"His heir killed another child when she was nine and framed me. Not for any reason, just because she liked killing things. She hasn't stopped killing. She's still his heir."

"I won't live in a world where that's still true. It goes or I do."

"I'm sorry. - I take it there's little to no resurrection access, in this world?" She's pretty sure someone said as much at some point but it's been a long few days and it's worth being perfectly clear about.

"There's worse off."

"You can heal a wound or restart a stopped heart or replace a limb, though it may cost. There's no way to fix a rotted brain." 

"Aroden can do it but not through the kind of servant I am. If we get a proper church established here He could, though."

- How much has Iomedae eaten?

Oh, everything in front of her. She eats a lot, when there's food to be had.

(She's interpreting that expression as the mixed feelings people often have about learning the dead can sometimes return.)

"Walk with me."

("Oh, thank you, Luke -") and she can show Iomedae how the stunner works while they're walking. It knocks out whatever you shoot it at if it isn't supernaturally tough; there's a very low risk of accidentally triggering heart failure in very old or unhealthy people. Solaris isn't immune to it, though it can't pass through his armor.

"Oh, that's wonderful. - I can make my weapons Merciful but most people can't do that."

"It is! Minerva is a superhero -" it will translate as something like 'high-level Good adventurer' "- who invented them, and now many other tinkers can make them. Steelstorm has factories to produce them in great numbers, along with their robots - he's on the other side. Steelmind's godfather."

"What an ambitious and clever thing to do! - the Good adventurer, I mean, I noticed the constructs don't seem to like your cause much."

" - so whenever they're killing civilians because there are soldiers mixed in - they have just as ready access to merciful weapons -"

"Yes."

"Do your soldiers have them?"

"Some. They're useless against the robots."

She nods. "I think ideally your men would be told to avoid going into the basements of the buildings. They leave the civilians alone if there aren't soldiers with them; I watched."

"I've given the order, but broken men run."

Quiet private room! Ilderia will invite Iomedae to sit on a comfortable couch.

"There is something I need to tell you."

Ilderia really, really hopes this works out.

Attentive paladin.

"Has anyone told you what an idealist is?"

There's a couch and a chair and a table between them, with some books on them.

"No."

"One out of every million people in the world has a gift, that runs in the blood from parents to child. If they are ever under sufficiently immense stress, due to physical threat or external problem or internal despair, they can manifest powers to deal with it, once in their life. I am a Survivor and my power is to control lightning. There are Tinkers whose powers come from trying and failing to build the impossible until they succeeded."

"For some superpowered people - one in ten? The problem is not something about the world but something about themselves, that makes them hate themselves and their life. Their power makes them someone they would rather be. Century is an idealist; he's never told me what he was before, and may not know. Idealists often do not."

"They quite often think they're someone from another world."

" - and some of them are from my world? Or - what's the difference you'd drawing between 'from another world' and 'think they're from another world' -"

"We have never met anyone we know was from any other world, never met any two people who shared a world or where we could find their world, but there are thousands of idealists."

She pauses. "I'm so sorry. I think you are one."

"How...do you generally rule out that the people who are pretty sure they're from another world, are in fact from another world?"

"We don't have any perfect means of observing. There are a few people who can track someone - scry, if you know that word - at any distance, who can't do it with the friends of people from other worlds but can do it with them, starting when they Idealized or sometimes going back before. There are people who have made devices to teleport to locations, who can't teleport to those locations. There are Idealists whose powers are shut down by power-nullifying equipment* who believe them to be natural parts of how they function. All these could be coincidences." She says it as though she is going to add a 'but.'

(*: This will translate as something like 'portable antimagic fields.')