Tell Your Story With Character Customization
With hundreds of new additions with thousands of new combinations, Shadowlands’ new character customization options will help you better create the characters you envision in your mind.
From grizzled champions who wear their scars like badges of honor to wistful druids who are at one their forests, here are some short character backstories to help spark your imagination—along with the accompanying customizations that help bring out their personalities.
What Goes Bump in the Night
Rumors swirl of a pale wight that lurks in the shadows, a monstrous blend of man and beast with unnatural glowing eyes who’ll slip a poison-dipped dagger into its victim’s rib cage with surgical precision—before dissipating silently into the darkness.
Make your own bloodthirsty worgen rogue by selecting the following options on the character creation screen or at the Barber:
Race: Worgen
Class: Rogue
Hair Style: 2, Wild
Ears: 5, Frayed
Eye Color: 28
Tip:Choosing a worgen will also allow you to choose the features for its human form as well. Simply select the Human Form portrait in the top right to begin!
Master of Demons
Drawing on demonic power, the undead warlock staves off decay and grows stronger with every victim she drains life from.
Make your own merciless undead warlock by selecting the following options on the character creation screen or at the barber shop:
Race: Undead
Class: Warlock
Skin Color: 11
Skin Type: 3, Fresh
Face: 1
Hair Style: 18, Dethrock
Hair Color: 14
Face Features: None
Jaw Features: 5, Cheeky
Eye Color: 3
The Light’s Chosen
Favored by the naaru, this disciple of the Light has been the salvation of many—during Azeroth’s darkest hours, he bathes the wounded with a miraculous healing touch and sears the flesh of the wicked. The dutiful Priest has already endured more strife than brothers and sisters twice his age.
Make your own illustrious human priest by selecting the following options on the character creation screen or at the barber shop:
Race: Human
Class: Priest
Skin Color: 12
Face: 13
Hair Style: 20, Dreadlocks
Hair Color: 1
Mustache: 7, Horseshoe
Beard: 2, Goatee
Face Shape: 2, Wide
Eyebrows: 9, Raised
Eye Color: 3
Potent Protégé
Just one glance at her glowing eyes and all can see that this nage brims with the arcane power and intellect that only comes from years of study. Few can wield these great and dangerous forces with such precision.
Make your own masterful void elf mage by selecting the following options on the character creation screen or at the barber shop:
Race: Void Elf
Class: Mage
Skin Color: 10
Face: 17
Hair Style: 10, Scandal
Hair Color: 2
Eye Color: 3
Earrings: Rune
War-torn Warrior
Fueled by rage, this battle-hardened warrior charges headlong into packs of enemies, fully intent on splintering every bone in their bodies.
Make your own ruthless orc warrior by selecting the following options on the character creation screen or at the barber shop:
Race: Orc
Class: Warrior
Skin Color: 7
Face: 8
Hair Style: 9, Mohawk
Hair Color: 2
Beard: 13, Tusk
Side Burns: 8, Braids
Eye Color: 19
Scars: 2, Swipe
Grime: 3, Eyes
Earrings: 4, Plugs
Nose Ring: 3, Iron
Tusks: 3, Broken
Tattoo: 4, Immortality
Warpaint: 1, None
Upright: Selected
One with the Wilds
For centuries this druid has protected the forest she dwells in, and over the ages has shed all her worldly possessions except for her prized crescent moon circlet—a memento of her ancient heritage and her people’s reverence of Elune.
Make your own grove guardian night elf druid by selecting the following options on the character creation screen or at the barber shop:
Race: Night Elf
Class: Druid
Skin Color: 8
Face: 9
Hair Style: 20, Shaggy
Hair Color: 1
Vines: Yes
Vine Color: 2
Eyebrows: 3, Lifted
Ears: 1, Thin
Scars: 2, Swipe
Eye Color: 3
Markings: 8, Serpent
Headdress: 2, Circlet
Earrings: 2, Crescent
Nose Ring: 2, Ring
Necklace: 2, Chain
Sure-handed Sharpshooter
Rough and wild, this hunter bears the scars of her first hunt. She stalks through the shadows of the trees, tracking her quarry before loosing an arrow at it and commanding her faithful feral companion to deliver the coup de grâce.
Make your own cunning human hunter by selecting the following options on the character creation screen or at the barber shop:
Race: Human
Class: Hunter
Skin Color: 15
Face: 42
Hair Style: 31, Long
Hair Color: 1
Eyebrows: 1, Defined
Face Shape: 1, Narrow
Eye Color: 5
Makeup: 7, Charcoal
Piercings: 1, None
Necklace: 2, Ruby
Justice’s Might
Having sworn an oath, this holy crusader has ascended from pupil to paladin and is ready to fulfill her duty of protecting the weak and vanquishing evil wherever it crawls.
Make your own righteous draenei paladin by selecting the following options on the character creation screen or at the barber shop:
Race: Draenei
Class: Paladin
Skin Color: 12
Face: 9
Hair Style: 23, Donut Bun
Hair Color: 13
Horns: 10, Ram
Circlet: None
Hair Decoration: Bejeweled Bow
Tendrils: Thin
Jewelry Color: 2
Tail: Long
Fury of the Elements
Wearing war paint, the shaman stands ready to defend her tribe by harnessing the raw power of lightning in the palm of her hands.
Make your own mystical tauren shaman by selecting the following options on the character creation screen or at the barber shop:
Race: Tauren
Class: Shaman
Skin Color: 13
Face: 2
Horn Style: 15, Backswept
Horn Color: 2
Horns: 10, Ram
Foremane: 3, Naturale
Hair: 15, Ceremonial
Eye Color: 5
Face Paint: 4, Hawk
Headdress: 2, Feathers
Nose Ring: 2, Left
Necklace: 2, Stone
Flower: Yes
Body Paint: 2, Kodo
Paint Color: 4
Every character’s story can be told through their features—details forged from every trial they’ve fallen to or triumphed over—and with thousands of combinations you can make one your very own.