"The use case I had in mind was having him warn you if it turns out to be a disaster to take some risky action."

Nods. "I would prefer that to asking Eru," Nienna says. 

...Cam can wait until it is his turn to ask things and in that time maybe he will think of a better question than "what in the fuck is Eru's deal anyway".

"I think those are all the questions we had for you in particular. Do you have questions for us?"

What in the fuck is Eru's deal anyway. "What are you going to do, or if you haven't decided what are you considering?"

"We are probably going to go to the other Arda to which Milliways offers straightforward access, talk to the versions of us there, and try to determine why they're - uh - not very good at their jobs. If it's a capabilities gap or a misunderstanding we can just teach them, if it's more complex than that we are considering whether to just take all their people here - depends how much capacity to act we have in their dimensions, but probably not much, not quickly, we build it up over time."

"...I made a serious oversight in forking this Maitimo but in principle other Ardas with chip Elves can be accessed the same way and we have standing access to one that has magic soul Elves instead."

"We've met the magic soul Elves - we have approximately a hundred times the attentional capacity of humans, and are conducting this investigation from many different angles simultaneously - and it is their world where we intend to begin speaking to other Valar. We would prefer not to fork people without their consent even when it is urgent to somehow reach their worlds, and are trying to determine if it can be done in any other way."

"That would be an improvement if it's doable, yes."

"We have not yet found a way."

"Were I forkable I would in fact let my alt make decisions about that for me but we match less closely than the Maitimos otherwise tended to and might have thought to check for variants like 'has kids'. In retrospect of course maybe in a world where you're good at your jobs maybe he has kids."

"Forking with the consent of alternates is not inherently unacceptable to us but it seems likely to sometimes have drawbacks like this one; it is at least worth exploring alternatives."

Nod.

"Anything else?"

"What about me?"

"You are quite apparently not a danger to any worlds you might find yourself in, and are free to leave.

We are inclined at this time to establish some kind of procedure for prosecuting war crimes. The aim would be -"  Varda looks around for help, or at least that is what that expression would mean on a human -

"- right now it would be reasonable for people to be afraid of you?" Nienna offers hesitantly. "Or to hate you or to mistrust you or - to ask us not to invite you into our world without precautions - some people will read the whole story, should you choose to make it available, and make up their own minds, and some will trust us, but - that would not be a reasonable burden to place on the shoulders of every citizen -"

"The aim would be to establish a court that people can trust enough that, if it rules that justice has been done, it is reasonable for people to have faith in that. And it is our hope that if we suceeed in establishing such a court you might choose to consider yourself subject to its jurisdiction."

"...that would be nice in a way, I don't really like the reasonable-for-people-to-hate-me thing... I'm perhaps less optimistic that it can be replaced wholesale."

"Among Elves, at least?" Varda offers. "Elves are mostly very trusting."

"Dwarves as well," Aulë says, "If differently - and humans are all so young, they do astoundingly well considering but maybe when they're all a little older -"

"And there are a lot of worlds, we take it," Nienna says, "in which great evils have been committed with less cause, and all eternity in which to learn how to forgive one another."

"People where I'm from don't tend to inquire that deeply into the greatness of the cause of things that look evil. Eventually sure, maybe."

"We will update you on our progress in formulating procedures for such a court, but under the circumstances will not be able to collaborate with you on it. If you want to recommend other humans to serve as advisors they are very welcome."

"Does my alt have too much of a conflict of interest?"

" - probably. We have not given much consideration to how to handle alts."

"What about alts of my boyfriend, because if so you should know my boyfriend is a non-Arda Maitimo alt."

" - it'd be a little hard to assemble an advisory team for this without consulting Nelyafinwë, but we could avoid informing him of a potential conflict of interest -"

"No we couldn't," Aulë says.

Heh.