Today, most MMORPGs don't invite a new character into their world. Think about it - when you create a character in most current MMORPGs, the new character appears in the world, usually in front of an NPC, and that's it. There's no real direction given, no reason why your character is there, no reason why the world really cares that you've shown up in it. It is time for this to change, and this is one of the major new things we're attempting to do with Imperator.