Character Creation
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[edit] Overview
Character creation is the single most important aspect of any online RPG. It determines what your game experience will be like, what skills and abilities your will have access to, and whom you will be adventuring alongside.
[edit] Server selection
The very first thing you must choose when starting out, is what server you wish to play on. Servers are separate worlds, meaning that a character you create on server A will not be able to interact in any way with a character created on server B. As such, to play with your friends, make sure you choose the same server that they are playing on. It is often a good idea to agree on a server selection strategy with the people you are going to play with, before launch.
[edit] Realm and army selection
The next thing you must choose upon creating a new character, is what realm you wish to be fighting for. The choices are Order and Destruction, and whichever you choose limits your further selections to those attributed to your realm. For inspiration on what realm to choose, have a look at the Age of Reckoning background article.
You will not be able to have characters from both realms on any one server, so make sure you choose the same side that your friends are on. If you later find out that you wish to try out a character on the opposing realm, you will either have to delete all your characters on the server or -- more likely -- simply choose a different server where you have no characters.
Once you have chosen your realm, you must choose your army. There are six different playable armies, three for Order and three for Destruction. See the main army article for an overview.
[edit] Career selection
With all the high-level choices out of the way, it is time to choose your characters career. Each character can only have one, and you cannot later change your mind without having to create a new character, so make your decision carefully. You can read about the different careers here on the wiki to help you decide.
[edit] Avatar creation
This stage is the creation/selection of the actual ingame avatar. You will have to select the name under which your character will be known to others in the world, no apostrophes or spaces are allowed in the name however there will be last name. And then you will choose the physical appearance your character will have ingame. WAR will not employ a morph/slider system to avatars, opting instead for having many, but fixed, selectable options for character looks (like hairstyles and body types).
Once all these decisions are made, they are final, with the exception that you can always delete and re-create your character from scratch. Or you can have multiple characters on a server. Exactly how many remains to be revealed.
When you select the final option, your character is created and enters the game world in your army's starting zone. Welcome to WAR!
[edit] Ingame Footage
Below is some ingame footage from November 2007 showing off 12 character classes from the Beta.
