Yeah, I know. Still, let's just analyze this. You're curious about creating a portal of some kind. This is likely to net-gain to everyone of some kind, unless you're a huge douche and it really is another demon portal and you're trying to kill everyone, on the whole I doubt it though. So that is completely non troubling, we might even be able to charge a fee to use it which could make lots of money so pfft.
Your second "secret" is trying to recreate that strange golem you met in the Mountain Homes. While they could end up to all by psychopathic killers, the idea of golems to form our militia is a bit too attractive to really try and stop you. Plus we could use them a a free source of labor in the bar that I want to make.
Third, you want to learn Human and Elven... oh no, you want to converse with other races, next.
Forth, you're going into the forest. Once again, it's a complete non-secret, as well as likely to result in a net benefit for us. Really, it doesn't seem like there is much worth negotiating with in there so you might just be trying to capture a silk-weaving spider of some kind like the one you saw get eaten by fungus. In which case, "Oh no, you have valuable silk, can you make me a dress?" would be my response.
Like I said, completely unconcerned with the secrets. Now me on the other hand, I have secrets that will burn this fort to the ground, but I hide them away, so really nobody knows about them