It's my birthday today and I have been given a unique gift. It is the gift of a lifetime - the chance to be born anew, to be reimagined in a primal world. It is a world of wonder, quests, and adventure. A place where you can experience decades of another life, all contained in the span of a single dream, stored between the circuits of a silicone chip that connects us to the server. The land trembles and the weather of war rolls like the frigid blanket of rain, fog, and the clash of steel over once peaceful hills. In the Tales of Vaella anything can go, as long as you follow the base rules of the game. But as early beta testers, a few thousand of us will find out that the rules might not be as properly defined as we believe.