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Heh, I'm wondering where all the Valkyrja love is coming from. Is it just because you all like the duchy's name or did you read something about this region in the game wiki that makes you want to play there? Which kind of background story for a new family would only work in Valkyrja? In any case, even if the home of your family is in a certain region, I have experienced your character's estate to be much more important in your gaming experience than the family home, so the place where your estate will be would actually matter more than the place where you "spawn". But estates are not for eternity either. If you aquire your own lordship one day, you might end up in an entirely different region yet again. So don't put too much focus onto your starting region.

Choosing Valkyrja as the duchy to start in will actually be quite troublesome for you since it will force you to do a lot of traveling (several RL days) to first get to the place where your estate will be (there aren't any empty ones in Valkyrja and it's a small duchy) and then get to the place where the action will be. So I don't really see it as anything to be jealous about, but maybe I'm missing something.

Anyway, I hope you'll all have lots of fun with BattleMaster, wherever your characters might end up.

For me it was the a desire to be coastal, and Valkyrja was the most appealing in that regard (a culture of fishermen, compared to Storm End's apparent propensity of farming, according to the wiki). The info for Valkyrja that i found on the wiki is also rather in-depth, something I enjoy in world-building.

The jealousy was more a joking tone referring to what appears to be either a bug or a unexplained spawning system:

• I selected Valkyrja in character creation, and my duchy is indeed listed as Valkyrja in the messages screen. The game spawned me in Nifel however, placed my family home there, and claims that my liege lord is of Nifel.
• Similarly, Urist McScoopbeard selected Storm's Keep in his character creation and was assigned there as his duchy, yet he was spawned in Valkyrja, his family home is in Valkyrja, and his liege lord is of Valkyrja.

Perhaps that's how it's supposed to work, but had I assumed it was a bug: why ask for the player's preference, give them that choice, and then spawn them several days' march away when they are a newcomer to the game?


It's not really an issue: I'm about halfway to Valkyrja, and the fact that I'm traveling westwards from my family's home in Nifel, which is currently under threat of invasion from the East provides some good RP backstory opportunities.


You're not wrong about the travel time though! 

I'm sure it just puts you in a random province within the duchy you selected.

That's the issue. It did assign me to Valkyrja as my duchy, but started me in Nifel and made that my family home.

Regardless, I'm already adjusting my RP backstory to fit, so we'll see how it goes. The ~45 hour hike is a bit ridiculous though, but I'm about halfway there. Perhaps divine intervention (or a server hiccup) will flip some numbers around it'll correct itself at some point. Who knows?

Anyway, I'm en route to Nifelheim in hopes of securing a vacant estate.

We'll probably pass each other in Hvergelmir, it would appear. Supposedly the monsters that had been terrorizing the region recently have moved on...

I'm one of the developers on BattleMaster and I'll be happy to help out with any issues or confusions people have that the other players on here can't handle.

Just as a heads up: there was a strange bug when I created my character. I selected to start in the dutchy of Valkyrja during the creation process (had a backstory/RP planned out and all  ), and when my I entered the world my messages screen showed my duchess as that of Valkyrja but it spawned me in Nifel and made that my family home. I still plan to head out to Valkyrja and settle in an estate there but...

In order to move your family home you need a character with the Sub-Class "Hero", but don't choose that lightly.

I was hoping there was a less death-inducing way to make Valkyrja my family home. Sucks about my bug then, I guess. 

So... Apparently I'll need to strive towards being able to change my "family home" at some point. Supposedly it can be done under "certain circumstances," anyone have a clue in that department?

I selected Valkyrja in character creation, but it threw me in Nifel anyways (I've been told this might have been the server being experimental?).

Anyways, I'm on my way to Valkyrja and hopefully some day I can move my family home there. 

By the way, I'm in as Olek Havens.

Alright. Details Details: What do I do if I want to get in on this, and how far can I rise? Also, any microtransactions or similar that I should know about now before I get into the game?

Really looking forward to seeing some renders of the new cities!

Can you feel it coming!?

In the air tonight?

*turns into a bloodless husk*