On a quest to slay a dragon, most of the time is spent looking for comfy ground to sleep on and dealing with saddle sores.
In your quest to overthrow the evil king, you’ll have to deal with the worst sort of office politics.
Getting good enough to even attempt a quest like that will take years of drudgery.
Glory is boring.
Mostly.
The final, dramatic climax of your quests is worth it, but that doesn’t mean it’s all fun. No, most of it will be so tedious you want to quit and fall into distracted passivity.
And that’s good. Glory wouldn’t be worth anything if it were evil.
Besides, it filters out all the real heroes from the would-be heroes. The skills you learn along the way will help you with what comes after:
A bigger, more epic quest.
In the meantime… here, take this, adventurer. You’ll need it on the road ahead: