Quote Originally Posted by Chasingstars View Post
The way the story even presents forked tower blood, Ketenramm is like "I am not bothering with that, but you can go poke around in there if you want, meanwhile I am going to figure out how to get to north horn."
I think that line is to inform the player that there is no story locked behind FT and clearing it is an optional thing to do.

Which makes it kind of weird that they decided to lock 5 field notes behind it, which in a way does lock lore behind it.