"I cannot promise literally everybody, if there's some place so badly run that all its citizens will leave given the choice and that will be really upset when they all leave, but I think most people will be glad it's there and we'll work hard to fix problems if they come up."

"How do you set up... portal trade...?"

"Likely we will send a delegation like your nations do when they are setting up trade with their neighbors, and we will agree on how much money to pay your governments for selling our goods, and what to do if our people are accused of crimes while in your world or vice versa, and what to do if people want to immigrate in either direction. I am sure more things will come up but I don't anticipate specific ones."

The whitemage is concerned that if their government is unhappy about the portal they will personally be in trouble.

"You have demonstrated really impressive commitment to the wellbeing of your people and that would be a shortsighted government indeed. But, well, we could neglect to mention how we got the capabilities for the portal or find someone who does not mind claiming responsibility or offer you asylum if you'd like that..."

"We have families, and we're committed to our Temple-Guild," the whitemage says, "we can't go asylum somewhere."

"Is there something we can offer your government such that they'd definitely be pleased about a portal?"

"Don't know, I've never directly interacted with them."

"I expect there's something, we have a lot of things that greatly enhance quality of life which you don't have yet. We could agree to close it if they're displeased?"

"I guess. And not saying it was us is good too."

"Definitely."

"Okay then."

So he lets Ambela know that when the flat Arda Valar can be spared to do more portalmaking more portalmaking would be appreciated.

Which Ambela passes along.

The flat Valar are happy to make portals. They did that even before they understood incarnates so well, they observe. Where does Sanity want the portal?

Sanity is thinking it'd be best to have the portal to some planet that is not Valinor or Endorë, as buffer if problems arise. He finds Cam. "I think we should set up a planet for portals to other worlds."

"I could terraform you a planet. Making one from nothing takes longer, much more so if you need a new star too."

"No, we've done an astronomical survey, I can point you at a planet. You don't mind?"

"I have always wanted to terraform Mars. This is not Mars but still."

"It's all yours."

"I'll need to revise my Mars plans for planet size, orbit, and magnetic behavior, and if you want fauna with brains you'll have to source them elsewhere."

"I can give you a selection of planets, if that helps, and my society has philosophical objections to fauna with brains if the Valar aren't making sure their lives won't suck so that's no loss to start out."

"Right, but it does affect what plants I can put in if there won't be, like, bat pollinators, herbivore population control, etcetera."

"I will ask the Valar how much oversight it'd take to give a planet supervised animals."

"Or just help me out with a plant-and-bugs ecology."