Day of ruin

after massing the mountain range we got into a new large area of the map, so I explored around a bit to see what was there.

M main objective I think was some large city, so I avoided that and focused on the outskirts. I found a few locations which will be important later (another human ranch, the tower of mana, and a mountain top outpost) and a medium sized city filled with old ruins.

I don't know if i came to the city in the wrong order since all the NPCs were talking about how some girl has to be sacrificed, yet there was no direct conversation addressing it. I hope I didn't mess up the order of the game by skipping the city, bit it's unlikely.

Only bit of story interaction was when the group stopped some guys from blowing up a large alter, but I saved and quit before finding out more.

Tomorrow I'll find out what's what.