Billy, your examples are all terrible. Just the quest text for Haukke manor alone tells you more of the history of the property and the lamentable situation the lady of the manor is now in having been transformed into an undead creature by the Ascians.

Stop and read, and the lore presents itself. Speak to npcs, explore, interact. There's a huge wealth of lore to be discovered that you're simply glossing. For instance, did you know the darklight gear was actually that of a mercenary group known as the darklight raiders, whom met a grizzly end in the aurum vale, where they were killed by a manticore and the only survivor was a cowardly highlander whom hid under their corpses in order to survive, and is now haunted by this ordeal and can't even brave the depths to place flowers at his comrade's graves in memorium?