Regardless of your choice, the story begins the same; you're awakened by your female cousin on your wedding day. It's an arranged marriage and you don't know the groom/bride, so the dialogue choices give you some options to express how happy or reluctant you are about the whole affair.
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As you go off to meet the prospective mates a bunch of boorish human noblemen crash the party. It's not clear, but the situation seems similar to primae noctis, the feudal right of the lords to sleep with brides first. Just as things get rowdy, your female cousin smashes a jug on the snootiest (and highest ranking) nobleman. They retreat, but vow revenge. Sure enough, just as the wedding ceremony is starting up, they reappear with armed guards and take all the females of the wedding party away.
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The good news is that either way Duncan, the Gray Warden, will invoke his right to conscript anyone into the order; apparently it's the equivalent of an instant pardon. The bad news is that if you didn't take responsibility all by yourself, then your cousin gets arrested and sent off to the executioner while you head off to battle the evil darkspawn threatening the world.​