Talim
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| Fullname | Talim |
| Nickname | The Last Priestess of the Winds |
| Voiced By | Julie Parker (Soulcalibur II) Hynden Walch/Yukari Tamura |
| Weapon Type | Elbow Blades |
| Weapon Name(s) | Syi Salika and Loka Luha |
| Fighting Style | Wind Dance |
| Age | 15 |
| Birthdate | June 15 |
| Alignment | Good |
| Family | Father Sanput Mother |
| Birthplace | Southeast Asia, Village of the Wind Deity (known today as the Philippines) |
| Height | 4'8" |
| Weight | 93 lbs. |
| Hair Colour | Black |
| Eye Colour | Brown |
| Blood Type | Unknown |
Talim (タリム, Tarimu), made her first appearance in Soulcalibur II, and has returned for Soulcalibur III and Soulcalibur IV.
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[edit] Weapons
[edit] Syi Salika and Loka Luha
A pair of tonfa-like weapons called Elbow Blades, used by the wind-worshipping people of Southeast Asia in ceremonial dances. They are more ritual items rather than weapons. In Soulcalibur III, these weapons, and Talim's "Wind Dance" fighting style are available under the discipline Soul of Talim to characters created under the Saint class. The names of her moves are mostly in the Tagalog language.
- Note: They are spelled "Syi Sarika" & Loka Luha in Soulcalibur II.
[edit] Stages
[edit] Story
Southeast Asia was thrust into an age of turmoil when Western Europe's influence began to spread across their lands. In one particular region of Southeast Asia lived a tribe of people who could control the winds.
Talim was the daughter of this village's shaman, and she was reared to be the last priestess. During an era where faith in the Wind Deity gradually waned, Talim possessed unparalleled potential to be a shaman.
One day, four years earlier, as Talim read the winds just as she had done many times, a violent evil aura that seemed to devour everything in it's path surged into her body. Talim lost her consciousness and did not wake for days. The incident occurred the day the Evil Seed spread across the world.
When Talim was 15, a westerner brought a peculiar metallic fragment. The westerner touted the object as a "vitality charm," but Talim immediately recognized the evil within the piece of metal; it was the same malevolent energy that she felt on the day she collapsed.
"I must return the fragment to its rightful place!" Talim exclaimed.
The young priestess left on the journey, even though her elders were full of misgivings.
Soon after Talim left the village, she senses the resonance of the same evil aura from other parts of the world. She knew that everything would soon be consumed by illness if the evil force continued to spread. Talim knew she had to find all of the fragments and seek their rightful place.
No matter how far she was from her home, Talim could feel the wind. She was not afraid-no matter how long the journey, she knew she would be fine as long as the winds were with her.
[edit] Ending
Talim restores Soul Edge, and the flames are dispersed with the winds.
Her ending description clearly states: "She rides the wind freely, singing her windsongs. To appease the stars, the last priestess rises to the challenge."
[edit] Canon Ending
Unknown.
Ever since leaving the village for the first time, Talim followed the aura of the evil fragments. She eventually learned that the fragments belonged to an evil sword called Soul Edge. Although she was nervous about being in the outside world, Talim managed to collect several fragments.
Having sensed another source of evil energy, Talim traveled to a mountain range in a certain land. She gazed at the steep ravine and the giant flow of water wheels built in the flowing river. As if guided by the voices of the wind, she arrived at a small water wheel, where a group of small children lived. Learning that one of the children was ill, Talim entered. The aura around him was filled with waves of evil. Talim realized that the boy himself was giving off the evil aura. Talim asked the boy what was causing this, but the boy, who appeared to be the leader of the children, just smiled sadly at her. Talim could not just leave the boy in misery, so she decided to tend to him.
A young man visited the village about the same time that she had grown accustomed to life in the watermill. He was a cheerful young man, who carried a long sword. He went by the name of Yunsung. He announced that he was gathering information regarding Soul Edge.
Upon hearing this, Talim warned him about the dangers of the sword. The young man appeared to give in to her harsh tone, and decided to remain in the valley for a while, slyly waiting for an opportunity to gain information. At first, he made Talim apprehensive, but she sensed no evil coming from the young man, and eventually came to accept him.
The boy's condition eventually grew worse. The idea came to Talim, to pass the evil energy through her own body and out into the wind currents in the sky. The treatment continued for several days. The evil energy, released little by little, would be purified in the atmosphere, but the impurities that remained in Talim's body slowly piled up like sediment, eating away at her purity as a priestess. Her ability to read the wind grew weaker and weaker...
It was the first suffering she had ever experienced, and the greatest she could have imagined. She was losing a part of herself, something that had always been with her. Something more precious to her than words could describe. Seeing her sunken in sorrow, Yunsung said to her,
"There are some things you can't do anything about. When that happens, you just have to do what you can!" His words were mostly meaningless, but hearing him say them somehow gave her courage.
Despite her best efforts to treat him, the boy's health continued to worsen. His fever persisted day and night. He would not last long at this rate. Talim pondered releasing all of the energy to the wind at once. It would be more of a large-scale ritual than a treatment, and performing it with the impurities in her body would be dangerous. But still, it had to be done. The boy, however, flatly refused her idea.
"It hurts too much... my body, and the burden I'm placing on all of you, too. I just want it to end. The boy vented his anguish. It was Yunsung who stepped forward to convince the boy, and stop Talim and the children from arguing with him.
After a long conversation between the two of them, Yunsung grinned and spoke. "I gave this little trouble-maker a good talking to. The rest is up to you."
Talim embraced the frail body of the boy. "No matter how bad I feel, I won't give up. So I don't want you to close off your future, either..."
It was quite possibly a miracle. When the ritual ended, not a single remnant of the evil energy remained in either of their bodies. In the instant that Talim had opened the boundaries of her heart, overlapping her being with the serene winds that cross the heavens, something had flowed throughout their two bodies and exorcised the evil energy. And in that instant, she had seen it. Past where the winds blew, far to the west. A shining light had appeared. Overflowing water, pure blue sky, and a single sword. It was a beautiful and fleeting vision, like a crystal formed over countless ages.
"It's beautiful..." Talim murmured. Without even understanding why, Talim felt her heart grow hot. After watching over the boy to help him recover, Talim continued her journey, with the many thanks of the children echoing in her ears. Something waited for her in the west. Every time the pure breeze touched her, her heart fluttered with that premonition.
[edit] Ending
Talim is in a nice grassy area with a windmill. Perhaps her village. She holds Soul Edge up to the sky and asks the wind for help. A big cyclone appears around her...
[edit] Input Ending
The whirlwind gets really big and shoots Soul Edge up into the sky and blows it up. Yunsung comes walking up. Talim swoons, and he catches her. He sounds disappointed that the sword is gone. Talim gets mad at him and starts chewing him out. He runs away, and she goes after him.
[edit] Non-Input Ending
Soul Edge zaps her and then flies up into the air and shatters. Talim falls down. She sees some birds flying around. "Wow!"
[edit] Trivia
- Talim's grandmother, Kalana, is the village elder.
- On the day that Talim read the winds and felt the evil seed, she cried, and didn't know why.
- The village elders could feel the evil in the metal fragment, and they told the merchant that it belonged somewhere else.
- The elders tried to prevent Talim from leaving the village with the metal shard. They feared that the purity of the Last Priestess would be tainted if she were exposed to the outside world. Her parents disagreed. On the contrary, they felt that by experiencing the world, Talim's purity and love of nature would grow.
- Talim is a newcomer to the Soul Edge saga. At 15, she is the youngest character in any of the games. That is, unless you count Astaroth, who was technically 3 in Soul Calibur 1. Or Charade, who seems to have been created recently. Well, she's definitely the youngest human character.
- If you're wondering why Talim and Yunsung are each other's destined battles, it's because they both arrived at the same place, Capital Ayutthaya, at almost the same time. Yunsung passed through there a few days before Talim did. When Talim got there, it was the first time that she learned that other people, like everybody's favourite patriot, were looking for the evil sword. This troubled her, as she doesn't want anybody to be hurt by it.
- It is plausible that Talim is ethnically Filipino. One of her throws means "Take My Hand" in Tagalog. Most of her moves have something in them in Tagalog; such words as her own name, "tuhod", "sipa", "espada", and "abaniko" translate into "Sharp", "knee", "kick", "sword", and "fan".
[edit] Character Relationships
- Travel companion of Yunsung from Soulcalibur III to Soulcalibur IV.
- Travel companion of Seong Mi-na in Soulcalibur IV.
