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Spell: Following
You can make people first-level clerics of you.
To learn this spell, take the hand of someone eligible to be your cleric. Say, goloptywimple. Give them a valuable gift.
Spell: Resistance
You have some ability to ignore magical effects directed at you.
To learn this spell, cast another spell on yourself. As you do so, say, Jempi. Katsafgha.
Spell: Hold Person
You can cast the spell Hold Person at will.
To learn this spell, touch someone. Say, Enefti. Freb.
"Yeah. I guess that means they're not in an afterlife? At least not the kind you can see."
"I don't know if it's lonely. Always lots of living people to make friends with.
"The Targians have a story about how death was the final gift that the gods gave to Liars, so they couldn't be made to work forever and would eventually be released. It's not my favorite story about death, or anything, I guess I like the ones about the world of the dead better, but - I guess I hope that if they're anywhere they're at least getting to rest now."
"I'll go ask Fëanáro. I guess."
She heads off to go find him. If she can actually remember which one is the one she knows.
She can talk to that one, then.
"We tried scrying on the dead. None of us could see anyone. Fazil doesn't know if that means they're somewhere we can't see or if they've stopped existing."
"We think Dwarves stop existing when they die. Eru hasn't said for sure. We've had a couple dozen die, since the start of the world, and maybe someday he'll let us get them back."
"Huh.
"It's weird, thinking of a place only having a couple dozen dead since their world began."
"There are more of you than Dwarves but the Valar can do the same thing for you, and then they'll only die in very bad accidents."
Sure. Hugs are good.
"I guess probably I should think about finding a dad for the baby. Unfortunately I have very little idea how to make progress on it if we're keeping my plane paused and not bringing anyone else here. Apparently Fazil was considering it but I think he doesn't want to think about it if our dead don't go to his gods."
"Dunno. I'd have to get to know him a lot better. I'm kind of concerned about his conception of marriage, but he seems like a thoughtful person and I'd probably still consider it if he were at all interested? But it sounded like if we didn't have the same set of afterlives he probably wasn't. So probably I shouldn't spend too much time thinking about it."
She feels like she should maybe talk to some of the new people, but the new people are part of the reason Rana is gone, and she doesn't really want to think about that very much. So maybe she'll just sit here and talk to her baby about what's happened, even though the baby doesn't understand.
The new people catch each other up on forty thousand years of history. It takes a while. Then he recruits his Karen to try to explain Pathfinder to them.
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