"Why?"

"I really want them all to get an afterlife that's okay for people to live in. It's very important to me."

"We don't have the afterlife thing."

They have fourteen gods, plus the evil one, and the god of the dead hangs on to their souls when they die, and can bring them back to life and is supposed to get around to that in the general case, but is not prompt or competent at it.

"Huh."

"Is slavery good for getting people into the right afterlife?"

"We don't know, but we are studying that. One case where people are enslaved is if they would otherwise be executed, because we really really don't want to execute people who'd go to a bad afterlife."

"Well, don't do that."

...Fëanáro, are you saying they should let them go? Because I bet you aren't saying they should lock them up and that's the conventional alternative.

"No, they shouldn't do that either!"

"It makes sense that if you don't need punishments to make Quendi follow laws they would seem like a horrendous injustice. I'd assume usually if a law gets broken it's by accident or under some wildly unusual circumstances under which the law was inconsistent or ridiculous. We don't expect people to follow inconsistent or ridiculous laws either, it's just that we get different sorts of lawbreaking."

Quendi can spontaneously die of being confined, clarifies Bella. I think they don't fully believe that this is not true generally of all kinds of people.

" - that's really good to know, thank you. Is it safe for Quendi to be detained temporarily if there is a confusion about whether they broke a law? For an hour, say?"

"That would be really upsetting but no one would die of it."

"Okay. I will need to think about how to make sure all Quendi are safe when they travel here but I think it can be done."

Also I think it doesn't kick in if they are technically able to move around but they are chased by annoyed guards the entire time.

"We have definitely had to accommodate less convenient species traits, I'm more worried if they're wandering somewhere and appear to have broken a law and it's the middle of the night or something."

- what does it being the middle of the night have to do with it?

"In daytime complaints about prison conditions get escalated to someone I can reasonably ask to know that Quendi can't be safely imprisoned. At night, complaints about prison conditions get written down to get passed along in the morning."

Oh. Inconvenient that they also need less sleep then. I'm not sure you should be angling to have lots of Quendi immigrants, it's unclear if their death god will be able to grab them from here and I don't know if the local afterlives would agree with them and there's not a third option under development at this time.

Nod. "Any who do want to come are welcome and might want to settle somewhere where local authorities can be informed about them. And you are from yet a different place than that?"

Yes. When I first landed here I thought it might be a co-plane of my home cosmology but it seems to be different on closer inspection, mostly in that my home cosmology is hostile to science and hubris.

"How does that work?"

If you do those things it does not work and often kills you and innocent bystanders. For example, an experiment to determine how fast objects fell resulted in the surrounding area not having a down anymore.

"Huh. Well, welcome to this plane."