I keep flip flopping back and forth between female human mage and elven human mage. I'm leaning toward the former but the elves we've seen in the CC have strongly tempted me towards the latter.
Female human mage will be initially skeptical of her belief in the maker and have a strong investment in the mage/templar war, but attempt to be relatively diplomatic with all other decisions she has to make. I'm thinking she'll be a little of a naive idealist and in time become slightly more hardened. She was unhappy with the state of the Circle before the war but does not want to completely dissolve it. She just believes it needs to be changed with mages being in more control of their destiny and the templars simply supporting the mages ruling themselves. Name will be Lyanna Trevelyan, inspired by Lyanna from the ASOIAF series and the quote "You only saw the beauty, you didn't see the iron underneath." In the end I can see her becoming more of a believer in both herself and the maker.
My elven female mage is proudly Dalish and a bit of an ice queen. I really liked the quote from the Hero of Thedas trailer "All this happened because of fanatics and arguments about the next world. It's time we start believing in this one" and will use it to shape her character. She'll try to approach the mage/templar war and the various civil war from an objective, outsider's perspective. All decisions she makes will be for the benefit of the Inquisition; sometimes she'll make the hard, potentially ruthless decisions if she sees a greater outcome from them. Name will be Alysanne Lavellan, again inspired by the Targaryens of the ASOIAF series ... which means she'll have the trademark Targaryen silver hair and violet eyes.
Whoever I decide to go with, I have a world state nailed down and my first romance planned. Queen Cousland double daggers rogue and a sarcastic female mage Hawke. Romancing Cullen.