You can befriend a crow at one point. (Not a crow-person. A literal crow.) It gives you one singular free gold whenever you interact with it thereafter.
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Hey! Sorry for the delay, he says it will cost around 3000 gold, but that he'll pool from the town. The real amount is 300 gold.
This step is also meant to be optional and it just provides debuffs to the town if not completed, but there's currently a bug in the code that prevents you from skipping some of the things. It will be fixed in the coming update. :)