The Lantern of the Laughless Saint — How to Fast Travel with Anchor and Recall

The Lantern of the Laughless Saint how to fast travel answer starts with a correction: there is no fast-travel network in the modern sense. This is a Morrowind-inspired RPG structurally, which means clickable map travel does not exist and you cross the island on foot, by water and with magic. The system that fills the gap is a two-spell pair called Anchor and Recall, and once you have it, a fifteen-minute overland trek becomes a single cast on repeat visits. Everything else — swimming, sprinting, co-op teleporting — is a supporting tool rather than a replacement.

Anchor and Recall: The Confirmed Travel Spell Pair

Anchor sets a return point, and Recall sends you back to the anchor you set. The Anchor spell is reported to be sold by the apprentice jinn in the starting town, which makes it an early purchase rather than a late-game convenience. The practical advice attached to a long quest that requires a dangerous overland delivery is explicit: buy Anchor before you leave, and set your anchor at your destination once you arrive, so the hard journey is a one-time cost.

Travel method	Documented behaviour
Anchor	Sets a return point; reported to be sold by the apprentice jinn in the starting town
Recall	Returns you to the anchor you set
Placement advice	Set the anchor at your destination after the first trip
Requirement	You must be taught magic before you can use either spell

• Buy Anchor before a long quest delivery, not after you reach the far side of the island.
• Reset your anchor whenever your objectives move, because a stale anchor is worse than none.
• Remember you need to be taught magic first, so a spell-focused opening pays off in travel time.
• Treat Anchor and Recall as your return ticket home, not as a way to explore: they send you back to one point.

Swimming, Sprinting and Fortify Movement

The cheapest traversal trick needs no magic at all. Several quest routes are safer by water than by land, because the inland routes are populated with enemies well above an early character's level, and walkthroughs recommend swimming along the shore to reach the eastern Tsaffon ruins and the southern island where a hermit's journal is found. If a destination is coastal, swimming to it often beats fighting through it.

Movement tool	What is documented
Coastal swimming	Named routes reach the Tsaffon ruins and the southern island more safely than the land route
Sprinting	A levelling skill in its own right; movement speed climbs as it rises
Fortify effects	Reported not to be tightly capped; extreme fortification can cross large parts of the map
Water state	A later update removed natural player buoyancy

• Prefer water when a destination is coastal, because the documented routes are safer than the inland path.
• Buy Anchor before you commit to a long delivery quest rather than after you arrive.
• Remember that buoyancy is no longer automatic, so treat deep water as something to manage.
• Sprint everywhere you can, since the skill levels passively and the speed gain is permanent.

The more unusual option comes out of spell crafting rather than a dedicated travel system. Fortify effects are reported as not tightly capped, and extreme skill fortification is said to produce movement fast enough to cross huge portions of the map; the game is described as relaxed about that rather than treating it as a bug. Treat the specific claim as to confirm, since it is a community observation rather than a developer statement. Baseline travel speed also improves passively, because Sprinting is a levelling skill.

Co-op Teleporting, Markers and Travel Points

If you are travelling with a co-op partner, the multiplayer side gives you the fastest tool in the game. Reported update changes put companions on the map with an automatic teleport if they stray too far, put co-op companions on the compass, and allow teleporting to a teammate by clicking their map marker. That last one is the closest thing to conventional fast travel here, and it exists only in multiplayer. A later official update also reported fixes for missing fast-travel points, which confirms that some travel points exist in the world even though they are not the documented primary system.

One habit ties all of this together: treat rumours and dialogue as your route planner. An official update noted that quests now correctly mark areas on the map in a TES3-style way and that directions to many quests were improved, so map marking exists — but it is deliberately vague, and a place name from an NPC is often the most precise instruction you will get. For the wider picture of what the map does and does not show, see the map page, and for the quest that most often forces a long trip, see the quest guide.