Jatu raiders, roaming knights, adventurers, cultist bands, if you’re not really careful or save scumming the start you’ll spend a lot of time as a prisoner. I started three different characters last night in different provinces to reacquaint myself with the game and decide where I want to really dig in. Man, I forgot how brutal PoP can be when starting out. Do love being back in Pendor though, the rough start will just make it all that much sweeter when my knights start breaking the backs of my opponents while my archers darken the skies with a rain of death! The trackers and fighters I’ve found were all 3k+ to hire. A couple knights I found were 8k to hire and the lowest I’ve found so far was free, but she’s a trader and not helpful in combat. I only have one companion so far since it seems the mod makers really boosted the costs of most of them. I was lucky enough to step into some really big lord on lord battles to both get some faction boosts and a few pieces of nice gear. I can’t catch most of them, but enough that I’m finally starting to get some third tier troops. In my sarleon start I finally found this little forest area that seems to sprout 7-10 man outlaw bands like crazy. There seems to be a distinct lack of low power enemies in most areas for you to start grinding exp and gear on. I resort to the latter option most of the time.

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