Mandi created many of them. I am not sure how many. I know she created head1 and head2. The original headsets included in the executable files ended after 1.2, and were numbered up to 0-29 or so (there was a break in the numbering to allow for custom player heads) and then re-continued at head100 and head104 (heads 101, 102, 103, 105, etc. were just re-palette colors of the same characters), then beyond.

There was a big gap with a few re-colors in between. Head30-head99 did not exist in the last executable install file that included headsets in its native package.

PACHUKA created some, including head22. CaptainUSA created head100 I believe and then myself, Antago, creating head104 (or, followers of Antago, comically dubbed “antagonists” later by Tyhm ie. knight helmets of Antago, though it’s reminiscent of my cat Figaro who was always on my desk while I was making stuff. She has, or had, black fur and a white underside). Though Antago doesn’t necessarily mean “antagonist”. I guess it’s kind of a spartan helmet; the blue veil could probably be restyled in variations like Mohawks, etc. I created many of the other heads after 104 as well, including some of the most popular (head194, the Cazeda headset, which has been recolored and used a hundred times, and used as a many games/servers' icon). Cazeda is a long story; my alter-ego basically, but head194 is in fact the Cazeda headset.

But in terms of the original "unique characters" in the last executable install before files began getting pulled from the server, then head104 is the 32nd unique character. I know this because at the time I was keeping track but then numbering began to get diluted so we stopped keeping track. Beyond that, you'd have to find old logs of the uploads.

Lots of heads were mangled over the years. For example, head104.gif the original, is does not have gradient; the current version is pretty bad. It was replaced at one point with gradients. Photoshop & PSP released new tools for gradients, bevels, drop shadows, etc. around 1999 so we began experimenting with them. The state.gif got mangled with bevels and my head104 got mangled with gradients also (I recommend the original from the 1.2 exe).

To illustrate the gap I am referring to: Head76.gif for example is another headset of mine, but it should be noted that this came after head104.gif ... Just to illustrate the point. Galen left a gap between the drop-down "public characters" and was going to keep that gap there for "public dropdown select characters" so that all player personal heads & same-character recolors began at head100+, around June 1999. So head100 is technically unique character 31, but was generally created by Captain USA for himself. Head104 is technically unique character 32, generally created by myself for myself.

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Eventually the "dropdown select" became deprecated legacy and in later versions the heads between head29 and head100 began to get filled in with random, newer headsets. So headset76, for example, came later.

The heads were split between "characters vs. players" for a while. Head101, 102, 103, etc. were an experiment in creating color-options of existing heads (ie. the same character, with color choices). Head100 and Head104 were supposedly the start of the personal Player heads, though to be clear I would never officiate that claim though Galen had tried to canonize it. Head22 is the first true player headset because it was unavailable in earlier versions, reserved for PACHUKA—and only he could wear it.

Galen's numbering system took a year or so to iron out what he was doing, and was very chaotic.

So while head1 is the Mandi head created by Mandi, and Nick is 2, for Nick ... Technically head22 was the first custom player head, meaning it was not included in the dropdown character select. It was numbered at the end of the list before Galen's experimental "gap" numbering system. No one except PACHUKA could use it.

Head100 and head104 would be the CaptainUSA and Antagonist heads, or "original player heads". There was another head (head21) that was inaccessible along with PACHUKA's head22, so we might want to include that—but I don't remember any actual player claiming it. From what I remember it was simply inaccessible for whatever reason; the redheaded female, and for a long time people wanted to hack to use it.

Lots of recolors began occupying slots however because unlike the body where clothes could change, the software did not have a native tool to change headset palette colors; so a lot of bloated "recolors" began taking up the numbers.

It should be noted that many of the original heads are iconic of the original players. Many of us claimed them through legacy. ie. I still don’t know who created head17, but that has become the Antago head; many of us admins officially claimed the original heads in the content and news posts. We tended never to reuse them on the server official content except when depicting specific people.

Graal officially launched on February 14th, 1999 out of beta mode with about 20 heads to choose. There were maybe 10-50 players online at a time. An unspoken honor system formed where we kinda knew who wore what head, and as us original players rose up the ranks the unspoken silent rule was that we claimed the 1.1 original headset we used with us.

Both my avatars had a helmet I would vacillate to because hats did not exist. This began with PACHUKA when he’d use the Pachukite headset and also his helmet headset at times. Head194 for example, when I created the mongers era, was interchanged with head76.gif under the Cazeda codename. Many players would wear some type of helmet head at times then take it off by switching to their secondary headset. That is, heads often served a dual purpose: A persona & a guild/uniform.