So, I played this game a bit forever ago but recently wanted to come back, the sylvesta guidance tab keeps telling me I need to complete the "capture a sylesti" quest before moving on, but its not even on my quest log, I tried abandoning my other quests but it would only let me abandon one.

Can you take a screenshot of your Quest Log for me so I can see exactly where you're at?

Do the tutorial things even get put into the quest log? the earliest plot quest that's recorded in mine is "Level 20: Finding Saerielle (Faerina's Shrine in Umbra Forest)"

Looking at the pets in Cyankitcat's stable, is it possible that Forest princess is actually the 'Capture A Sylesi' quest pet, given Cyankitcat's level and Forest princess being a 4tp pet? So far as I know 4tp pets can't be found in region 1 outside of them being the Capture Quest pet, and you can't get purple traps in region 1 (and there was no fest active in september 2014, meaning it couldn't be bought from a fest vendor,) so it'd have to have been the quest trap or a diamond shop master snare, wouldn't it?
In which case it might be a tutorial cache error or something?