Nope you have to get to Mistlands to get the magic stuff. Well I guess there is the console/dev commands.

Not really. Magic and other new cool stuff is all in mistlands last biome.
Unless you cheese bosses there isn't really anything else you can do to rush it other then to build less & maybe skip some upgrades.

You do have some prior expirience so you'll adapt faster then first time players.

Good luck either way!

Edit: there is actually a valheim-map generator where you can look up stuff specific to your Seed. Check out where Crypts, Bosses and other point of interests are.

pretty much right at the end.

They are not skills, but new weapons with supporting food and armor and boss power all from the ML area.

The food requires a rather rare ingredient making it difficult to run 24/7 magic, and you can't do it without the food. If you are looking to be a full time mage, its a struggle. If you just want to blow things up once in a while... ok.

you can of course just cheat in the stuff. A frost staff and the blue mushrooms would let you play from day 1 as a mage without the rest of it which is overwhelmingly powerful. Ease the other stuff in as you get to the mountains. Might be a fun experience if you don't mind cheating.

Originally posted by jonnin:

They are not skills, but new weapons with supporting food and armor and boss power all from the ML area.

There are new skills to go with the new magic weapons.

To OP: Just like every other skill, they'll first appear once you do something that's covered by the skill - in this case, your first use of an elemental staff (Elemental Magic) or skele staff (Blood Magic). All such things require components gathered from the Mistlands.

Originally posted by avatar.zero:

Originally posted by jonnin:

They are not skills, but new weapons with supporting food and armor and boss power all from the ML area.

There are new skills to go with the new magic weapons.

OP appears to mean skill as in ability, not skill as in valheims skill based leveling system.

Find your old character and start a new seed. At least then your character will have some strength and drag your old armor over to the new seed, otherwise just play the game and you get there when you get there. Rushing is for kids, not Vikings. Vikings build up their strength, abilities, and arrive at the Mistlands and still get their unworthy asses handed to them. Rushers, well, RIP over and over, even after the recent rebalancing. But give it a go and report back.
FYI - Mistlands gated behind beating Yagluth.