We should have more of an opportunity to do that in the upcoming months leading up to Dragon Age's October 20 release date.

During the course of the game, players are able to visit a brothel where a hostess asks what they are interested in. If players select "Surprise me," they can sometimes wind up face-to-face with a woman, a man, a transsexual, or an animal; sexual activity is never depicted during these brothel encounters.

Players will start their adventure in one of the following roles:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Dwarf Noble: The favored child of the dwarven king, 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

As for the Human Commoner, you're not getting one. If we ever did start work on a new origin story as part of DLC, I'm not sure how that would work. Even if we were able to restore what bits used to exist, I'm not sure we would want them -- like I've said previously, it wasn't working. I know some people are of the opinion that anything that was cut ever is somehow their rightful due and should be restored instantly to the end product for free lest it be considered a rip-off... but if we ever DID undertake the overhaul that would be needed to add an origin story, it would NOT be as easy as flipping a switch. It would be far, far, far from flipping a switch. This idea some people might have of us carefully excising a part of the game just to sell it back to you later is entertaining, but without merit.

You are free to think what you like, of course -- as if we could stop you -- but running around griping about how things that are cut from the game during development are somehow being used to rip you off is a bit reactionary. Here's to being pleasantly surprised, I guess.