Back when I joined Sirion I had no clue of what was the game all about. No mentor and a rather unresponsive liege. Little income and little RP desire.
But the General screaming orders realm wide to gather in tabost ready to face the huge fontan army was enough to give me the desire to continue, and for the first weeks I didn't do anything but charging random fontan huge armies along our huge sirion army without a clue of what was going on. But that was great.
Then slowly I learned a bit on my own and started understanding how the game worked and everything.
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