Open inventory, top right click the raven and you can see not just your active effects but also all the tutorial text you have read so far.
you found the mountains. it says in the top right of the minimap what kind of biome you are in.
on the map you can choose map markers in the bottom right and then put them down with double click and name them. right click removes them. clicking them once puts a red mark on them (or removes it when they already have one) which you can use to mark cleared dungeons for example
Combat has parrying, blocking and stamina management. Also dodge rolls. It's not really janky at all.
The only thing that can be annoying is that some of the animations for weapons are not good at hitting downwards so if you "have the high ground" you will often hit over enemies.
