world. Doriath I believe remains separate, for one thing. I do not think he runs Valinor."

"I think he's been coaxing the populations of both to emigrate, with considerable success. And - neither of them are ruled by people I'm fond of, but they're also not ruled by especially ambitious or provocative ones."

"And the Valar have been fixed now, but I do worry that we're concentrating on Tivarante and Midnight to the exclusion of all else."

"I am very curious how the other polities of Midnight's world reacted to their relocation, actually, but I have no special advantage in information there."

"I'll suggest that Elspeth make a trip to find out; she left on fine terms with the Valar and Melian both."

"And then there's the question of future troubled Ardas."

"Yes. The reason I am taking point on this interaction for my template is that when Shadow was found the reaction to it took almost exclusively the form 'unproductive emotional wheel-spinning' and while I have no special expertise I do have the ability to turn my emotions off at will and therefore produce something that isn't that. An idea of what to do instead of one thing to have ruled out would be very much an improvement."

"I think you should offer them the same terms - freedom of movement in both directions, and an agreement not to bother each other - and then let the Taliars give the Maitimo a fork. They're - into it."

"Will this suffice for your alts' welfare?"

"Freedom of movement, Maitimo's supervised - we'll leave. I - don't think you can do better than that."