Talin Warhaft II

Talin Warhaft II is an Imperial Warrior of the Templar discipline in Reign of Chaos. He was an Imperial Guard, who patrolled the City, a competent and skilled guard, if not a little inexperienced. After Jagar Tharn betrays the Emperor and banishes him and Talin's Father, General Warhaft to Oblivion, the traitorous half-breed has him banished to the dungeon, where he is left to die. Talin takes the initiative and the roll of leadership as he breaks himself and his fellow inmates out of the Imperial Prison, being a Guard he has a great understanding of law enforcement and the Prison's security systems but still manages to receive some useful help from a 'Friend.'

Background
Talin is the only son of Talin Warhaft Senior, a General in the Imperial Legion, who serves as a personal bodyguard to Emperor Uriel Septim VII. Talin followed in his Father's footsteps and enrolled in the Legion, becoming an Imperial Guard himself at the age of Sixteen, where he continued to work his way up the career ladder for the next three years.

Unbeknown to him, Jagar Tharn was plotting to overthrow the Emperor and banish him and his most trusted General into the realm of Oblivion, where they were kept out of the picture and safe. Tharn then discovered that Warhaft had a son, he immediately saw Talin as a threat and had him arrested and thrown into the Imperial Dungeon, where he was left to die in the dark.

Reign of Chaos: Prologue - The Imperial Prison
Talin spends several days in the Imperial Prison, waiting for the unknown, until he is visited by the spirit of Ria Silmane, the former apprentice of Jagar Tharn. She appears to him in a dream, where she proceeds to inform him about the events that have transpired in the White-Gold tower.

She then informs him that he is their only hope, offering him a way out if he trusts her and follows her plan to escape. She parts, leaving Talin with a key to open up the other cells before leaving him to his task...

Talin awakens the next morning, with the key in his hand, he is able to open his own cell door as well as the cell doors of his inmates, the Argonian Zaydate, the Khajiit Shakti and Ragnar the Nord before leading them back to his cell. His comrades don't entirely trust him and his convenient escape plan but come to terms with the fact that they don't have any alternative means of escape.

The Imperial begins to work the false wall, that Ria warned him about, releasing its mechanism and opening the way for the group as they descend into the sewers.

Appearances
Reign of Chaos: Prologue - The Imperial Prison