Oh boy but this is an exciting and rich game! I just started playing yesterday (and lost pretty much the entire day to it) and I'm absolutely having a blast—to the point that I finally made an itch account in order to comment!
The one thing I'm wondering is [SPOILERS] whether you're supposed to battle the frost spirit and the game glitched on me so I didn't (when I went to leave the chief's home to do that, suddenly I was coming back in again, a certain scammy visitor was there, and everyone acted as if a battle had happened), or it's supposed to be that way. Just got the special knife and am on my way back to the other village, but the boss battles in the ruins of Sirasui were extremely difficult (had to do the one after the tower with only 2 party members because 3 went down during the final tower battle and I only had one Unicorn Tears), which leaves me wondering if I should have mithril weapons for more party members and not just have 3 mysterious orbs with no way to get the mithril out.
Thanks and again, the game has been AMAZING—I love all the lore, the character backgrounds, the constant questioning of what defines a "monster" and why that is... Absolutely brilliant, I can tell you really put your heart and soul into creating something beautiful.