Pre-Order Bonus: Rather ridiculously, every major vendor had a pre-order bonus for Origins that's exclusive to them. Playing Against Type: While playing a villain is quite standard for Tim Curry, it is incredibly rare for him to be one of the most subtle and repulsive villains in the entire story. Missing Trailer Scene: The Badass Creed of the Grey Wardens is never spoken in the actual game, but is featured in one of the trailers. In the Companions section for Origins, it refers to the ritual child that Morrigan can conceive with a male Grey Warden as an "old god baby." Meme Acknowledgment: Dragon Age Keep allows you to create a story to import into Dragon Age: Inquisition without having to play the other games. 
This genre ambiguity has persisted throughout the series since, although the balance has gradually shifted towards Heroic Fantasy in the later titles. A compromise was eventually found by Jennifer Hepler, dubbed "dark heroic fantasy", wherein "the world was dark, but the player's role in it was heroic".
Flip-Flop of God: During development, there was a lot of debate on whether DA should be a Dark Fantasy or a Heroic Fantasy: the powerful writing team wanted a darker tone in the vein of A Song of Ice and Fire, while the rest of the designers wanted a heroic adventure in the footsteps of Baldur's Gate. The knife the Warden can use to execute people (which is always the same, no matter your class or what you're actually carrying) is known by the fandom as Murder Knife. Another common name is Barkspawn, popularized by Tycho Brahe of Penny Arcade, who did the official Dragon Age comics. 
Mary Kirby (Dog's writer) named the dog Rabbit, making it a popular choice for those who don't recognize it, it's a subtle Monty Python reference (the killer rabbit).
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