Taliyah/Trivia

General

She is 16 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.
Taliyah stands at about 5'9".[1]
Her favorite animals are goats, especially fluffy goats.
She enjoys indie/electropop music and romance novels.
She likes pineapple on her pizza. (Pineapple and pepperoni, though. Not pineapple and ham.)[2]
Her favorite color is indigo.
Taliyah is a Virgo.
Her birthday is on September 22nd. [3]

When asked if Taliyah would be romantically interested in other girls, Thermal Kitten (Taliyah's writer) answered with this, indirectly stating that Taliyah is bisexual: "I think Taliyah is someone who is the midst of finding out who she is and figuring out who you’re attracted to is certainly part of that. I’m sure she would find some people more physically attractive than others, but I think the thing that would draw her to someone would be who they are on the inside." [4]
She is a fast runner and enjoys track and field, and she is also learning how to swim.
Taliyah is left-handed. [5]

Taliyah was the third champion released in 2016.
- She was created due to the need for a 'traditional' mage, particularly a disruptor.^[2]^[3]
Her voice actress Erica Lindbeck sung the Stoneweaver's theme.^[4]
Ṭaliyah טַלְיָה (Hebrew: [tˀa'lija:]) comes from Proto-West-Semitic *ṭalay-at "young ewe" ^[5].
- In English localizations, her name is pronounced [tɐˈli:ʲɐ:] TaLEEyah with second syllable stressed^[6] like in Hebrew; in other localizations, the stress may fall on different syllables or no syllable is stressed at all.
- Originally, her name was spelt Taalea.^[7]
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.^[8]
Seismic Shove was the most production-intensive of her abilities (animation-wise) ^[9]

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.
1. 'The Bird and the Branch'
2. 'Homecoming'
3. '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.
Her tribe is called the Nasaaj, meaning "weaver" [6], from Arabic نَسّاج nassāj < Semitic n-s-k^[10] < s-k-k "to weave"^[11].
- Just as Semites formulate surnames from information about the bearer's progenitors, occupation, or origin, whether ethnic or geographical, Taliyah would most likely introduce herself as Taliyah of the Nasaaj.
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 weaving-associated goddesses, such as Egyptian Neith, Semitic Asherah, Indo-European triple fate goddesses, etc.

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 may have been inspired by Toph Beifong from Avatar: The Last Airbender and Terra from Teen Titans.
- Her outfit might have been inspired by the wings of Isis, an Egyptian goddess & patroness to nature, magic, family, workers, slaves, etc.

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.
- They might also be referencing Elsa from Frozen.
She shares this theme with Freljord Ashe, and Freljord Rammus.

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.
- Being an only child, Taliyah sees Yasuo as the older brother she never had. [7]
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.