You can’t say that the world is harsh and unforgiving and then let the player kill everyone who looks at him or her funny.
So unless you’re a natural born killer, watch what you say and think before you act or you’ll end up dead before you can blink.The questlines are interwoven, forming a large, overarching story, so playing the game only once will be like witnessing events from a single perspective, which is limited by default.Starting the game as a mercenary and joining the Imperial Guards will give a completely different experience, different quests, different content and points of view than, say, playing the game as a merchant (less buying low and selling high, more scheming and plotting to gain advantages for the guild), a praetor serving a Noble House, or an assassin. The Age of Decadence From multiple quest solutions to branching questlines you'll have plenty of decisions to make and consequences of said decisions to deal with, which is what makes the game incredibly replayable.