Posted By Mercury_Claw at 1:37 PM - Fri Jun 09 2017

Will we be able to choose any race we want after we choose where we live or are both heavily connected. My concern is, say I pledge my loyalty to BloodOak Duchy from Dleatherus, in the Kingdom of Bordweall, but I choose a tribe that lives in swamps, and there is no swamps in his Duchy, am I screwed ?

This question has been answered dozens of times before, but I will repeat it for you.

No. You will not be able to choose just any race you want to no matter where you choose to be located.

Yes. Where you choose to live and what tribes are available for you to play is related.

Why is this so?

Because when you choose a "character" you are not simply making a fresh brand new one in a character creation screen and plopping themwhere ever you feel like in the world. You are picking a character that already exists in that world. That lives there. Has a family. A job. Connections with other people. So unless there happens to be a Dras family living amongst the tribes/biomes your kingdom encompasses when you go into the game to pick your character (which there will not be at the start of CoE, as the tribes will all be in their starting positions of their native biomes) then there would not be any Dras available for you to choose from if you choose to settle where they are not.

Makes sense?

Now if your chosen kingdom that you have pledged to doesn't have the biome and thus tribe you truly desire you have two choices.

1 - Break your pledge of loyalty to your present kingdom and switch to a kingdom that does have the biome/tribe you desire.

Or.

2 - Simply choose to start a character in that other kingdom with the plan to relocate to the kingdom you have pledged to once you have the means necessary. Which, if you watched this morning's Q&A, is supposedly is likely to be arduous and challenging.

Like what if I was a Duke myself, would this limit where my Duchy ir kingdom is, or would it limit what tribe I can play ? How does it all correlate.

If you are titled then that is another matter. Because yes where you choose to place your domain and settlement does limit you in what tribe you can play . As mentioned earlier when you choose your character you will be choosing one that is already living in the world. And in the case of titles, the character you choose is limited to the families living in your chosen settlement. If you don't choose a settlement with a Dras family, then there is no Dras characters for you to choose from.

Makes sense, doesn't it?

However.

There is nothing stopping you once the game is underway from breeding Dras bloodlines into your own bloodline (unless of course the Dras are one of the few tribes not available on the starting continent of your server. In which case it doesn't matter anyway). If you really really really want to stick with your Kingdom but also to play a Dras, then be patient and work in-game to have your family slowly turn Dras over generations by targeting Dras players or NPCs for child or even marriage contracts with your starting non Dras character.

A note on Wards; choosing Wards still limits you to the tribes that are in the vicinity of the orphanage that you choose to spawn from. Which means you are still limited to the tribe types of the local area.

I hope this clarified things for you a bit as well as given you a greater understanding of WHY it is the way it is.