Taliyah Ren

Taliyah Ren ("tuh-LEE-uh") was a Riyani politician and military commander who was the preeminent leader of Riyan during the Eighth Occaria.

Taliyah was 17 when she started the war. Nine years later, she and her sister Lara were captured in western Valina. She was stripped naked and killed before her corpse was strung up on a cross outside of the city walls of Alicante, where she remains.

Public perception

Public opinion was a rollercoaster for Taliyah. For the first phase of the war, she was viewed positively, as a charismatic leader who could bring Riyan back to greatness. However, public opinion dived during the second phase of the war, when the death toll took a horrendous turn.

However, immediately after her violent death, Taliyah was martyred, and many Riyanis use her as a symbol of resistance against Alicante.