Sykriss

All it says for me is Elmshore, and there is no location with that name that I have found so far.

I seem to have experienced this as well, I have The Child of Five Suns quest, but when I speak to Agosti there is no dialogue option related to it. I thought it was the quest regarding the relic smugglers, but upon completion of that, no further advancement happened.

Bashing occurs automatically when he goes into combat. Pretty useful, too, as he'll bash and then quickly attack with the main weapon afterwards.

I figured it out. Turns out the Maerwald was in room behind a door in the first hallway after the stair zone transition on the right. I figured he was gonna be deeper in the dungeon, but alas, I was wrong. I now have a full party of level sixes and have only stopped playing to sleep! Gonna be playing all day tomorrow from the moment I awake 'till an hour prior to my slumber. Game is absolutely amazing so far, great job Obsidian.

I'm also stuck on this quest. I checked the walkthrough and apparently there is a door to be unlocked. I believe I have found this door (left side of the room just before the big room with the blue crystal object). However, I can't interact with the door. I can click the ground on the other side as if there was no door, and my party attempts to go there, but the door is obviously in the way. I have a "heavy iron key" in my stash, and I can't take it out of my stash for whatever reason. I assume that is the key I need? Help needed asap please, been playing this game non-stop since I got it earlier today and would really not like it if I had to stop playing due to a bug in a critical point of the story