Immediately pressing 'Go' after a battle but before the window finishes its animation will allow you to skip the next battle entirely. This only works for a few times though, then you will be forced to fight, lol.
Walked around aimlessly collecting money until all of my troops were dead, conquered the first trade city by myself and a pocket of potions, ruled map with an iron fist and hundreds of thousands of gold. Would play again!
Priests -> uses divine magic
Mages -> uses arcane magic.
Here is a link where you can see Divine Magic Skills and Arcane Magic Skills:
https://wondrous-lands.fandom.com/wiki/Skills
The Equip weapon options should be explained better. You automatically attack with the best melee weapon when you hit Z next to an enemy. Equipping a weapon makes it so that Z always attacks (so you don't accidentally talk to someone in battle), but in most cases, you never need to manually equip a weapon.
Terrence, one of the two devs on this game, wrote the top rated comment at the top that is a general PSA about WebGL games. We do have work to do on our end with this game to improve performance, but his tips also help getting the game going right now.
It is not possible to retreat from fights in den. Also retreats attempts has its limit(attempts restore through the time).