An interesting thing about portals in fiction is that you generally don't have to be a special person/chosen one type to use them. At most you need some special training or spice or something. It's generally something special about an object or place.
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The only "chosen one" example I can think of is the guy in Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven
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Crap, I just thought of Dawn from Buffy, Season 5. Too late to submit?
Amber (Zelasny) portals are royal family only? Been a while since I've read then, but Elizabeth Willey's *Well-Favored Man* is like Amber and portal keys are made with family blood and secret well magic ritual.
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Amber, though? And similarly, Elizabeth Willey's books. But generally, sure.


