Maker's blessings!
Well, allow me to throw my hat in here with the other new recruits! My name's Doran, though a lot of you know me as Tech.
I will be playing Ser Alderic Thearre, who fills the Templar premade. I did deviate just a tad from the pre-written bio, only in when he was sent to the Tower. (I actually didn't realize it until this morning. Oops!) He was sent to the Mage's Tower when he was 13, almost immediately after the Blight, as the Tower was in need of Templar recruits after Uldred's attack. Witnessing that aftermath was definitely no fun for someone so young! In the end, though, he was incredibly enthusiastic about his studies, and ended up taking his vows and becoming a Templar when he was 18 -- young, compared to the age Templars were christened in the past, but the Tower was undoubtedly in need of "official" Templars at that point.
He's been a Chantry man more or less his entire life, and since he was set on the path to becoming a Templar so early, he's fairly sheltered and very much devoted to the Maker and his duties as a Templar. He's been at the Tower for 15 years now, and had only really left it a handful of times since then, to go on Apostate hunts. So, naturally, this journey to become a Grey Warden and fight the Blight is going to be a new and unusual experience for him.
Don't worry about him being a stony faced, unapproachable Templar like a good many of his brethren, though! He admittedly doesn't make friends easily (by his own choice), but he's a genuinely good-natured and well-meaning man, even to Mages. He even had a good friend in the past who was an Elven Mage, so he understand the plights those two groups undergo. His duties always come first, but that doesn't mean he can't be polite.
Unless you're a terrible horrible no-good very-bad Apostate or Maleficar, of course. Which we seem to have a lot of! Between all of them, and Deidre, the poor guy's going to have his work cut out for him.
Aaand there you have it! Like Rai down there, I am ridiculously excited about being a part of the community. I haven't been in a group like this in a long time, but everything I've seen so far -- both the community itself, and all of the characters you guys have created -- are top notch. I'm looking forward to it! Feel free to pester me any time about storylines/connections/etc, I'd be happy to plot stuff out or even just chat.
Thanks for accepting me! (And geez, sorry for the wall of text.)