I would like to see the persimmon tree.

Why are you all so grumpy, elitists? You take a premade character and play, and anyway, the whole game is about stat grinding and completing tasks in the diary, so at least here they'll add some lore content in the form of a couple of unique lines.

If you didn't spend eight hours in the character creation window, then you missed the most interesting part of the game, you ruined everything for yourself. It's like not conquering Utopia with dragons in Heroes 3, or not capturing Rome in Rome Total War, or not building a spaceship in Civilization, or not climbing a mountain through textures in Skyrim... It's just a waste of time, basically, like someone playing Arcanum in an RPG just for the auto-success.