If Zelda would like to go searching around Azmuth's old home/lab, he'd rather you be doing the raiding than someone who'd just ransack the place for what's most valuable. (MAMMON.) He did leave behind basic notes on his study of the power crystals. I made a few IC posts on dreamcrystals which she can use as the basis of his observations and what-not.

Again, I hope to bring him back in the next few months. If Azmuth does come back, he'd love to see Zelda's progress.

As for Alastor, yes, he does need to pester her. Because he is absolutely a real thing, and it makes me giggle for longer than five seconds at the idea of her thinking he's just a dream illusion and then there he is grinning at her in Reverein.