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it is the inevitable tendency of glowfic protagonists with repeatable interworld travel to go peal
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:Not specifically. They ran away when Urtho tried to follow them, but there are many possible reasons for that; he may just have startled them: 

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And yet it was -  a high priority for you, to track them down. He's not very suspicious, and not suspicious of anything in particular, but he expects that there is more of an explanation to be had.

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:The magic of other worlds is of great interest to me. Earlier, in Golarion, we were able to win a war against a great evil by combining their magic and that of Velgarth. And there are many more problems still in need of fixing, in both worlds. I am especially curious about others who, themselves, have the ability to travel between worlds: 

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That makes sense. I think they haven't made themselves known to anyone on this world, our response rate on the survey was very good.

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:I understand. Thank you for doing the survey, it is very helpful to us: 

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Of course. If you think of anything else we should ask, Tirion prides ourself on our response rate even to ordinary research surveys.

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:Impressive. I will let you know: 

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And he leads them back to the throne room, where the Elves have picked up enough Tantaran to start asking Urtho and Ma'ar questions aloud. They want to see so many magic demonstrations!

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Leareth sticks to low-powered magic and keeps his remaining divine spells in reserve, but he can show them miniature Gates and detailed realistic illusions and a dozen different kinds of shields. 

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Elves are so impressed and they wish they had magic and some of them have started scheming how to get it. Maybe they can identify the genes for Gifts and splice them in to Elf genes. Maybe the Valar can figure out what is different about the laws of physics in the places that have magic. Maybe they can emigrate. 

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Leareth finds this very understandable of them! He likes them, so far. He doesn't find it surprising at all that they get on well with Urtho, who is visibly so so so happy about the conversation and opportunity to explain and show off. 

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He was concerned about Melkor. The person or entity he's chasing doesn't have anything to do with Melkor as far as we know, though. The Valar don't have this magic.

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What do you think?

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I think that Fëanáro is right and they're lovely and this is great news and we should stop worrying. He sounds mildly annoyed to have come to this conclusion instead of one that would have proved Fëanáro wrong.

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There's some sort of complicated interpersonal dynamic going on there, obviously, and Leareth isn't sure what to think about it. It doesn't seem like it's urgently a problem for his aims here, though. He rejoins the conversation, demonstrates magic until he's tired and then finds a place to sit and watch while Urtho shows off and explains all his various artifacts, most of them new designs of his. 

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Eventually Ma'ar very politely mentions to the Elves that he's hungry and probably the others are too? 

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The Elves are happy to feed them but can they eat the same things as Elves?

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:All the farming and gardening activities we have spotted looked compatible with what humans eat, but I suppose we should check: 

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"How would you check?"

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"There is a spell Urtho and I can both cast - one of the divine magic ones, from Golarion - that will detect if food or drink is poisonous to humans. Not whether it is actually nutritious to us, but if the ingredients closely resemble ones from our world, it seems likely." 

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Then the King will have a great feast assembled by singing Elves who are fairly unhurried about it and very concerned with spectacular presentation but can after an hour or so put an enormous amount of familiar-looking food in front of them. None of it is poisonous.

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Ma'ar, who remembers going hungry not all that many years ago, is impressed and delighted, that's SO MUCH FOOD. 

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Urtho also expresses his gratitude and pleasure, and digs in. 

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