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Character Creation and Customization
October 2, 2026 at 04:08 AM
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Character creation in AION 2 sets three things that are hard or impossible to change later, and one thing you can keep fiddling with forever. Get the first three right and the rest is play.
Choice | How permanent | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
Faction | Permanent per character | Elyos or Asmodian decides your starting territory, your story, and which side of the faction war you spawn into. Because the global service runs faction-separated servers , it also decides which server list you can roll on. |
Server | Changeable only through a transfer service | Server transfers on the global service are scheduled to open on October 14, 2026. They will be free at first and limited to the same faction, and characters on Advance Access servers will only be able to transfer between Advance Access servers. All instanced content, dungeons included, is cross-server. |
Class | No class change in the current build | Pick from the class roster . Levelling a second character is the supported way to try another role. |
Appearance is the exception. It is the one creation-time decision the game expects you to revisit, through paid restyling items and the wardrobe layer.
The storefront copy counts more than two hundred adjustable options, and NCsoft has pitched character creation as one of the game's headline systems rather than a preamble to it. The editor covers body proportions, face structure, skin tone and gloss, hair with two-tone dye pickers, voice presets, and lighting controls so you can judge a face under the conditions you will actually see it in.
The Korean and Taiwanese service has added to the editor steadily: new presets, faces, hairstyles and eyebrows in several patches, coloured lighting with a movable light (June 10, 2026), tattoos (July 15, 2026), mole placement and separate skin gloss for head and body (August 26, 2026), and three presets, nine hairstyles, two face shapes and an eyebrow per gender plus a build setting for body shape (September 23, 2026).
That toolset is one of the few launch features described for the global build directly rather than inherited from Korean and Taiwanese patch notes, and the Korean and Taiwanese build has kept extending it, adding wardrobe patterns and independent width and height scaling for pattern placement.
Each account gets four character slots at global launch. On the Korean and Taiwanese build, NCsoft granted every account one extra free slot when the Brawler arrived, so players could try the new class without deleting anything. Whether the global build repeats that pattern when it receives a new class is unannounced.
The Korean and Taiwanese build also added a character switch option to the main menu, letting you jump straight to another character without returning to the lobby, with combat power and item level shown per character.
Layer | What it does |
|---|---|
Restyling | Paid appearance changes, sold as vouchers. The Korean and Taiwanese build has run repeated Look Change Week events that halve the cost. |
Closet and wardrobe | Stores cosmetic sets and lets you apply them over your actual gear. Skins are appearance-only and grant no stats. |
Wings are a stat-bearing equipment slot with a cosmetic skin layer on top. Wing skins sold in the shop grant no stats. See Aerial Combat and Flight . | |
Cosmetic companions that can also be ridden, some with utility functions such as Auto-Loot. | |
Styling | Dye, material, pattern and pattern colour can be changed per part from the closet's palette button. The normal price is 200 Quna per part and removing styling is free. Seven new patterns were added on August 5, 2026, and one outfit's dye slots went from three to four on May 13. |
Customization Voucher | Pays for an appearance change. Time-limited vouchers are common event and broadcast rewards on the Korean service, and one was among the global Advance Access viewing rewards. |
Style Shop | Players can share their looks and download other players' looks |
Server sharing | The owned appearance list has been shared by every character on a server since January 21, 2026, and Special-grade appearances since July 1, 2026 |
One caution for players coming in at launch: during the Launch Scale Test the Closet was disabled entirely and every character wore default outfits. That was a test restriction, not a design.
For the global launch in North America, Latin America and Europe, NCsoft is running a character creation contest called Daeva Makeover from September 30 to October 19, 2026. Entrants submit a headshot and a full-body screenshot taken in the Closet menu; the Ugly, Cute, Attractive and Unique categories each pay 6,000 Quna, every entrant receives two Dye Tokens, and winners are announced on November 2.
The Korean service opened character creation early with a pre-launch customization event from November 16, 2025: one character per account, PC only, with class, name and appearance locked once created. A delay at its opening was compensated with an appearance change voucher for every player.
Classes for the roster. Factions: Elyos and Asmodian for the faction choice. Server Matching for how faction servers are paired. Pets and Mounts for companions. Getting Started for what to do once you are in the world.