"How long does each section take?"

"Depends how you write it - some people write a thousand hour-long sections because they hate to lose more than an hour of work, some people write eighty ten-hour sections."

"Would having an eidetic memory improve this?"

"Marginally - you might not make many mistakes - but it is slow going even if you never make mistakes."

"Is there a speed limit to how fast the metal can accept the instructions or just to how fast they can be sent, and if the latter is it a limit of osanwë or of the creator's mental speed?"

"Creator's mental speed."

"Possibly something psions can help with, then. I can't do that yet personally but with ongoing boost from a psion that's possible to increase."

She beams at her. "That'd be excellent."

"Of course, hiring a psion to do that for extended periods of time would itself be expensive but you could probably charge enough for the artifacts to profit on net."

"Maybe once they see how psions do it Aulë can make it permanent. She won't attempt mental enhancements lest she get them wrong."

"Worth a try!"

"What all can psions do? In principle, if they're powerful enough -"

"Relevant to enhancing other people or in general?"

"In general."

"I have verbal-only, planetary-range communication, and could expand it to be similar to range-unlimited osanwë without the artifact-creation if I focused on that. It used to only work with my twin brother. I can lucid dream. I have an eidetic memory. I have a little over an hour of range on useful precognition. My project these days is attentional expansion. Other psions do things like treating mental illnesses, remote viewing, postcognition, increased mental speed, illusions, mind reading, powering some psionic technology like what we use to keep uncontrolled new eclipsed from causing disasters nowadays, psychic combat, improved sensory processing, and probably more niche uses I haven't happened to hear about."

"I am very - the word for futile-wanting-what-another-has -"

"Jealous?"

"I am very jealous."

"Sorry."

"Don't be sorry, I will just have to invent ways to do all that with Arda magic. Expect I can do it."

"That'd be very impressive."

"Now she's guaranteed to do it."

"Is that how it works."

"It is."

"I am pleased to have been relevantly inspirational."