Unable to run to freeport as level 1 iksar; intentional?

[Roth]

So, I made my level 1 iksar necro and tried to run to Freeport the usual way, got sow and tried to zone into overthere from warslik... got the message "you are not experienced enough to enter an inter-planar portal". Ported me back to the city. Some people told me I need to get to level 5 or so first, the issue with this is I wanted to play with my friend at level 1 on a new character. You know, it's fine, but I'm really just wondering if this is intentional or a bug, because it does kinda disrupt my game experience a bit.