NPC’s and a Dragon in Elden Ring

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I’m definitely still in the beginning of Elden Ring. I’m currently at level 34, still using a samurai character. The last few times I’ve played, I’ve essentially gone around, killed some skeletons and talked to a bunch of NPC’s and I killed a dragon.

NPC’s

I talked to a guy named Kenneth Haight (he wants me to go to some unspecified fort and take it back for him), a girl that gave me Jellyfish ashes, and a pot, and Blaidd (he wants me to let him know if I see a guy somewhere, I forgot his name though). I also went to the Roundtable place and talked with several people there.

Normally, I am a player of linear one-person type games. I prefer horror games. I like to be able to play “intensely” for a few days, or several weekends in a row or whatever, and then be done with the game. But, Elden Ring, and all the NPC’s that are in the game, and just the vastness of the world makes it so that the idea of being done after a couple of weeks even is impossible.

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Because I do play a different kind of game, normally, I think that this game may be one that I pick up and put down. One that I play while I’m in between other games, that kind of thing.

One thing, I know this has to be on the wiki or something, but how do I know what to do for each NPC? Like, I talk to a person, and then later I have something for them, but how and when do I know when I’ll have the thing. Does the game ever let me know, does it make the object for the NPC a different color or indicate somehow who or where that item should go?

Dragon

The other thing I’ve done recently is kill a dragon in Caelid. It was a dragon that was just sitting there, and it didn’t take anything from me but time. Now, I have a bunch of dragon hearts and stuff, but I don’t know where the dragon church is.

So right now in the game, I feel like I need to find the dragon church, and then the fort that the guy wants me to help him with. I know that Blaidd also will help or need help with something, but I don’t know what, exactly. I also would really like to get something that will allow me to use magic.