It is better if DA2 isn't Dragon Age game, but a game by it's own, just another medieval-fantasy game, sure no one mind that. But because it is "Dragon Age", there's the problem.
Really, i don't mind DA2 is a kickstarter for a new franchise, and even if Hawke is the main character for the whole franchise. Just change the universe, the factions, and everything, even if it is still have the same story it will look good. And it is kind of a medieval drama type of a game unique by it's own. And it is cool if it have dark gothic-victorian era background, Hawke will look even more cool than he/she is now.....
Imagine...in dark gothic-victorian background theme....there was a war between religious fanatics and the heretics, and it destroying the world...Hawke and family is a runaway but end up in a town where peoples are crazy with mad scientists, religious fanaticism, civil wars, foreign invasions...Hawke raise to power somehow, but he/she must deal with secret societies, mafia gangs, Jack the Ripper, and all those crazy peoples...kind of like the movie "From Hell" and "Sleepy Hollow"