No access code, no waiting list. Open the client, choose any username and password, and log in — your account is created the first time you connect.
Your starting kit
Six things, in order. Do them and you'll be self-sufficient inside an hour — the rest of Britannia you can work out as you go.
None of this is handed out. Every suit is crafted, looted, or taken off something that did not want to give it up.
Leather is the only starting kit. That's deliberate — on this shard your gear says where you've been, not which button you clicked before you arrived.
Four combat skills plus magery, and the tools that train them. You start with a dagger; everything here you buy, craft, or take.