There are a huge variations of different enemies and hostile minor factions who will absolutely demolish any new players. Perisno is a difficult mod to start out with. These starts, while providing you with unique additions (Unique companion for raider, and significantly better starting gear for Merchant), doesn’t affect the gameplay, and can be chosen at the player’s desire. The other two starts are slightly different there is one where you become a raider and have to avenge your fallen comrades to regain your honor, and another one where you shipwrecked as a merchant, and must rebuild your finances and career. Like basically all other Warband mods, you create your own character through several different options offered to you, IF you pick the standard start for your character. 0.8 allows you to have (currently) three different starts for your characters, and removed the “Inheritance” option in character creation.