Character creation

                        Creating your character

 To adventure in the realms of Icesus, you have to create a
 character for yourself, whose actions you control. It is a
 good idea to take the time to read all helps about all the
 different options in the character creation process and to
 choose carefully.

Names:

 When first logging in, you are asked to supply a name for
 your character. You can only use lowercase letters (a-z) in
 the name, and it cannot be longer than 12 letters.

 Icesus has a name policy which doesn't allow names
 well-known from literature, movies etc to be used as names
 for a character. Using actual english words (or words from
 any other language) as a name is also disencouraged, as is
 plain offensive or stupid names. If your name breaks these
 rules, you will be asked by a administrator to change it and
 your old character will be removed.

 It might happen that you are asked for a password after
 giving the name. This means someone else has already created
 a character with that name.  Pressing enter thrice will
 disconnect you, so that you can re-connect and try another
 name. Another possibility is that you are informed that the
 name is 'banned'; this means an administrator has disabled
 that name so that it cannot be used in the game.

Password:

 You must give a unique password which you use every time you
 log on to the game. Do not use an actual word as your
 password, nor anything else that is easily guessable. The
 best passwords consists of both uppercase and lowercase
 letters mixed with numbers. You can change your password at
 any time after creation with the 'passwd'-command.

Gender:

 This is the gender your character will have in the
 game. Choose whatever you like. It cannot be easily changed
 later on, so be sure you choose what you really want.

Email & real name:

 You will next be asked for a valid e-mail address and your
 real name. This information can ONLY BE SEEN BY ARCHWIZARDS
 OR HIGHER. No other players or wizards can see it. You do
 not have to give these if you don't want to. However, if you
 later forget your password or have similar troubles, the
 administration can probably not help you if you haven't
 given these. You can change this information at any time
 after creation with the 'chfn'-command.

 If you choose not to give this information, please do not
 try to be funny and give 'humorous' names and
 addresses. This is done constantly, and the administrators
 have seen it all and are not amused.

Race:

 You will now be moved to a room where you can choose your
 race. Start by typing 'look', this will show you what commands 
 you can use in this room. Look at the information about each race 
 (ex 'info elf'), and find one which you like. Pay special 
 attention to its statistics and make sure you choose a race which 
 is suitable for the kind of career you want to pursue, if you 
 already have decided upon that. A mage would want a race with 
 good intelligence, while a fighter would need good strength and 
 constitution, and so on. When you have found a race you like, 
 type 'select <race>', ex 'select elf' to choose that race for your
 character.

 NOTE: also pay special attention to how good dark- and
 light-vision the race has, and if they are allergic to water
 or have other such impedements. Choosing a race with poor
 vision or some allergy can make a beginning adventurer's
 life much harder than it would have to be.

 Once you have chosen a race to your liking, type 'continue' to move on. 
 You will still be able to return here until your creation is finished.

Backgrounds:

 Next you will choose the background of your character in
 several steps. You can read a more thorough explanation
 about this by typing 'help backgrounds'. In short, your
 choices here will affect your character in many ways, giving
 bonuses both to her actual statistics and potential maximum
 statistics, skills, spells, starting equipment etc.

 In each part of the background-creation, you can use the
 'info'-command to see information about the available
 choices, and type 'back' to move to the beginning of the
 current section of your background-creation. Typing 'back'
 several times will eventually take you all the way to the
 race- and element-selection. You choose one of the available
 options simply by typing it.

 When you get to the part where you can select jobs your
 character performs before starting her adventuring career,
 you can at any point type 'start adventuring' to start
 playing. If not, you still will only be able to choose a set
 number of jobs before you are forced to start
 adventuring. The more jobs you choose, the older the
 character is when she starts her adventuring career.