Are you sure you are old enough to enter Vale?

[sephiroth1084]

If you are a brand new player, and this is your highest lvl char. And you don't even know where Meridia is........then it is an achievement!

I'm with Talon here. If this was the case, then good job.

It isn't the OP's fault that no one knows what it's like to run to Meridia (and do all the quests and the Shroud) at level 12-13. It's an achievement to him, and if it is his first toon to 12, then yeah, it's respectable I guess.