-Ok checking a VERY recent Eurogamer preview-
The current origins are not as strict as I thought they were.
Here is what chosing the current origins lock you in as.
1) You are locked into a race
2) You are locked into a gender
You can customize everything else. Even their appearance and even their name... Though it is likely, at least for some of them, that they will call you by your origin (though for The Red Prince it makes sense it is a title)
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This is a loooooooooooooooot more tolerable then what I was thinking.
I still wish there was more then playing the 4 companions you can recruit...
But I'd take a "Meh" version of a feature.
