The Warden

The player will begin by choosing their gender, then race, human, elf or dwarf. Next, they will pick their class, warrior, rogue or mage. Dwarves are restricted to playing a warrior or rogue. They will then choose whatever origins are available, customize their character's appearance and begin to play.

Story
After your characters Origin story is played out, the player is sought out by Duncan, the leader of the recently reformed Grey Wardens, to join them and aid King Cailan Theirin and his troops against an upcoming army of Darkspawn in Ostagar. This is where the main plot of Dragon Age: Origins will begin.

The actions of the Player Character are entirely decided by the user, but unlike many other cRPG's, their choices are not tracked by a meter or bar, though they all have repercussions, whatever is chosen.

Quotes

 * Alistair: "One good thing about the blight is how it brings people together."
 * Dalish Elf: "You are a very strange human."


 * Dwarven Female Commoner: "When I saw your, "majesty", the scepter was a little... soft."

Trivia

 * Originally, the human race had two origins; Noble and Commoner. However, the commoner origin was cut due to the story being uninteresting in comparison to the others. The human commoner was from a farm in Redcliffe.