NVM. Carefully listen to the at-length monologues of every tutorial NPC you can find.
You are ON IT. You are researching up a storm, getting all up in the business of these primary sources, which is to say politely asking them to elaborate every now and then, although for the most part they don't need any encouragement.
You have learned that this place is known as the Land of Bedrock and Rust; that you are the Dreamer of Stone, though not what this means; you've heard several rambling stories about things like tyrannical architect-queens, swordswomen climbing into dragons' mouths, the actual denizen of your land (whose name is Takhas and who used to use the rusted mechanisms scattered everywhere to transport people and goods), and what you're fairly certain was a grocery trip told in the style of an epic. You've written all of it down just in case there's some kind of riddle hidden in there.
You have done absolutely no fighting whatsoever and that's the way you like it.