is there a mercenary library where the player would be able to hire someone to fight/explore along side them?
If not, could some one please make one? (I would but i don't know squat about code)

there's no publically available team/party library... poor Pixie is the only one making libraries for people... we can only blame ourselves for not creating libraries for quest. Quest is an amazing engine/kit, we're failing it, not that it is failing us.

creating a basic/simple team/party system would not be too hard... an advanced (and well done) one... would be...