Introduction: The Aesir corporation has invented the gateway, a way to upload a person's consciousness into a machine. But eternal life in a computer soon grew boring. Without mortality and purpose, life is meaningless. And so the game began. A world was born from the machine. Continents raised, oceans carved out. Elves, orcs and monsters were created. All the wild fantasies of the past made real. The afterlife was an adventure, you could be anything you desired. Angel, demon, elf or god. Nothing is impossible. Welcome to the world of Valheim, where everything is for sale....