Zaun, the Undercity

Zaun, also known as the Undercity, is a large undercity district lying in the deep canyons and fissures threading Piltover, City of Progress. What light reaches below is filtered through fumes leaking from the tangles of corroded popework and reflected from the stained glass of its industrial architecture. Zaun and Piltover are technically united under Piltover, but the Council struggles to exert its will beyond the fissures.

Districts

Promenade Level

The upper reaches of the Undercity exist alongside the western districts of Piltover before disappearing down the fissures. Entertainment and commercial fronts for the industries down below can be found here, giving the more fortunate members of Zaaun a place to gather to shop, dine, and trade goods with more open-minded Piltovans.

Boundary Markets. This area is home to the Boundary Markets that thread their way near the openings of the fissures. It's a rather abundant bazaar where one can find all sorts of oddities to browse through, though the more conservative aristocracy of Piltover would never acknowledge them in public.

Pump Station. Facilities located at the top of the fissures, housing pumps and artifice to move clean air from above into Zaun via ducts and vents.

Skylight Commercia. An iron and glass galleria where locals browse studios, meet friends, dine, or people-watch. The atmosphere is warm and friendly, the perfect place to get just a taste of Zaun and nothing more.

Entresol Level

Sitting below the Promenade, the the Entreseol Level is a flourishing hub of cosmopolitan supper-clubs, recital halls, joy houses, and “everything goes” type clubs, making it one of the most populated districts of the cities. It's also where the Zaun Gray tends to linger most, causing long term damage to the many that live here (not that they seem to notice or care most of the time).

Augmentation Parlors. Facilities where anyone with the funds can be installed with various augmentations from enchanted tattoos to limb replacements to much more creative surgeries.

Breather Stations. Facilities where people can stop in to get a reprieve from the Zaun Gray for a breath of less dingy air.

Cultivair. You can occasionally find large isolated greenhouses specifically designed to grow trees and plants in this desolate atmosphere. They are maintained by the wealthiest in Zaun as a symbol of power and a source of clean air. Lucky onlookers can sometimes spot the bioluminescent algae and night-blooming flowers cultivated in these facilities.

Sump Level

The Sumps are Zaun's deepest levels, past the reaches of the Gray-filtered light where the environment turns grim, increasingly disorderly, and poorly lit. This are is densely cramped with piping, discarded items, and waste. The last remnants of the working class that can't find a home in the Enresol Level are forced to live in sqaulid poverty in the depths.Thick chem-fumes rise from the alleyways between industrial building and rise to form the Zaun Gray.

Hope House Orphanage. 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 of Zaun that remain in their care.

Asylum for the Irreparably Troubled. A facility operated under the goal of curing individuals with all sorts of diseases of the mind. They practice methods that may be deemed unethical elsewhere, but are not bothered by the Wardens this far into the Undercity.

Lost Children of Zaun Mural. A memorial sitting in the lower occupied portions of the Fissure, this mural commemorates all Zaunite brothers and sisters who have been lost to the nightmares that plague the Undercity.

Below

Underneath the modern Sump Level of Zaun, there are further ruins of a past civilization that hold many secrets but are guarded by old traps and creatures from the depths. Periodically, these monsters rise from this labryinth and terrorize the people in the Sump before returning to their lairs.

Alternative Name(s)

The Fissures, The Undercity, The Sunken City, Downtown

Type

City

Inhabitant Demonym

Piltovan, Zaunite, Sumprat, Trencher

Location under

Piltover, City of Progress

Related Reports (Secondary)

• 1 OCT - Unexpected Growths, Act II
• 17 SEP - Unexpected Growths, Act I