Prophesy of Pendor adds a point to the whole thing: you're not just riding around harassing innocent brigands, but you're also uniting a shattered kingdom in fulfillment of an ancient prophecy in time to band together the various factions against the machinations of a dark goddess. Anyone who's familiar with Mount&Blade knows the basic premise: start off as a Level 1 scrub who can be knocked out by a thrown rock, aspire to end up a Level 40 badass in gear that costs more than your kingdom's entire gross domestic product, who will still get knocked out by a rock thrown with slightly more gusto.
Anyway, I've been playing a lot of this recently and wanted to see if there was any love for it out there.