Yes, AGS should add something in game to warn you that you can’t go there yet.
When we all first started playing this game, there were a lot of people that went off to explore the whole map before leveling and they too would’ve been confused if they walked into myrkgard or something and died for no reason. They probably would’ve made this post haha.
That was funny.
Probably the ancient Egyptian Gods did not see you worthy enough of entering their territory and cooked you up with a sun ray beam
All jokes aside, there were the welcome notice before lobby, explaining you that there is a new zone in game and you must complete the quest from x settlement to access it.