I'm just sidequesting an hour here, an hour there. So far:
- I went to the cave to look for the Armadylan thing Lailah wanted to see make perfect curls. He wasn't there, some OP pillbug that took me several attempts to kill was. This was a waste of my time. There's like no point to this sidequest. What did I gain out of it? Absolutely nothing. This doesn't even give me character development that's interesting!
- The armorer wants mythril and points me to Aroundight Forest or whatever it's called, up in Elysia. I find some mythril there. Now I can unlock the strongest gear in the game! I haven't yet, though I DID see Alisha items in the Lohgrin shop. This makes me think she'll be rejoining the party for a spell quite soon.
- In Loegres, a serial killer is on the loose. The people are scared and accuse Sergei of doing nothing. He's calmed down by a priest................. a priest who turns out to be the culprit! He's showing these people "the way to salvation" - in other words, he's so messed up in the head that he thinks he's helping the people he's murdering. I'm sure he'll think he's being saved at his execution. But that's why he's not a daemon. I don't have to fight him, but he does drop an iris gem after Sergei arrests him.
- I go to Westronbolt Gorge on a tip that a salesman is there, and apparently someone - a daemon - snatched his iris gem. I go and purify the giant goblin and get to keep the iris gem magically, without the guy even saying "Oh, you have a use for that, Shepherd? Feel free to take it as my thanks." Odd. Feels like I'm stealing.
Uhm........ am I missing anything I did? Still have to take down a berserk elephant, look for someone wanting to revive Reneed, and maybe do other things? IDK. I'm just trying to get all the iris gems so I can see everything the Earthen Historia wants to show me about Heldalf. At least the game allows me to ask Rose "HEY what kind of egregious sidequests am I supposed to do now?" It helps given how little has happened in this game. Like the Dezel/Symone confrontation contained like half of the game's events so far. With nothing happening, there's no prompts to remember things like... Armadylan.