But thats not the primary point, although general sense of believability and plausibility is always important to consider.
What such a feature is used for is equally important - if not more - depending on the exact setting lore details and specifics.
Agreed, although itching.
We can talk about details and suggest different things about it - but i dont think it makes any sense trying to force in very different things belonging to different settings and styles of fantasy, that are too different than this kind of a style and angle of it.
Agreed again. It's Larian world, system, writing, level design, character planning and such. Just can't help being very frustrated sometimes, (even though I know this beta is only part of the whole game, and that some features will probably make sense in the long term, and that we are still missing stuff), and expressing it strongly :-(