a couple more additions:
[*]more villages with strange side quests, strange people and whatnot
[*]love the fishing idea!!! not mine but i saw it up so i thought i should mention it again
[*]portable enchanting? maybe an object you can bring around with you that requires a soul to activate, that lets you enchant weapons/armor
[*]joining the military
[*]bartering system, it would couple with a sort of travelling flea market?
[*]banks
[*]horse carragies (sorry for the bad spelling) public transportation basically
[*]paralytic people, deformed people
[*]snow, thunder, lightning, NATURAL DISASTERS, hurricanes, floods, erupting volcanoes maybe?
[*]drunkeness
[*]ice, frozen lakes, etc
[*]joinable cults like the mythic dawn, but smaller