Most of the informatoin or quests given are done in a few sentences with new names, places or races introduced all the time making it almost impossible to relate to.
Not that it matters because I think the execution of trying to immerse the player into the world, races, intrigues etc has been very poor.
The gameworld is said to build upon the world presented in the Heroes of Might and Magic series so it is not built upon the worlds seen previously in the series.