new issues:
one of my party members is permanently dead after my 3 others ran through the door that opened after i had smashed all the mirrors during the mirror fight, after entering the portal in the consulate. there's no way to go back to where he is and no way to dismiss him from my party, so i appear to be stuck with 3 party members indefinitely
on top of that, when i met sadha and messed up the dragon egg (making her and the endlessly respawning/unkillable horrorsleep enemies attack me), we all escaped through the door that appeared and found ourselves back in the consulate. there, the shadow assassin that wanted us to kill sadha doesn't initiate conversation with us (he does if you don't kill sadha) and if i speak to him he talks about deathfog and black ring warriors, which i think might be dialogue i was supposed to get back on the nameless isle? anyway, he doesn't talk to me about sadha at all, and the red prince doesn't have any dialogue options about the fact that we just killed sadha, which leads me to believe the quest is now bugged
i think my only option is to just start a new character? i'm not prepared to play the game with 3 characters since it's my first playthrough and am having enough trouble as it is, and the (potentially) bugged quest is very discouraging