When I first went through character creation, I finished up my character and clicked "Venture Forth". The camera then panned to a completely different character, and I could only choose the race, gender, and appearance of this character. I had no idea why I was doing this, but I figured maybe this was a long-lost relative that you find later.
As it turns out, from reading the Technical Bugs forum, this is the "romantic interest creator". I had no idea. I even had Tutorial mode on. Please, give some hint to the player as to who they are creating here! I'm ok with my choices, but when the full game comes out, I think people ought to know why they're being asked to create another character (sort of).