Sacred Haven of Debauchery

Haha, I remember when I was a kid and played Heroes 2 for the first time (but with the expansion pack already), I was afraid of everything. And in general, I did that in all games. And I also remember when I started playing Heroes 1 (I played it after Heroes 2, maybe a year or two later, I don't remember), I had this feeling of weakness at the very beginning, like, in Heroes 2, I was already so strong, cool, but now I'm a weak noob again without abilities, without stats, without weapons, without armor, without anything at all. And it seemed to me then that I would never develop, everything around was so unfriendly and evil, oppressive, I was afraid of every ghoul. But then I leveled up and became a decent sorcerer.