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Actually, making large worlds is not really a problem for most gamers. In fact, that's just what they want!
I was wondering if any of you ever played Outcast. It's a game in which you have to save earth by saving a world in another dimension. This other world is divided in several totally different parts, and you can travel between them by means of portals. It is possible to buy a Twon-Ha, the equivalent of a horse, to travel faster, but there is also another means of transportation. The player can aquire three or four teleporters. These won't get you from one place to another if you normally need a portal, but otherwise have no maximum range.
The teleporters consist of two parts, one of which can be dropped on the ground to function as the base and should be placed on a spot which you'll need to return to later. The second half is always in your backpack, unless you take it out to use it. If you do, it will return you to the base and the device will become whole again.
Something like this would be a good way to prevent too much walking.
As for their history, there might be a craftsman in a certain village, or maybe these things are extremely old and form the reward (or object) of a quest. They could also be part of the totems in troll villages or something like that. Take them and feel their wrath, disrtact the trolls and send in a thief or infiltrate a camp filled with small firebreathing creatures threatening the trolls and slay their leaders so that the army will run and recieve the teleporters out of gratitude. (or discover that they were stolen while you were helping the trolls and embark on another quest to get the back).
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The last arrow of Legolas kindled in the air as it flew,
and plunged burning into the heart of a great wolf-chieftain.
All the others fled. -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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