So yes, I ditched Freddie Prinze Beefcake and became devoted to my lovely sarcastic mage.
I took to him immediately, and as I wandered the pastoral paradise of the Hinterlands and the opulent city of Val Royeaux, he was always ready with some wiseass joke about pretty much every dire situation we found ourselves in. Turning up early in the game as an optional companion, Dorian is a terribly posh upper-class mage, with a hipster moustache and a painful past.