OK, back from my hiatus. I almost immediately ran into a pair of misnames in the crystal forest and saved it. I'll keep looking. I don't remember what was said prior after a month so I want to review this thread before I do anything else.
EDIT: I moved on since the save; can I easily (easily being the key word; like many people my age, I didn't grow up with computers (heck, we used punch cards in college
) so I'm not comfortable with what I believe most here would consider basic stuff) find the exact location in the save? Anyway, it was somewhere south of the fort with the general (and I think south of the witch) near the left border. There was a large red or orange crystal there with chips broken off with a shovel and a pick axe that say, "shadow club" and "morning star".
EDIT2: Many in the salt mine but I'm guessing this is an inconvenient location.