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So I recently finished Path of the Warrior. During the book it pretty much seems like the Eldar able to directly teleport onto the battlefield, and you see this in various Imperial accounts where the Eldar suddenly appear on the battlefield.

It was my impression that the only method the Eldar have for this kind of instant travel (besides Warp Spiders) is by using fixed Warp Gates, in which case such gates should be visible to the enemy and they shouldn't be able to suddenly appear like that. So how exactly do the Eldar do this? Are they able to use short-range teleporting tech or something?

warp spiders use personal teleporting devices to travell dont know about the rest

Its a Black Library book, which is basically open to the interpretation of the individual author, so really the only one with an answer is... Gav? I think he is responsible for the Path series...

The eldar are famous for being stealthy and fast. "Appearing out of nowhere" might mean they were already there, or arrived with a fast (and silent) skimmer that dropped them behind cover just moments ago.

They also have superheavy webway gate transports.
They land these babies, then skip from the ship to the ground in one go.

Harriticus wrote:So I recently finished Path of the Warrior. During the book it pretty much seems like the Eldar able to directly teleport onto the battlefield, and you see this in various Imperial accounts where the Eldar suddenly appear on the battlefield.

It was my impression that the only method the Eldar have for this kind of instant travel (besides Warp Spiders) is by using fixed Warp Gates, in which case such gates should be visible to the enemy and they shouldn't be able to suddenly appear like that. So how exactly do the Eldar do this? Are they able to use short-range teleporting tech or something?

In Path of the Warrior and Path of the Seer, reference is made to these as "temporary burrowings", made from within a nearby Webway passage. They were also all small (individual Eldar sized).

The big gate like structures seem to maintain more permanent and likely larger openings.

So the model might be: stable permanent passages defined by fixed gates, but from these permanent passages, smaller temporary passages can be made for individuals to move into nearby realspace.