Essential and Point

Essential

Essential noun - Something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable.

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Point and essential are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Point" instead a noun "Essential".

Point noun - A particular and often important moment in time.

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Essential and point are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Essential" instead a noun "Point".

While you can mark a quest as a priority which adds some markers to your map that point out NPCs and locations essential to it, it doesn't help much with some of the more obscure requirements.

Source: Video Game / Dragon's Dogma
Infocom's Enchanter at one point places an essential scroll (essential as in "the game cannot be successfully completed without it") inside a mouse hole.

Source: You Can't Get Ye Flask
Original Character: There are quite a few that are introduced with many getting a lot of facetime in the story to the point they are just as essential to the plot as the canon characters.

Source: Fan Fic / Zelda's Honor

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