"We might seem the same from their point of view. Well. With limited and impressive reversed for relevant things, of course."

"We do. But they're used to valuing the things they're good at."

"There is that."

"Your city's going to be interesting."

"I don't see how it could avoid it, given that the queen and the vast majority of the inhabitants are from separate universes."

"And it's human-ruled and has magic."

"Is it going to cause cultural problems with the residents if the queen goes around being publicly bisexual, do you think."

"Everyone here's been raised and taught Elven values. But they've also been raised to respect their betters. I am not sure what problems there might be."

"Lovely. Well. It's not like she has a girlfriend right now so maybe there'll be a chance to acclimate to how bizarre we are before it comes up."

"Is she also planning lonely celibacy for the whole war?"

"She doesn't consider herself too busy to have a love life if one drops in her lap but I doubt she's going to go out and look for one anytime soon."

"Makes sense. Ah, who inherits? If something happens to her?"

"Probably me by default, I guess, since for immediate practical purposes I'm her only living relative, but my plan for if that happens is to appoint you or someone else if someone better comes along as regent and go back to acquiring ultimate cosmic power just with a veto in case something goes unexpectedly horribly wrong."

"Wow. Okay. it might be wise to have a more formal procedure."

"Yeah, definitely, but we've been moving kind of fast and we're hard enough to kill that 'what happens if Illia dies' hasn't been near the top of the priority list."

"I noticed. It's not just relevant in that contingency, for the record, it's also relevant to how other kingdoms interact with you and with her."

"True. Well, I'm highly opposed to any solution where I have to spend enough time running a city that it seriously cuts into my acquiring-ultimate-cosmic-power time, and Illia's highly opposed to any solution where someone she doesn't trust very, very highly ends up with the final say regarding how the city is run."

"What you have makes sense to me, just write it down and formalize it and have a way to frame it when people ask."

"Sounds like a plan. ...You may be consulted on the formalization part, I don't know how well we picked that up. Illia probably better than me, she might not need help."

"Happy to help if it's needed."

"She was hanging around the High King absorbing statecraft and I was rotating between killing orcs, teaching people magic, and a handful of other things while mostly eating and sleeping at the home of someone who despises politics."

"The High King is by all accounts a good and capable one."

"Is there a story behind the combination of those words with that facial expression."

"Oh, I - he's a very hands-off king of his various relatives, if the Kingship's not entirely a fiction, and sometimes I think that it is. Goodness that does not actually reach anyone in need of it isn't particularly a thing to sing of, but on the other hand I'd expect most people doing the job to do worse at it."

"Given the sheer amount of drama going on with said relatives if for no other reason, I think you're right."