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Difficulty will also vary a great deal with character design and whether the player has picked up the recruitable NPCs - new players often seem to miss one or both of them, which makes things much more difficult.

I realize that it might provoke grumbles about "hand-holding", but perhaps upon arriving in Cyseal the main characters could say something about finding allies? (The dialogue could even vary a bit based on whether one or both of them have the Lone Wolf trait.)