Maybe I'm not far enough in the game to really know about the gates but earlier today I was riding out in the middle of nowhere in the mountain area in the north east part of the map. Fending off some imps and wolves as the usual things, while I'm looking for out of the way crypts or caves or whatever I can find and then I look farther up the hill and I see a gate to oblivion just sitting in the middle of nowhere. It just caught me by surprise I went out looking for caves and found another portal.
How many gates are open and how many can I find at the moment? I've closed the one at kvatch but have gone no further in the story and I've seen this one.
Yeah the gates open up in a completely random order, but I'm pretty sure there's a limit to how many can be open at a time, so if you ignore every gate you see don't start worrying that you're going to get a situation like on that map where they're as numerous as starbucks.
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A man once asked the Buddha, "How does one escape the heat of the summer sun?"
And the Buddha replied, "Why not try crawling into the blazing furnace?"