Sounds like it suits you.

Tyelcormo meets them near the gates of Tirion. "Hullo," he says to Kib, and then, right, sorry, you won't have our language.

Indeed I have not. It sounds like the thing you do is not exactly like the thing servantmakers do, anyway.

I have never heard of servantmaking. The thing I can do is talk to animals.

Given a little while to imprint an animal on me I can make it so it'll do what I tell it to. It seems like people here can't do one of the easiest-to-try kinds of servantmaking but your thing sounded a little similar.

I could talk an animal into doing most anything but I'm not making it, just befriending it and persuading it. Though maybe it's the same thing and different approaches?

It doesn't sound like it, but I guess if you have an animal around you don't mind me making into a pet that won't savage me while I'm holding it you could see? I can also check if any animals you have around already count as pets.

Nothing should savage you while you hold it, unless you want to go dinosaur-taming - do you want to go dinosaur taming? If you could give dinosaurs orders that'd be amazing - and he holds out his arm and a bird lands on it.

When the bird steps onto his hand Kib draws it closer to him and starts petting it. Mandos is the holding area for the to-be-reembodied? Yeah we don't have that, if I die I'm just dead. Please do not arrange to risk my being savaged by dinosaurs if that is a likely outcome of trying to imprint them.

It is not likely but it is possible, Tyelcormo says. Maybe very small dinosaurs. Where do you go when you die?

Don't, as far as I know. More or less the same state as not having appeared yet.

Maybe not even small dinosaurs. That's fucked up.

I am aware. Pet pet. Nice soft bird.

So how'd you get here?

The answer you are looking for may be either 'I have no fucking clue' or 'a bizarre monster that looked like a snake with a full-length mirror for a face ate me and apparently that causes people to land in strange worlds'."

Ah! I was looking for the second answer, it's more exciting. Welcome to Tirion. How are you liking it? I can't stand the place personally.

It is way, way, too bright, which is why I put shades over my eyes. And apparently our species have mutually disturbing traits. But it seems pretty nice overall.

I've been considering tracking down the inventor of storks and seeing if they'll take help filling out the ranks. I understand why they'd do it anonymously but they could clearly use a little more servantmaker labor on the project. I'm not best suited to detective work but it might be doable.

Why would they do it anonymously?

Uh, control of where children go could get intensely political very fast. If you control storks and you don't like some city-state or some culture or some ideological minority, bam, suddenly you have dramatically more kids than they do, maybe they don't have any, you don't have to lift another finger, they're out of population in a few decades.

Well your world's a horror show isn't it. Huh. Okay. Too bad none of us can do servant-making. I take it we can't just personally raise the kids.

There's too many of them, even if you assume absolute convenience of transport. It would also be a major project to raise them in such a way that you could put them back in my civilization so it didn't collapse, but apparently you'd all be up for that, it's just the numbers that don't work.