Taear

One of the Gravestones is a reference to the british game developer Mike Sinclair who died in 2012. I'm unsure if he's a big name in the US but it was a nice easter egg to find amidst all the backer messages.

My biggest problem with this quest is that with a high dexterity you can open the missive. What it says sounds pretty awful but you can't do anything about it when you talk to the monks, I almost felt it was pointless.

I agree, I almost felt like my character should have been a female in my first playthrough due to the fact that everyone I was recruiting was a man. In fact in my second playthrough I have three women and they're all self-created because Sagani is a terrible class and GM/Pellagina take a while to pick up.

The thing is it can be too hard on easy and too easy on hard because of the way the game is balanced. Since all that hard/easy do is change the volume of mobs or the type of mobs it's going to mean if you're having difficulty doing fights no matter what you do it won't change it. I found the banshee fight in the lighthouse the hardest fight in the game and no matter if it was on easy or hard it was identical. I can completely see why people would be saying what they're saying and I don't think it is because the game is "perfectly balanced".