Taiana Venediktov

Taiana Venediktov is a prisoner on Lian Yu, a former dive instructor and the sister of the late Vlad.

Working as a dive instructor
While working a dive instructor on a yacht, they were hijacked. Everyone was killed but Taiana and her brother. They were then brought to Lian Yu to work for Baron Reiter.

Prisoner on Lian Yu
While on Lian Yu, Taiana and several others were forced to harvest heroin and cocoa leaves to produce slam. After a slam harvester passed out, she aided him and requested he should be rested and given water. She was denied and was demanded she get back to work by Oliver Queen.

Eventually, Taiana had enough and she and another worker worked together to steal some slam. When Conklin and Oliver Queen began to extract who stole the slam for other workers, Taiana came clean. Before Conklin could kill Taiana, Oliver insisted she be brought where her body couldn't be found. When Oliver escorted her, he separated their distance from a landmine which killed a mercenary. Taiana was told where she could find clean drinking water and edible plants. When she noted that Oliver wasn't like the others, Oliver told her he would need her to do something and she would not like it. He performed the maneuver he learned from Yao Fei to make her look like she was dead and returned to camp, where Conklin demanded to see Taiana's body after learning a landmine took the life of Richards. Oliver lead him to Taiana's "body", where he checked for a pulse but found none. Once he left, Oliver undid the fake death and revived her.

Days later, Taiana was visited by Oliver. She was asked if Reiter seemed interested in anything besides the drugs. Taiana told him he liked taking people away from their families. When asked if he had done anything mythical or magical, she told Oliver that he had claimed to have blessed some of the prisoners.

When Oliver returned, she was told that her brother was killed because of Conklin. Taiana told Oliver she was going to kill Conklin but Oliver told her Conklin is only a pawn. Taiana was then shown a map of Lian Yu and told it could lead to what Reiter was looking for.

She later helped Oliver getting back to the Amazo, so that the latter could retrieve the detailed map of the island.

During Slade Wilson's return to Lian Yu, he spotted Taiana's grave next to Shado's, which making Taiana's status unknown.

Behind the scenes

 * In Green Arrow: Year One, Taiana was the name of a young pregnant woman, native of the island Oliver Queen washed up on. She was made into a slave and had to work in the opium fields and refinery for China White, until Oliver saved her.