because if they do I can tell you right now there will be certain side quests I skip entirely
Quite honestly ... i believe that might be the point.
I mean look at what do we know by now ...
If you side with Halsin, he urges you to approach Moonrise Towers from Underdark ...
If you side with Minthara, she tells you about Mountain Path ...
And if you decide to side with Lae'zel, she urges you to screw them both and go to Githyanki ... wich leads to yet another "portal" out of the zone, straight to the Shadowlands ...
Now we dont know if those three enter points (Lift from Grymforge, Shadowlands next to Githyanki Patrol and Mountain Pass next to the Goblin camp) are leading to three separate maps ... just as Grymforge is ... or if they are separate enterpoints for the same place ... just as Underdark is ...
Personaly i bet for second option.
But as it seems right now, if you will follow one of the abowe mentioned routes (Halsin / Minthara / Lae'zel) you would most likely be led to skip the other two.
I mean, sure there is nothing stoping you to explore it all (as far as we know right now) but if Halsin urges you to go through the Underdark, why would you travel to Mountain pass?
So there is (and i would say quite fair) possibility that they actualy DO want us to follow certain path, wich would mean skipping the rest.
(Aka leave it for another playthrough)
But ofc, there is other way we can understand it ... and that would be that any and every path will be deadend, forcing us effectively to travel through them all.
