Dragon Age 2's Tallis Brought Out The Best and Worst of the Franchise Entry's Quirkiness
Dragon Age 2 is known as an outlier in the series for a number of reasons from being unable to choose a race other than human to taking place in just one city. The game was split into three acts that spanned about nine years in Thedas, maps were constantly recycled, and every companion was bisexual. All these traits made Dragon Age 2 unique. However, there was another outlier that stood out to fans, and it was a certain character based on a celebrity, Tallis.
Tallis the qunari elf is a companion in the Mark of the Assassin DLC and is an original character written and acted by actress, writer, and producer Felicia Day. She was created as the protagonist of Day's web series, Dragon Age: Redemption. The series was made in 2011 with six episodes, and DLC of Tallis came out in the same year. Fitting in with much of Dragon Age 2's quirks, Tallis was a strange character with a stranger conception story.
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Day, being a big Dragon Age fan, both wrote and starred in Dragon Age: Redemption as Tallis. According to Day's blog, her agent helped organize her and EA/Bioware to work together. They got other famous names on the project such as Doug Jones, Adam Rayner, Greg Aronowitz, and Peter Winther. The series followed Tallis in her search to apprehend a loose Saarebas. In the end, she kills the Saarebas which is against the Qun's wishes. It is hinted that she may defect, but instead, she somehow regains her rank anyway and rejoins the Qun.
The web series had a low budget and a majority of Dragon Age fans did not watch it, and the series currently has a six out of 10 on IMDb. Negative reviews have written that the web series felt like fan fiction with cliche after
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