ok, so, no organized. fine. I'll go with merchant profession + wealthy & green thumb.
In the first 25 turns:
I've explored approximately 3 tiles radius around my initial settlement. 7 in one direction. (this is a really small area to explore)
Two AI sovereigns have already found me on a medium map.
One AI has given birth to a child.
I've managed to recruit Muvueratha.
My starting location was fortunate: Library, farm, gold in 1 tile radius.
I've built a Farm, arcane Lab, Study, Hut, and workshop.
I've made 1 pioneer.
I've researched Fire Dart.
My reputation is 0.5 ; my net income is 2.8 (last time I tried to marry this early in the game, the npc had a reputation of 1 and thus refused).
I've chased a wolf for 4 turns (it moves one tile, i move one tile, it moves one tile, i move one tile...). I finally killed it on the 5th turn of chasing it and got 4 gildar. I'm 50% towards level 2. It's the only thing I've managed to fight, let alone kill. The battle was autoresolved without giving me the option to manually battle.
My pioneer spent 7 turns across an empty plain to build my next settlement next to an earth shard. Spending it's last move to reach an unremarkable, empty tile, I was told that I could not build there, and needed to find an empty tile.
I currently do not have enough gold or materials to do anything else. I am literally at a point, 25 turns in, where i am simply pressing next turn over and over to get anything done....such as moving.
This is a game those "dsl is faster than dial up" turtles would love. Because it has slowed. tremendously.