Eternal Lands/Player characters

Before you play, you have to choose the name, race and appearance of your character. That's all you specify; everything else (your skills, abilities and alignments) is developed in the game.

Races
There are six races for player characters. There are 3 free races: Human, Dwarven and Elven and 3 pay-to-play races: Draegoni, Orcan and Gnomish. There are currently no advantages or disadvantages to any of them other than books being available to give a combat bonus while fighting any of the 3 races. However, player combat is only allowed in some areas of the world so this can be easily avoided.

Basic Attributes
Physique, Coordination, Reasoning, Will, Instinct & Vitality

Cross Attributes
Might, Matter, Toughness, Charm, Reaction, Perception, Rationality, Dexterity & Ethereality

Nexuses
Human, Animal, Vegetal, Inorganic, Artificial & Magic

Experience
Character will advance in experience through the use of skills. When enough experience points accumulate, the character will advance a level and gain a Pick Point to spend on their characters attributes or perks. All characters begin the game at level 5 to allow them some points to customize their character initially.

Perks
There are numerous positive and negative perks available in the game.

Positive Perks
Artificer, Body Piercing, Careful Guy, Conjurer, Evanescence, Excavator, Fast Regeneration, Fatal Man, I Glow In The Dark, Mirror Skin, Monster Magnetism, No More Tears, Powersaving, Self Destruction, There Is No Fork, I Eat Dead People

Negative Perks
Antisocial, Gelatine Bones, Godless, Hellspawn, I Can't Dance, Power Hungry, Harvesters of Sorrow, Scotty Died