I don’t honestly know that you can do it in-game unless you are just very deliberate about playing all the content in release order. Which would take ages. If you look up Nobbel87 on ye olde youtubes they have storyline recap videos and explanations. Much faster and definitely more forgiving than the in-game struggle.

Do we know if/when there will be an official HC server? I’ve only seen speculation

I’m far from an expert, but I have turkey vultures around my house, and the ones we have here tend to have less feathers on their head. Maybe that’s just for some of them or in some cases? Ours have enough of a featherless head though that you can see the red/pink even when they’re gliding pretty high up.