User blog comment:XvLIGHTNINGvx/Character Creation video/@comment-87.93.159.213-20110921065305/@comment-66.45.158.63-20110923004306

^That's not 100% true. You can fast travel for free to places you have found yourself and you can also pay to travel to towns or wherever even if you haven't been to the place you want to go to.