- For the classic version, see Character creation (classic).
- For the Viking Conquest version, see Character creation (Viking Conquest).
The character stats screen. Stats are predetermined to match a charater's background choices after they are made by the player.
Character Creation gives you the opportunity to create for yourself a history, a past that occurred before your character starts adventuring in Calradia. Although having little influence on gameplay, your character being a foreigner to Calradia only mainly affects how certain lords regard you during early game.
These factors, like your reason for adventuring, affect your starting skills and attributes as well as equipment and renown value. These values, however, won't make anything impossible, so their impact to later adventuring is significantly diminished. The only choices with any noticeable impact on your chances of success are gender and nobility, both of which relate to how willingly nobles accept your presence in the game - gender can affect how much renown you need for fiefs and kingdoms whereas nobility only affects their early opinion of you. A male commoner, for example, may find some lords accusing him of being "another vulture, come to grow fat off of the land" or claiming they have no time for common soldiers of fortune, but even these opinions have little effect in the long run - it should be noted, however, that lords expressing these opinions will have a negative relationship with you right from the start.
Once you have chosen your background and proficiencies, you will see the character creation screen. First, you have to decide whether you want to be allowed to quit without saving. Enabling this will allow you to quit and reload your game to undo a disastrous battle or otherwise experiment with things. You can then distribute skills, attributes, and weapon proficiencies as well as customize your character more when you gain more skill points during gameplay - you will always gain an additional attribute point when you level up and some books will add permanent skill or attribute points to your character.
After choosing your history, you will then progress to a screen to create your character's face. Along with age and facial hair, there are advanced options for minute facial features, like eye depth and face width. These options have sliders bars, allowing you to adjust the characters face to great detail - age can make one's hair nearly white and adds wrinkles - and there is a randomize button in case one cannot decide what aesthetics they want for their adventurer. Features can be changed at any time during the game by clicking on your avatar on the Character Screen.
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Trivia
- The left eye of the third male skin in With Fire & Sword appears to have a glass eye.