Shurima
Champion Lore

Taliyah

the Stoneweaver

Taliyah is a nomadic mage from Shurima, torn between teenage wonder and adult responsibility. 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. 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.

Taliyah splash art
Taliyah splash art
Origin & Background

The Story of Taliyah

Taliyah is a young Shuriman woman from a nomadic tribe who discovered, at the worst possible time, that she could move stone with her mind. The first uncontrolled expression of her power displaced a significant amount of geological material and convinced her family that she needed to learn to manage what she had before it killed everyone around her. She left home to find a teacher.

The teacher she found was Yasuo — a wandering Ionian swordsman with his own complicated past. Their time together taught her the basics of control, the importance of never letting power move faster than understanding, and something about the gap between who you are and what you've done. She returned to Shurima with better control, a broader understanding of the world, and a complicated relationship with the scale of her own abilities that she's still working through.

Her power over stone and earth is enormous. In full expression it can reshape terrain, redirect avalanches, and build or destroy structures that took decades to construct. She uses it sparingly, because she's experienced what happens when she doesn't. She wants to protect her people and her homeland. She is also seventeen and trying to figure out who she wants to be before the world decides for her. Both of these things are simultaneously true, and they make every decision harder than it would otherwise be.

Key Connections

Relationships

Yasuo
Teacher & Complicated Mentor
The wandering Ionian who taught her control — his past is as messy as her power, which made him an unusually relevant teacher.
Her Tribe
Home & What She Protects
The Shuriman nomadic family she left to find control and fights to protect — the reason her power needs to be worth having.