New user here(and love this game to death). Sorry I know this is an old post, but the game is getting old too, isn't it? Anyway I just discovered a possible gamestopper.
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×The lodestone is received by Regin when you join the thieves guild, but that's not required to progress. If you reach this point without the lodestone, and haven't any of the other means of getting out, you're screwed and forced to start over/return to an older save file.
Am I wrong?
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I randomly chose Zelda as my heroine name and got "
It's dangerous to go alone; take this!"