![]() ![]() This creates an intriguing and layered political drama in which Jayce is ultimately elevated to a powerful place on the Piltover council, with his own House Talos (which is never mentioned prior to Arcane) given a seat at the table. In Arcane it is Jayce-obsessed with the idea that science could be used to harness magic-who first discovers hextech, and with Viktor's help uses it to change the world. In League lore, hextech was established long before the two rose to semi-prominence in the academic world. Word quickly spread and he was heralded as a hero, branded as Piltover's "Defender of Tomorrow".Īrcane seems to be taking from different elements of Jayce and Viktor's original material in order to tell their own unique story. Jayce returned home and told his higher-ups what had happened. The explosion brought down the building, killing the automatons, but Viktor's body was never found. Jayce was nearly killed by the automatons but managed to break free and destroy the crystal with his enhanced hammer. ![]() After it quickly became clear that the two were not going to talk each other down, Viktor sent the "army" after his former lab partner. ![]() What he found was a lab full of corpses dozens of bodies with their brains removed and placed inside what appeared to be an army of metal soldiers, all being powered by the crystal. The two argued, Viktor knocked Jayce out and stole the crystal, save for the small scrap that had been experimented on.Īn irate Jayce used the crystal shard to power a modified demolition hammer that he had been working on and descended to Zaun in search of Viktor. This power spike alerted none other than Viktor, who claimed that he had finally found a way to rid the world of hunger, disease, and humanity's other self-induced ailments, but that he needed a power source to make it possible. He finally got the idea to chip off a small piece of the crystal and, using a liquid metal alloy, ran a current through it that produced a massive power spike. He ran every experiment imaginable to no avail, and the constant string of failures-something he wasn't accustomed to experiencing-actually humbled Jayce, somewhat. It bounced around between their various scientists, none of whom could figure out what to do with it, before they finally assumed it was useless and gave it to Jayce. Sometime later, Clan Giopara explorers discovered a crystal in the Shurima deserts. Viktor was dishonorably expelled from the university as a result. Jayce argued this was a form of "mental enslavement" and a crime against free will, and reported him to the academy. Viktor created a revolutionary helm that could bypass the wearer's fear response, effectively allowing the divers to be controlled, but drastically reducing the potential for work-related fatalities. However, this led to many divers seeing "phantom corpse lights in the depths" and "suffering from chem-induced hallucinations" (from Viktor's official bio), with many divers being injured or killed in the resulting panic. At one point, the two invented a new diving suit for Piltover dock workers, giving them increased strength, stamina, and allowing them to dive deeper underwater. Viktor however, was more focused on using science to weed out human error, and his more questionable methods and philosophies were the source of great debate between him and Jayce. Jayce was more idealistic and wanted to push the bounds of science for the sake of progress. ![]()
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