You can be a noble, poacher, steppe hunter, or any other number of vaguely defined classes. You start out as some kind of ambitious warrior or adventurer.
Knights, lords, ladies, peasants, and bandits all scuttle around the various kingdoms of the land of Calradia. It’s a grand exploration, expansion, and combat sim that takes place at some unspecified point in a medieval time, in a fictitious medieval land.
Mount and Blade can be an incredibly frightening franchise to get involved in.