Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
Never pass up an opportunity to talk to the NPCs just standing around your quest hubs!

(Waking Sands, Rising Stones, Forgotten Knight, House Fortemps, etc.)
And standing around outside quest hubs too! Any time you have major characters in the area, you should talk to them. Always speak to the quest-objective person last! And it can be worthwhile detouring to speak to important characters elsewhere if they might have something to say about the current story events.



Quote Originally Posted by AmemeAmeklin View Post
Yeah! You never know when you'll find Moenbryda drinking Thancred under the table or see a woman agonizing about her sister's desire to be sandwiched between a pair of Roegadyn brothers...or spot Noraxia disguised as a highlander with green face paint so the others can stop screaming when they see her...or discover a male Miqo'te who hangs out with Arenvald who happens to be interested in a male Hyur conjurer...or notice the Nutkin of Modesty hanging out with Thancred in the Rising Stones...
I never saw the nutkin! When was that?

And actually Noraxia's Hyuran disguise is a male Midlander! Though I didn't realise it until my third time through, when I'd happened to be looking at character designs just before and realised she he that one was using a male-only hairstyle. Sylph gender is canonically weird and isn't really male/female, but both times we've seen sylphs disguised as Hyurans (the other being Silbexio from the beast tribe finale) they've been the opposite of what their pronouns indicate.


I've also been trying to keep note of the other minor adventurers we see around at a few points, because they do seem to be reoccurring - eg. that Hyuran conjurer was one of the adventurers we recruited from Revenant's Toll to help defend the Steps of Faith. And from that same 'recruitment' quest, there was a female Roegadyn mage in a Darklight robe who has reappeared at the Rising Stones post-HW named Bluomwyda; she seems to be friends with Aergmhus.

Looking at my notes it's also reminded me of one of the best encounters, right near the end of post-ARR: Thancred being confronted by all his old girlfriends at once!