I would suggest to restart the game the Update after the next... currently John & Biance win the poll but the next one should be the rework of the game makeing all save files invalid.
So a restart will be forced on all of us.
I'd suggest doing Tia until she joins your Party and Penny from the start.
first point on order should be to learn reading from Mia and completing Lucios "controll your lust" Quest.
Next hunt a rabbit for it's paw after talking to Corwen in the Inn on monday Evening.
At this point you should have 1 Strentgh, 2 Intelligence and 2 Hunt without Leveling up... concentrate to raise your Perception to 1, Hunting Skill to 5 and your Endurance to 10. pretty much in that order.
After you reached level 4 go for Emily's story and after saveing her twice capture Imawyn (you can either go Love route by giving her wine in the Cell or Corruption by makeing it Cumwine)... also advance Mia's story in order to have enough time to unlock the Harem route with her and Emily.
If you want to spend time in the village advance Claire's Quest, followed by Kate's... also learn lockpicking.
After you dealt with the starting Bandits switch to the Rumah storyline with Tia and learn the Nature trait (don't fight the Orcboss yet), the Cult storyline with Arianna and Gwen's storyline to learn Witchcraft and the first magic skills (now fight the Orcboss ).
Final storyline should be Imawyn and Lydia as the new Bandits are the strongest enemies up to now (Player should be Level 30-35)