Every location has had a huge revamp with the goal of having an internal narrative, as well as at least one long-term map-changing consequence action associated with it. What does this mean?

Now you can buy a house in a village and hang out with your neighbors. You can get a seat in the city council. Not satisfied with your taxes? Sell your seat for a ton of money! You can extract all the mana in one fell swoop from a wildlife clearing. You can empty fisheries in a fit of insane hunger. You can regrow that dead copse into a beautiful oasis. And a bunch of other new weird little narratives associated with each location. The map game is now much more interesting!