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Get ready the new RPG by Obsidian Entertainment by checking out all of your options in our complete Character Creation Guide for Avowed!
Embarking on your journey in Avowed, Obsidian Entertainment’s 2025 role-playing game, begins with the most crucial decision: creating your character. The process offers a world of possibilities, allowing you to shape your hero from the ground up, crafting their appearance, backstory, and abilities. Whether you’re new to role-playing games or a seasoned veteran, mastering the character creation system in Avowed will ensure your experience is both immersive and tailored to your playstyle. This complete character creation guide for Avowed will walk you through each step of the process, providing tips and insights to help you make the best choices for your ideal adventurer.
Avowed Character Creation Explained
In Avowed your character will be known as the ‘Envoy’, the protagonist who was sent by the Emperor of the Aedyr Empire to discover the origins of a mysterious plague infecting the inhabitants. Your character will generally be referred to by NPCs in dialogue by your title, rather than name. Consequently, this allows you to create a character all of your own making. Although there are only two races to choose from in Avowed, there are many other choices, sliders, and effects you can use to make a character your own.
These are all of the main character creation choices in Avowed:
- Race/Body Type
- Head & Hair
- Godlike Features
- Facial Features
- Extras
- Background
- Attributes
- Finalization
Avowed Character Creation Races/Body Type
There are only two race choices in Avowed, which is due to the origin of your character from the Aedyr Empire. Aedyr is the alliance of human and elven kingdoms after centuries of fighting. Consequently, you can only choose between the two. The available race and sex choices in Avowed are:
- Human Female
- Human Male
- Elven Female
- Elven Male
Additionally, in this same section, you can also modify their skin color by moving over to the Skin Tone tab at the top of the screen. In this tab, you can choose between several preset colors, or make your own using Tone and Temperature sliders.
Avowd Godlike Facial Features
With in the Head & Hair tab the most important and visually striking choice you will need to make is what godlike facial and hair features your character will have. In Avowed, godlike features are unique physical mutations (and abilities) that are a manifestation of the god or goddess that has touched you before birth. Moreover, you can choose separate godlike features for both your face and hair.
Additionally, you can choose to toggle the godlike features on and off. This is an option based on your own personal preference. If you don’t like how the godlike features markings look, then you can choose to hide them on your character.
However, hiding them from view means that only YOU can’t see them. You will still have to choose godlike features for your character and NPCs will still be able to see them in the game and will react accordingly. Being godlike is an innate part of your protagonist character and will play a strong role in the story of Avowed, as well as grant you special abilities for combat.
Avowed Character Appearance Options
Furthermore, using the character creator in Avowed will allow you to choose from a wide variety of options to personalize your avatar. Aside from the Godlike Facial Features, the Head & Hair tab also includes the following options:
- Hair
- Preset Colors
- Hue, Saturation, and Brightness
- Facial Hair
- Preset Colors
- Hue Saturation, and Brightness
- Also with a selection option that will automatically match it to colors chosen for your hair.
Next, the following tab is called Facial Features, and here you will able to make additional changes to your Eyes, Brows, Nose, Face Shape, Mouth, and Ears. These tabs will all include what will likely be familiar sliders which can alter shapes, determine color, and more.
Avowed Character Extras Options
The Extras options in the Avowed character creator is where you can give your character even more individuality by further personalizing your appearance. However, it appears that these options are mostly limited to the face. While complexion might change your skin all over your body, there are no full-body tattoos in Avowed. Here are all of the available categories within the Extras tab in the Avowed character creation guide:
- Complexion – Freckle and vitiligo options, along with colors and sliders
- Lips – Choose lipstick location, shine, and color
- Facial Scars – Choose from 22 different scars, as well as color
- Eyeliner – Choose from 36 eyeliner options, along with color and intensity
- Makeup – Over 45 makeup and facial tattoo designs, as well as color options
Avowed Character Background Choices
There are five different backgrounds you can choose from when creating your character in Avowed. Your choice of background will give you access to unique dialogue options and also determine your starting weapon. However, this does not mean you are locked to a certain weapon type or class. In Avowed, you can unlock and use all equipment and abilities no matter which background you choose.
Therefore, your choice of background in Avowed will mostly influence your dialogue choices. Additionally, it will also set your spread of attribute points in the next tab, but you can change those manually if you wish.
The five available backgrounds in Avowed are:
| Background | Description |
|---|---|
| Arcane Scholar | After graduating with honors from Bragganhyl Academy, you published a treatise on soul lineages that threatened the legitimacy and drew the ire of a local lord. When he had you arrested, the Emperor intervened and recruited you into the archives of the imperial court. Your mind is a bottomless well of occult knowledge, legal precedent, historical observation, and poetry. You have forgotten more than most people ever learn. |
| Court Augur | When your village’s crops failed, your strange insights and unsettling manner earned your neighbors’ suspicions. You foresaw the torches and pitchforks and fled to Highcrown, where the Emperor recognized your talents and elevated you from back alley fortune teller to his personal mystic. You have learned to wield power from the shadows; all it takes is a dash of influence and a pinch of deception. |
| Noble Scion | You were born to a noble house of great influence, middling wealth, and questionable morals. When scandals and succession disputes saw your family cast down, you threw yourself on the Emperor’s mercy, and he shielded you. Canny yet refined, you have become a formidable force at court and an invaluable ally to the Emperor. |
| Vanguard Scout | Born to humble beginnings and driven to desperation by famine, your life was destined to end on the executioner’s block until the Emperor spared you. More at ease in wilderness than at court, your cleverness and observant nature has made you one of the Emperor’s most trusted operatives. Whether tracking prey or spying on enemies, your skills are put to work both inside and outside of the throne room. |
| War Hero | You distinguished yourself on the field of battle fighting a violent Skaenite uprising. The Emperor honored you with a place among the elite Tall Grass Spearmen. Some of your scars are more obvious than others, but you wear them with pride. The Emperor values your loyalty, your grit, and your martial prowess. |
Avowed Character Creation Attributes
There are six different types of Attributes in Avowed, which can affect your strength, speed, resource pools, and more. With each point that you apply to an attribute, certain stats will increase.
You will have 10 points in the character creator to distribute across all six attributes. Moreover, you will find that these points have been automatically distributed for you based on the background you selected. However, you can use the plus and minus buttons to move points around however you wish. However, within the character creator, you cannot apply more than 3 points to any given attribute.
These are all six attributes and their relevant stats in Avowed:
- Might – affects Damage and Carry Capacity
- Constitution – affects Maximum Health, also Poison and Bleed Resistance
- Dexterity – affects Attack Speed and Action Speed
- Perception – affects Critical Hit Chance and Maximum Range
- Intellect – affects Maximum Essence and Elemental Resistance
- Resolve – affects Maximum Stamina and Second Wind Efficiency
Avowed Character Creation Guide Finalization
The Finalization tab in the Avowed character creator will let you set the game difficulty level, your voice, and identifier. Additionally, this section will give you another chance to toggle your godlike hair and facial features on or off. Remember that even if you turn the godlike features off, this is only for the visual setting that you see in the game. The godlike features are still an important part of your character, and NPCs will still react to them.
These are the five difficulty levels you can choose from in Avowed:
- Story Time – Combat is biased in the player’s favor.
- Easy – Forgives mistakes and requires minimal strategy.
- Normal – Requires strategy, but forgives some mistakes.
- Hard – Suited for players looking for a challenge.
- Path of the Damned – For those who want the most punished encounters.
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