Warden not porting to Awakening

[Seliphra]

So I just finished my play through of Dragon Age: Origins, and I was going to start Awakening. I performed the ritual with Morrigan, so my Warden was still alive at the end of the game, but for some reason when I try to boot up Awakening it takes me to a strange room with chests, and gives me a default Warden named Jaden (human, bald, male, no class or stats). I like my Dalish Warden just as he was, and I kind of want him to be my Awakening guy (or I would have opted for US ending since I failed to harden Alistair when needed to sacrifice ), but the game will not even let me choose a character creator?

This weird room has a dude I can talk too that's called 'Debug Dude' or something and offers to take me to specific sections of the game, but I have no way to fix this, I can't even make a new warden, I'm being forced with a bald male human which I don't care for. Is there any way to fix this? I am playing through the Origin client on PC if that helps! I included pictures of the room and the debug guy, too, please excuse the quality I had to take them on my phone since it won't let me screenshot either.

[ThandalNLyman]

Mods?

[Seliphra]

I do not have any mods currently attached to my game, but I do have all the DLC, is there a mod I need in order to fix this? (I did previously have a few mods, but they were removed before I re-downloaded the game -as in I deleted my entire mods folder- to prevent running issues with the client, and said mods never impacted Awakening before either. As I did not reinstall the mod-running program when my computer changed as well, I don't know if this is the problem? If it is, without the mods existing to delete, should I redownload them all?)

[ThandalNLyman]

@Seliphra;  No, no mod needed to play Awakening.  I just wanted to know if there were any installed that might be causing the issue.

How do you get to Awakening to start a new game?  The vanilla process would be to launch Dragon Age: Origins, (whichever version you have) then from the Main Menu select: "Other Campaigns ==> Awakening ==> Play ==> Import from Another Module".

Is that what you're doing?

[EDIT]  I presume you've already tried both the "Repair" and "Update Game" options from within your EA/Origin Library.

[Seliphra]

I am opening Other Campaigns => Awakening => Play, but it does not give me the option to import, it takes me straight to the strange room instead. I have already attempted Repair and Update, yes, there was no change when I did, and I am very confused by this. (Likewise if I opt New Game => Awakening  I end up in the same room as before)

[Fred_vdp]

All results in google point to mods. This is an odd issue indeed.

Could you perhaps upload your latest Dragon Age Origins save file so we can conduct evil experiments? I want to see what happens when I load it. If it has any mods I don't have, it should inform me of it. I could  then perhaps make a 'clean' save file.

[ThandalNLyman]

Yes, I agree with Fred.  I've started Awakening to play the default Orlesian Warden, (although I couldn't go more than a couple hours that way.)  But except for a mod-gone-wrong situation, I've never heard of being forced to do so, much less being stuck in room at the start.

[Some_Attitude]

Found a possible cause:  "Ser Gilmore" mod for DAO is installed.

Remove that, and Awakening should start normally.