"Do standard-issue humans develop roles when in contact with Eclipse human society?"

"Mostly not, but some of 'em do! The anthropologists are fascinated!"

"At least someone's having a good time. ...are eclipsed orcs going to be sad about going to the orc planets where they don't have fantastic cosmic power -"

"Considering suggesting that Gem move her orc planet to Patalon."

"That means orc society'd have to figure out how to handle eclipses, right?"

"Only if their planet has a moon, which I suppose I don't know."

"And if the population of Patalon ever settles another planet they'll be in for an unpleasant surprise. We should probably get to exploring in your neighborhood."

"Yeah, probably. There's likely to be some very high-power stuff flying around - we're calorie-limited but that's species-dependent, an eclipsed Ent did a time dilation trick that I've never heard of a human pulling off, so we might be able to find species that can use my magic system for very cool stuff."

"An eclipsed Ent. Huh. ...we accidentally killed them all in Shine. Congratulations on not doing that."

"Oh, they could easily have all died because we didn't know they were there because fucking Yavanna didn't mention 'oh I made this species they're trees'! Aulë sort of had an excuse for not having mentioned the Dwarves."

"Dwarves're great, most Bells really like 'em."

"I haven't met any personally. They sound kinda cool. Weird that they only throw mages and not psions."

"Aulë made them with Melkor already loose and made them categorically immune to all mind-affecting magic."

"Yeah, I got that explanation. That was his excuse, he figured they might not eclipse at all and if they did at least worst case they'd die and go to their rather adequate afterlife planet. Which I suppose must not have a moon."

"I popped over to check ours out. No moon, exceptionally pretty, resources for them to eventually get to space travel and come back to Arda. Aulë did well with the species design."

"Good for Aulë."

"You two still planning a kingdom in Endorë or did that fall through, what with everything?"

"I suppose we could pick it up once she's okay again, but she's been, you know, asleep."

"Thank you for that."

"You're welcome."

"I've been debating whether it gives us more leeway to try to salvage farther-along mes or whether it's still kindest to let those die."

"It takes maintenance, I'd have to visit them every day and a half or so."

"Was using other forms of magic to make psionic effects permanent determined to not work or just not figured out yet?"

"Not figured out."

"So hopefully giving your Fëanor more Fëanors and prospects of eventual reembodiment of her loved ones will produce progress there."