Everyone's quest begins in a different village but they're all available no matter who you start as, the Chapter 1 villages are kind of in an O shape so you could go either route and recruit everyone else by finishing their Chapter 1 or ignore them and head straight to your 2nd chapter waypoint. I'm assuming the story bottlenecks and you'll need to progress different stories to a certain point before later chapters unlock (H'aanits chapter 2 recommends you to be level 35, I got to Lv6 by the end of her first chapter) but that's entirely an assumption, you might be able to solo the game, you might be forced to recruit everyone or somewhere in between. In the demo version, whoever you pick as your protagonist can't be removed from your party but no word on if that will change in the full game.
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