So long as the protagonist is human and nothing like the Inquisitor I'll be happy.
It would be cool if they was a bit more like Hawke, I love the sarcastic Hawke. If people think Shepard was bland, the Inquisitor needs like a bag of salt to wash away all the blandness of the Inquisitor. I'm just happy that DA is not a trilogy like ME, so we don't have to play as the Inquisitor again, I wouldn't mind the option to kill them like we did Hawke.
Race selection seems like a big waste of resource that not many people use, and it dilute the actual experience playing as a human. Skyrim makes it so obvious that the Dragonborn was a Nord, playing it as other races just don't seem to fit, especially when playing as any other races, the followers scream stuffs like "Skyrim is for the Nords" or "Your kind doesn't belong here". There is no point of it's just aesthetic. I'm saying this as someone who would sacrifice my first born puppy to play as turian. It's a new engine, I would rather they polish a good first game first.