I feel like the writers forgot about something with this first episode : your brainstorming session isn't a script.
So much happens in this, dozens of characters are introduced, most die before we can even remember their name, impactful decisions and character moments are almost immediately forgotten, the protagonists come to the right conclusions about their precarious situations with the thinnest clues possible so that we can move on to the next plot point... It's exhausting.
It feels like most of the actors tried to give it their all, but their character just isn't that good. Finest example of this is Merwyn. So she's supposed to be this brilliant princess who studies ancient history and has great aspirations right? Why is she so dumb then? Not going into any spoilers, but he comes across as monstrous and utterly delusional.
(SPOILER : killing your own brother, a genuine good guy by the looks of it who wants to bring an end to what sounded like a century old conflict? All that because he needed you to do your duty as a princess, marrying a king, and because you didn't believe his peace would last? I bet your two co-conspirators who murdered their liege, the clans and a bunch of mages who didn't want to follow them will maintain order. Definitely. Don't worry about it. What a poor excuse of an antagonist.)
The lack of budget is awfully felt in nearly every scene, be it with CGI scenery coming straight from a 90s movie, the bland costumes or the poor choreography of any fight scene (taking a page from Kenobi with the shaky cam aren't you? Cause that show was great for sure...)
Overall it's a really poor start from what appears as a generic low-budget fantasy show. Cause it's certainly not The Witcher. The lore gets torn down on several occasion, again, and the world building gets thrown by the window with all these people of different origins just living together even a small island in the middle of nowhere, AGAIN. But at least it reflects the world we live in today and it's adapted to modern audience, because that's exactly what we search in any work of FANTASY.