Ha! No, they're huge, horned people from the north. Grey skin, at least seven feet tall. They've tried to invade the whole continent a few times, almost succeeded. If my qunari companion's right, it'll happen again, too.

[She shrugs, not about to freak out about that until it happens.]

...and I'm sorry, that has to suck. I was lucky during the Fifth Blight, when all the darkspawn went to the surface. If they'd taken my sister, I would've lost it.