Master of the Wind

You forgot to interact with the yeti while he's still frozen!

Seeing you go after the armour materials like this made me realise how little I actually did with the crafting system during my first playthrough. I think I fiddled around with it a lot at the beginning, then quickly lost track of which type of armour did what, and where I could get the necessary íngredients. So I just used the generic purchasable equipment most of the time, and only began optimising things again around Harrol, starting with the spear sidequest. But I do know I was very paranoid about making sure Stoic was resistant to Light damage during the final Arc. I seem to recall I used the crafting more often on later playthroughs, though.

I honestly don't think you've told the ice-throwing story before, but it makes for a pretty neat inside joke either way. Interesting to think how many hidden bits and pieces are in this game that a player can overlook or read as perfectly normal dialogue, but there's actually another story behiind them. Which you kind of lampshaded with Shroud's and Stoic's inside joke after fighting the ember mages - another one of my favourite humorous moments in Master of the Wind.

If everything goes well, the confrontation with Chard should be up next, so I'm looking forward to that. Unless you forgot to pull an important lever somewhere, of course.
And I'm really curious about the yeti secret in Arc 6 now, because I'm pretty sure I have no clue what that is about. So I'll keep watching closely.