Lead designer Ferret Baudoin explains Awakening’s new skills, items, and story. Last year’s Dragon Age: Origins told an epic fantasy tale of a world torn apart by both a monstrous invasion and a traitor’s civil war. As a Grey Warden, your character defeated the threat of the evil darkspawn–the ugly monsters from the depths of Earth that threatened to overrun the kingdom–and reunited the shattered country.

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