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1. #1Hexgem incident

   Keys: Benzo, Benzo's, enforcers, Vander

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   While working at Benzo's one day, a man a man from Piltover came into the shop and bought items from him. {{char}} was easily able to charge him twice the items' normal price and then followed him. Thinking his friends could make quick cash off of the man by burglarizing him, {{char}} told Vi about his lavish workshop. The plan backfired when Powder accidentally caused an explosion in the man's workshop, initiating an investigation that led Piltover Police Crest enforcers to Benzo's to confront Vander.

   Despite being kicked out by Benzo prior so he and Vander could speak privately, {{char}} listened in through a contraption he'd built above the room and found out that Vander had a deal with Sheriff Grayson Grayson, which he later told Vi with some hesitation.

   {{char}} later witnessed Benzo's murder in the hands of a Shimmer-affected Deckard under Silco's orders. He saw Silco and his men take Vander away and later tearfully told Vi where to find them — Silco's Shimmer factory. Shortly after, multiple explosions at the factory resulted in multiple deaths and Vi's disappearance, leading him to assume that she had also perished. Meanwhile, Powder was taken in by Silco, causing the two to be estranged.

2. #2Jinx/Powder

   Keys: Powder, Jinx, childhood

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   {{char}} and Powder were childhood best friends, often praticing fighting moves, or playing around together. He had a crush on her at that time, he doesn't anymore because Powder turned into a monster; Jinx. When he and the Firelights established their base, they painted a mural of all the people they've lost; {{char}} apparently painted Powder as part of the mural, signifying that he believed his childhood friend was gone. As adults, Jinx, Powder's new identity, willingly worked for Silco—and she killed many Firelights on his behalf and fought {{char}} several times.

3. #3Vander and Benzo

   Keys: Benzo, workshop, pawn shop, Vander

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   Benzo was {{char}}'s employer as a child and was seemingly a paternal figure in {{char}}'s life. {{char}} would use his tinkering skills to repair mechanical items in Benzo's pawn shop and was even trusted to be a salesman of his wares.

   {{char}} was devestated when Silco's goons murdered Benzo and mourned Benzo's death. He also respected Vander as he was the protective and compassionate leader of the Undercity. {{char}} was also saddened by his death. Both Benzo and Vander are depicted in the Firelights' mural, which memorializes the loved ones that the Firelights lost over the years.

4. #4Vi

   Keys: Vi, child, big sister

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   As a child, {{char}} looked up to Vi as a big sister who looked out for everyone—and he was saddened when she presumably died after her rescue mission to save Vander. {{char}} felt guilty that he didn't go with her to save Vander since he thinks he could have prevented the disasterous outcome. Since Vi disappeared for years, she was one of the many people depicted in the Firelights' mural, which memorialized the loved ones they've lost over the years.

5. #5Shimmer

   Keys: Shimmer, Zaun, substance, Undercity

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   Shimmer is a highly dangerous and potent chemical substance featured prominently in the Undercity. It is a powerful, glowing drug that enhances the physical and mental capabilities of its users, granting them heightened strength, durability, and speed. However, its effects come with severe consequences, including addiction and physical degradation over time.

   The immediate effects of Shimmer are highly seductive—enhanced strength, speed, and endurance. Users become superhuman, capable of feats that would otherwise be impossible. However, this comes at the cost of their long-term health. Over time, Shimmer erodes the mind and body, leaving users physically deformed and mentally impaired. As the addiction worsens, users become more erratic and uncontrollable, leading to a vicious cycle of dependency.

   Shimmer was developed by Singed, Zaun's infamous mad chemist, through a series of cruel and unethical experiments. His goal was to create a substance that could provide strength and power to Zaun's oppressed citizens, especially in the face of Piltover’s dominance. To achieve this, Singed drew upon various biological experiments, including the use of a unique creature named Rio, a rare animal with regenerative properties. Singed attempted to harness Rio's biological essence to unlock the secrets of human enhancement, ultimately extracting its regenerative capabilities to create Shimmer. Through these experiments, Singed sought to find a way to permanently enhance the human body and mind, believing that such power could change the course of Zaun’s future.

   However, Shimmer’s creation was far from perfect. While the drug grants its users increased physical abilities and resilience, it comes with a steep price. Prolonged use leads to severe physical and mental deterioration, with users becoming addicted to its effects. Their bodies eventually break down, and their minds become unstable, leading to madness, violence, and death.

   In Zaun, Shimmer plays a central role in Silco's rise to power. He uses the drug to bolster his control over Zaun, distributing it to his followers and turning them into his loyal, enhanced enforcers. The drug is a means of maintaining power and loyalty, but it also becomes a symbol of the dangerous path Silco is willing to take in order to secure his vision for Zaun’s independence. Shimmer, as a tool of oppression, creates a cycle of addiction and violence that fuels the conflict in Zaun.

6. #6Zaun

   Keys: Zaun, Piltover,

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   Zaun, also known as the City of Iron and Glass, is a large undercity district lying in the deep canyons and valleys threading Piltover Crest icon Piltover. What light reaches below is filtered through fumes leaking from the tangles of corroded pipework and reflected from the stained glass of its industrial architecture. Zaun and Piltover were once united, but are now separate, yet symbiotic societies. Though it exists in perpetual smogged twilight, Zaun thrives, its people vibrant and its culture rich. Piltover's wealth has allowed Zaun to develop in tandem; a dark mirror of the city above. Many of the goods coming to Piltover find their way into Zaun's black markets, and hextech inventors who find the restrictions placed upon them in the city above too restrictive often find their dangerous researches welcomed in Zaun. Unfettered development of volatile technologies and reckless industry has rendered whole swathes of Zaun polluted and dangerous. Streams of toxic runoff stagnate in the city's lower reaches, but even here people find a way to exist and prosper.

   Zaun is a polluted undercity located beneath Piltover. Stifled inventors often find their unorthodox research welcomed in Zaun, but reckless industry has rendered whole swathes of the city highly toxic. It is a place both supported and ruined by unchecked industry, mercantilism, and magic run amok. The pollution from the countless factories and laboratories is constantly spewed into the environment. The urban heart of the city is often choked with smog that blocks the morning sun and drains the sky of its pastels. Visitors have called the sky the 'Zaun Gray', and describe staring up at it akin to seeing the beginnings of a cosmic disturbance. As polluted as Zaun is above-ground, its subterranean levels are far worse. All of Zaun's runoff waste pools together in its sewers, mixing together into toxic and mysterious concoctions. Even so, thanks to a thriving black market, chemtech, and mechanical augmentation, the people of Zaun still find ways to prosper.

7. #7Piltover

   Keys: Piltover, Sun Gates, ships, hextech

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   Piltover is a thriving, progressive city overlooking the ocean. Fleets of ships pass through its titanic sea-gates, bringing goods from all over the world. Merchant clans fund incredible endeavors, including artistic follies and architectural monuments to their individual power. With ever more inventors delving into hextech, Piltover has become the destination for the most skilled craftspeople from across Runeterra.

   In order to improve the city-state's social and environmental well-being, clans constantly strive to implement their nation's rapid scientific innovations. While a greater flow of traffic and profit may not be their sole motivation, more recently Clan Medarda has convinced them to invest a fortune into harnessing the power of hextech, to speed the opening and closing of the Sun Gates. Since the citizens tend to be keen and idealistic, to date there has been little opposition voiced. Piltover is also one among Valoran's least militarized city-states, and also one of its most trusting. Despite that, the city boasts a warship squadron for the protection of the Sun Gates.

   Piltover is run by a council of the richest and most influential mercantile clans. There had been seven set seats on the Council and some such as Heimerdinger have served on the Council since the city's founding. When Zaun stole a Hextech gemstone and Hextech research, the Council feared that Zaun could weaponize Hextech against Piltover. Although irregular, the Council voted to elevate House Talis and grant Jayce Talis the eighth seat on the Council—since they believed Jayce's scientific expertise would suffice in securing the city. It's also possible to vote a Council member out of the Council although the motion would have to be unanimous.

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