Lemme say this character creation is not available atm. You are supposed to just get the template character by itself atm. Though it's now september meaning character creation will come eventually but please be paitent and remember that this is a demo for a scrapped game that is going to be remade into something new. You really should check the discord server or play/look into Gaco Games and the 2 games under it called "Epic Conquest" and "Epic Conquest 2" and again read the discord to better understand what this demo actually is and why it's currently this way for context.
As someone who is following the series for a while now and was one of the lucky few to had tried the original version of this game before everything went down. I just hope everyone is on the same page, is a bit understanding of the current situation and I just hope development will go smoothly in a way that makes everyone happy.
I loved the games and stayed even when everyone called them dead and I hope that things don't spiral out of control again. Cuz the demo is actually pretty fun ngl even with a few quirks I wanna mention regarding some combat stuff but I just wanna play more to gather better data and to understand if it is just a skill issue or an actual issue I should bring up over on discord.