Hello all,
This is an FYI regarding character creation to save everybody time and effort. There's a few things we noticed that people do that lead us to deny characters or put them on pending, and that's just a waste of your creative energies. So:
We are unlikely to accept legacy characters. What do I mean by that? Characters who are related to your previous character, such as family, close friends, or people who come from the same tribe, village, country or culture that you made up for your previous character or characters.
We want to discourage people playing essentially the same character over and over again. Now, 'unlikely' to accept a character does not mean we never will, but you'd have to really convince us. Realize that your efforts may well be in vain without good cause.
Creating your own kingdom, culture, and so forth is neat, we understand. However, you need to keep the server's lore in mind.
The most important thing is that the Pact War is more than a footnote in history. Over the course of seventy years, the Pact swept across the known world, destroying every kingdom and major city-state except Barkamsted, and killing every man, woman and child they could get their hands on. The very existence of the civilized races was in peril. There are no large swathes of land that were untouched by the Pact War.
So if you're going to make your own place or people, we need to see how the Pact War affected them and how they managed to survive it(if at all). And don't try to make new major cities and kingdoms, that's the prerogative of the Admins and GMs.
Keep this in mind and your spiffy ideas will be much more likely to be accepted.
Make Original Characters. If we see Drizzt Do'urden, Jack Sparrow, or Sailor Moon, they will be denied faster than you can say "Moon prism power", savvy?
Note that the same applies to place names. You can't come from Cormyr or Pandaria.
If you are applying for a secondary, third or fourth character, please note which characters you already have. We know most of you guys' characters, but considering the character limit it's just so much easier on whitelisters if you tell us up front how many other characters you have. Thanks!
Player Plus and Donators get to request some small items to start with. These items are flavor-only and may never give a combat advantage.