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This is Idris Lavellan, my two-handed warrior.
She's a tough, stone-cold, ice queen.
Born sometime between 4:75 and 4:80 Exalted, Idris is one of the few members who were born into Clan Lavellan long before the beginning of the Dragon Age. Her memory is long and unforgiving: she still remembers the dark years when her clan first emerged from the dust and ruins of Exalted Plains and skirted the jagged borders of the Anderfels and Tevinter before wandering the wilds of the Free Marches.
She was Clan Lavellan's chief hunter, and is an exceptionally skilled two-handed warrior. She protected her clan from Darkspawn, demons, Tevinter slavers, hostile bandits, rogue mages, and all manner of monsters and beasts throughout the decades. There is a popular story shared among the younger members of her clan that she once singlehandedly brought down a high dragon that prowled the Vimmark Mountains. Idris has never confirmed nor denied this. Let the younger ones spin stories of their own heroes to aspire to.
Idris was once a mother. She bore many children; among them a daughter who later grew up to become a skilled healer and a mage, the First of Clan Lavellan. She was named Tenebrian**, after Tenebrium, the shadow constellation.
Idris was once a wife. Her husband was conscripted by the Orlesian Grey Wardens in the early years of the Dragon Age. Idris has not heard from Evanon since his Joining; she assumes that he is already long dead, killed by Darkspawn or otherwise perished underground in the Deep Roads. Consequently, she does not hold the Grey Wardens in high esteem; she did not recruit Warden Blackwall when he offered his help.
Throughout her long life, Idris had remained devoted to ensuring the protection and security of clan Lavellan. This changed when the clan's ailing Keeper requested that Idris go to the Conclave to spy upon the proceedings in her stead. And we all know the events that transpired at the conclave: an explosion rent the sky apart, killed Divine Justinia, and spat out an old Dalish woman who was then proclaimed the Herald of Andraste.
Despite being honored as the Herald of Andraste, Idris does not view herself as anything more than a pawn in matters that she believes concerns only humans and their futile, unstable kingdoms.
Thus far, Idris has assimilated the Templars into ranks of the Inquisition, recruited allies she considers useful, such as Vivienne and The Iron Bull. She recruited Sera, but later dismissed her after learning that Sera's connections with her fellow Red Jennies were tenuous at best. Although Solas is a fellow elf, he and Idris only get along with thinly-veiled distaste for one another. Dorian is her most recent recruit, though she is keeping a wary eye on him. Suprisingly, she accepted Cole into the Inquisition due to his helping her at Therinfal Redoubt -- that and the fact that he reminds her a little of her favorite son.
Idris is a difficult woman to intimidate, or to break. She clads herself in thick furs and iron, both physically and metaphorically. She is not one to mince words, or to beat around the bush. She dives in headlong, headfirst into conflict with her sword held aloft, and her mind clear and her heart calm. An experienced soldier, she is practical and pragmatic, and makes choices that her companions would not agree with.
If you don't like her, tough. She's still running the Inquisition.
Idris initially pays lip service to Seeker Cassandra's agenda in an effort to keep herself alive and essential to Inquisition. Her motivations change, however, after surviving the events at the Battle of Heaven, and after she learns of Clan Lavellan's slaughter and scattering by the people of Wycome. She has since embraced the mantle of Inquisitor, believing it to be a stepping stone to achieving power and influence over those who have been involved in destroying her world and the people she once held so dear. If her world is burning, then by the gods she will drag everyone else into the flames with her.
The above screenshots are the PS4 version of Idris, and were edited in photoshop. I apologise for the length of this post, but I couldn't resist doing a bit of a character study on one of my favorite inquisitors. 
If you're curious, here's an earlier version of Idris, though she hasn't changed much in appearance since I first started playing her.
I haven't decided who she'll romance yet -- if she needs a romance at all. I'm tentatively aiming for the Iron Bull... but Idris/Solas would be deliciously cataclysmic.
**A bit of trivia concerning Idris's daughter.
Also: badass, weathered warrior ladies ftw. 
Where my old lady inquisitors at?
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She's lovely, good job!
