I found the blacksmith ancestor and the clothing ancestor. I beat the stag. I beat the nimbus dude that comes down in the ship.

Is that all there is to it?

I did also do a good few dungeons but they seem a little underwhelming to continue grinding those.

Verminia had a cutscene with me and told me about a 3-headed bear-looking thing that I'm assuming I'm supposed to defeat. Can that be located somewhere? I also have a quest in my journal called "failed, tuvalkane" or something like that. But the bird doesn't lead me anywhere when I track it.

Edit: also, how much of the map can you unlock? Is it just the first portion? Like the starting amount? Or can you unlock more/all of it?