Early life

Talon has no recollection of his family, nor of any warmth or kindness. He scraped out a living through his quick wits and deft thievery in the underbelly of Noxus. He learned to navigate the underground passages of Noxus and attained mastery of the blade. Marked as a threat by the empire, assassins were sent after him. He managed to kill his pursuers, dropping their bodies into Noxus’ moat.

However, when General Du Couteau himself came after Talon, the Noxian General emerged victorious in the duel. He made an offer to Talon – to die or serve the Noxian High Command. Talon chose to live on the condition that he would serve the General alone because he could only respect orders from those he could not defeat.

Appearance

Talon is a fair-skinned human man with dark hair and brown eyes. He is usually seen dressed as an assassin, with nearly his full body covered in blue cloth and light metal armor. This outfit features a large hood that shrouds his face and a decorative "cape" composed of five blades dangling from red ribbons. He also sometimes covers his nose and mouth with a cloth mask. His signature weapon is a large silver blade strapped to his right forearm.

Personality

Talon is a cold and deadly perfectionist, valuing swift and clean kills above all else. He is obedient and efficient in his tasks, but despite his generally merciless approach, Talon believes his methodology is the best for all parties involved. In Talon's words, it's more merciful to give targets a quick, painless death than to draw it out, and it is both safer and more efficient for an assassin to avoid combat when possible. If a clean kill is not delivered immediately, Talon already considers that to be failure.

Talon is shown to deeply value his family, taking on their name and greatly respecting Marcus and House Du Couteau. However, Talon's admiration and obedience to his father ultimately leads him down the path of resentment, as Talon desperately works to maintain Marcus Du Couteau's approval and comes to view himself as the rightful heir. Because of this,

Katarina sees Talon as a younger version of herself - someone who has lost his independence to become Marcus' pawn - and pities him for it.

Abilities

• Agile Combat Mastery: Talon is both agile and quick, capable of performing acrobatic maneuvers in the midst of battle and traversing urban environments with ease.
• Stealth Mastery: As an assassin, Talon is trained to infiltrate heavy security in order to approach his targets. His stealthiness is comprised of part silence and part elusiveness.
• Knife Mastery: Talon's skill with knives is worthy of note, he makes excellent use of daggers to eliminate targets.
• Arm Blade Mastery: Talon possesses a forearm strapped blade with which he is proficient in using to attack unseen and in straight-forward combat if necessary.
• Throwing Blade Mastery: Talon can fling a fan of several spinning blades that serrate his enemies from afar.
• Lockpicking Expert: Katarina declared Talon to be the best lockpicker in all of Noxus, capable of picking a trapped lock that she was unable to breach without using hextech.