so after you save Ste he goes back to his farm, an mentions about a cave near the troll bridge he used.
for bandit morale gonna have to use love potions to raise there like of you, but morale think need to do some quests for Jester to raise it.
ya the expansion takes quite awhile an best to start it early an do other quests an stuff so your not just ending go to bed, wake up, go back to bed, wake up on repeat till you reach the number of days needed for duration based quests.