i agree, it would be nice to make a golem.
i still think you should start off as a nobody. if you think about it, most rpg's are like this.[zelda,final fantasy, and so on]
but through out the game you can increase in rank and have people join, or give orders to attack or something.
and fighting in a huge battle would be sweet. like fighting side by side with 50 other shapers against an army of drayks.[remember in g2, where you got a quest from a guy in medab to eradicate an army of serviles and battle alphas, and you fought 5 or 6 serviles from medab, that was cool].