Dragon Age stories revealed

BioWare has announced details of all six Origin Stories for its upcoming multi-platform RPG, Dragon Age: Origins. Each origin story starts the player off with a unique series of locations, characters and events that establish their motivations and back story for the adventure ahead.

Each Origin Story boasts several hours of unique gameplay, with the six distinct preludes making Dragon Age: Origins the first BioWare game to not only offer 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 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.

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.

BioWare notes that the choices players make during an Origin Story will influence the way the game unfolds, including different story elements, dialogue options and even plot branches.