What was your first castle in Heroes 3?

I remember when my mother's friend and her son, who was about 3 years older than me, came to visit. He saw my father playing Heroes 3, and I was watching intently... He asked to play himself, and I distinctly remember him starting the campaign for Adrian, but he didn't finish it. The next day, I sat down to play. I didn't understand anything, so for the first month, I played the same random map, and all the factions appeared in turn :D. Eventually, I figured out what was what, and I chose Conflux (I was about 9 years old then, and the faction was bright and beautiful, so I was drawn to it). That's when I won for the first time, and then I didn't play maps for a long time, but I always chose elementals... Only later did I discover the Sylvan faction, and I haven't switched to any other faction since then in any game. I remember most vividly how, in one of the first games, someone captured my Necropolis, and I couldn't understand where the open land had gone? :)