Drakkhen/Characters creation

Atari ST, Amiga, MS-DOS
When you create a party, you can choose four out of eight characters. You can have two characters with the same class, if they have opposite genders.

The characters order will remain the same through all the game. An example of setup could be the following:

SNES
When you create a new party, you have to use one of each of the four classes. The characters order will remain the same through all the game. A strategic setup could be the following:

Default names
Characters have no default names.

For a sense of continuity, you could use the names of characters from the other games in the series:

Since the authors of the game are the same number as the party members, you could use their first names (they are all males) for male characters and their family names for female characters.
 * Stephane Baudet
 * Richard Bottet
 * Michel Royer
 * Laurent Salmeron

Character attributes
Each character has five attributes that the player can assign to them, plus Luck/Fortune (determined automatically).

Inaccurate manuals
Different versions of the manual give different explanations of the attributes. In many cases the "explanation" explains nothing: such instances are in italics. Note that the three explanations of Constitution/Physique are completely unrelated to each other; either at least two manuals are wrong (or maybe all three; never trust a manual!), or this attribute was modified in the different ports.

Attributes explanation
The SNES manual actually gives explanations for some attributes, if it can be trusted:
 * Strength (power): it determines damage dealt to enemies.
 * Constitution (physique): either it determines regeneration rate of Health and Magic Points (DOS manual) or it determines hit rate when attacking with weapons (SNES manual).
 * Luck (fortune): it determines evasion rate from enemy attacks.
 * Education (knowledge): it determines the ability of using magic.

Dexterity (agility) and Intelligence are left unexplained in every manual. From analogy with earlier role-playing games, the following hypotheses can be assumed:
 * Dexterity (agility): it determines hit rate for physical attacks, as in the  series (and maybe it also affects how often the character attacks).
 * Intelligence: it determines the ability of using clerical magic (whereas education/knowledge only affects a magician's spells), as in  and Ultima 2-3.

Character creation suggestions
If anything, the original French manual gives the most precise guidelines for character creation. Still, Constitution/Physique remains undetermined.

Character class triangle diagram
The following diagram summarizes the characteristics of the four classes; they are analogous to other role-playing games. It is actually based on their magic abilities.