Can you be evil in dragon age origins?

Answer 1

The kind of 'evil' choices you make in Dragon Age Origins are more like 'callously practical' ones - with the fate of the world at stake, you could argue, why should you care about feeding a starving deserter in exchange for a key, when you could simply take it by force or kill him for it. The deaths or suffering you might cause, your character will have justified to themselves - their own task has the greatest important and all of their choices will be the ones that are most beneficial to them.

There are however some places where you can be pointlessly malicious. There are a few ways to complete a quest regarding an novice hunter and his beloved, he wants to court her but she feels he is unproven. You can drive them apart with lies, or even seduce them and inform the other.