BioWare has announced the specifics of all six origin stories featured in its upcoming dark, heroic fantasy Dragon Age: Origins.
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With each story having several hours of unique game play, as well as challenging strategic combat and exploration, these six preludes make Dragon Age: Origins the first BioWare game to offer not only multiple endings, but also multiple beginnings.
Players will start their adventure in one of the following roles:
Dalish Elf: As one of the last true elves, you were content to spend your life wandering with your clan… until a chance encounter with a relic of your people’s past threatens to tear you away from everything you’ve known.
City Elf: You have always lived under the heavy thumb of your human overlords, but when a local lord claiming his privilege with the bride shatters your wedding day, the simmering racial tensions explode in a rain of vengeance.
Dwarf Commoner: Born casteless in a land where rank is everything, bound as the lackey and thug of a local crime lord, you have spent your life invisible… until chance thrusts you into the spotlight, where you can finally prove whether you will be defined by your actions or your birth.
Dwarf Noble: The favoured child of the Dwarven Kking, you proudly take up your first military command… only to learn that the deadly intrigues of dwarven politics pose an even greater danger than that faced on the battlefield.
Mage: Gifted with a power considered a dangerous curse by most, you have spent most of your life secluded in the remote tower of the Circle of Magi to be trained and watched closely by the dreaded templars. Now your final test is upon you – succeed and prove your strength, fail and you will perish.
Human Noble: Born to wealth and power second only to royalty, you find your training in both diplomacy and war put to the test when your father’s castle is betrayed from within on the very night your elder brother is to lead the family’s forces to war.
The player’s choice of Origin Story lays the foundation for a journey based on the character’s past experiences, establishing how they perceive the world and how the world perceives them. The choices made during an origin story will influence the way the game unfolds, including different story elements, dialogue options and even plot branches.
