You are the Arisen. You pick your look, your vocation and your party, and then the world gets on with being enormous whether or not you are ready for it.

Pawns are the best idea in it

Your main Pawn is yours; the other two are borrowed from other players' games. They chatter, remember quests they helped with elsewhere, and lead you to things you would not have found.

Vocations change everything

Fighter, Archer, Mage, Thief, Warfarer and more, each with abilities that reshape how you move through a fight. Climbing onto a griffin and stabbing it is always allowed.

The journey is the difficulty

Fast travel is scarce on purpose. Night is genuinely dark, the roads are dangerous, and getting somewhere is an expedition rather than a menu.