I think I remember someone outright asking one of the developers about adding faster methods of travel to the game such as mounts and more NPC's that quick travel you on a forum or something, and the developer said that they weren't going to add mounts to the game and that fast travel would be exclusive to NPC's and events. It's been months since i read that though, and I don't remember where I saw it so take that with a grain of salt.Need a mode of transportation on land, bad! running everywhere and having to talk to certain NPCs to get anywhere is tedious.
I know in part that adding any sort of four legged creature to the game comes with certain risks of fellas here asking about "Bestiality" content, but... those could easily be ignored.
I'm just going to install cheat engine before I start up the game again. I like the bits of this game that aren't exclusively running to some place, and would prefer to get to them as fast as I can. I recommend you do the same.