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Ted Litchfield

Dragon Age: Inquisition was supposed to see your Origins character return for what would have been the most excruciating choice BioWare ever concocted

Alistair.

As reported by Eurogamer, Dragon Age: Inquisition initially featured the return of the protagonist from 2009's Origins, complete with full visual customization, similar to Dragon Age 2's Hawke appearing in Inquisition, or when the Inquisitor then returned in this year's Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Spoilers for Inquisition ahead.

Former Dragon Age scribe David Gaider recently referenced the plan in a thread on Bluesky about the difficulty of making player choices matter across multiple games: "'Here Lies the Abyss' in DAI was about as good as it gets," Gaider wrote. "And even that was a far cry from how I originally pictured it (hello last-minute insert of Stroud when a DAO Warden import got cut)."

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