"I wouldn't be deliberately doing that, I don't know why that's what would happen."

Not unlimitedly omniscient, then. "Are there any things you find beautiful you think we would not object to?"

"...you like Fëanors. I like Fëanors. I like Epic and there are some beautiful things that could happen to him that on the whole I don't think you'd resent! I told you I liked the idea with sending suicidal Maitimos to earlier Ardas so they have to try to pull themselves together and do it all over. I liked your war, it was a good war, and you liked it too because now you can wield the Tesseract."

"We have very mixed feelings on the 'sending Maitimos to earlier Ardas' thing and definitely don't want to do it via outright time travel."

"Then you might have to be creative!!"

"Can you give an example of a beautiful thing that could happen to Epic you don't think we'd resent?"

"...he gets stranded by a magical accident on a planet that you were otherwise not going to find in time and that is on the verge of extinction, and he saves it, and his chronic insecurity about not being good enough is vanquished and he learns life lessons?"

"Is that the sort of thing one of you might decide to do at some point?"

"It would require the opportunity lining up but if it happened to, yes, definitely."

"I suppose I'll come back if we have more questions."

"You won't!" he predicts cheerfully.

"Why not?"

"Because it would have been true if I hadn't said it. Now it's more up in the air."

"How much can I expect things you tell me to be actually true?"

"I wouldn't lie! That would be unfair. I'm omnipotent and you're incarnates who tangle up plans really interestingly, it'd be a disservice."

"But you will say things that are only true if you don't say them?"

"That are true when I say them. If I only said things that were true no matter what you did I couldn't say any things."

"...all right. Well. Thanks."

"Have a lovely day!!"

And Loki goes and puts a transcription on the network.

Nearly five hundred million -

And Bells not nearly as common and most of them aren't due to be interrupted, yeah.

So how do we kill an Eru.

We come up with a really beautiful way for them to die.

It will be so, so stunningly beautiful.