Also, would Soma like to go to the monastery as well? The monastery group might could go directly from there (West) to the 'North' or 'South' quests to save some travel time.<br/><br/>Part of my thinking on visiting the monastery as one of the first missions, alongside any others that other groups do in parallel, is:<br/><br/>1. The 'protection' offer carries more weight than if we slay the groups of monsters first and the monks heard about it. Us going to kill those monsters 'next' can be part of the leverage, even if we were planning to do it anyway.<br/><br/>2. In case something happens to the monastery before we get there, if it weren't one of the groups' first missions.<br/><br/>3. In case the monks demand some quest of their own in exchange for their secrets, and we then make a trip away and back again, which might take us near one of the other missions (or even be it).