For me later parts of the game were underwhelming and railroaded, also following games made everything inconsequential and small-scale. It doesn’t help that lorewise every blight before was huge and took multiple years, sometimes decades to end. While you as a hero disadvantaged every possible way, country - sparsely populated, just 20 years after the last big war, already lost one huge battle, there is low-key civil war going on; circle of magi - broken half of the people dead; dwarfs - reluctant to help; elves - there is like ten of them. Yet my party wins. First time I’ve played, there was hope that in the end we would at best win some time at worst fail completely.