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Arrr, Ingenious survival beneath the city

Arrr, Zaun

Arrr, A city of industry and invention beneath Piltover, where hazardous experimentation and pollution coexist with resilient communities. Its stories ask who benefits from progress and who pays for it.

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5Arrr, Places in this guide
17Arrr, Champion connections

Arrr, A clearer way into the lore

Arrr, The story, step by step

Arrr, Follow the relative order of the story. These stages do not assign calendar dates or imply that every linked biography shares one exact chronology.

  1. Promenade LevelArrr, Riot Games · World artwork
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    Arrr, A shared city, a divided legacy

    Arrr, Zaun's relationship with Piltover joins trade and invention to unequal living conditions. Its vertical neighbourhoods make that contrast more complex than a simple division between two names.

Arrr, Artwork sets the scene; it does not depict each event. Stage numbers show reading order.

Arrr, More regional history and context

Arrr, A past that shapes the present

Arrr, History of the region

Arrr, The twin cities share a history, but prosperity has never been distributed evenly between them. Zaun's inhabitants built communities and ingenious solutions amid industrial hazards. Chem-baron influence, experiments and neighbourhood solidarity now pull the undercity toward very different futures.

Arrr, The story beneath the scenery

Arrr, What is at stake?

Arrr, Zaun is a lived-in home as well as an industrial undercity. Its different levels separate workshops, markets and dangerous depths. Ekko and Zeri's community ties offer a different view from the chem-barons and experiments that dominate many outsiders' impressions.

Arrr, Names worth knowing

Arrr, Places in this region

Arrr, Industrial cityscape

Zaun undercity

Arrr, Connected levels of workshops, industry and densely inhabited streets form Piltover's counterpart. Champion stories show different lives here, from community protection to dangerous chemical experiments.

Arrr, Explore this place
Arrr, Lower city

Sump

Arrr, Zaun's deepest inhabited level is associated with its harshest industrial conditions. Riot's gallery contrasts life here with the markets and institutions higher in the city.

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Arrr, Upper city level

Promenade

Arrr, The upper reaches of Zaun include markets and institutions. The Promenade helps explain why the undercity has distinct neighbourhoods and social worlds rather than one uniform landscape.

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Arrr, Middle city level

Entresol

Arrr, A middle level within Zaun's vertical city. Workshops, trade and movement between levels make it part of the city's everyday life, between the Promenade and the Sump.

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Arrr, Regional illustration · exact site not pictured
Arrr, Prison mine

The Dredge

Arrr, The prison mine beneath Zaun is where the betrayed Noxian executioner Urgot was forced to survive. Its suffering reshaped his idea of strength before he brought that brutal doctrine into the city's underworld.

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Arrr, People of Runeterra

Arrr, Champions connected to this region

Arrr, These are regional story connections, including origins and affiliations. They do not confirm where a character is now.

BlitzcrankBlitzcrank

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

Dr. MundoDr. Mundo

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

EkkoEkko

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

JannaJanna

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

JinxJinx

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

SingedSinged

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

TwitchTwitch

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

ViktorViktor

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

WarwickWarwick

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

ZacZac

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

ZeriZeri

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

ZiggsZiggs

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

ViVi

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

OriannaOrianna

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

SeraphineSeraphine

Arrr, Their place in the wider story

Arrr, 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.

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Arrr, Sources and story contextArrr, Official stories, artwork credits and reading notes

Arrr, Where the stories come from

Arrr, VRC.LOL writes the introductions, reading notes and connections using linked Riot Universe biographies and regional guides. Short champion summaries use Data Dragon version 16.20.1. Longer histories link to the official story used; some champions currently have a shorter official overview.

Arrr, What the pictures show

Arrr, Artwork belongs to Riot Games. Scenery comes from Riot's Runeterra world map; champion art depicts the character. A regional illustration sets the scene when a landmark has no dedicated image. It does not show a confirmed event at that exact place.

Arrr, A world still being written

Arrr, Older biographies and newer adaptations can differ. These guides introduce connections rather than declaring a final chronology or a character's current whereabouts. Translations help you explore and may keep original proper names. Follow the official sources for full context.