At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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Cam glances at his ears.

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"Used to be pointy, we got plastic surgery. There's enough unusual without giving people extra hints."

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"Okay. What are the Silmarils?"

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"Quendi are - dependent on background magic in the universe. There's less and less of it over time. We - fade away, if we're not careful, we lose the capacity to affect the world around us. As a result we're all supposed to leave the world and go live in the paradise of the gods. But we have some - theological disagreements - with our gods, so my father found a way to capture and preserve the magic so we could set up an independent Elven kingdom outside Valinor. Then they were stolen."

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"By Venusian fairies, or is that later?"

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"I don't think there was a fairy involved, actually, I think that was Eru. By a lot of people. They were very desirable prizes."

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"Just for being bottled magic?"

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"Bottled magic is really useful."

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"It sounds it, but besides being ambiently magical you haven't said what it's useful for."

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"Given enough time we could have killed the gods. Not that we were planning to do that, most of them are just hapless. There's one who needed to die. We could've used it for heat and light and power while setting up a civilization on some distant star - we are going to do that - they make other magic effects more powerful - eventually we'll become gods, and the Silmarils won't do that in themselves but it'd be hard to achieve without them."

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"And you're planning to improve on previous divine examples, I hope."

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"Won't be hard. Why are you wandering around, aren't people supposed to be careful with demons?"

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"Who, me, I don't have wings, can't be a demon."

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"I see. Have I answered your questions?"

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"I mean, yes, but not in a way that makes me eager to go away."

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"If you would like to help us found a civilization on a distant star and restore magic to the world and become gods you're quite welcome."

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"It sounds more interesting than continuing to teach myself the violin and making pipe dream plans to terraform Mars!"

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"You could terraform Mars for practice? We're not leaving for a couple decades, we need people."

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Heh. "Oh, and I'll want to commute by summon, unless you break lightspeed with magic."

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"Doubt it. I can't summon you but Matthew probably won't mind doing it regularly."

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"Awesome. ...So what's your name? I'm Cam."

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"Aricin. How'd you learn about summoning?"

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"Found a book on it in an abandoned house."

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"How'd you end up dead?"

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"Guy walked into my classroom and shot me in the head."

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