Hi! I'm Amy and I have two concepts in the works (one slightly more completed than the other, as I only had the second one strike me...very early this morning during a bout of insomnia).
First, in progress at this journal, Knight Corporal Sylvaine Severin of the Cumberland Circle's Templars. She's a two-handed sworder, and she helps with training Templar recruits/initiates in two-handed weapon combat. She's 6'4" and doesn't talk much (the mages and other Templars sometimes call her "Sylvaine the Silent" or "Ser Silence" when she's not around). She has a pronounced stutter, so a of the time she just writes people notes because it's faster and less embarrassing. The stutter is much less of a problem if she's talking weapons, armor, or tactics, or reciting verses from the Chant of Light (her favorite parts include the Canticle of Benedictions and "Andraste's Prayer before the siege of Minrathous" from the Canticle of Transfiguration). She's an Orlesian-born orphan raised in Nevarra by the Chantry. She's very devoted to the Chantry and the Templar Order, and strives to be fair, just, patient, and courteous in her dealings both mages and her fellow Templars. Basically she is a giant, awkward teddy-bear who could kill you.
Second, Aeren (no lastname yet), a cranky city elf rogue who'll be at this journal. Her concept: "Scrappy lurk-y runaway, taken in and trained by a (semi)retired Carta assassin, who wanders through alienages learning which shems need to die; shems say 'serial killer,' she says 'avenger.'" She's dual-wielding, Assassin, and generally very stabbitty. She ran away from her home alienage in I-am-still-deciding-where as a young teen, nearly got herself killed trying to kill some slavers, and got saved by a gruff-but-generally-good-hearted "retired" Carta assassin who thought she had some promise. So he took her in and trained her. She's now been slipping around Thedas from city to city, alienage to alienage basically playing a much more murdery sort of Batman/Robin Hood for city elves.