Ah well, maybe the knight was a marathon runner before he was enlisted into the war, and had to retrain after he got his suit of armor... Makes total sense. He might not get too far away, though, but then again, maybe he does. If he's heading east, though, the Douvaldar Marsh would slow him down, I would think. And... I think there was a story battle for there, containing undead characters, mostly mages, from the Fifty Years' War during the actual game, so one would assume that was a battle of interest. It is possible I am mixing this up with Lake Poescas, though. I know the Yuguewood had a pair of undead time mages and black mages among ghost-class monsters, as I passed that part in my game. Trying to keep a generic-character party. I have a team consisting of a male geomancer, male samurai, female dragoon, and female ninja. And of course, Ramza, as a Dark Knight as a result of a lot of grinding to master knight and black mage classes, and getting to level 8 in the 4 aforementioned job classes on my generic characters, on top of getting 20 kills (either crystallization or chest transformation to consider a 'kill') with that character.
Speaking of mastering classes... I'm thinking that hitting level 8 for a class is considered mastering it, regardless of whether the class can be mastered before or long after hitting it. Does that sound fair?