The five major cities of Westeros refer to King's Landing, Oldtown, Lannisport, Gulltown, and White Harbor, which are five port cities that directly provide taxes to the Iron Throne and are also the most densely populated areas in Westeros.
Whenever these cities hosted tournaments, knights and Sellswords from all directions would flock there, including many great nobles.
And the jousting tournament is the most typical noble game; any knight who could win the championship in these cities, even in Gulltown, the second smallest (the smallest, White Harbor, is in the North and doesn't host jousting events), must be the most excellent (and wealthy) knight.
To put it bluntly, are newly started players even qualified to participate in such formal jousting tournaments?
Not to mention whether their strength meets the standard, just the specialized armor and horses for jousting competitions are beyond what knight players can afford now.
Typically, the plate armor used in competitions has a thickness of over 4 millimeters, and its price is far higher than practical plate armor, which is only a little over two millimeters thick; competition horses are first-rate warhorses of excellent breed, and their price is usually several times that of ordinary warhorses.
What about knight players who are Sellswords? An old chainmail and an ordinary trained horse.
Of course, if someone is skilled and daring enough, they can sign up to participate, but Ivan didn't think he was that reckless yet.
In his vision, he would at most participate in some informal true-sword competitions held in the castles of minor nobles or in some market towns.
"So what does this 'change' mean?" Ivan asked in his mind.
"We have designed at least three quest lines for each playable class. Players can choose which one to complete after reviewing all options. Once accepted, it cannot be changed."
Upon hearing this, Ivan clicked 'change' and secretly prayed that the next quest would be more reliable.
Main Quest One: The Bandit's Path
Quest Description: People often say that Sellsword knights and bandit knights are two sides of the same coin. Even if you have never been a bandit, you are still affected by the notorious reputation of your peers. In that case, perhaps abandoning that meaningless honor would be a better choice?
Quest Objective: Plunder the castle or estate of a landed knight and accumulate more than 100 gold dragons in wealth.
Quest Rewards: 5 points, 3 attribute points, 3 skill points
Accept
Change
"Plunder the castle of a landed knight? And plunder over 100 gold dragons in wealth?" Ivan exhaled, his face completely fallen.
He only felt a wave of despair wash over him.
Taking the castle of the poorest knight as an example, to plunder such a castle, Ivan would need to face at least one knight and one squire.
In this situation, it's not impossible for him to win, but anything he could plunder from a knight's castle (for lack of a better term) so poor that it can't even afford a single guard would probably be worth less than the knight's armor and horse combined.
To plunder 100 gold dragons, Ivan couldn't imagine how many jobs he would need to do.
What does 100 gold dragons mean?
In the original work, after King Joffrey was poisoned at the Purple Wedding, the bounty offered by Ser Adam Marbrand for Sansa Stark, who was suspected of 'colluding with the Imp to commit regicide,' was only that much!
Taking the top-tier knight equipment as an example, a complete set of excellent plate armor from head to toe, a high-quality longsword and warhammer, one warhorse, and two marching horses would only cost about 30 gold dragons in total.
However, throughout Westeros, only the wealthy knights in the Riverlands who own estates and large tracts of land, or those knights in the Westerlands whose families own mines, could afford such a set of equipment. Even for them, life would become tight after bearing the cost of such a set of equipment.
As for other regions, landed knights in the Vale mostly use plate-and-mail, landed knights in the Stormlands mostly wear plate and cloth armor, and knights in the Riverlands still primarily use chainmail, just as they did centuries ago.
So this quest was actually designed for the Sword of the Morning, wasn't it? Just cut down six Kingsguard and strip their armor, and the quest would be complete, Ivan suddenly thought absurdly.
Forcing himself to calm down, Ivan, with his last hope, clicked 'Change'.
Main Quest One: The Golden Path
Quest Description: The first time you raise your sword for money rather than justice or your liege, you will realize the truth of this world: gold is the only true god, and all else is illusion.
Quest Objective: Earn 1000 gold dragons.
Quest Rewards: 5 points, 3 attribute points, 3 skill points
Accept
Change
...
At this point, Ivan felt completely numb.
Originally, 100 gold dragons was already an unbelievably absurd number; now it had directly become 1000.
Although the method of earning these 1000 gold dragons is not restricted, it's still 1000 gold dragons!
During the Five Kings War, Catelyn Tully had privately released Jaime, who was captured by the allied forces, and demanded that he return her two daughters upon his return to King's Landing. This action undoubtedly put the allied forces of the North and the Riverlands in a greatly passive position.
In this situation, the liege lord of the Riverlands, Lord Hoster Tully of Riverrun, issued a warrant for Jaime, and the bounty amount was 1000 gold dragons (this was also the highest bounty amount ever seen in ice and fire).
At that time, Jaime, as the commander of the royal army, the captain of the Kingsguard, one of the strongest knights in Westeros, the heir to the wealthiest Lannister Family in Westeros, King Joffrey's biological father (crossed out), he was only worth 1000 gold dragons.
Perhaps many people, upon seeing that Robert offered a prize of 40,000 gold dragons to the champion knight at a tourney in King's Landing, might think gold dragons are worthless.
But it should be noted that the first volume of ice and fire was published in the last century, and there is a common view that it was a bug caused by Martin not thinking too much in the early stages of writing the book.
In fact, after Robert's death, when Littlefinger approached Eddard Stark, he mentioned that 6000 gold dragons was the amount to bribe an entire City Watch, and Eddard considered this amount reasonable.
In other words, 1000 gold dragons is equivalent to bribing one-sixth of the City Watch.
For initial players to earn this much money out of thin air is basically nonsense.
Suddenly, Ivan had a very terrifying thought: the designers came up with these quests, did they perhaps not intend for us to complete them at all?
Note: The currency exchange rate in the ice and fire world is: 1 gold dragon = 30 silver stags = 210 silver deer, 1 silver deer = 49 copper stars, 1 copper star = 8 copper pennies.
Additionally, based on certain data, the author estimates a gold dragon to be a medium-sized gold coin weighing 7.56 grams.