Asura gate
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An asura gate provides a method of instantaneous travel to other asura gates around the map. Asura gates are located in each playable race's main city and in some story specific locations. Travel between asura gates is free.
Developed and used by the asura for transportation, the gates allow players to freely travel between places they have not yet explored, such as racial cities. This allows good (or at worst, neutral) relations to be maintained with the other races, aiding the asura in their master scheme to eventually dominate the other species.
Travel using asura gates has a few restrictions. Gates cannot be instantly tuned to any location, and larger jumps often require a greater amount of energy and time to prepare. For instance, one of the asura gates at Divinity's Reach leads to Ebonhawke, but only after noon, and a traveler in Lion's Arch would not find a gate leading to Ebonhawke at all. Also, any items exposed to Orr or the Dragonbrand may be seized before travelers may pass through the gates, along with any items considered illegal in either the departure point or arrival point. The asura only allow the use of their gates for peaceful purposes, and will not allow travelers passage for reasons considered unlawful on either side of the gate.
In the original Guild Wars series, the asura gate network was assumed to be powered centrally from the now-destroyed Central Transfer Chamber by Primordus, who was then thought to be merely a statue of a dragon that radiated magical energy. Since then, Primordus has awakened and left, but promotional material for Guild Wars 2 has clearly shown the asura gate network still to be functional.
