What's the sort of thing that would unbore you?

At the moment I'm having lots of fun with being on the ground floor of interdimensional contact.

Me too, it's exhilarating. And your world has problems more serious than boredom. I want them solved, of course, but I can't deny being on some level delighted that my choices can actually make a difference for once.

Well, the lack of indoor plumbing could be construed as a problem. Does Endorë not have non-boredom problems?

Endorë has problems that I have no leverage on. I was going to fund people to go there and fix things eventually, but probably in a hundred or two hundred Years.

Why that long? - And how does funding work in a nonmonetary gift economy?

Shipments of food and supplies and necessities? And no leverage because we don't even have boats that can traverse the ocean between the two continents yet, though I've been assuming your world probably does, and the Elves in Endorë are shy and wary of outsiders.

We've got boats that do that, yes. And aircraft.

Oooh, you've got flight? I want to fly.

It's less exciting than it sounds, only mages get to actually fly. Everybody else gets to sit in enclosed pressurized metal tubes with wings breathing recycled air and eating peanuts, and it's remarkably unpleasant for the stunning technological and global-interconnectedness achievement that it is.

That does sound unpleasant. Maybe with a combination of magic systems we can do better.

Sounds great.

What exactly can mages do?

Depends on what they focus on. They can teleport, or just - rise into the air and fly around on their own - or turn into birds, some of 'em - whatever.

I wonder if anything happens to Elves of the same age if they're living in your world, but we really shouldn't check.

Why's that?

Twelve human years is just over one of ours. If a one-year-old got magic -

The danger is controllable if the new eclipsed hasn't eaten in a while. The people who accidentally set everything on fire or mindwipe a million people are the kids who sneak snacks because two days without food is too hard for them, or miscalculate which eclipse is theirs and think they're safe and have dinner. And psions can lock down magic so it can't leak out; and then the eclipsed Elf could get unlocked and go into control training at some later age.

Mindwipe a million people?

New eclipsed aren't weak, just uncontrolled. You'd have to live in a densely populated area and completely ignore the not eating for two days thing to reach a million, but last eclipse I worked precog I caught one of those. Million's an estimate.

That's terrifying. Could most psions do that on purpose, then, any time they wanted -

No. It's not technically impossible to reach back into uncontrolled magic after getting it into control, but it'd be almost like trying to have a seizure on purpose, and very hard to aim or scale up like that. There are pisons who deliberately learn combat psionics but it's its own specialization, most psions don't pick it up.

Nod. ...that's another piece of information likely to panic the Valar.

The existence of combat psions or the risk posed by new unlocked eclipsed?

Either one, more the latter.