Who they are
Ezreal is a self-assured treasure hunter from Piltover who delves into dangerous ruins across Runeterra. His Shuriman gauntlet gives him magical abilities such as teleporting, though he is unaware of how gifted he truly is.
He wants to find his missing parents and to be accepted into the Piltover Explorers Guild, which has repeatedly turned him down.
Their story belongs to Piltover and also touches Shurima. The city of progress, built on top of the city it ignores.
Their story, step by step
- Step 1
A prodigy of Piltover
Ezreal was born in Piltover to archaeologist parents who often travelled, leaving him with his uncle Professor Lymere. He excelled at cartography, hextech and history while evading wardens and pranking professors. His mother's field notes later guided his own exploring.
- Step 2
Parents vanish
When he was a teenager his parents failed to return from an expedition and Lymere declared them dead in Shurima. Ezreal refused to believe it, left school with supplies and a note, and stowed away to Shurima.
- Step 3
The gauntlet
Following his mother's notes he found Ne'Zuk's tomb beneath an emperor's mausoleum and an Ascended gauntlet in the sarcophagus. It amplified his latent magic, letting him fire arcane blasts and teleport.
- Step 4
Chasing fame
Back in Piltover he sought fame so his parents might notice. He explored ruins from Zaun's Sump to Shuriman deserts and the Freljord, and the Black Rose spies tracked him for reasons unexplained. The Piltover Explorers Guild kept refusing him over his unorthodox methods.
- Step 5
The Elixir of Uloa
He took a job from Januk to find the Elixir of Uloa, braved a crypt, and then swapped the elixir for wasp venom when Januk turned out to be a cultist. He fled with an Ochnun bell, hoping it would win him guild membership.
- Step 6
Kai'Sa
In a Shuriman temple he released Voidlings and was saved by Kai'Sa. He first fled, then came back and fought beside her, and she counts him among her closest friends.
Turning points
- His parents not returning from their expedition
- Taking the gauntlet from Ne'Zuk's tomb
- Tricking Januk and stealing the Ochnun bell
- Fighting beside Kai'Sa in the Void temple
Where their story stands now
Ezreal is still an unaccredited explorer in Piltover chasing legendary status and his missing parents. Their fate, the guild's refusals, the Black Rose's interest and a shaman's remark about his soul remain unexplained.
Who they are tied to
Where this fits in the story
- Piltover · step 1
A port destroyed and rebuilt
Around 772 AN a canal project went catastrophically wrong and destroyed an old port city. Piltover was rebuilt above, and Zaun below.
- Piltover · step 2
The Sun Gates
The opening of the Sun Gates around 789 AN made merchant clans rich and set the pattern of wealth in the north of the city.
- Piltover · step 3
Hextech
Jayce Talis and Viktor turned research into hextech, and Piltover became a global center for innovation.
- Piltover · step 4
From the Day of Ash to open war
The Day of Ash was a massacre that followed undercity revolutionaries' push for independence. Years later Jinx attacked the Council, Piltover occupied the undercity and a brutal war followed. It ended in an uneasy new arrangement that gives Zaun representation.