Piltover (Pill-T-Oh-ver)

Piltover is a thriving, progressive city whose power and influence is on the rise. It is Valoran’s cultural center, where art, craftsmanship, trade and innovation walk hand in hand. Its power comes not through military might, but the engines of commerce and forward thinking. Situated on the cliffs above the district of Zaun and overlooking the ocean, fleets of ships pass through its titanic sea-gates, bringing goods from all over the world. The wealth this generates has given rise to an unprecedented boom in the city’s growth. Piltover has - and still is - reinventing itself as a city where fortunes can be made and dreams can be lived. Burgeoning merchant clans fund development in the most incredible endeavors: grand artistic follies, esoteric hextech research, and architectural monuments to their power. With ever more inventors delving into the emergent lore of hextech, Piltover has become a lodestone for the most skilled craftsmen the world over.

Plitoven Language

Due to Piltover and Zaun being international trade ports, every type of language can be heard around its docks.
Over the course of its history, Zaunites / Piltovans have formed their own terms and slang:

• All-night bender - Phrase describing one who has spent a long night under the influence. "Bender" is also real-life slang.
• Apprenta - Apprentice.
• Bells - Term for the hour. Example: Eight bells = 8:00
• Burn-off - Smoke from combustion.
• Chem-burnt - Experiencing negative effects from being exposed to toxic compounds too much.
• Chem-fumes - Chemical gas, smoke, or vapor.
• Chem-stunted - Experiencing negative effects from being exposed to toxic compounds too much.
• Crawl-hatch - Opening in the sides of pipes or ducts for maintenance and manual cleaning.
• Chem-punk - Derogatory term used for a trouble maker, or gang member from Zaun.
• Dram-dealer - Person who sells dram.
• First rule of the Sump - Only marks go in through the front door.
• Foundlings - Orphans.
• Foundling home - Orphan Home.
• Go pound a sump - An insult.
• The Gray - Term used to describe Zaun's thick chemical atmosphere.
• The Gray Lady - The holy patron saint of the Glorious Evolved.
• Grayout - Massive pollution of The Gray.
• Grey-pox - Illness caused by The Gray.
• Head up top - Phrase meaning "Go to Piltover".
• Hereabouts - Phrase used to describe a person's current location.
• Hex-mechanics - People who work with hextech.
• Horticulturalists - People that tend to cultivairs.
• Janna's mercy! - A Zaunite exclamation used in cases of extreme danger, a plea for help.
• Lung Blight - Illness caused by The Gray.
• Mark - A thief's target.
• Name day - Birthday.
• Not even a plague rat's brown cough - Basically so silent you could hear a pin drop.
• Orderly - A caretaker.
• Physicker - phyiscian, or doctor.
• Piltie - Derogatory term for Piltover natives.
• Pipework - pipes that make up a network.
• Sawbones - Zaunite doctor.
• Skirl - Term used to describe a shrill, wailing sound from pipes.
• Snipe - A derogatory term for a Zaunite child.
• Stilt-walking sump-scrapper - A salvager who uses stilts to stay above the toxic gases and sludge of the Sump.
• Sump-raker - A derogatory term for a person from the Sump level.
• Sump-scrapping - The act of salvaging items from the Sump level.
• Sump-snipe - A derogatory term for a child from the Sump level.
• Sump-scrappers - People who make a living salvaging items from the Sump level. Also known as a Sumper.
• Sump-sucker - A derogatory term for a person from the Sump level.
• Sure as gray follows day - Phrase signifying certainty.
• Tallyman - Person who sells merchandise on credit, especially from door to door.
• The cliffs are muttering - A reaction to small earthquakes.
• Techmaturgy - Field of study combining technology and magic.
• Trencher - A derogatory term for a person that lives in the Undercity, a.k.a. Zaun.
• Toxic runoff - Poisonous liquid drainage.
• Uppside - Term for Piltover.
• Well-heeled - Phrase used to describe those well off, named for their state of the soles of their shoes not being worn down, or the type of shoes that wouldn't last long in the muck below.
• You ken? - You know?

Being connected, both Piltover and Zaun have formed similar writing systems and numerals used throughout the two cities. While having a common writing system used for general communication, a specific writing system, both elegant and rough, is used for numerous applications. Its symbols are used for alchemical works and scientific equations. The cities use several different numerical symbols for its mathematical and time measurements. This is due to Piltover and Zaun being key trading hubs for both north and south continents. However, the common numerals used in Piltover and Zaun resemble that of Roman numerals.

Alternative Name(s)

City of Progress, Topside, Uppercity

Type

Large city