General
- Taliyah is sixteen years old.
- She has been described as an ENTJ type of person (specifically 'the Commander') [1]
- Her favorite ice cream flavor is rocky road.
- Her greatest fears are being unable to protect her family and drowning.
Development
- Taliyah was the third champion released in 2016.
- Her voice actress Erica Lindbeck sung the Stoneweaver's theme.[4]
- Her name in English localisations is pronounced /talē'jə/ (tuh-LEE-yah), with emphasised stress in the middle syllable. In most other locales it is read as written with no defined stress.[5]
- Taliyah might have come from Ali/Aliyah (Arabic: علي, 'lofty', 'sublime', 'the noblest' - Hebrew: עֲלִיָּה, 'to ascend') and/or טַל (Tali - Hebrew: 'dew') her name also in the Arabian language means the queen
- Her autoattacks used to be trails of rocks ripped up from the ground.
- They were changed to the current ones due to raising visual clarity concerns when weighed against her abilities.[6]
Seismic Shove was the most production-intensive of her abilities (animation-wise) [7]
Lore
Yasuo was the one who dubbed her 'Little Sparrow'.- Drawing from her life amongst a tribe of weavers, she uses her powers as if she were weaving stones in a similar fashion to weaving cloth.
- The chronological order of events is as follows.
- 'The Bird and the Branch'
- 'Homecoming'
- 'Echoes in the Stone'
- Taliyah's family is part of one of many nomadic tribes that formed after the fall of Ancient Shurima by
Xerath's hand. - Her father is a shepherd and leader of the tribe, while her mother is a pattern mistress.
- Before the Oasis of the Dawn started flowing again Taliyah's tribe followed the seasonal waters around the desert.
- Taliyah's tribe worships "the Great Weaver," a force of nature said to govern the tapestry of fate and life for every individual.
- This deity seems to have been inspired by Neith, an Egyptian goddess of weaving.
Quotes
- She and
Yasuo share the quote "I will follow this path until the end" (spoken by the Stoneweaver in 'Homecoming') - " Noxians... why did it have to be Noxians?" references Raiders of the Lost Ark ("Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?")
- " You are the scourge upon our world" references "Your races are a scourge upon the world!"
- ▶️ "Stick them with the pointy end" references Game of Thrones.
- " Diamonds really are a girl's best friend" references the eponymous song by Marylin Monroe.
- "Five birds, one stone" adds three more birds to the idiom it references.
- "Not all who wander are lost" resembles "No one who wanders is ever truly lost" and "A wanderer isn't always lost" (all reference All that is gold does not glitter by J. R. R. Tolkien)
- She shares quotes with:
- "Brace yourself - I hear winter is coming" references Game of Thrones.
Skins
- She may have been inspired by Toph Beifong from Avatar: The Last Airbender and Terra from Teen Titans.
- Her outfit might have been inspired by Isis, an Egyptian goddess who was patroness to magic, family, artisans, and slaves.
- This skin references the time she spent in the Freljord before returning to Shurima.
- The icy particles may have been inspired by Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- The reindeer reference her tribe's background as shepherds.
- She shares this theme with Freljord Ashe, and Freljord Rammus.
Relations
- Yasuo became the teacher Taliyah had been looking for, unlike her people (who didn't understand her power) or Noxus (who sought to use her as a weapon for conquest)
- Before parting ways, the Stoneweaver gave the Unforgiven the thread of handspun Shuriman wool with which he ties his hair in-game.
- Having heard only rumors of both the Ancient Shuriman capital and Azir's rise from the sands, Taliyah is convinced he is a threat to her family and her homeland when nothing could be further from the truth.
