Felicia “Codex Dragon” Day has been tweeting about her latest “mystery project” for the last couple of months (if not more), and today news broke concerning exactly what that project is: a six-episode Web series, Dragon Age: Redemption, set in the world of BioWare’s Dragon Age franchise:

A peek at the Dragon Age II narrative shows Day wrote an original story line around a character for herself, Tallis, an Elven assassin.

“Tallis is headstrong, she fights dirty, and she has a really sarcastic sense of humor,” she says. “I wanted to bring a modern sensibility to a fantasy character in a fantasy world.”

Tallis goes on a quest to capture a renegade magician. Along the way, she gathers her own fellowship. “She can’t accomplish her mission alone, so finding allies is tricky,” Day says. “The success or failure of the mission will have a big impact on her future and her freedom.”

And it sounds like there is some serious production firepower being brought to bear on this project:

Filming took place over a dozen days last month in the L.A. area, with Independence Day associate producer Peter Winther as director and John Bartley (Lost) as cinematographer. “They are going to take this a step above what we have seen on the Web before,” says Day, who also co-produced Redemption.

So here’s what needs to happen, Ultima fans. First, BioWare Mythic needs to get their still-kinda-secretive Ultima project off the ground. Then, the first major (AAA-grade) Ultima title in over a decade needs to be announced. And then, of course, Codex Dragon needs to make a triumphal return to Ultima-dom with a suitably high-production-valued web series which…I don’t know…tells the story of what happened between Ultima 3 and Ultima 4, culminating in the Battle of the Bloody Plains.

Seriously though…this sounds cool. Granted, video game adaptations have a dirt-poor track record as far as quality goes, and it’s entirely possible that these webisodes will be seriously cringe-worthy. Then again, they aren’t a straight-up adaptation, but rather are a wholly original side story (I wonder if BioWare will consider the events of Redemption canonical or not?). Which is to say: there might be hope. Day has demonstrated considerable talent in making gaming entertaining with The Guild, which is another positive.

I suppose we’ll see come summer.