[Major Bug]: Character ends up inside the intro map after character creation.

I have a solution, if its still needed 3 years later.

After roaming around for half an hour, i stumbled upon the village the second cutscene of the game takes place in, and where you first gain control.  I'm not gonna go into a detail description of where since idk if anyone needs it, but msg me and i can tell you.  Anyways, upon walking onto thr bridge you first meet cassandra it  jumps to the second cutscene and everything is normal again.

I can't believe this bug still is an issue....just did a fresh install and can't get around it, any chance you could post a video on how to get to the bridge?

I believe the issue can be triggered by any irregular framerate, including a low one. Can you confirm that the game runs at 30 frames per second during the opening cutscene? You can monitor framerate by pressing the key above tab, then typing perfoverlay.drawfps 1 and pressing enter.

I need the solution please. My friend just got the game today. He's tried a lot of the other work arounds and nothing works. Your help would be greatly appreciated. 

If you're running the game off of Origin. Right click the game icon in Origin game list and select repair. Let it run completely takes about 3 min. or so. This fixed the game for me. Hope it helps all of you. 3/29/19

Today is 05/10/20 and i've just encountered this bug (i also did encounter it first i've played the game on pirated version back in 2016 or so). The circumstances were: I played Human Female till the mid-game or so, then I decided to switch on Elf Female, both mages, both with imports from DA Keep. First, i thought it was because of the mods, but it wasn't. It bugged for me with elven female while my save files for female human were still there and i could continue playing it. I resolved this problem by trying to remove late game files (not deleting, just relocating it temporally) and then - oh miracle - it worked just fine. I think  the relocated game files later on after a save can be brought back.

For anyone who'll encounter it in the future - please use my solution. It can be a very obnoxious bug if you're creating a character for god knows how long and this happens. I will test it first from now on.

I also noticed that if you skip all the intro cutscenes right away it'll occur, BUT if you skip the first two, and then wait a little to see your character lying in the chasm of an explosion and then skip, it will not occur.