There is no "proof" you ever really meet Talana-- she appears to you in a human form, however the carcass there afterward is dragon form???
This is the thing that had me standing there for around 5 mins pondering on. I was confused in what happened. There was a dead dragon in front of me which I believe as Talana, and also a voice in my head.
After thinking on it, I had put it down as she had died and possessed my weaken mind with her dragon essesance as well transfering her concious (explains teh voices in the head). Assumed it was only possible because your mind was exposed from an uncomplete slayer ritual. Because becoming a dragon knight should not be easy for just anyone. The fact you couldn't shapeshift into a dragon I thought was probably beacuse Talanas essesance was only parcial in power. So to become a complete dragon, you needed to take the dragon rituals all the dragon knights took. That was my impression of it..... until however, it wasn't Talana all along. Which makes huge sence seeing Talana died as a dragon corpse. +1 kill for Commander Rhode.
But wait.. I still confuzzled. If Talana died, how did I get partial Draconic abilities.... I am planning to play through a second time (Maybe mage this time). But I guess I have alot of thinking on this aswel.