It's almost like the tea was especially made to react badly with her medicine, and he did say that her medicine is being studied a lot, it is really easy to cause a bad reaction and then discredit her medicine as defective, especially if important people suffer the effects
oh god this is a lot more fun than I expected, also, that achievement reminds me of that time I (as a gm) attempted to kill a player, but the bastard did a perfect run of the challenge so I just had to reward him, because "fuck! that was amazing"
I honestly assumed she her mother at the start of the chapter, that's one hell of a growth spurt.
also, my guess is that they're either married by elf law or at least engaged, and she had to actually change her name because you can't have an outsider with the name of maple
Huh, they probably deliberately set the price and the description of the iron rod to be something only someone with true fire would take a second look at it
scripted quests are hilarious like that, especially when you actually have the item on you(sometimes, dozens of them) and the npc still assumes you spent a long time to get it, and didn't just take it out of the inventory.