Tallis/Dialogue

Dragon Age II companions

Tallis' dialogue contains a list of the conversations that Tallis shares with the other companions and Hawke, in which they discuss each other's backgrounds, and their reactions to the game's events.

Mark of the Assassin

Tallis and Hawke

• Tallis: Is your family really from Kirkwall? I heard you were Ferelden.
• Hawke: My mother's family is from Kirkwall. We left Ferelden during the Blight.
• Tallis: Makes sense. Did you know the Warden?
• Hawke: No. Someone even told me she/he came to Lothering. But if so, I never saw him/her.

If the Warden was a Human Mage:

• Hawke: No, but I understand s/he is a relative.
• Tallis: Why am I not surprised?

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Sarcastic/Charming Hawke

• Tallis: So Champion of Kirkwall, fancy title.
• Hawke: The "Only One in Kirkwall not Completely Insane" was considered.
• Tallis: So do you get a stipend? Let you rule the city?
• Hawke: They gave me a medal. It's shiny.

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Diplomatic/Helpful Hawke

• Tallis: So Champion of Kirkwall, fancy title.
• Hawke: Not that fancy.
• Tallis: So do you get a stipend? Let you rule the city?
• Hawke: I don't think that city can be ruled.

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If Male Hawke flirted with Tallis:

• Tallis: Are you married?

Diplomatic/helpful Hawke:

• Hawke: Is that a proposal?

Sarcastic/humorous Hawke:

• Hawke: Performing a survey?
• Tallis: It's just... you're the Champion of Kirkwall. Big. Important. I don't know.
• Tallis: Just wondering if there is a little woman behind your throne.

If Hawke romanced Anders

• Anders: Yes, who is behind your throne, Hawke?
• Hawke: Let's keep moving.

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If Female Hawke flirted with Tallis

• Tallis: Are you married?

Diplomatic/helpful Hawke:

• Hawke: Is that a proposal?

Sarcastic/humorous Hawke

• Hawke: Performing a survey?
• Tallis: Just... wondering if there's a husband behind the throne.

If Hawke romanced Anders

• Anders: Yes, who is behind your throne, Hawke?

If Hawke romanced Fenris

• Fenris: A fine question.

If Hawke romanced Isabela

• Isabela: Yes. That's a very good question, isn't it?
• Hawke: Let's keep moving.

If not:

• Hawke: Not unless I stowed the body there.

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• Hawke: Just how long has this wyvern hunt been going on?
• Tallis: It's an annual tradition the Montforts began to keep the population down. They breed quickly.
• Hawke: And the Orlesian nobility is only too happy to help out?
• Tallis: It's a game. The Montforts are close to the empress, so anything that pleases them is worth persuing. Plus you should really try the aquae lucidius. You'll be seeing purple dragons in the sky for days.

If Carver is in the party and it is completed in Act 1

• Carver: For days? Really?
• Hawke: Don't even think about it, Carver.
• Carver: You never let me have any fun.

If Carver is in the party and it is completed after Act 1

• Carver: And you'll be completely useless the whole time.
• Hawke: I don't even want to ask how you know.

If Varric is in the party

• Varric: Forty crowns a bottle on the black market. Not that I've checked or anything.

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• Hawke: For a slaughtering ground, it's actually rather pretty.
• Tallis: The Montfort family inherited this mountain from a clan of Nevarran dragon-hunters. Well, maybe inherited is the wrong word. What do you call it when you kill someone in order to get all their stuff?

Sarcastic Hawke

• Hawke: Adventuring!

Diplomatic Hawke

• Hawke: Murder?
• Tallis: Profitable murder, maybe.

Agressive Hawke

• Hawke: Tuesday.

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• Tallis: Watch out. There may be ghasts.
• Hawke: From a hole.
• Tallis: Cave, technically.

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• Tallis: Watch out! Big-hat ghast!

If Isabela is in the party

• Isabela: (Snickers) Ghast hat.

Otherwise

• Hawke: Big hats are never good!

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• Tallis: Is that... wyverns mating?
• Hawke: Could we mimic that?
• Tallis: No! Oh, the sound. Right, yes, I can try that.

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• Hawke: More Qunari!
• Tallis: Tal-Vashoth!
• Hawke: You know what I mean!

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To Baron Arlange as a Female Hawke

• Tallis: You do realize this woman has nasty little thugs like you for breakfast, I hope?

Sarcastic Hawke

• Hawke: Only when we're out of pancakes.

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• Tallis: You let him go? That was.. very merciful.

If Isabela is in the party

• Isabela: That's Hawke. "Merciful."
• Tallis: We should go to the chateau. Time to practice your table conversation.
• Hawke: And my Orlesian accent!

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• Hawke: I guess the good news is with all this extra time I could learn to knit.
• Tallis: Could you make me a sweater?
• Hawke: No.
• Tallis: (Sighs)

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If Hawke flirted with Tallis

• Tallis: So you could go. There are, however... other options.

Sarcastic/humorous Hawke

• Hawke: Coming on a bit strong, there, Tallis. We've only just met.
• Tallis: But we've been through so much together! Wyvern hunts, betrayals, daring escapes from prison...
• Hawke: You're right. I'm feeling so close to you right now.
• Tallis: (Laughs) So it's true what they say about you.

If Hawke romanced Fenris

• Fenris: Evidently.

If Hawke romanced Isabela

• Isabela: He/She likes rogues. Rivaini rogues especially.

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• Hawke: So what now? You aren't just going to leave, are you?
• Tallis: (Chuckles) You think I would fit into your merry entourage?

If Isabela is in the party

• Isabela: Let's see... are you possessed? Consorting with demons? A pathological liar?
• Tallis: I have six toes on my left foot.
• Isabela: Eh, close enough.

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If Hawke flirted with Tallis and romanced Isabela

• Hawke: That's what you do for a friend.
• Tallis: I can honestly say I'm a little jealous of you right now.
• Isabela: Well, there's a lot of Hawke to go around. You just have to ask me nicely.
• Tallis: Hmm. (Sighs)

Tallis and Anders

(if Hawke asks Tallis to join the party)

Anders: Oh, think of the conversations! What brand of zealotry shall we discuss today? I don't know, there are so many options...

Tallis: You're not very nice, are you?

Anders: You asked if you'd fit in.

Tallis and Carver

• Carver: Why can't we ever meet any normal people?
• Tallis: I'm normal!
• Carver: You jumped off a roof and stabbed a man in the back.
• Tallis: In a completely normal fashion!

Tallis and Aveline

• Aveline: They would do better to hunt these closer to farmland. They must be a plague on anyone with livestock.
• Tallis: The sooner we get the hunt over with, the sooner we'll be at the château to finish this.

Tallis and Fenris

(Entering the Hunting Grounds - West for the first time. If Bethany or Carver is in the party, this banter does not occur.)

• Fenris: "Manservant."
  • Anders: (Snickers)
  • Aveline: Oh, buck up.
  • Isabela: Aww. Fenris got his feeling hurt.
  • Merrill: I'm certain he didn't mean anything by it, Fenris.
  • Sebastian: Don't take it personally.
  • Varric: Should be elfservant, if you think about it.
• Tallis: It's only a cover.
• Fenris: I'd like to cover him with six feet.

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If Hawke helps Tallis:

• Fenris: So we are helping the Qunari.
• Tallis: I told you, there are many innocent lives at stake as well.
• Fenris: And how many "innocents" have the Qunari slaughtered? Bah.

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• Fenris: Mercenaries. A sign of your man I presume.
• Tallis: Tal-Vashoth. Like Salit, but for sale. He must be close.

Tallis and Isabela

• Isabela: Can I just imagine that wyverns are small, completely non-poisonous bunny-like creatures?
• Tallis: Not unless you want to picture it eating you.
• Isabela: Spoilsport.
• Tallis: The sooner we get the hunt over with, the sooner we'll be at the château to finish this.

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• Tallis: So these are the hunting grounds.
• Isabela: Do we need a lure? What do wyverns like?

If Aveline is also in the party.

• Aveline: If we're lucky: slutty pirates.
• Isabela: Or prudish man-virgins, maybe?

• Tallis: We just need to look for signs, and be careful. We get this over with, we get in the keep.
• Hawke: And that's where the jewel is?
• Tallis: That's where the jewel is.

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• Isabela: And here I thought Orlesians only hunted other Orlesians for horrendous crimes against fashion.
• Tallis: Just ignore them.

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• Tallis: So you were the one who stole the Tome. Did you read it?
• Isabela: In between running for my life? Of course I read it.
• Tallis: Ah, sarcasm is one of the demands of the Qun, did you know?
• Isabela: No, it’s not.
• Tallis: So you did read it, then.

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• Tallis: Watch out! Big-hat ghast!
• Isabela: (Snickers) Ghast hat.

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If Isabela is romanced.

• Tallis: I've struggled to find that peace, that certainty. I know it's there, I just... keep falling short.
• Isabela: Maybe you should take that as a sign?
• Tallis: I used to be like you. I told myself if I never cared about anyone or anything, I could never be hurt. Life would be fun.
• Tallis: But it wasn't. There was a hole inside me. Nothing I did ever filled it.
• Isabela: Oh, that's too easy.
• Tallis: Not everything should be easy. Don't you wonder what it would be like? A life with meaning, with purpose?
• Isabela: I... have a purpose. I have Hawke.
• Tallis: Lucky you.

Tallis and Varric

• Tallis: So these are the hunting grounds.
• Varric: I take it we run around randomly shouting, "Here, wyvern wyvern wyvern!"

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• Tallis: Last name Tethras, right? I've heard of that clan.
• Varric: Get out! Nobody's heard of Clan Tethras.
• Tallis: My father owned a dwarven sword with a Clan Tethras rune on it.
• Varric: Huh. Must have been Dusan. He was a smith. Tried to become Paragon, ended up poisoning himself.
• Tallis: Really?
• Varric: He was terrible at intrigue. Forgot which goblet he'd put the poison in. Wasn't finished gloating to his enemy when he keeled over.
• Varric: I think the family always had a sense for terrible drama.