2/19/2023 0 Comments Taliyah legends of runeterra![]() The time finally came for Taliyah’s dance beneath the full moon. On those nights, she would lie awake long after the coals had burned to ash, tormented by the power she felt stirring within. ![]() She watched as her childhood playmates spun wool to keep the tribe warm on cold desert nights, demonstrated their skill with shears and dye, or wove patterns that told the stories of her people. Taliyah continued to hide her growing power, believing the secret she carried was a danger, not a blessing. This was the start of their path to true learning, as those children then became apprenticed to their teachers. The dance celebrated the children’s innate talents and demonstrated the gifts they would bring to the tribe as adults. When children in Taliyah’s tribe were old enough, they performed a dance under the face of the full moon, the manifestation of the Great Weaver herself. ![]() In that moment, Taliyah saw her parents’ deep worry and decided to conceal what really happened that night: that she-not the Great Weaver-had pulled at the desert stone. Babajan consoled the family, telling them that the patterns of rock were evidence the Great Weaver, the desert tribe’s mythical protector, watched over the girl. Taliyah began to tell the wise woman and her concerned parents of her night in the canyon, of the rock that called to her. Two days later, the girl awoke from fevered dreams in the tent of Babajan, the tribe’s grandmother. Grief-stricken, he returned to the tribe with Taliyah. He fell to his knees when he found his daughter unconscious, covered loosely in a blanket of woven stone. The next morning, Taliyah’s panicked father tracked the skittish bleats of the goatling. As soon as she opened herself to the magic, it poured over her, the stone leaping to her fingertips, bringing both the canyon wall and the beast down on top of her. The elemental power she felt was as urgent and overwhelming as a monsoon rain. Taliyah laid a tentative palm against the rock, determined to rescue the scared animal. The sandstone called to her, urging her to pull handholds from the sheer wall. The little beast had managed to get high up the rock wall, but could not get down. She followed the hoofprints through a dry wash to a box canyon. ![]() Determined not to disappoint her father-the master shepherd and headman of the tribe-she tracked the young animal into the night. As she grew older, the earth itself seemed drawn to her, arcing and twisting to follow her tracks through the sand.Īfter her sixth high summer, Taliyah wandered from the caravan in search of a lost goatling that had been placed in her charge. When she was a toddler, she collected colorful rocks as her people followed the seasonal waters. Taliyah was always fascinated by the stone beneath the dunes. Where most outsiders see Shurima as a beige and barren waste, her family raised her to be a true daughter of the desert and to see beauty in the rich hues of the land. Some have mistaken her compassion for weakness and paid the ultimate price-for beneath Taliyah’s youthful demeanor is a will strong enough to move mountains, and a spirit fierce enough to make the earth itself tremble.īorn in the rocky foothills bordering Icathia’s corrupted shadow, Taliyah spent her childhood herding goats with her tribe of nomadic weavers. She has crossed nearly all of Valoran on a journey to learn the true nature of her growing powers, though more recently she has returned to protect her tribe. Taliyah is a nomadic mage from Shurima, torn between teenage wonder and adult responsibility.
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