So pretty much this is exactly what the game is like . . .

It has consumed me at different points. I am nearly up to 90 hours of gameplay on my main adventurer, and about 40 on my secondary one which says “fuck all” to anything doing with the main quests, or anything more taxing than hunting, running an errand, killing some bandit fucking with a town . . . he is a regular mage/man of the people! It will whip up a sickly potent potion and waste your ass with his dagger if you encroach on his mammoth tusks!!!!