Wow. Will she show them what it's like?

Certainly.

What does establishing a base entail? Is it going to interfere with how the country is run or anything?

Not necessarily, but claiming some or all of this island as her domain would mean it becomes essentially part of her body. This is the main reason why she wants to talk to the King.

What if he disapproves?

She'd still like to establish a small temple here, but in that case she would go to the mainland and talk to people there.

That makes sense. The people on the mainland are terrible, they need someone looking out for them.

Quite. She thinks she will expand out that way eventually in any case.

Can she communicate instantly between parts of her domain?

Yes. It is all her. Communications lag would make that a much fuzzier category.

That'd be amazingly useful for corresponding with the colonies.

Indeed it would. What sorts of messages usually get relayed?

You can send them on ships, but they're not the most reliable and it takes months, is that what she means?

More the contents than the medium.

Oh, people have relatives in the colonies, they write about relative sorts of things. And business ventures. Lots of money to be made out there.

Doing what?

Shipping exotic materials, spices, rubber, that sort of thing. One of the scholars has an interest in this and can list off the manifests she already read in the library.

She can create many of those things herself, in slightly limited quantities. Or even transport them, if they are given as an offering. Though that would involve the owners acknowledging her claim on the items well enough that it counts.

How long has she been - in existence, do her kinds of gods get born?

They do not. She has been around for nearly two hundred years.

Some of them have been around that long! The King's older than that. It's a weird thought. They were imagining she was like Elves. Elves have mostly been around forever.

That's interesting. Humans on her world don't tend to live much past seventy or eighty.

It's partially the gift of the Valar and partially the Elven blood.

That would explain the difference.

But they still die, and three hundred is still nothing compared to forever.