"...I'd be an appallingly bad elf."

"Might not be the same kind of elf what with the not the same world thing. My Earth doesn't have Elves, I ran into Elves elsewhere."

"...are all of your elves slaves magically bound to the household their grandparents served in?"

"No, my Elves are tall unreasonably pretty people with pointy ears and brain backups who sing a lot."

"We should pick a different word for those two species, those sound like some important differences there. Brain backups?"

"Quendi for my kind, then. I don't know how to explain the brain backups from a tech background of 'the Revolutionary War was recent'..."

"It's 1802. Uh, what implications does having a brain backup have -"

"They can be brought back from the dead."

"Ooooooooh. Can I have one?"

"Doesn't work for humans and even if it did it's more complicated than that."

"Ah. Okay. What sort of things do I get up to when I am tall and pretty and have pointy ears and sing a lot?"

"Well, when I showed up there was a war on, so that."

"Ah. - is there still in fact a war on, if you don't have any wizards we might be able to help -"

"It's over now."

"Do you want to talk about it -"

"It's not really my fondest ambition but you apparently have magic so I might find it necessary to tell you for context."

"If you wanted magic help with the war I would in fact demand a lot of context. Magic help with reconstruction or something I can do no questions asked."

"Reconstruction is underway. Although you probably can't do the part I'm most hoping to turn up because you were very excited about Elves being able to come back from the dead so that's not customary for wizards."

"It is not. Though if anyone could figure it out it'd be my father."

"Yeah, assuming you're not just a lookalike I'd believe that."

"Does the person who looks like me have six younger brothers?"

"Yes."

"...huh. Anyway, my father's trying to reconstruct the Philosopher's Stone, an old lost piece of magic that does immortality; if he gets that he'll probably try for resurrection next. The Philosopher's Stone has at least been accomplished before; resurrection no one's ever done."

"It'd also have to be a sufficiently generic solution to bring back dubiously material magic god things."

"I mean, we wouldn't want something that's only humans, but we don't have any dubiously material magic god things. ...if they're gods why do they need resurrecting, what kills a god -"