Hello! I'm Melly and I noticed your ad when browsing around one day and would love to join the game since yesss Dragon Age. I have a character in mind for this and I'm working on the app now. Just trying to hammer out a lot of the details here and hopefully get some connections for him brewing.
Around in his mid-thirties, 6'2. Bright red hair and green eyes. Freckled complexion and wears humble enough clothes in earthy tones to blend in better to the background. Always sporting an easygoing and/or arrogant smile on his face.
Ellie is from Markham; Free Marches. He was born into a rather low-born family but struck great luck when he was mentored by a great independent thief/rogue who noticed his sleight of hand tricks and pickpocketing one day when he was trying to earn himself some coin for the family. Spent years learning under the man and being his protege but the two had as a nasty row over something and broke off their partnership. He later made his way to Orlais after his beloved little sister was stolen into the night when he was out gambling and drinking and felt like he had no right to be in the Marches anymore for his failures of protecting her.
After getting to Orlais, he entered into the services of an Orlesian family who are surprisingly nice-ish nobles despite being participants of the political games since they bother to try to not drag unwitting or unwilling participants into their machinations. The head of the family was supposedly assassinated by an outside force some months back and, in concern, the mother sent her eldest son and her eldest daughter to Cumberland under new identities. This is apparently to protect them since they have some distant relatives living there who can keep them safe while their mother susses out what happened. Ellie offered himself up for the travels to Cumberland and to be a bodyguard for the daughter because his skills could be of use there.
POTENTIAL LINES: I would love for him to make friends, enemies, and things like that! People from Orlais can recognise him as from being there if they've been around the last five-ish years, more or less. I would love for him to be friends with mages would be interesting since he'll pester them endlessly about ridiculous questions or scenarios - if you can control blood, does that mean you can control whether or not a nosebleed can be bad or not? - and such. I think it'll even be funnier if he could be friends with one of the Templars or a noble character due to his cheeky/vice-loving personality. In return he'll be surprisingly loyal to people he calls friends or, at the very least, be willing to keep his end of the bargain.
… Also I'm not gonna lie: I would love if someone would be interested enough to pick up the eldest daughter, the noblewoman he's been pining for since forever and a half after meeting her around five years ago. Whether she genuinely loves him or is planning to manipulate him for her own benefits can be up for the person but yes. Already have a face and some details of her in mind but those details can be hashed out and are easily changeable for the player's interests/whims.