There's a flash of darkness and the Maia is transported.

If this one had come first...

Yeah I didn't check very carefully. This one wasn't her, though, we didn't agree on sex, she just mentioned offhand it was the sort of thing she'd do.

Was the other one definitely her.

If there are multiple other Maiar swooping around looking like her then possibly not. She's been fine so far...

Hasn't been long enough to learn much - aargh - do you know how they determined the one they let into the city was her -

I'd be guessing - they could have done it by having her swear something and then not do the thing. Uh, are we assuming there is only one of her to begin with and that she's not weird Maiar twins.

I have never heard of weird Maiar twins being a thing but it would not be the weirdest Maia thing. I'm going to inform the northern kingdom.

...yeah. I think if she were weird Maiar twins my spell to deoath her would have fucked me up and it didn't...

Seems like a kind of big thing to leave out, yeah. He tells the relay what's going on.

           After a minute the relay relays back: he was willing to blow up the city rather than risk our getting mages but he gave them to the first person to show up claiming to be Thuringwethil, who is herself an amoral contract agent of Melkor's and who wanted it specifically because destruction is nifty?

You can tell your King he should give people better choices, Findekáno says. And to Cor: yeah, asked her to swear to being Thuringwethil; she swore instead to being Manwë's crossdressing alter ego and they decided that would have to do.

Okay. So this is not Thuringwethil, the first one is unless there's an epidemic of pretending to be Thuringwethil and they're not even in cahoots.

And this one prooobably won't be able to mage itself anytime soon but we also don't have much way to do anything about it.

All of the human mages we know of are already hooked in to empty planet points, we don't have to go there till we have something intelligent to do.

If we're sure of the first one maybe we can ask if she's found any promising worlds.

For new points?

For new magic. It shouldn't take that much to shove the impersonator into the point.

Yeah, if I didn't pull it off sending it there on the first try.

Yeah. Dangerous to try the Sauron spell if we don't know whether he's already dead or trapped on another planet?

It's not the sort of problem that comes up with diseases, no good prior art on the question. So, yeah, dangerous.

Fantastic.

He works on it anyway.

Sorry.

He comes back from where the sheep are.

It's not your fault at all. 

I didn't realize Maiar could impersonate each other like that.

It's not common to be that good at shapeshifting. They take centuries to get themselves bodies.

Still should have asked her to swear something.