[Suzerain of Sheol]

I will just note here, since I forgot to earlier, that the world map isn't actually free-roam. :p

I'm pretty tyrannical with location switches. They should all be switched off except for where you need to go at any given moment (and it'll usually give you an explanation for why you can't go there yet). Even to the point of backtracking, a lot of locations get closed of... for reasons that'll become apparent in the course of the game.

Oh, and if you wander too far south at first, you'll run into tougher monsters... which is actually good, since they're still beatable for the most part but give more gold and xp.