"For population diversity, or -"

"...Maybe? Not explicitly. Anyway, sometimes you land on a beach with an egg and the people there don't want to swap and then there's sometimes fights."

"That does in fact sound significantly more restrained than human stone age societies."

"There's such a thing as war, there's a word for it, but it doesn't happen much."

"Elves can be pretty awful too if you set the dominos right. Baseline population rates of violence are interesting but they're not super predictive."

"...my species does have a name but it's just tones without syllables so I'm not sure most people could pronounce it."

"That sounds tricky, yeah. Want to pick one with syllables?"

"Probably should. I mean, it can be superimposed on syllables but there's not a standard..."

"You shall have to set one, if this species wants to meet the multiverse!"

"There's 'singers' or 'airborne'..."

"LIttle bit of competition for both titles. Less for 'airborne' -"

"Who's the competition?"

"Edda species we trade with a lot but don't run into much goes by The Song, to the amusement of Quendi because our native world's fate was written with song at the beginning of time and it's a pretty dreadful song."

"Huh. Well, can't have redundancy. Shorefolk?"

"No overlap."

"Cool. And I don't need to rename myself."

"You don't! I am assuming your name has 'bel' in it somewhere, they all do."

"Uh, it does, but people should definitely not use my full name, it's a thing. Tireh's all-purpose, Ti for casual, the whole name would be more of an intimacy signal."

"That will have to be in the notes."

"I will put it there. Allspeak is very nice, it would probably take a long time to teach the computer my writing system."

"I suspect it would." And he leaves her to read and add to the notes.

She reads. There is so much to read; it's overwhelming in the best way.

She writes up her own section. She is calling her world Beach and her species shorefolk; shorefolk speak various pitched languages that work fine even without the syllables or without specific syllables, but most of them do also use phonemes; people should not address her by full name. Shorefolk technically have parents but most parents die before their children hatch, or at most a year later, since they're not sexually mature till they're nine years old and live to be ten tops; so they grow up in clannish structures.

She's got magic that scouts to the planet were not able to make work for themselves, it's called "songburning" but her version is more like "writingburning". The standard version is: you know some fact. You sing it while thinking of a translation/weather/transportation effect you want. You forget the fact and get the effect, the strength and duration of which depend on how much fact you can sing over a few seconds; "how much" is both in terms of singing speed and in terms of how "interesting" the fact is. You can then relearn the fact if you want and have some way to be reexposed to it or rederive it. Tireh invented writing and was planning to use this as an easy way to be reexposed to singable facts (most people just do songburning in groups and remind each other of what they just sang) but when she tried it her writing disappeared before she'd gotten more than a note into the song. She doesn't know an upper limit of how much writing she can vanish in one go, but it does very nice things for her power level as long as she has enough prepped information.

Then somebody dropped lots of information on Beach!

Then she escaped.

The peal is pleased to meet her!

Yeah, imagine if they hadn't been doing Charpitoriums.

<You presumably didn't actually say that?>