Character creation | Hero - Harkyn Lords of the Fallen Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

After you start the new game, you will access the character creation screen, where you can make important choices. The first one is to pick one of the three magic types: solace, brawl and deception. They correspond to the three types of characters: the cleric, the fighter and the rogue. Although this choice influences the special abilities that are available in the game, there is nothing standing in your way, if you want to play as the battleaxe-wielding cleric or rogue, or as a fighter with daggers. How many points you invest into developing spells, and how often you are going to use them depends on you and you only. In the Lords of the Fallen, however, their significance has been reduced. They play more of a supportive role and the first one of the available spells is very similar for all three sets. It is worth knowing, also, that only if you choose the Solace school, will you have access to one of the four spells from the very beginning.

NOTE! After you complete the game for the first time, you will be able to start over as the same character, in the "New Game +" mode. The difficulty level goes up, then, but you can use all of the gear that you have obtained earlier, you retain your experience level and, apart from that, you can unlock another set of spells. The third set becomes available, for the same character,. after you start the game for the third time, in the "New Game ++" mode.

The second choice that you make is even less important. It is about picking your starting gear, i.e. your weapon and your armor. The type of gear that you are using is important in combat, but you will be allowed to change it freely, at the very beginning of the game, thanks to the items hidden in chests. If you want to, you can pick heavy armor, at the beginning, but you can change it after some time of playing, into light armor. What is more important, than the choices made at the very beginning, are the statistics that you develop throughout the game, because it is them that determine, if you can use the gear that you obtain. To learn more, see the chapter entitled "Character development"