I am astounded that in today's society that declares all stereotypes are evil, where people are hypervigilant regarding racism... we get people saying “This elf isn't elfy enough!” How is that not being racist and thinking based on stereotypes and labels? And isn't that what people say we shouldn't do?
It also annoys me on a personal level that, purely because someone was born a member of group x, they are expected to conform completely to everything about group x. Take someone in the real world who was born to a jewish mother, like I was, but who is actually an atheist and very much not a cultural jew. But suddenly a member of a fictional race is expected to be an exemplary adherent to a set of beliefs only half (I actually don't know the ratio of Dalish to city elves, so correct me if I'm wrong) of his people hold because he's an elf? This is actually something I'd like to know more about: can there be a "cultural Dalish"? Can there be an elf who lives with a clan, raised with them, wants to stay, but who for whatever reason doesn't worship the Creators? There was a codex entry in Origins about the vallaslin, and it said this: "The one who is to gain the vallaslin must prepare by meditating on the gods and the ways of our people, and by purifying the body and the skin." I can definitely see how modern Dalish would use the no true Scotsman fallacy on Ameridan, but I can't understand why someone in the real world would even be tempted to do the same.
So if anyone should be internet-grade offended because a few mentioned heroes in one videogame series don't hold x religious belief, shouldn't it be atheists? Where's the atheist Thedosian hero? Oh wait, that's what PCs can be. Just like PCs can revere the Stone, or the Creators, or be undecided, or whatever.
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