Found the ring, thank you for the tip. Sadly I don't think I can recruit Nora as I started the blacksmith scenario but have yet to see her since. I've recruited all of the former blacksmiths though. They are currently making me a Francisca and the Beastial Leather I think?

Anyway, wandered the caves beneath Boston's home and met the dragon Forneus sent to murder his species. Took him down and managed to spark three really good techs finally giving me a high damage axe skill and another great high damage Greatsword skill, as well as Pressure Point for melee. I really wish Robin would start sparking better rapier techs. I also wish someone in my party would spark Blood Suck or Life Drain Immunity so I can finally be done with those two annoying enemy skills. The dragon enemy also gave me my first taste of one of the more annoying aspect of the Archfiends which will likely be them manipulating the elemental field to get that doozy of a regen bonus every round. The most annoying part of the fight was having to make two party members go from using high damage skills to elemental spells/skills just to change the field effect so the boss would stop regenerating 999hp every round.

With that done, I opted to go to Zweig and do the tournament which I finally won. I even got my revenge on the Goblin team. I forgot to mention this last time, but I also did the quest for the professor to take out her demon car running amok, which was a pretty cool battle I remember seeing glimpses of from screenshots. The music track for the fight is pretty stellar, though I would say that Romancing SaGa 3 has probably the best soundtrack so far of the three SNES entries.
With the tournament done, I was asked to go meet out neighborhood vampire and retrive the Holy Grail he's guarding, and so now I'm doing a standard RPG flavored version of Castlevania with all the sub-bosses guarding the rather lackluster treasure of his castle. I hope I don't need an open spot to recruit Leonid when I finish this and can come back, cause my team is still at full capacity.

Boston by the way has been interesting, very similar to the non-human races you can recruit in RS2 although Boston is leagues better than the Nerid race.