Starting and entering Hillbrandt

After choosing your class and distributing your skills/stats you start near the town of Hillbrandt. You may choose to accept a quest to slay bats in the outskirts. The quest rewards 150XP and entry to the town. You may also choose to threaten the guard, which gives no XP, but lets you enter the town earlier.

Slaying the bats around Hillbrandt will grant you enough experience to level up to lvl. 3, you will also find various items laying about.