Sword of the New World: Granado Espada is an MMORPG, developed by famous Ragnarok developer Hak Kyu Kim and published by K2 Networks which is also a winner of the Korean awards for best graphics and best gameplay.

Welcome to the 17th century
...where fast combat, multi-character control and battles with NPCs await you.

As you begin your game, you’ll notice that instead of a common character selection screen, Sword has you create your characters in the barracks. First you need to fill in a family name which will be your character’s surname. Then you can create your characters, and pick one of the 5 classes in game:

Fighters are the main melee class and have the ability to use swords, shields, big swords, dual swords, poles, guns and even one sword and one gun at the same time. Musketeers are a ranged class and stand out in using guns and rifles. Wizards are a magic class, which means they are good at doing AOE’s (area of effect damage) and other magic. Then there are the elementalists, a magic class using elemental powers, which is the best class to do AOEs. Finally, there are scouts, the healer class or assassin class depending on how you want to use it. Scouts can heal the party, buff the party, place traps and it can assassinate monsters and/or players with their deadly daggers.

If that isn’t enough you can get UPC (universal player character) cards too, which are like the NPCs in game but then you can use them as characters. Some have their own unique stances and they can be obtained by doing quests. After obtaining the card you go to your barrack and then select the option to create a new character. Now the UPC is listed as being on your team, and they will travel around with you and help your combat against monsters. Every UPC has its own starter level so it’s not like you have to level them all from the start.

But sadly there are no ways to change faces, hair color, body frame, or anything else until you get into the game and start collecting new armor, weapons, hats and other accessories or costumes.