In order to regulate the oceanic passage they were built over, the Sun Gates were constructed, forcing all transport through the waters to be regulated by Zaun. She has yet to leave Zaun following this event.Įventually Zaun was rebuilt. ![]() Janna, empowered by the prayers of Zaun's people, arrived and blew away the gas, saving many lives and being eternally remembered by Zaun's denizens, converting her from a goddess of faith for sailors to a guardian deity for Zaun. The plan involved using thousand of chemtech bombs to crack open an area of the land so that a cavern could be created, but the results were catastrophic, as in what seemed to be an accident the bombs triggered a series of earthquakes that completely destroyed the isthmus and sank large districts of Zaun and thousands of its citizens, while also leaking poisonous gas into the city's surviving areas. Main article: Storm's FuryZaun finalized its plans to destroy a portion of the isthmus connecting Valoran and the Southern Continent, allowing for safe sea passage between eastern and western Valoran. When the war was over, the Targonians hid 2 Styraatu, the Darkin Harp deep within the caverns of Zaun. It is unclear if the name of mercantile city was Kha'Zhun or Osha Va'Zaun, but over time the name was changed to Zaun.ĭuring the Great Darkin War, Janna shielded the city from their conflicts. It would later become part of the ancient Shurima empire. More than three thousand years ago, a port was founded in the isthmus in the would-be present location of Zaun. Teemo regularly buys his mushrooms from Zaun's black markets.Tahm Kench became more active in Zaun after the Sun Gates were built.Swain once tricked Urgot into entering Zaun and considers Singed a loose end for his contributions in the Ionian conflict.Akali, Zed, and Shen have all tried to track down Jhin in both Piltover and Zaun.She also frequently performs in the undercity. Jhin was sent once on an assassination mission to Zaun.Heimerdinger has past connections with Ziggs and indirectly with Jinx.Ezreal has traveled to Zaun before in his expeditions.Camille has business connections with Zaun's infamous chem-barons.Caitlyn frequently patrols the upper levels of Zaun to capture Zaunite criminals.Champions of Zaun Ġ9 November 2009 Other Related Champions Even so, thanks to a thriving black market, chemtech, and mechanical augmentation, the people of Zaun still find ways to prosper. All of Zaun's runoff waste pools together in its sewers, mixing together into toxic and mysterious concoctions. As polluted as Zaun is above-ground, its subterranean levels are far worse. Visitors have called the sky the 'Zaun Gray', and describe staring up at it akin to seeing the beginnings of a cosmic disturbance. The urban heart of the city is often choked with smog that blocks the morning sun and drains the sky of its pastels. The pollution from the countless factories and laboratories is constantly spewed into the environment. It is a place both supported and ruined by unchecked industry, mercantilism, and magic run amok. Stifled inventors often find their unorthodox research welcomed in Zaun, but reckless industry has rendered whole swathes of the city highly toxic. Zaun is a polluted undercity located beneath Piltover - once united, they are now separate, symbiotic cultures. Streams of toxic runoff stagnate in the city's lower reaches, but even here people find a way to exist and prosper. Unfettered development of volatile technologies and reckless industry has rendered whole swathes of Zaun polluted and dangerous. Many of the goods coming to Piltover find their way into Zaun's black markets, and hextech inventors who find the restrictions placed upon them in the city above too restrictive often find their dangerous researches welcomed in Zaun. Piltover's wealth has allowed Zaun to develop in tandem a dark mirror of the city above. Though it exists in perpetual smogged twilight, Zaun thrives, its people vibrant and its culture rich. Zaun and Piltover were once united, but are now separate, yet symbiotic societies. ![]() What light reaches below is filtered through fumes leaking from the tangles of corroded pipework and reflected from the stained glass of its industrial architecture. Zaun, also known as the City of Iron and Glass, is a large undercity district lying in the deep canyons and valleys threading Piltover.
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