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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
Maitimo, are you happy?
I tend to balance my preference to keep people for myself against my preference they be happy and doing complicated things and therefore as interesting as they were when I decided to acquire them. And the latter seems to always win. I am very happy.
I tend to balance my preference to keep people for myself against my preference they be happy and doing complicated things and therefore as interesting as they were when I decided to acquire them. And the latter seems to always win. I am very happy.
Feanáro nods again. Fine. Do you want more experimental updates, Kib? It seemed like you were very busy with your husband.
Well conveniently he has a stack of them.
And they can stay for dinner, if they like, and he'll explain what he's been doing and how he's going to make the Silmarils less tempting targets.
"One option is to just tell everyone they're spectacularly pretty and that's all they do. I do not think anyone else will independently notice anything else."
"It's possible no one knew about the other properties," Maitimo says. "Pretty is sufficiently motivating."
"It's possible no one knew about the other properties," Maitimo says. "Pretty is sufficiently motivating."
secondchance
"And the Valar already know they can restore light to the world if I don't manage to head off whatever happens to the Trees."
"Another option is to make them only work for my bloodline."
"People descended from me. In magic it's a natural category, easier to do than 'people I approve' and harder to coerce and impossible to be interpreted as political."
"I will do it so that it does."
secondchance
"It seems like it might be inconvenient if you all die or something but I'm probably just a little too accustomed to 'and then a bunch of people die' as a possible next narrative item in arbitrary narrative."
"Well I think at least a few of my children are at some point going to marry. And no one in Valinor dies. And the Silmarils are sufficiently dangerous that having them in arbitrary hands might not be an improvement over them ceasing to function. Also, it gives any enemy with the capacity to kill my family the incentive not to."
secondchance
"Good points all. Although if you have enough descendants it might stop being a good filtration criterion."
He nods. "That problem is at least a few hundred Years off."
I might also have a more complicated system in which I can authorize power users, but in that case I'll say it's bloodline to avoid the politics.
Have a lovely married life, Kib.