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i'm one of those who strongly believes we won't play as Henry for his story is concluded. It would be lovely if we met him as an NPC, though. we all would love it..
The story can easily pick up shortly after KCD with a child of Henry's taking up the sword in Hussite wars starting in 1419. Interesting part of history.
Also the history part is presented in a very messy way, also because its complex and I think for most players that main quest with sword and the villan are way more easy to understand and not get confused. I think this is why fictional tales like say game of thrones are more popular you can take history and then mold it into something complex enough for it to appear serious but also for the events to be easy to follow ;p
You could say that the game getting Henry appointed as the bailiff of Prybislavitz and hitched to Theresa, a miller's daughter, would imply placing him firmly in the upper cast of peasantry. However, depending on the region, town and village mayors were required to provide knight's service without being a knight, though knights could serve at least as village mayors if not as town mayors due to the association of the latter with commerce. North of Bohemia, in Poland, village mayors often did knight's service and in some cases either knights took up village mayoralties (became bailiffs like the one in Skalitz) when they couldn't buy or lease a village, or perhaps mayors actually became proper knights and capable of passing nobility or some sort of gentility onto their kids. In themselves, mayoralties were actually often hereditary. This would in fact look like a good place for a knight's bastard son because it would involve associating with the nobility and place the guy and his offspring a cut above the common folk in a sort of middle class able to mingle with both.
However, Henry pretty much officially became a squire, and while we could debate the status of a peasant appointed to serve as a squire. Heck, Poland had 'knights made of peasants', milites ex cmethonibus, who were a sort of non-noble knights using territorial designation and perhaps having some sort of heraldic designations too but forming a class in between commoners and the nobility, whereas many of the nobility didn't have full knighthood and those guys did have it. But nobility being one thing, a squire, however base-born, was initially by definition training to be a knight. Later on 'graduating' became more difficult and rare, with most noble-born men, even those serving as soldiers (serjeants), never making the promotion to knight. Still, being a squire probably must have eliminated any bar to knighthood on account of lack of proper birth. A squire getting knighted was not the same as a common man-at-arms transcending the social barrier and getting knighted on the battlefield.
The problem was that in the 15th century simply proving yourself a capable heavily armed mounted soldier, indistinguishable from a knight but for the belt, was not necessarily enough to raise a man to knighthood, even a nobleman formally inducted as a squire. Knighthood pretty much became something reserved to the top of the landed class (in French courts you could see even holders of landed fiefs as high and might as marquessates were referred to as 'ecuyers', with exceptions being made for dukes descendants of very old knightly families, titled 'chevalier' after the guy's proper name, before mentioning the fief and the feudal title associated with it). It wasn't like the earlier centuries when getting the accolade was the natural graduation of a squire, though already then with some exceptions (and in some European societies squires could revert to peasant status on failing to earn the accolade).
So it wouldn't be far off for Henry to settle down as a retired squire without his own fief (a squire with a tiny fief would be looking at entering the lowest rungs of nobility), just serving as bailiff for the actual lords of the land, his kids and grandkids ending up closer to normal peasants.
But I think things are leading to Henry getting knighted — unless the devs decide for a hard override in canon lore. Sir Radzig apparently not having an heir is one thing, but it would be hard to imagine Henry living to Sir Robard's or even Sir Bernard's age without getting knighted at some point.
Land mass expansion. DO IT
+ there will be 2 maps.
This 2 maps together will be two times bigger than the map in first KCD.
Except villages and smaller cities there will be one really big city - Kutná Hora
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutn%C3%A1_Hora
Many things will be improved. - because Warhorse studio gained exps during making KCD1 + now much more ppl working on the game (around 220) and for 5 - 6 years - I dont include musicians etc.+ after KCD succes they also have got more money for development. And it seems anybody pushing them to fast release unfinished product with bigger bugs, so overall it should have much better start then KCD1.
Combat system will be different. On vids it seems it will be quicker and propably easier to learn - but still it should be hard to master acording to devs, we will see...
Oh yea, and there will be crossbows. Nice!
But on vid we can see using crossbow on the horse, ehm ?! :D (well, I think horse rider could use crossbow on the horse for 1 shot, but try to reload regular crossbow during horse riding lol, you would be totally defenceless during that and you ll not know what exactly is happening around you, which is both big disadvantages IMHO)