The Animus quest, following the Atma portion of the Relic upgrade process, might suit what the OP is looking for. For this stage, you need to purchase nine books with Myth tomestones, and each book has a number of activities you need to perform (do these three dungeons, kill these 100 mobs, do those three FATEs, do those three Leves), similar in concept to the original Relic quest (kill this NM, do that dungeon, kill these 24 mobs, kill this NM, kill those three NMs).

Of course, the Animus books aren't quite the same. For the relic quest, you had specific reasons for doing each of these things (even if at times those reasons were kind of lame): kill the Chimera because you need the salts it has consumed, do the dungeon because you need to obtain a Glyph requires in exchange for a tome, kill the hydra because Gerolt is hoping it will eat you and then he won't have to work on your weapon. :P The Animus tomes don't have any "story" behind what you're doing; it's just a list of tasks.