Excellent news Lar...thanks very much for shedding some light on the subject(s). I haven't played to the end yet, so I can't speak about the ending sequence, but nice to know you can seemlessly carry on from there. I much prefer this to stand alone add-ons, and several games have done this successfully.
So can we safely assume that character enhancements and combat vs. level optimization will be available in the early part of the game as well? Different skills and such?
Sounds frickin awesome...thanks for update!!