as cool as that would be, i can see way too much time being invested into these side activities that start to take away from the main story. Speaking with animals being another one. If it was just a simple conversation where they gave you some money, or showed you where a stash was or just gave you some lore that'd be okay, but anything more than that is going to get way too cumbersome imo.
But there still are some hints that something simmilar is planned ...
Besides of HUGE amount of ropes we find around.
- If you finish Auntie, and reach Connor's corpse, he have "tied up" (i believe that was the word, not sure tho) condition applied on himself.
- If you pick bounty hunter specialisation for your Ranger, there is specificly told "creatures you restrain have harder time escaping" ... even tho that can be just odd way to tell us that enemies who try to break your entanglement will have dissadvantage.
- There is cage in your camp.
