Assume the role of an unseen 'summoner' that controls a 'champion' with unique abilities and battle against a team of other players or computer-controlled champions in the immensely popular multiplayer online battle arena League of Legends.
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According to the show's own lore, Zaun wasn't always its own city, it began life underneath Piltover purely as a place to bury waste and toxic fumes the surface city didn't want dealing with. That original imbalance between the two, baked in from the very start, is what the entire generations-long conflict in the show keeps circling back to.
By the end of season two, Mel Medarda is given a significant magical boost tied to her Noxian bloodline, which lines up with theories that she'll be the connective thread between Arcane and whatever region-based show comes next, given her family ties run straight through Noxus.
Viktor grew up chronically ill thanks to conditions in Zaun, and that personal desperation to cure himself is a big part of what pushes him and Jayce toward Hextech in the first place. His arc across the show tracks his slow shift from wanting a cure to wanting something far bigger, eventually pointing toward his fate as the Machine Herald from the games.
Ekko's crew, the Firelights, are shown living in one of the only pockets of Zaun where actual trees still survive, a small hidden patch of green in an otherwise toxic, industrial city. It's a quiet detail that says a lot about how far Zaun has fallen environmentally without needing a single line of dialogue to explain it.
