Once you're done with all that, the game asks you where in the world you want to start, and whisks you away to the land of Calradia, where fortune, glory and power await you! And by that I mean, the game slams you down into the game and expects you to know what to do. and then brings you to the actual character creation screen, where you get to distribute your skill points, between a wide variety of things. The player starts off a new game, presented with a series of 'questions' that define your character's background (and starting traits,) such as whether or not you were born a noble, what you did in your early years, etc. It's what you'd get if the Total War series went, hey let's let the player be the captain of ONE of those little squads, but still gave you the sprawling, 'world,' map. Mount and Blade is a medieval RPG/strategy mash up. Mount and Blade, a game published by Paradox Interactive, happens to do 'sexism' right, but I'll get to that near the end. Last month, Kotaku published an article (which can be read here) about one of the skill names for Purna originally named 'Feminist Whore.' Whatever the guy on that development team was thinking can only be speculated at, because stuff like that just doesn't fly in (im)polite society, such as the one most North Americans are used to.