When you first start the game, you’ll be on the character selection screen. You can choose to create whatever character you’d like. The combat and visual differences between the character races are not drastic right now, nor does it fundamentally change the gameplay depending on which race you are. The biggest differences between the races are most noticeable in some Flower Arrangement and Brewing buffs and race-based jewelry, but this is very unlikely to be enough of a difference to affect your decision here.

If you absolutely need someone to tell you what character to choose, I would recommend Human for your first character over Rakasha or Elf. In my opinion, Humans have some of the most generic racial gear, which is actually a negative, but they are going to have standard access to most of the game, can level well early, and will complement a solo and traditional play style. At the time of this guide’s publishing, Orcs and Fairies are not complete. I'm not even sure if Dwarves are a real thing or if they would be in an expansion. The races may be different enough to justify more in this section, but for now I will say there isn’t much difference between the races that will drastically change the way you play the game.

It is important to note that everything I just said may change. In fact, it almost certainly will.

When you first load into the game, your character will be killed. This is intentional. You’ll also get experience in Death. While this seems weird, you get a really nice ability when you hit level 10 in Death. But I’m getting ahead of myself…

It looks as if you are killed by Gorgons? It’s hard to say for sure, though. Your memory is wiped and you are dropped on an island called Anagoge with a bunch of other people who have had their memory wiped as well.

It's typically at this point many users will want to go into editing the Graphics and/or Settings for the game.