.. but several in-game characters imply that your character wasn't around during or after the Collapse, so you'd have existed pre-Collapse.
The OP's entire point is that Awoken did not exist pre-Collapse, but our characters did.. so how can our characters be Awoken?
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Because Ghosts did not exist until the Dark Age which was Post Collapse. Awoken came into being DURING the Collapse. Awoken have been around longer then Ghosts.