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Yet another mage variant, Battle Mages prefer to hone their magic skills on the battlefield.
Character Creation refers to characters created by players themselves, rather than developers.
A character who is destined to save or destroy the world. Often seen in RPGs.
Cryokinesis is the manipulation of ice. Also known as Ice Manipulation or Cryomancy. Users can generate, shape, and control ice to their will.
Some games let players customize their character (or characters). Degree of customization may vary, with some games simply allowing to choose between different types of clothes, while others provide more detailed tinkering of features such as the distance between a character's eyes or hair color.
Dwarves are a short, stout race that appear in any number of fantasy games and stories. They are almost always depicted as short with bushy beards similar to vikings. They can also be identified by their love for ale and gold. Other common trends for Fantasy Dwarves include being proud warriors, favoring axes as their weapon of choice, and being gruff sticklers for tradition and honor.
Elves are a race found in a lot of games based on a fantasy setting. They are recognizable by their elongated ears and often live much longer than humans. Some are even immortal. There are many variations of Elves.
The accent of someone traditionally from England. Not to be confused with Welsh or Scottish, which are totally different despite being sometimes referred to as simply "British" accent.
The ability to create, shape, and control fire at will. This is a common and well known power in fiction, its appearance dating back to ancient literature.
When the main character starts out as a weak, hopeless, tiny lad and the player makes him the most powerful person in the game.
Picking the gender of your character can help immerse you in the game world. Sometimes this leads to different abilities in-game, sometimes it means nothing at all.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
The ability to control the direction and/or behavior of lightning; this may also be connected with the ability to generate lightning. Many games involve characters with lightning element attacks. These are unique because of their potency with water.
The single most important thing in the world, love is a powerful story telling element that can connect characters or drive a story. There are many video game characters who have fallen in love with someone or something.
Any character you can control in a game is a Player Character (PC), as opposed to a non-player character (NPC), which is a character that can only be controlled by the game.
The tall, muscular race known as the qunari are a stoic and poorly understood people who follow the way of the Qun, sacrificing their own individuality for group cohesion. Part of BioWare's Dragon Age franchise.
Games designed for specific religious communities.
A playable class in many roleplaying games. Rogues are also sometimes known as Thieves. The class in almost all these games center around their stealth capabilities.
Romance in video games can either be interactive, in which the player attempts to woo another character, or an unchangeable part of the story of a given game.
An intimate physical activity between two or more individuals.
A Fencer; a person who fights with a sword. Swordsmen are common in medieval strategy games.
Many Circles of Magi exist in the world of Dragon Age. Throughout the continent of Thedas, any country under The Chantry of Light's power will feature a Circle. Mages are kept under lock and key for the duration of their lives.
An individual who specializes in armed combat.
Being learned scholars and masters of the arcane arts, wizards wield great power by manipulating magical energy for the forces of good and evil.
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