Travel Gate

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Travel Gates are warping devices featured in Breath of the Wild which are part of Sheikah Technology, present in their constructs. They are intricate circular rune-like carvings on the floors of said constructs, glowing blue when activated.

The Sheikah Slate will immediately warp Link to any activated travel gate he selects on the map. Travel gates are present at the Shrine of Resurrection and every Shrine of Trials, Sheikah Tower, Tech Lab and Divine Beast. Link can also place one freely using the Travel Medallion.

To activate the travel gates, Link must either place the Sheikah Slate on top of the given Guidance Stone of the Shrines, Towers and Beasts, or light the Blue Flame furnaces on front of the Ancient Tech Labs. It's not necessary for Link to clear the Trials inside the Shrines in order for their gates to activate, nor it is necessary to activate the Lab-related quests to light their furnaces.

Travel Gates can be reached at any time, and provide a fast-travel point and a mean to escape dangerous situations.

Divine Beasts feature larger gates that have small pedestals in the middle, and require the initial submission of the Beasts to enter them. These are the only travel gates activated during cutscenes. Once the Divine Beasts are recovered, their Travel Gates proper are deactivated, instead making Link warp next to them at their new locations and making the Beasts inaccessible thereafter. As such, Link will also not be able to travel to their previous locations.

Trivia

  • It's stated that the Guidance Stone at the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab was moved there from Hyrule Castle, implying that the castle was deprived of its official Travel Gate functioning as a result. It's not known where it's located in the castle. As such, the only Gate present there is in the Saas Ko'sah Shrine, located at the Docks underneath the castle.
  • The presence of Guidance Stones, Travel Gates and nearby Blue Flames at the Ancient Tech Labs may indicate that there was knowledge of the Travel Gates by the time of the Calamity, even when the full functions of the Sheikah Slate were not entirely understood back then. It's not known whether the Gates at the Tech Labs were functioning back then, or those became activable just when the Sheikah Towers emerged from the ground in the beginning of the game.
  • The Travel Gates can be activated without map feedback in the Sheikah Slate, and will appear as blue icons on a black background. They also need no input from their regional Sheikah Tower.

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