Yeah. What's wrong with them?

They don't really understand people and they're - the cause of all of our social conservativism, or at least most of it, they're very insistent on it. 

Oh dear.

The thing is that being powerful doesn't mean you're right but it means people get hurt if they don't do what you say, and hurting people isn't right, so it ends up coming out to the same thing. If you take morality seriously, which I don't.

That's terrible logic.

I don't know what a good example for you is, I don't know what your world's like. But, say, take a man marrying twice. Nothing wrong with it. The gods think there's something wrong with it, if the man remarries they'll kill his first wife and keep her dead. So, see, it kind of is wrong to remarry, even though it shouldn't be. 

It's terrible logic if you're using it to claim that your gods aren't terrible, she clarifies, but I can appreciate the logic of sit down shut up and don't provoke the powerful people.

Appreciating the logic isn't the same as putting it into practice, I should avoid talking to any of them more than I have to before I get fed up and tell them off or something.

I haven't done much sitting down and shutting up, but yeah, if you pick a fight with them you'll lose. 

...Hm.

Are they actually omnipotent?

No. 

I wonder what I can learn to do with dreamworking if I just never die. I wonder how powerful I could get.

It's one of those things that gets better with practice, huh?

Oh yes.

There are fourteen Valar. Some of them are okay. 

Is the one you're talking about taking us to one of them?

Yep. I owe him a lot. 

Good, then.

Huan was a present from him, as much as someone like Huan can be a present. 

Oh?

I rode with him when I was younger and lonely. He taught me everything I know.

Aww

I think if it were just him he'd be fine with how some of the Eldar want to depart for the Outer Lands. But it's not, and the others aren't like him.

So if I ever do end up with the power and inclination to overthrow them I should leave him alone, got it.

You should probably not go around broadcasting that intention. If you ever meet people other than me and Huan.

I do not currently have that intention.