Only when Ioreth revealed she was pregnant with Talion's child and threatened to claim she had killed her attacker in self-defense did her father relent. In order to save Talion, though Hallas claimed to have done it for his daughter's sake, Ioreth's father explained he was offered a position guarding The Black Gate, and he decided to send Talion and Ioreth there. Ioreth pleaded with her father to prevent him from turning Talion in, but he refused. When he accidentally killed a noble of Gondor trying to assault his wife, he was branded a criminal, and his life belonged to Gondor. After the death of his family and subsequently revived by Celebrimbor, Talion became stricken with grief and set out to kill those responsible for his wife and son's deaths.ĭespite being lowborn, Talion gained the love of a noble lady named Ioreth, much to her father's ire. As a knight, he has a sense of honor upon the battlefield. Talion is a rather humble individual and as the captain of the Black Gate was respected by the men under his command. After the destruction of the One Ring by Frodo Baggins and the destruction of Sauron, Talion finally died a true death, through which his spirit was freed and he moved on to the afterlife.

Resisting the corrupting effects of the Ring during decades to hold back Sauron's forces in Mordor and to give Gondor time to prepare for the War, Talion eventually became one of the nine Nazgûl. Later, after he defeated the Nazgûl Isildur and after Celebrimbor abandoned him, Talion wore Isildur's Ring to survive. After the tragic demise of his family and himself, Talion was revived by Celebrimbor, an immensely powerful Wraith where the two joined forces and began a quest for vengeance on those responsible for the death of his loved ones, the Black Hand of Sauron. However, they share the same body.Ī descendant of the Northmen in Rhovanion, and raised in Minas Tirith, he is a loyal Ranger of Gondor, where he then rose the rank of Captain of the Black Gate. Talion is one of the two player-controlled protagonists in both Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Middle-earth: Shadow of War, alongside Celebrimbor. “ Could you really rest for all of eternity, knowing that you had the chance to stop him but did nothing? ” - Talion to Celebrimbor

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