Who owns the castles and lands when the game begins?
In the beginning, all the castles in all the territories of all the countries will be owned by NPCs. When players form a blood pledge and take over a castle from the controlling NPC, the castle becomes the pledge’s possession. When multiple blood pledges form a league and take over two or more castles, then the league can be declared as a nation. In this way, the world of Lineage II will go beyond the initially established setting to continue to carve out its own history.