Here are some Metin2 points help you to begin playing. This is where the NPCs, who will help you through the quests (Metin2 yang) and start the journey, are located. In the village, you will study the basic information and receive items through the help quests which will lead you into the journey through the world. It's a long and boring war. Most of the villagers were forced to fight in the war and died. If you right click on the NPCs, it shows a few options, and you can talk to the NPC by Clicking on 'talk' among those options. Most of the times, the NPC will provide you an advice or tell you a story of what goes around that area, however, you will find NPCs with above their head. That means that NPC is still in trouble and needs your help. Whether to help the NPC or not is your own decision. But you will be granted with rewards that can not be obtained by regular hunting.
You can see the list of the quests in progress by pressing J button on your keyboard. Here, you will find quest contents, rewards and objectives from NPC on the quest completion. The items you receive through the journey goes into the bag that you are carrying. You will receive more items as you go through the journey. You can sell those items to merchants, while your bag is full every time, you have to return to the village to sell them which can be very annoying. This is where additional bag comes sooner or later.
You can obtain an additional bag through a specific quest, and they can be bought from supplying merchants located in