Quest for Game Perfection

A few days ago I picked up the game again, having played bursts of it back in 2017 and again in 2020 prior. Now I have the goal of 100% of achievements and maxing out the trading card badge.

Naturally the first thing's first is the singleplayer achievements! So to maximize the number I could do in one save I made a female character since some events in theory would trigger multiple achievements that way.

So now we're onto the story of Valia Khalberg. From an impoverished noble family she was well suited to a bow and saddle with her experience poaching the forests and wandering the steppes. She's started making a true name for herself across the lands by becoming a multi-tournament champion across the styles of all the kingdoms and helping the common people of the villages in the areas she visits, most beloved by the villages of Swadia where many young villagers eagerly train themselves for the chance to prove themselves worthy of joining her warband whenever she's in the area again as future cavalry guard. Currently, she has no aspirations for vassalage for while her renown rivals that of many lords she knows it's unlikely one of the current sovereigns would award her a fief for fear of destabilizing the kingdom. As such, being a new vassal seems counter productive, all extra risks and responsibilities for little benefit.

Instead she's taken her fortune from the tournament tours and established many profitable enterprises across each of the kingdoms, the diversity sheltering her cashflow from any single instance of the changing political landscape or war messing up her portfolio. Slowly she's winning the hearts and minds of the people, never enforcing the taxes of lords and prioritizing honor over profit. The cities cheer as everywhere she goes the finest wine is available to all. And the lords of the cities she's got ventures in can often find her assistance available to them, as long as it's for noble or reasonable causes.

In her travels across Calradia she's met the various claimants to the various kingdoms and heard their tales, while she's not entirely sure whose cause she wants to take up quite yet, she knows that in her pursuit for power it'll be a lot easier to break past her current limits if a monarch owes their entire rule to her aid. One thing's for sure though, she'll need to further expand her commercial empire to fund an army to take on a kingdom, and it wouldn't hurt to have more friends among the various lords and factions first to stave off a multi-sided war.

Until that day comes, she'll continue to play the part of a celebrity and paragon of commerce to grow her name and resources, looking for opportunities to become even more legendary. Her most recent exploit being when a lady of the Rhodocks sent her to go liberate her husband from the prison of Shariz, and when she arrived there several other Rhodock lords were there as well, allowing her to free much of the court in one daring escape!

Hope you enjoyed the story! I plan on posting updates to the story periodically to document the story and progress. If there's anyone who would be interested in helping me pursue my goal of game perfection I would love to trade trading cards necessary to build the badges on steam, and getting together in multiplayer after the singleplayer story has drawn to a close to start chewing through the multiplayer achievements.

submitted by /u/ArcaneBahamut
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