The tournament quest has a surprising extension. The final contender in the tournament is a guy called Black Pete. After beating him, you meet a blacksmith in one of the villages that tells you his son once beat Black Pete too, but then succumbed to a strange illness. Time passes. Then Black Pete suddenly ambushes you, and he has a poisoned sword, one scratch and you are dead. Yeah, just like the blacksmith’s son.
Finally, I decided I had enough of sidequests, and it’s time to raid the cuman camp. It’s no slouch. There are a lot of cumans, and they see very well even in the dark and rain. I did manage to kill their captain, and burn some arrows. Not sure if you’re supposed to burn all of them or not. As I was escaping, fell in a ditch (it’s very hard to see in the dark), and a few bandits cornered me there. It didn’t end well for them, though. Not a blacksmith’s son anymore, I guess.
The siege of the bandit’s base is extremely impressive. There are arches shooting at you from the palisade (guess I had to burn both barrels of arrows, God knows how), there is a dozen of enemies and a dozen of your guys, all clashing together. There’s nothing quite like it.
