Though I think condensing them is a fine solution, I feel that skipping and doing them again later would be better. Perhaps certain new rewards for doing them, or titles.

I feel like the skip now just makes it feel too strange, new players aren’t going to be invested because they can’t find a way to connect to the situation because too much has happened that isn’t explained, and they are being asked to just know it immediately.

If there was some kind of story justification for a skip potion, like a quest where the WoL also doesn’t know anything that happened in the past, I think new players would find the option a great deal more appealing, because not knowing anything previously is actually expected of them.

Just a thought.