For those of you that want chapters without the main lord in them, here are two small hacks which remove some of the bugs related to that: the autocursor and the status screen. Normally these focus on the first member of your roster, whether or not they’re deployed; this code instead has them focus on the first deployed character.
People hacking FE8 have it much easier; just write 21 E0 at 0x3325A, and both problems will be fixed!