I'm okay with either. Truth be told with the number of people showing interest in the RP I may make 2 groups with 2 different veteran leader so that way we can have several people playing rather then having 2 dozen people sitting and waiting for me to create an opening for them.
Sounds like a plan! As far as side characters go, just make sure they aren't centralized to one location or else you may be waiting awhile to get included with the main group
I was curious if we were gonna see a dwarf smith haha. Looks good to me. I can only imagine how well he'll get along with Hawke given his half fae blood