Travel
Large Dragon Transports
The screenshot above shows a cage in the front paws of the dragon. There is a gate in the cage. This is similar in concept to the original dark and light, which used large dragon transports to traverse the vast game world1) .
Portals
This image shows one type of portal in-game2) .
“players will be able to construct teleportation gates that they can use to travel quickly across the map”3)
1)
https://youtu.be/hbXcchN7oDw?t=1m33s A video of the 2006 DnL including large dragon transports.