Talona is often depicted as a withered old crone with a scarred, tattooed
face in religious texts. Where she walks, misfortune and death follow. She
has the personality of a petulant, greedy child trapped in the body of a once
beautiful woman now scarred by horrific disease and ravaged by age.
Talona's power slowly wanes after each great plague in Faerun. When she feels
vulnerable in her position, she unleashes another wave of misery and
disease-brought death and receives a torrent of prayers entreating her to
spare the inhabitants of Faerun from her withering touch. Her power then
waxes again in an endless cycle of indifference, devastation, and
appeasement.