Weird race/origin/class combos - Adopted or MetaGame Items?

[Maverick827]

I want to play a half-elf mage character, and rather than simply playing a human mage and pretending it to be so, I'm trying to get a human mage into the city elf origin. From what I can tell, I have two options:

 

1. Adopted - Create a human male and force the city elf origin and mage class

2. MetaGame Items - Create a city elf warrior/rogue and use the various items to change my race to human and my class to mage

 

Does anyone know which of these two options would be less buggy? Obviously the goal is to have the plot payoffs when going back to the Alienage later in the game. Whatever preserves those best would be the better option for me.

 

Any other better/easy ways to accomplish this are also welcome.