If your character dies in battle it will respawn at the last activated bindstone on a map. Your character is an immortal warrior called a Runewarrior created by the mages that destroyed the world to fight their wars. You start as a level 1 character that has to complete quests and kill hostile game units to gain experience to rise in level.
After this is done you can start playing. Increasing certain skills allows you to use certain weapons and spells. When creating an avatar you can choose to be a melee fighter, archer or magician and have to distribute 30 stats points among your character stats.
To begin you have to create a character called an Avatar or choose a ready made one that represents you in the game. The game features campaign mode, free game mode and multiplayer mode. The pieces of land are connected by magical portals that make travel between them possible. After the ritual only small pieces of land remain around magical towers created by the god that created the world. The ritual was performed by 13 powerful mages that in their greed for power caused the continents of the world to shatter. The game takes place in a broken world called Eo that was torn apart by a ritual called the Convocation. SpellForce is a combination real-time strategy and role-playing video game.