don't recall much of what's "underneath" the steppe.., as it's been awhile.
<and not many of us get the random surge to clean their maps of quests>

unless you mean the large Aether collection thing used to power the barrier.., which I don't think you are.., <though searching the are would be interesting, but probably best to not do so, as I don't want to accidentally nuke the steppe>


VnC does cover alot of lore backstory..,
some which may tie into the msq, but largely just seems like filling out the lore and depth of the world.

I honestly feel like the Void Ark will play a role in the MSQ, as in the story we dont have Access to a certain place any longer.

as it had gone missing since 3.x

but that's probably unrelated to what the topic is about. which I feel is largely sidelore.

Gaius does feel like a good VnC source.
but what exactly idk. he didn't come to their homeland as it seemed to create assumptions of his being there. But with all said and done.., the wolf's must return to their birth den at some point.