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Akibel Mowar is on his way home from the blacksmith's when he spots it. People are shrieking and fleeing from it, which seems reasonable, as it's a fuckoff huge snake with a mirror for a face. A big mirror.
Kib can't so much flee. He can shriek - he can lurch in the direction of the nearest house and try the door - it's locked. He can amble briskly...
He can break into a run when the snake gains on him and fall flat on his face.
And he can get eaten up.
And it's too bright too bright too bright and he flings his arm over his eyes.
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secondchance
secondchance
Well, like switching from money to a communalist reputation economy, this would not be a readily accomplished transition on my world.
No, I think what I'm tempted to do about your world is bring the babies here but I don't know if the Valar'd agree or how many of them there are...
No, of course not, send them off to go apprentice when they're ready just as you apparently do anyway.
secondchance
Oh, you just want to supplant the creches or supplement them, gotcha. Although they'd wind up not speaking the language and stuff.
If one child could be prevented from starving to death or growing up parentless by the whole population of Tirion learning your language we'd all be fluent by the end of the month.
Children dying is really really bad!
secondchance
Okay, but a ton of languages are spoken on my world; I know the one that's common to city-states in a certain region of the largest continent but there are dozens and dozens more. If the Valar can rescue all the babies as they appear I'm all for it but arranging that they're suitable to repatriate will be a complicated project.
Okay. What's the population of your world, are there estimates of how many babies awaken annually?
secondchance
Hundred million give or take, and I don't have a formal estimate but say two thirds of babies are found these days and one percent of people are at any given time babies, so million and a half a year, worldwide, about.
His eyes widen. Well. Eru.
There aren't enough of us.
There aren't enough of us.
About four hundred thousand in the whole world.
secondchance
...yeah. Maybe you could take some of them but you cannot completely solve the problem like that. At least not on a parents-as-opposed-to-creche model.
Two-thirds of babies survive...
He shudders. My father - the, ah, person who decided he wanted me to exist, and wanted to set some projects aside to make me feel loved as a small child - might be able to think of something.
He's not good at social problems but he's good at technical ones. Golems to save babies, except we don't have golems.
I am very glad.
I assume since you don't have Valar you also don't have anyone to reembody your dead?
I assume since you don't have Valar you also don't have anyone to reembody your dead?
secondchance
...no, dead people continue to be dead, and frankly if I had to pick I'd much rather prioritize adults with friends and projects and communities over babies, can we import that trick?
Well, presumably you don't have nearly as many adult dead? I assume a third of them don't starve. But yes, we can ask the Valar if they can find your dead also.
secondchance
Nnnnnno humans all die eventually. Did you not derive this from the "million and a half babies a year, about one percent of the population is babies" estimation.