At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Uh, starts with decreased capacity to maintain volitional control over our heartrate and blood pressure and so on, and then waves and waves of intense adrenaline spikes, getting steadily worse over time until something gives out."

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"Yeesh."

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"Enemy had a way to keep prisoners alive."

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"Eugh."

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"Matthew got captured. For, well, fifty years objective time, Enemy can also do time dilation."

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"This just keeps getting more and more charming of a story, doesn't it."

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"Not too late to decide you want nothing to do with it."

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"The last time I poked my nose into interesting magic and shit I got literally murdered yet here I am."

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"You can't get literally murdered again! And maybe time dilation wouldn't work on you, since the black holes don't. And the Enemy is currently imprisoned by his colleagues."

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"Colleagues."

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"The other gods have not made enough effort at stopping him for me to characterize them as his opponents in any respect, but they are not quite as bad themselves."

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"Gotcha. Should I know more about this cast of colorful characters?"

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"Uh, there're fifteen, Melkor's the bad one, Mandos is the one who holds, adjusts, and reembodies the dead, Irmo runs Lórien which I told you about, Ulmo is the god of the seas and notable for occasionally being actually helpful, once upon a time my family got along with Aulë and Oromë, the rest are not notable."

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"What form does occasional helpfulness take?"

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"During the war he shielded a civilian city so the Enemy couldn't find it except by treason of the inhabitants. He used to be occasionally accessible for consultation. He's not anymore but he probably can't be, what with magic mostly not working."

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"How mostly is mostly?"

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"My brother used to be able to alter the landscape over a space of a hundred miles by singing at it - magic songs, they take decades to compose, it's not at all a spontaneous thing, but still. Now he can give the effect that the environment is swimming, and that's about it. He finds it very annoying. Used to be there were magic artifacts that would make you near to a Vala. My father's been trying to reconstruct them but I doubt they'd be a fraction as powerful."

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"Is there some relatively mechanistic explanation? Like does magic run on a finite fuel source or something."

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"If so it was not known to us back when we had the time to study those things. My guess would be that magic tapers because Eru wants it to. The Silmarils should help."

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"Eru won't want them to fail at that?"

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"Wrong - kind of thing - he's not actually an interventionist god, the one time aside, he just put in starting conditions he liked, like 'evil god and incompetent good ones' and 'oaths' and 'the fading of the Elves'."

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"Do oaths have less force now?"

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"Don't think so. Haven't tested."

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"Why not?"

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"It is as a general rule a bad idea to toy around with oaths."

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