Piltover is a thriving and progressive city bordered by the eternal ice-capped Far North of Freljörd, and the cultural center of the vast continent of Valoran, where art, crafts, trade and innovation go hand in hand, not from military prowess, but from extensive trade cooperation and thinking ahead of its time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Piltover was and still is a city of wealth and dreams. Centuries ago, the inhabitants of the mainland called this place - Zuan!

Zuan was originally a progressive city in the Runeterras, and its highly developed science and technology made it famous throughout Valoran, but the landscape of the Runetera Continent at that time was very different from what it is now.

At that time, the Runeterras was still a complete continent, and the northern and southern parts of the continent were completely connected, which meant that Shurima and Freljord were once next to each other, and Zaun was on the land they were connected to.

Long before humans settled in Zu'an, before the entire rune's crust was shaken, the blazing Shurima Desert adjacent to Zu'an was filled with countless extremely primitive and unrestrained magical powers, and in the depths of the endless desert, there was a magical object called the primordial crystal, no one knew how this crystal was born, they only knew that the crystal contained powerful magical power.

When humans set foot in Shurima, the species that lived here was called the Shell Race, which was a scorpion-like creature, and although it was not humanoid, it also possessed a high degree of intelligence and a unique social civilization.

Miraculously, each Shell Man fuses with a naturally occurring Primordial Crystal and seals their consciousness within it after death.

The number of crystals is limited, and the young Shell people must find the crystals they are destined for, and similarly, the self-consciousness in the primordial crystal will also summon its chosen people to pass on their magic and memories, which is how the Shell people continue to pass on their wisdom.

Primordial Crystals are very important to the Shell Terrans, as they cannot survive long without them, as they lack the power, magic, and longevity that Crystals provide.

The Shell Terrans were born to protect the Crystal, and they have lived in the Shurima Desert for countless centuries since they were born in the Land of Runeterra, until the arrival of several rune wars, a disaster that threatens the entire world, and this kind of disaster that threatens the entire world has caused panic among the Shell Terrans.

They had witnessed the terrifying spectacle caused by the collision of two round hedrons, the force that had caused more damage than any physical law, and the tribes, the creatures, and the land all disappeared from their eyes in an instant, without a trace, and the ocean that should have been outside the day's journey roared with the sound of destruction.

Unable to resist the Shell Race by a devastating force, the Crystal Pioneer began to fear that the Shell Race would be wiped out completely, so he decided to let the entire race dive underground and go into a dormant state, waiting for the human beings to destroy themselves in the Rune War.

And from the situation at that time, the decision of the crystal pioneer Scana is undoubtedly the wisest, it can be said that the extinction of the human race is almost a doomed result, and only then can the shell people safely live on the earth again.

But it backfired, the hundreds of years when the shell people were asleep was a time of rapid development of human society, and the city of progress, which was famous throughout the land of runees~ Zu'an came from this.

Although the prosperous Zuan technology was famous all over the world, they also had their own troubles, due to the existence of the mainland at that time, which caused trade and transportation to be very inconvenient.

For example, Demacia, which is located in the west, wants to trade with Bilgewater on the east coast, and has to travel long distances to reach it by bypassing the precipitous waters of the south.

The long journey made it a very dangerous profession for the seafarers, who had to pray for peace and quiet, and built rudimentary shrines out of shells and bones to embed in the bow of ships, and more successful sailing ships carved statues at the top of the masts as shrines, hoping that their illumination of faith would be exchanged for better wind blessings.

They call their wind spirits ~Jana!

As more and more sailors joined the prayer, the Wind Elf did appear, she was summoned to the throat of the continent of Zu'an at that time, and the prayer of the creatures gave her the power of the wind, and at the same time, Jana also took the mission of her birth to protect the creatures of the Runeterra.

However, humanity's exploration of the world and its desire for easy access have changed things. As the city of progress, the wealthy Phros family has been on an expedition to bring back a magical crystal from the depths of the Shurima Desert, which is the original Hex Crystal, or Primordial Crystal.

The expedition found this magic crystal from the body of a scorpion-like creature, which can also be said to be taken from the body of the shell people.

The Phros family relied on the power of crystals to obtain a huge fortune, and at the same time, they gradually realized that the number of natural magic crystals is limited, they studied and invested for many years, and finally researched and created a less powerful but mass-produced synthetic Hex crystal, the only side effect is that the synthesis of this crystal will produce a large amount of haze, they named the crystal produced Hextech Crystal.

The birth of Hextech meant that magic and science had successfully combined to make possible some grand plans that were previously unimaginable, and with the power of Hextech's magical technology, the elders of Zaun were finally going to face their troubles.

They hired the most innovative scientists, and the abundant resources of Hextech Technology designed and created a huge blueprint for the waterway canal, which they wanted to cut off the connection between the north and south continents, shorten the distance for ships to sail, and after the canal was opened, it would be directly connected to the oceans on both sides of the Valoran continent.

For humans, a route across the continent is undoubtedly a great thing, which not only saves the time of passage, brings greater wealth to Zuan, but also makes those crew members who are often on the verge of life and death safe and reliable.

But for the wind spirit Cana, who was born out of faith and prayer, human feats would make her lose the meaning of her existence, and the safe and quiet sea did not need her protection, and as the power of the prayer diminished, the canal gradually took shape.

At the opening ceremony of the completion of the canal, travelers from all over the continent gathered here, they celebrated and cheered happily, and several Hex's alchemy technology blasting devices were arranged in the middle of the canal isthmus, and the elders of Zu'an gathered together with unconcealable pride and anticipation, and personally launched the ignition ceremony to wait for the grand moment of the canal's opening.