People want to imagine they're playing the hero/protagonist. What is forgotten is that you can't just say you're a hero, and be a hero. I find the most incredible protagonist stories in BM are those who take crazy risks and succeed.
Like King Fingolfin's legendary invasion success that resulted in Thalmarkin trying to spread his authority upon invasions throughout BT. Or the incredible survival of Eponllyn and the beginning of a turnaround with relations with Perdan...before Perdan went back to its same old lame self with Vix's help. Or the tale of the People's Republic of Avamar survival against all odds until the largest battle in BM history (up to that point, since surpassed) ended them. Or Glaumring's survival story. Or the survival of Luria Nova against an invasion by all Dwilight sans Swordfell, which Luria won and forced peace terms upon (most) of their enemies. Sint surviving in-between invasions with the nefarious reputation they acquired during invasions. And many more...
Ahhh Glaumrings survival story... Which one? The time we left the ashes of Virovene with perhaps 80 troops between two nobles and marched from Muspelheim to the Storms keep through some of the most monster infested areas of the north and founded a kingdom under the most damn near impossible odds? Then to face a tribunal of SA as a supposed heretic with the entirety of SA wanting to come and kill a newly founded realm with probably 3 knights fighting off huge hordes of monsters almost daily, aye it was glorious, unprecedented, legendary. One of the greatest and saddest of failures of a story that has ever existed. I can go on and on with stories of daring-do and skullduggery but the above one is my absolute favorite.
