You can’t say that the world is harsh and unforgiving and then let the player kill everyone who looks at him or her funny.
You will have to play the game several times to better understand what’s going on, piece everything together, and see the full effect of the choices you make. The Age of Decadence From multiple quest solutions to branching questlines you'll have plenty of decisions to make and consequences of said decisions to deal with, which is what makes the game incredibly replayable. Make the game easier and we’re back to the powerful hero setup.You get to play with seven different factions: three Noble Houses and four 'professional' guilds: merchants, assassins, thieves, and the army, all fighting for power or influence; over 100 named characters, over 750 ‘generic’ characters with unique IDs taking part in violent take-overs, assassinations, and power grabs, and over 600,000 words of dialogue: a well-developed and thought through world, believable characters, realistic motivations, but no elves, dwarves, magic, and wizards in fashionable, pointy hats.