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She's delighted! Bells who are not being deliberately emotionless conspicuously radiate delight about resurrections!

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Conspicuously radiating delight about resurrections is an extremely charming quality!!

He can embody spirit animals and they will be all physical and able to interact with the world but they won't have that unfortunate interaction where if they die their person becomes a vegetable - won't be able to be bound afterward either, by default, but if a lot of cases pile up where he embodied a spirit animal who now mutually desires to become their person's familiar, he's pretty sure he can branch a fix if they can't get anything put together themselves.

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Yaaaaaaay!

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Elaneth-imire is so happy. General resurrection is the best power. He's embodying all these familiars! He resurrected a planet!!!

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And eventually the peal is out of places that can be mass-resurrection-powered at without creating more complications than they can deal with, but they promise to rearrange their priorities towards complications-handling.

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So Elaneth-imire delightedly goes home to snuggle his husband and giggle about resurrection.

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And Liran-alore asks if they wouldn't mind making him indestructible, because he thinks his soul might be able to put together a power to hand that out like candy if he got a close enough look, but having it actually done to him might be the only way to get a close enough look.

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Then he can absolutely be next in line for the next spellbinder assembly.

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Cool!

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And in the meantime, King Dalvor is available to meet with a peal representative in Nuime.

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That would be T'Mir again.

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"Hello."

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"Hello," replies T'Mir. "My alts and I are interested in getting our wings; it sounds like it has no meaningful drawbacks and the Spheres will allow some interesting adjacency-related applications."

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"It'll just about turn your map of worlds into a heap of tangled string once it gets out," he says. "Which I'm sure it will eventually do even if you don't intend it to at the moment."

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"It also doesn't seem like the sort of thing we'd need to be particularly paranoid about sharing, although it does change some strategic possibilities."

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"Anyone with a Sphere, a passenger-enabled teleport, and quick reflexes can trap someone in their Sphere for eternity," he mentions. "Close all the portals and it's impossible to teleport out."

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"Has this been tested against Materian wizardry summoning?"

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"Since nobody in this corner of the adjacency map has Materian wizardry, no it has not. But the going theory is that with no open portals, the Sphere has no conventional adjacencies."

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"Ah, that wasn't clear. That does affect how widely it might make sense to distribute it."

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"Yes," he says. "But it's going to be really difficult to keep a lid on. You probably can't count on it staying under wraps indefinitely. Not when anyone who steps into a Sphere and feels sufficiently accomplished gets their wings on the spot."

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"It does mean we'd want to keep track of Sphere-independent adjacencies for moving most classes of passenger."

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"Yes. But what do you do with winged visitors who want to show someone their Sphere? I'm going to be discouraging that sort of thing, but it's a losing battle. I expect wings to be commonplace around here within a few centuries."

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"It would probably still be possible to dismiss and resummon a daeva visitor."

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"Yes, that's true. So daeva would be harder to trap this way. Mind you, I don't think it's likely that anyone would want to sacrifice their Sphere to eternally imprison someone. But it's possible to do it, and short of finding that person and forcing them to open a portal, it's hard to see how to rescue their victim."

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"What happens if they die?"

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