I've always thought that town portals were an odd thing to itemize- it's as archaic as requiring an ink ribbon and typewriter to save your progress.
And since they're persistent, you can just drop one every once in a while and use them as a checkpoint in case you die. Summon a portal and go back to town whenever you want. Grim Dawn does away with a lot of peripheral details that have been staples in similar RPGs like Diablo and Torchlight. You were not left unchanged by this- you have no recollection of your life before you were possessed, But you can now summon portals to transport you from town to town, and you have really fast health regeneration. You play as a person who was once possessed, but the Aetherial fled your body just before you were hung at the gallows. The few who remain huddle together in whatever passes for a building, struggling to survive and understand a world that seems to want them completely wiped out.
Almost everybody's been possessed and killed, and even after they've died people are getting back up and wreaking everything. Obviously, Cairn is a bleak and desolate place to live. Grim Dawn is set in Cairn, a semi-Victorian era where civilization has been decimated and humanity has been driven to the point of extinction by the Aetherials- a race of demon-things that are possessing humans and using them for their own ends. As Crate, they licensed the engine from Titan Quest, and after making some improvements they began working on Grim Dawn- making it a spiritual successor, of sorts. As Iron Lore, they made an RPG called Titan Quest. Grim Dawn is the first release from Crate Entertainment- a company made from several vets that previously worked for Iron Lore Entertainment.
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