"You also have to do other stuff but if you try to skip things by being clever it won't work."

"I would find that so infuriating." 

"I... survived to adulthood."

"I am glad. And...impressed, that you did so with a respectable amount of hubris still intact. I am not sure what would have happened if I had been born in Materia but I am not at all sure I would have survived the experience." 

"That was mostly developed in Arda. It seemed safe there."

"...Until it was not. I truly hope that somewhere in the multiverse there is a world that is not at all that way, rather than simply less that way." 

"Me too."

Leareth is silent for a bit, then consults his list. "...I tried to have Vanyel kidnapped," he says. "Separately from the affair that happened with Krebain, I mean, which I did not orchestrate in its details. This was after the first Foresight dream but before we had begun to speak; it was clear only that there had been a blatant intervention by the gods. I did not intend to kill him, merely to investigate what was going on. I did set up a number of potential plans to kill him while he was still inexperienced, but did not end up deploying them, since the conversations between us happened." 

"...'a number'?"

"About forty, though some were very backup and would only work under extremely specific and unlikely circumstances. I might have continued making these plans if not for your arrival. At this point it seems very stupid to risk any of them triggering by accident, so I have arranged to abort all of them." 

"Okay. Thank you for no longer trying to murder my patient."

"You are welcome." 

"If that's everything - minus the immortality detail tabled for later - let's have a look at how much of a mess dispensing with involuntary compulsions will be."

"...I should tell you about one more thing, though it is not something I actually did, certainly is not something I am going to end up doing at any point now, and hopefully I would have found a way to avoid it even in the default scenario. The original plan for raising enough power to make a god involved - a great deal of blood-magic. Five to ten million people. Since I would then have a god afterward with direct control of the Velgarth afterlife, at least within Their own initial territory, I had hoped to bring them back as soon as possible, and retaining about the same amount of memory as I do between my own lives. Nonetheless." 

"Wow. That is way too many people to impose much if any filtration. And you've said you're missing a lot of memories. And what made you think adding one more god to the pot and giving it a stir would give you control of anything, when there are plenty of them around already?"

"I have almost a thousand years worth of study on what I expect a god with a particular set of values to be able to accomplish; that would be a much longer conversation to have. It is not a good plan, I am aware of that, and I spent - probably too long, actually, trying the alternatives. Sometimes repeatedly even when I had no reason to think they would work the second or third time when they had failed the first. I am very, very glad to have other options." 

"It doesn't work in Materia. Some of that is probably the world screening for who's allowed to get that far, but I don't think that's all of it."

"...That is useful to know. I will probably wish to know more at some point. I think it is not urgent since I am not actually going to deploy this plan anymore in the near term. I think that is everything else – would you like to move on to discussing the compulsions?" 

She nods.

There are about fourteen hundred people to get to, in a hundred-and-some different locations. He can give her a list of around twenty mages he says are sufficiently experienced with compulsions that he would trust them to remove an arbitrary one done by someone else years ago, and their locations. Presumably she wants to vet them. Nayoki is also happy to help if she wants. 

"I want to vet them and I want to try to let people self-prioritize if there's that many. You do have records of who did at least some of these, to divide it up further?"

He does, though they'll need to dug out of a storeroom and cross-referenced against the current list, but he can ask for help with that. 

Once she has a sense of how long figuring all this out will take she marks off a time in her schedule the next day. "Does this time work for you -"

"It can if I rearrange another non-urgent commitment, or if we do a candlemark later I will not need to reschedule anything, it is up to you." 

"Candlemark won't make much difference." She nudges it down in her appointmentbook.