I totally had the same idea too.

I would even go so far as including Hildebrand into the questline while you and Hildebrand both try to find the whereabouts of the Wandering Minstrel.

Which inevitably gets you captured by the Yellow Jackets and thrown into the same cell as the Wandering Minstrel.

From there you plan a jailbreak to free yourself, Hildebrand and the Wandering Minstrel. What a wonderful tie-in!

However, I would like to see this type of questing continue into 2.0 Maybe the Wandering Minstrel will do exactly his namesake. Wander Eorzea randomly and those that encounter him get taken on an instanced adventure depending on the location he was found in Eorzea!

How awesome would that be?