Seraphine league of legends11/13/2023 ![]() As the crowds gathered and the lights dazzled, she heard citizens from both worlds, mingled together to hear her. She rode this platform down as a stage of sorts, stepping out onto the Entresol between Piltover and Zaun. Seraphine hoped the crystal’s voice would be among them. Persuading her parents to help, she dismantled her dampener, and together, they gave the crystal a new home in its opposite-a platform that would amplify her gifts, not repress them, allowing her to hear others in all their complexity. Seraphine couldn’t let that happen to the cities she loved. Her hextech crystal had sung an elegy of what hatred left unchecked could accomplish. ![]() But she kept hearing the same refrain: “It’s not that simple in Zaun.”Įventually, Piltover started to feel less like home. ![]() The two cities were divided by more than simple misunderstanding. She began to perform, and listened to these new crowds, their hearts singing their struggles. Hatred of the spoiled, arrogant Pilties above. Fear of the chem-barons who controlled every opportunity. But as she spent more time below, she also sensed pain. In Zaun, she heard refrains of resilience and ambition much like above, yet with a thrum of freedom that was all their own. The first time she rode the clanging lift down, Seraphine felt somehow at home but still a stranger. She resolved to seek perspective in the city her parents had worked so hard to leave: Zaun. Still, something was missing-in the crowds, and in herself. ![]() Soon, the biggest venues in Piltover had Seraphine’s fans spilling into the streets. But she kept singing, and the crowds swelled. The first time she performed in front of an audience, testing her skills, she was nervous beyond words. The voice rarely spoke clearly, but Seraphine felt its influence as it helped her understand how to resonate with a crowd, to sing with them, using her dampener less each day. “We are all forged through others’ voices,” the presence sang back.Īnd slowly, she learned to manage the noise. What if she was merely the voices of others? Overwhelmed by the yearnings around her, she worried she may have no song of her own. In a hymn of distant deserts and ancient conflicts of ancestors, a thousand years of history sang in unison. Though hard to hear, and harder to comprehend, the voice was kind. The crystal had a consciousness, born of brackern blood. Within that quiet, though, Seraphine heard something-someone. For the first time in years, there was silence. Scraping together their savings to purchase a shard of a rare hextech crystal, they crafted a device that dampened her magical hearing. Seraphine’s parents had left everything behind so she could be born in Piltover they couldn’t bear seeing her struggle. ![]() How could she make sense of the voices if none of them harmonized? Some days, she hid shivering in a corner, hands over her ears, unable to hear herself above the chaos. She heard every person’s soul, loving or cruel-turning the streets she’d once loved into an overwhelming cacophony of conflicting desires. And as she grew, so did the intensity of her gifts. Over time, Seraphine realized she could sense songs too private, too personal, for any ordinary person to hear. The shanties of the Sun Gates, the whistling of apprentices, even the melody of conversation-in a bustling city like Piltover, she was never alone. Leaning out the window of their hexcoustics workshop, where broken sound tech was made to play again, Seraphine sang along with the streets. He’d brought them up to Piltover as he and Seraphine’s mother-two lifelong Zaunites-sought a better life in the City of Progress. In Piltover, where anyone’s dream can become everyone’s progress, a star is born.Īs a child, Seraphine always loved music, especially her father’s lullabies. She performs for the sister cities to remind their citizens that they’re not alone, that they’re stronger together, and that, in her eyes, their potential is limitless. Though these sounds overwhelmed her in her youth, she now draws on them for inspiration, turning the chaos into a symphony. Born in Piltover to Zaunite parents, Seraphine can hear the souls of others-the world sings to her, and she sings back. ![]()
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