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League of Legends: Season Start 2018 "CLIMB" concepts by Jason Chan

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Visions of Zaun

W I L D L I F E

The Land and coastal areas house an large assortment of astounding creatures, such as: Cliff-shrikes, Crag-ducks, Flesh-eating mites, Gutter rats, Plague rats, Shadowhares, and Viridian beetles.

There are also more mundane creatures inhabiting the coastlines and docks such as seagulls.

Cavernberry

Type of native edible plant species. Used to make a juice.

Gutter rat

Gutter rats are a type of native mammal species. Their name is also used as an urban insult.

Plague rat

Plague rats are a type of native mammal species. Twitch was once a plague rat, before he mutated due to Zaunite chemicals in its sewers.

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𝐒𝐄𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐈

The size of Seireitei has been compared to a modern day city. It’s undoubtedly grown over the years since it’s original formation, and for anyone traveling solely on foot, it would take days to travel from one end to another. While there are no automobiles in Seireitei ( and motorcycles specifically become banned ), there is a mode of public transportation: open trolleys. Walking is the most common means to get from point A to point B, but with Seireitei being as large as it is and the bulk of shinigami not able to use shunpo for extended periods without exhausting themselves ( nor cover large amounts of ground in a single step ), transportation is necessary. There are trolley stations in every division and every division has one singular trolley that never leaves said division, while the rest travel among all of Serietei. The schedules are posted in the stations, and every trolley is labeled with the division number, and letters ( A through N )

To live in Seireitei, one must complete six years in the Academy,. The only exception to this rule are those born into noble families. It should also be noted that not all that graduate are accepted into the Gotei 13. The groups of souls that never become true shinigami are then left with either returning to Rukongai, or remaining in Seireitei and working at one of the several other jobs available. Retired shinigami also are required to take some form of a job in order to stay in Seireitei.

The divisions are walled off from each other, but also separated into districts. Typically, those districts consist of shopping, housing, training, and work. Some divisions have considerably larger training areas than others. Other divisions, such as the sixth, have a large (and heavily guarded) section for noble housing. No two divisions have the same layout.

The shopping districts vary from division to division, depending on the specialty of those living there. There will be some specialty food items or clothing/accessory items available in one division, and not in another. Some of the noted places within Seireitei are: Silver Dragonfly - [ Specializing in Glasses, Run by Gin Tonbo ], The Purgatory Company [ A mail-order business located minutes from Black Ridge Gate ], Shinigami's Health Land [ A day spa ], Tomorrow's Tiger Pharmacy  [ A small pharmacy that sells a variety of household items ]. Other stores that would be found in any given division are: clothing, haberdashery, jewelry, and tailoring stores, grocery stores, bakeries, liquor stores, restaurants and bars, tea shops, bookstores, novelty stores (ones that sell popular mascot items such as Chappy), electronic stores, furniture stores, repair shops, art galleries, florists, and salons.

The housing districts are generally the same throughout Seireitei. Unranked shinigami share a large apartment-like barrack. The housing itself is not gender segregated, but the communal showers are. The barrack apartments do not have showers and are generally very small with only the basic necessities available. The mass of unranked shinigami often eat their meals in the mess hall of their chosen division. Overall, the living conditions are extremely similar to those offered at the Academy.

Ranked officer housing is in a separate area from the unranked. Small one bedroom houses are offered to ranked members, giving them privacy and lifting the need to use any communal amenities offered. The size doesn’t vary much, though the top five have the nicest housing.

Captains and Lieutenants are allowed to choose where they’d like their homes to be built. Because it’s so infrequent that these ranks are changed out, it isn’t much of a problem to tear down/build homes for the heads of the divisions. Those that are nobles however, rarely choose to live outside of their clan housing unless said housing is built within another division.

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𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐎 𝐀𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐘

"Do not seek beauty in battle. Do not seek virtue in death. Do not make  the mistake of considering only your own life. If you wish to protect  that which you must protect slice the enemy you must defeat from  behind.”

Originally founded around 2,100 years ago under the name ‘Shinigami Academy’, it was eventually changed with the addition of the formation of the  Kidō Corps and the Onmitsukidō.

The uniform of the Academy is similar to the standard Shinigami uniform, though consists of red and white (for women) and blue and white (for men). The Academy symbol is sported below both shoulders on the front of the kosode.

Anyone is allowed to take the entrance exam for the Academy. There is no limit to the number of times one is allowed to apply, so even if one fails the first time, they can try again the following year. The entrance exam is also used to divide the students into classes.

First Class is the accelerated program. This is the only skill divide between students, all others are placed in basic courses. However, on occasion a student can be placed in First Class of specific subjects, while remaining in basic for the others. Otherwise, students are filed by year (first years, ect).

Six years is the mandatory study, though particularly talented shinigami are able to graduate early. Some students are even accepted into the Gotei before graduation and are offered a ranked position in said division.

The four major classes are:  Hakuda, Hohō, Kidō, and Zanjutsu.   Other mandatory classes are: Medicine, Language (Reading/Writing), Shunpo, and the basic laws/history of Seireitei. Optional classes are: Calligraphy, Arts, Technology/Science, and Skill Courses (such as cooking, ect)

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Visions of Zaun

L O C A T I O N  S     A - Z

Zaun is a city within Piltover located between northern and southern parts of Valoran. The current well known locations (not counting Piltover) encompassing Zaun are:

Augmentation Parlors

Facilities where Zaunites can be installed with various augmentations for any use.

Breather Station

Facilities where people can stop in to get a reprieve from the Gray for a breath of less dingy air. Breather Pipes move cleaner air to polluted areas.

Black Lanes

Located close to the Sumps, it is a market of colorful bazaars, at the heart of Zaun where merchants and thieves do business. Anything is for sale, and everything is stolen goods. An area known for the especially gritty quality of air.

Boundary Markets

A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of goods. They thrive where Piltover and Zaun meet above the Entresol level.

Bonscutt Pump Station

A facility including pumps and equipment for removing sewage from the Entresol level down lower into Zaun. Located near a stop for the Rising Howl right beneath the Entresol level.

Bridgewaltz

Located on one of the Entresol’s lower levels, Zaunites and Piltovans alike flock to the Bridgewaltz market for a taste of everything that makes the undercity great. The best in music, food, and artisanal chemtech creations can be found here every night.

Chemtech seam

Crevasses in the cliffs that are the source of compounds used in chemtech.

College of Techmaturgy

The great tower of the College of Techmaturgy rises arrogantly from the wide canyon separating North and South Piltover, anchored to the upper cliffs by swaying suspension bridges and thick iron cables that thrum like musical strings when the winds blow in hard from the ocean.

Its the cities best known institution of learning and prime location for techmaturgical research for the new and unexperienced. It also has cultural ties with Noxian's Bleak Academy.

Commercia Fantastica

A market specializing primarily in gearwork toys. Possibly located in the Black Lanes.

Cultivair

Isolated crystal or glasshouses that contain trees and plants. The wealthiest in Zaun maintain them as a symbol of their power and a source of clean air. Bioluminescent algae, and nocturnal blooming flowers are cultivated in these facilities.

Delicatessens

Delicatessens is a store selling cold cuts, cheeses, and a variety of salads, as well as a selection of unusual or foreign prepared foods.

Drop Street

Street to a wheezing hexdraulic descender station on the Entresol level. The descender connects the Entresol level Drop street to a Piltover level street by the same name. The descender has an iron-framed cabin with a lozenge-patterned grille, and is still running in Piltover later at night than other descenders. A quiet a secluded route for those on the run.

Dredge

A prison mine for chemtech compounds deep beneath Zaun with hellish conditions. The prison once held Urgot.

Emberflit Alley

A fog-bound narrow corridor. Area for Viktor's house.

Entresol

A level of Zaun situated just below the Promenade: the notional border between Piltover and Zaun. A flourishing hub of cosmopolitan commercial arcades, supper-clubs, recital halls, joy houses, and “everything goes” type clubs, making it one of the most populated districts of the cities. It was also widely regarded by the people that lived and toiled there as the place where the real work of Zaun got done, where most of the city's trade and business occurs. Birthplace of Viktor.

Factorywood

A place where many factories are situated close together. Sump pools are Chem-tech holding vessels located in the Factorywood. Located somewhere beneath the Entresol level and above the Sump.

Hope House

Located somewhere in the Slums between the Factorywood and the Sump, it is a crumbling foundling home cut into Zaun’s cave-riddled cliffs dedicated to the welfare of the many orphans created in the wake of the disaster that tore Zaun apart.

Old Hungry

A large old iconic dulled metal mechanized clock-tower in the heart of Old Zaun with exposed grinding gears with its base located at the heart of the Sump. It towers high above the levels of Piltover and hasn't told the correct time in years. It is a popular haunt for the Zaun kids, and is the "heart of Old Zaun."

Promenade

Entertainment and commercial zone located above the Entresol level where Pilties go for good, cheap times.

Priggs Industries

Priggs Industries are is large industrial complex of Dr. Priggs. It houses a large amount of warehouses and factories. It was later revealed that the complex house underground holding facilities and slave labor camps which has since ruined the reputation of the Industry. Graves was one of the prisoners that escaped from one of the Industries tightly controlled prisons known as The Locker.

Pump station

Facilities located in Piltover including pumps and equipment for moving clean air from Piltover into Zaun via ducts and vents.

Rising Howl

A large multi-tiered rack and pinion Hexdraulic Coveyor supported by three vertical structural beams which span the height of the city from the Sump to the Boundary Markets. Its ovoid shape, and curved topside are constructed of thick glass and an elaborate ironwork baroque latticework frame with ratcheting endless gears. At the top there’s wrought iron howling wolf, and a pipe that blasts steam whistles. It’s the primary Hexdraulic Coveyor for transporting crowds between the levels of Zaun and Piltover. Conductor’s voices are magnified by a flexible speaking tube connected to a bell-shaped sonophone. The passengers of the Rising Howl are used to people hitching a lift upward.

Skylight Commercia

Market where people browse galleries, meet friends, dine or going to see one of the companies of players that tour the undercity with satirical works. The atmosphere warm and friendly, it’s the perfect place to bask in all that Zaun has to offer. Located within the Promenade levels.

Sump Works

Zaun's lowest deepest levels, past the reaches of the Gray-filtered light, where the environment turns grim, increasing disorderly and poorly lit, densely cramped with piping and discarded items. Most of the working class live there or just above it. Lower than the residential neighborhood areas the Sump becomes more squalid where increasingly thicker chem-fumes thread the alleys between crowded mostly abandoned industrial buildings. It has been built and rebuilt on top of itself, and almost everything there now serves the chem-tech industry (or its workers) in some way.

Sump Works, and Sector 90TZ located in it, are one of many locations in Zaun. It is here where Twitch was spotted after his mutational transformation.

The Cliff

The most important location of all of Zaun, it was once the epicenter of a massive man made geological disaster that sunk most of the city. Currently, it is the location of massive spires jutting upwards towards Piltover as the arrogant testimony of Zaun's resolve to survive. One such building is the College of Techmaturgy.

The Slums

The Slums of Zaun are one of the most densely populated and polluted locations in Valoran. Large pipes flowing with industrial waste are placed around its buildings. Many of its residence are main source of labor for Zauns factories. The Memorial Wall is a place where residence of The Slums give homage to those they had lost.

Viktor's Laboratory

The main research location of Viktor, the city's infamous robotics and cybernetics inventor. It has recently been raided by Piltover's Jayce after Viktor stole a Brackern crystal from him and used it for his experiments.

Zaun Sewers

Zaun's sewers are where all the city's toxic waste ends up and is tossed into the sea. Many creatures, such as rats, live in this underground area, some of which had mutated from the toxic waste, such as Twitch.

Zaun's Asylum for the Irreparably Troubled

The Asylum of Zaun Doctor Edmundo was left to when he was very young. It cease to operates anymore due to Doctor Edmundo "curing" everyone in there in his own way, in which they were murdered.

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The 2018 season is here. Take the first step and begin your climb.

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