Zaun

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Blitzcrank began as a machine intended to handle Zaun's dangerous waste. Their original work placed them directly among the hazards that wealthy parts of the twin cities could afford to overlook.

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Before calling himself a doctor, Mundo was an enforcer who became a patient in a Zaunite asylum. The institution's abuse transformed an already unusual man into something far more dangerous.

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Ekko's ingenuity grows from life in Zaun. His Z-Drive lets him revisit possibilities, turning an inventive young person's refusal to accept a bad outcome into a distinctive kind of power.

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Janna is a wind spirit whose identity is bound to people's need for protection. Traditions connect her with sailors' prayers, while Zaun's dispossessed have come to know her as their own source of hope.

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Jinx's story grows from Zaun and the painful consequences of her past. Improvised weapons and explosive spectacle make that history visible across the divide between the undercity and Piltover.

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Renata Glasc's childhood losses left her with her family's alchemical work and a name to rebuild. She turned that inheritance into the foundations of a vast Zaunite business.

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Singed treats alchemy as a pursuit whose limits are set by curiosity rather than ordinary ethics. The people affected by an experiment can become less important to him than the knowledge it produces.

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Twitch comes from Zaun's filthiest spaces and takes pride in things the city above would discard. His fascination with refuse gives him a perspective almost the reverse of Piltover's polished self-image.

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Urgot once enforced Noxian power as an executioner. Betrayal reduced him from an instrument of authority to a prisoner in the Dredge beneath Zaun.

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Viktor's search for progress begins with a desire to overcome human suffering. Invention and arcane discovery offer the possibility of changing conditions that ordinary institutions have failed to address.

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Warwick's monstrous body was made through agonising Zaunite experiments. Pumps, chambers and alchemy push rage through a life whose earlier identity survives only in troubled fragments.

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Zac began as an unexpected result of Zaun's chemical waste, gathering in a cavern beneath the Sump. Something that might have been only another industrial hazard developed awareness and a capacity to care.

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Zeri grew up in Zaun with a family and neighbourhood worth defending. Her electric magic is inseparable from emotion, making a desire to help both a source of strength and something she must learn to control.

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Ziggs found ordinary work as an inventor's assistant in Piltover too predictable. His fascination with explosions wanted an environment less interested in treating every experiment as a controlled routine.

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Vi's childhood in Zaun taught her to survive through quick judgement and direct force. An unjust imprisonment adds another reason for her distrust of the authority she later comes to work beside.

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Orianna's curiosity first belonged to a human girl. Exposure to danger in Zaun set off an illness that forced her body to be replaced through painstaking mechanical work.

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Seraphine grew up in Piltover within a Zaunite family, hearing the world through an unusual awareness of other souls. What others experienced as ordinary noise could overwhelm her.