An 8-segment prologue plan: save Esme, rescue Lazar, find Claw Art bracers

A conservative prologue route with a spare segment, the correct medicine, the crypt bracers, and clear trade-offs for reading and treasure hunting.

Your best prologue reward is a useful set of equipment and the people you meant to save still alive. Make a manual save outside the family home. Check the hourglass cost before each choice; the route below leaves one segment for a detour instead of promising every activity.

An hourglass is an action cost. A clock beside a journal entry warns that the quest is time-sensitive. Walking, inspecting the map, and ordinary looting do not consume segments simply because you spend real time on them. Some marked activities resolve their cost automatically, however: stop and check when the time bar flashes.