She nods. "It's something to discuss as an early trade, perhaps. Part of a show of good faith."

"And what sorts of things do you consider valuable?  Gold is a standard to back currency throughout Tle, though our conversion rates may differ from yours.  In addition to travel, Mika is known for its blacksmithing, particularly detailed works such as orich-artifacts and jewelry.  We've also been importing some of the newer 'electricity' technology from Kor, though aren't at a manufacturing level to produce them ourselves."

"We don't have orich-artifacts - rarity alone's likely to make that valuable - and we find some metals more useful to our magic than others, in ways I suspect would alter relative worth quite well. We have electricity, but it's possible Kor has managed something that never occurred to us."

"They do have a number of useful things.  Before the gate changed, one of my main goals was setting up and importing them.  Most of the supply line was coming through Eastern Mika, though theoretically the jungle river through the Green Wilds isn't that much slower.  

"It would be interesting to see how orichalcum interacts with your magic system - it does tend to interact positively with most of ours, and if you have reactions with non-magical metals the results might be even higher."

"There's only a few fields that really use metals extensively - but, yes, we can channel our chakra through metal, which sometimes has useful effects."

"It sounds fascinating, how versatile your system is.  How does one get the ability to use it?"

"We train since childhood to use it. Theoretically anyone without certain disabilities can go through the training, but I'm unsure if that applies to people from other worlds, too."

"The only people born with magic here are demigods.  Most magic users get their power directly from a god, and the rest are using magical items."

"Interesting. Our magical items require someone trained to use correctly."

"I don't have much personal experience, but ours are all fairly intuitive."

"Intuitiveness varies, but ours require using your chakra to interact with them, and most people can't intuitively use chakra at all."

They nod.  "So, what else is your side of the portal like?"

"Pretty varied. Our world only recently settled down out of a long Warring States period - we've had stable governments for about sixty years, but the empire that collapsed prior to the Warring States was far older than that. It means there's a lot of diversity even over short distances, though."

"Mika being an independent city-state is fairly recent - a little over a hundred years.  We got independence when the previous country we were part of split after a civil war.  There's always someone fighting somewhere in the world, but nothing nearby and nothing major.

"Is your country known for any particular exports?"

"Wood and wood products, medicines and healthcare work, some traditional forms of pottery and other artwork, specific skill-sets among mercenary clans, and some instruments requiring precision engineering are the major ones we especially do."

"We have quite a lot of forest of our own, though the others sound like things you'd be able to find markets for on our side."

"Would you have an eye towards exporting orich-artifacts and jewelry work, then?"

"Likely.  We can arrange for some orichalcum to be sold, to see how the magic systems interact, and let it be known there's a market to anyone looking to sell.  Plus anything else that tends to come through.  Spices, dyes, potions, media and scholars.  We have our own medicines which might work better or differently for some things.  And travel, hopefully."

"I expect non-zero tourism and travel, yes, and we can act as a way point for exports from elsewhere in our world very easily." And profitably, of course. "Specialists might also be a reasonable trade - our scientific knowledge is likely very different, to start."

"Likely.  When it comes to art, craftspeople will sometimes guard their trade secrets very carefully, so we can't guarantee weaving patterns or such.  Scholars and scientists on the other hand nearly always prefer to share everything they can."

"Some of our scientists are very prone to guarding secrets, but most of that's things that pass over my desk, anyways."

Well, now he's curious.  Unfortunately, he can't exactly ask what the secrets are.  Weapons?

"What other sorts of things should we be discussing immediately?"

"We'll want medics to sit down and figure out if there's any communicable diseases we're at risk of spreading to each other."

"That sounds like a good idea.  We can send for our own healers whenever you'd like.  Now, possibly, or whenever your own are brought in.  We do have quite a bit of experience with handling things brought in by travellers, given our location, and can tell them to arrange for vaccinations."

"I actually brought medics with me - one of the things I was selecting for in my guards is ability to self-apply antiseptic techniques."