Piltover-Zaun Overview
The dual city-states of Piltover and Zaun control the major trade routes between Valoran and Shurima, but the divide between their social classes is gradually becoming more and more dangerous.
Home both to visionary inventors and their wealthy patrons, Piltover is a thriving progressive city overlooking the ocean. Dozens of ships pass through its docks every day, bringing goods from all over the world, and allowing the resident merchant clans to fund incredible endeavors - including artistic follies, and architectural monuments to their individual power. With ever more artisans delving into the emergent arcane science of hextech, the self-styled City of Progress is fast becoming the destination for some of the most skilled craftspeople from across Runeterra.
By contrast, Zaun is the polluted undercity beneath Piltover - once united, the two are now separate, symbiotic cultures. Stifled inventors often find their unorthodox research welcomed here, but reckless industry has rendered whole swathes of the city highly toxic. Even so, thanks to a thriving black market, chemtech, and mechanical augmentation, the people of Zaun still find ways to prosper.
Home both to visionary inventors and their wealthy patrons, Piltover is a thriving progressive city overlooking the ocean. Dozens of ships pass through its docks every day, bringing goods from all over the world, and allowing the resident merchant clans to fund incredible endeavors - including artistic follies, and architectural monuments to their individual power. With ever more artisans delving into the emergent arcane science of hextech, the self-styled City of Progress is fast becoming the destination for some of the most skilled craftspeople from across Runeterra.
By contrast, Zaun is the polluted undercity beneath Piltover - once united, the two are now separate, symbiotic cultures. Stifled inventors often find their unorthodox research welcomed here, but reckless industry has rendered whole swathes of the city highly toxic. Even so, thanks to a thriving black market, chemtech, and mechanical augmentation, the people of Zaun still find ways to prosper.
History
Once known as Oshra Va'Zaun, the slim isthmus that connects Valoran and Shurima has been a hub of mercantile activity since ancient times. Even after fall of Azir, it continued to serve as a prosperous port and trade route, and became known simply as Zaun. But the steady growth of the area came at a great cost to the community, when ambition construction work resulted in the flooding and collapse of some sort of the oldest parts of the city. Undeterred, the powerful merchant clans moved their interest to the outlying districts of Piltover instead.
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