Tamlen

==Tropes==
* Anguished Declaration of Love: To the female Dalish Elf - "Always... loved you...
* Chekhov M.I.A.: Assumed dead after the Dalish origin, but shows up late in the game as a ghoul.
* Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: He's downright suicidal, something the PC does naturally get plenty of chances to lampshade along with his lack of savvy.
* Did Not Get the Girl: Falls victim to Blight corruption before he could confess his feeling to a female Warden.
* Fantastic Racism: While none of the Dalish are very fond of humans, he's easily the most vocal of them, openly expressing contempt for the "shemlen" and scolding you if you let the humans go at the beginning of the origin without at least demanding to know what they were doing in the forest in the first place.
* Jerk with a Heart of Gold: If what's seen of him is any indication. Extremely hostile to shemlen, rather nice and easygoing toward the PC.
* No Name Given: In any origin other than the Dalish elf. Presumably, no matter which origin is being played, he's one of the ghouls who shows up to attack the party camp late in the game. But since the PC doesn't know him if they aren't Mahariel, he's not identified by name.
* Properly Paranoid: Played with. When a few humans wander too close to your camp, Tamlen wants to kill them to keep them from revealing your clan's location. If you convince him to let them all go, they still tell their village and rally a mob against your clan. However, it's not made clear if they did so because Tamlen threatened them (thus justifying ''their'' fear of the Dalish) or if they would have done it even if you both had been nice from the beginning.
* Tempting Fate: "I just want to look around. How dangerous could it be?"
* Too Dumb to Live: Something Mahariel can lampshade and mock him for every step on the way to the mirror, although they have no choice but to follow along. Tamlen: These markings on the mirror... I wonder what they say. Mahariel: "Don't touch the glass"? Tamlen: Very funny.
* Tragic Monster: Unlike the PC, who survives the taint by becoming a Grey Warden, Tamlen becomes a ghoul and begs the PC to kill him.
* Unlucky Childhood Friend: Big time towards the female Dalish Elf.
* Unresolved Sexual Tension: Between him and a female PC who has expressed interest, according to the rest of the clan. In fact, when the Warden tells him that she likes him, he literally tells her they can talk about it later at camp. Although they do eventually talk about it at a camp, it's probably not how he intended it...
* Was Once a Man: Was once an elf, now a Darkspawn ghoul.
Category:Male
Category:Elf