"They're a small caste devoted to handling pollution."

"Are reds upsetting to Amentans? Would Amentans prefer to live in a country without reds in it?"

"Well, of course, but at our present level of technology they're necessary."

"Landscape-superbeings have the capacity to teleport anything within Our territories to anywhere within Our territories, which is how We can do waste management. We are also capable of teleporting dead bodies as they are no longer sentient. This obviates two functions of reds.

Korrado's power permits the manipulation and reshaping of metal at a distance. If plumbing in Amenta is constructed with metal, then it is possible for His ambassadors and organic-manifestations to repair plumbing without needing to be in contact with it. This would obviate another function of reds."

"That would be great! Though we might want to hear from some experts on pollution to be sure that this wouldn't cause you to become polluted."

"We would like to hear from them too. My intuition is that We cannot.

Our ambassadors and organic-manifestations definitely can, given that they have bodies and can touch things. However, We Ourselves do not have bodies, and do not touch things physically when we move them.

This may be a good time for us to take a recess, so that you can look over the treaty terms more thoroughly, and for us to read the standards more thoroughly, and also for you to coordinate having other countries send ambassadors to Us to confirm the standards, and potentially witness the treaty signing, as well as to allow time for the pollution experts to come here to consult.

It is pleasing to Me to have My followers and those who reside in and visit My land to live in comfort and pleasure, and it seems that it would be very pleasing to Amentans to live in a pure and incorrupt land, untouched by pollution."

Isn't pollution a social construct.

Yes, but that doesn't make it not real. It's like...gender.

Must we care? Can we select the Voans who don't care about pollution?

I think all Voans care about pollution. Or 'all' for most intents and purposes. Also I think it would cause every country to go to war with us.

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I'm trying! I'm very sure that if we do finally buy the land off of Voa, we'll be in a much, much better spot to implement changes. Both for you and myself. I also hate the fact that not everyone can make money off of art!!

I appreciate that you are taking on the whole burden of diplomacy because thinking about it makes me want to sink this whole land into lava.

You're welcome.

"So landscape-superbeings aren't literally the physical land itself? That's good to know. I agree we should recess and confer."

"So We can be, but mostly not. If someone, now, took some soil from this place and brought it back to Voa, it would just be regular soil. 

However, I can choose to put a piece of Myself in this soil. Said soil will become (holy earth) embodied-earth. If one took this soil and brought it back to Voa, it would permit Me to communicate with them as though they were in my territory. If this soil was then poured onto Voan soil, it would permit Me to claim territory in it. The process of claiming territory discharges the embodied-earth, such that it would no longer contain a piece of Myself – the piece having expended itself to claim territory.

I only create embodied-earth when it is necessary. For example, when My ambassadors claimed this territory, they had to do this pouring – ambassadors of landscape-superbeings mark themselves so by carrying embodied-material with them in vials. Later, I created embodied-earth for them to refill their vials. I have not created embodied-earth since.

I would not want my embodied-earth to touch pollutants. However, it is less problematic for earth that simply happens to be in my territory to become polluted, because I can simply teleport it to be incinerated by lava.

In any case, it seems that it would be better to speak to experts about this. Do you have an estimate for how long it will take for the other countries' ambassadors and the pollution experts to arrive?"

It's not a lie, but only in the sense that gods can't represent the experience of creating holy earth and claiming territory accurately to mortals with mortal language.

"You'd prefer they arrive in person?"

"If your communications technology is sufficient to permit Us to communicate live with them here and now, then it is acceptable to talk remotely."

"It is! We noticed that your translation effect works fine over transmissions before. If remote will do, we can probably get some representatives of everyone you'd want to talk to pretty quickly. Where would you prefer to start? Even if you can have dozens of conversations at once we don't have that many devices with us, and conference calls may not scale well enough."

He's capable of having conversations simultaneously, but at His current state, it's a lot easier to only maintain one so that he can devote his whole attention to social modeling. It's not like He's talking to someone whose good faith He can already be assured of, like one of His priests.

"I would prefer to have conversations one at a time at this time. Given that we were already talking about pollution, and given that management of pollution is very important, I wish to talk to the pollution experts now."

They will send some emails to see who bites first.

In the meantime, Korrado will check in on His beloved acolyte. How's the food settling?

So far so good! He's very optimistic about the food.

Feliya is very glad because she is So Hungry and they only have a little of their own food left. If Rendon doesn't suffer any symptoms in the next several hours, then she will have some as well, since at that point, if it is poisonous, then it isn't a fast acting poison.

The diplomatic team has a theology researcher from the university of Shond on the line!