Humble beginnings

The small town of **Wenighusen** is not far from your home village, but you have never been there because you have too many duties in the parental household and business.

Your father has been there a few times, and told you a lot about the fine citizens who live there. One day you want to see the city for yourself and maybe even own a business within the city walls ...

"Wenighusen" (=few houses) is a small map with only two city districts and one village.

## Restrictions

Wenighusen is a fictive town which serves as the playground for the tutorial. This comes with a few restrictions, which can **not** be changed in the main menu:

* The number of opponents is four.
* The difficulty level is "tutorial".
* There are two years per round.
* The game mode is "poor fellow".
* The family campaign is to "become sovereign".
* The player's profession is "crude craftsman".

## Tutorial

As soon as the map is loaded, a tutorial page pops up with some basic information. The player can always reopen these pages by clicking on the  **Tutorial** button at the center top section of the display or pressing `F1` to get to the tutorial page.

The tutorial page also opens automatically, when the player uses a function for the first time. It might be confusing, that the window with the explanation is hiding the window with the desired functionality. So, the tutorial window has first to be closed or moved in order to perform the action.

The first thing to do for the player is to click on the  **Quest book** icon at the center top menu or press `F7`. The quest book then shows details to the task ahead and how to perform it.

The first task, the player gets assigned to, is to build a crude craftsman's hut using the  **Erect a new building** menu. The button for this is in the bottom right corner, or use `B` instead.

You can perform whatever action you'd like to, but the tutorial only advances, when you performed the task, you were assigned to.

It may take a while, to learn all the locations of the buttons and all the shortcuts for them, but after a while, the player gets accustomed to those.

## Geography

The geography of the tutorial map is quite simple:

* The village of Degherdessen to the south is the lowest part.
* A little bit on a hillside, further north, enclosed by a first city wall is the Market District.
* Even higher up, in the north, behind a second wall, is the Monastery Quarter.

... and that's it!

## City Districts

### Monastery Quarter

The Monastery Quarter (orange) is a small city district. It consists mainly of the monastery itself. In addition, there's a market place, a well, a secret grove and a cemetery.

### Market District

The Market District (blue) is a bigger city district. It offers a lot of public buildings like the market place, a well, the church "St. Mary Magdalen", a school, the city hall, an execution site, and the arsenal.

## Villages

### Degherdessen

Degherdessen (green) is the only village on the map. It's the player's starting location and has a market place, a well, and a mine.

## Other Places

### Surrounding Region

The surrounding region (grey) consists of a few buildings, strewn all over the map: a quarry, a lumberyard, a cemetery, a grove, a brushwood, and a fishing spot. It also offers access to a long distance trade route to Schwarzental (=black valley).

## Trade Routes

In a forest to the east, the player will find a trade post for the long distance trade route to Schwarzental.

## Additional information

* Probably, the name of the town points to Wennigsen near Hannover, especially, because there's a village called Degersen (only German, sorry) (formerly Degherdessen) nearby.

Humble beginnings was last edited for version 1.0.4.

Humble beginnings was last edited for version 1.0.4.