I just finished the troll cave and it is telling me to go back to Esior's Haven, but when I click on it I go straight to a battle instead of going to the village. Do I have to do a certain number of battles before I can go back to the village or is it stuck? I'm trying to add a second pet, but I can't because I can't get to the village. Thank you for any help.

Try entering it now! I think you were trying to enter while a community event (Bandit Attack on Esior's Haven) was happening. If you're on a page with the older layout and it has a yellow banner at the top then that means there's a community event happening and trying to enter the associated location will shunt you into the battle automatically. You should be good to enter Esior now.

That worked! Thank you so much! I'm really enjoying the game. :)

No problem! Also, just a friendly tip, when you reply to someone on the forums be sure to hit the little @ sign in the bottom corner of their post. It'll ping them and let them know you replied! Otherwise it's easy to miss it when people talk to you :)