How *unappealing* do you predict straight male romance options will be in DA4?

It exists: the Darkspawn Chronicles, a DLC to Origins.

UPDATE: Oh, I get it, you want to be a Darkspawn with better graphics: more details!

You'd become a ghoul.

I hope those wanting a Darkspawn romance are willing to accept it won't be sexual, since Darkspawn don't have reproductive organs. 

It could be a very one-sided sexual relationship. I mean, they have hands.

I don't see anything in that that suggests they have reproductive organs, while stuff in the Codex says they don't.

From the wiki: 
Female captives are usually made broodmothers by the darkspawn. They contract the taint by being force-fed darkspawn tissue, and consuming darkspawn vomit that is forcefully spewed into the captive's mouth. This gives them cannibalistic urges but also mutates them. These females turn into fully-fledged broodmothers after devouring massive amounts of flesh even from their own kin.

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As a species, the darkspawn are asexual and unable to reproduce. This task is left to a specific form of ghoul, referred to as broodmothers. Captured female prisoners are infected with the taint and forced to consume the flesh of their fellows. Those that survive this process undergo a horrific transformation and become massively swollen creatures that exist to breed more darkspawn.

I guess they could have changed it, but the language in that poem for the broodmother quests really suggests rape, and uses the word "violate", so I'm assuming there's some sort of reproductive organ.

I mean, violate meant the same thing even then? If they didn't mean it to mean rape, then they screwed up with writing very badly - it's a quest all about violating a woman's body, that they couldn't see there was rape overtones is something I find hard to believe. They used the rape overtones to make it more shocking and dramatic. To use it like that and say then it wasn't rape sounds like wanting to have your cake and eat it too - basically really crappy writing.

Yes. The original meaning of the word violate meant 'to be treated violently' and later 'to defile or profane' something. That's why it became connected with rape since a person who was raped was treated violently and defiled thus violated.

Correct. Darkspawn are born asexually. The closest example we have on Earth are things like certain insects like bees. Which is probably what the writers had in mind since the Darkspawn already show other attributes similar to them like a hive mind mentality. Baby Darkspawn, the Children, even look like larvae.

I think, the violation is very gruesome even without rape. Being forcefed with darkspawn meat and undergoing a transformation, that warps your body and mind, is probably the worst violation, someone could encounter. But I agree, that one can interpret the poem wrong. I thought, Hespith speaks about torture and in a way it is if course. Really the most disturbing scene in the whole series for me.

Sure it would, to a blood-thirsty sociopath of an Inquisitor. Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Inquisitor.

And if there were a political benefit to being the one to cut off his head, even more so.

I'm not saying I want to play an Inquisitor like that -- I've played PC's that liked Blackwall, romanced Blackwall, and ignored Blackwall as annoying and creepy, but otherwise harmless. I'm just saying, there's no overestimating how bloodthirsty people in power might be.

I like the kind of woman who could break me with one hand. 😎

Perhaps you'd still get a chance?

I doubt it - all 3 are rogues and not much personality imo between the 3 of them. Vaea is the most interesting but only because of her Robin Hood wannabeeness. Otherwise, meh.