Even if Ubtao did not think Umberlee was as utterly useless as the other Gods of Toril did... someone who ruined everything she touched, he would probably still worry about how well she could handle the enormous task of turning a desert into a rainforest.
A climate shift affecting an entire continent had to be completed the moment they entered Lalaconde.
Otherwise, once other Gods also reached in, some things would become impossible.
The Dwarves, for example.
Those people had not reacted yet only because they did not particularly like the sea and were also somewhat wary of uncharted sea routes.
But once they learned how rich the mineral deposits on this new continent were... Dwarves of any race would come racing over in a frenzy.
Even if that meant boarding ships they could only bring themselves to board after drinking themselves senseless.
And these Dwarves would absolutely never accept Ubtao's plan to turn the entire continent into tropical rainforest and swampland... Dwarven logic had always been rather extreme.
Even if Ubtao had arrived here first and had been pushing this transformation all along, they would only believe that Ubtao was infringing upon their interests.
Of course, Ubtao was not afraid of those Dwarves. Even if they brought Moradin himself along, he would not fear them.
But he absolutely did not want to be plunged directly into war before he had even stabilized his position.
If Helm had not died, he would not even have dared to come here so directly... but those slave traders and ocean-going merchants would not be able to endure for much longer.
They would come eventually.
And once they arrived, what had originally been a simple struggle between his followers and the Dwarves would inevitably deteriorate rapidly into a racial conflict.
Ubtao had seen far