

They saw behaviors manifest without any obvious stimulus - behaviors consistent with sentience. They also discovered the project’s true name the Zaun Amorphous Combatant.Īs they pondered the best course of action, the two dissenting alchymists saw more than just a mirroring of whatever stimulus was applied to the viscous gel. The implication was clear Takeda sought to develop a fighter who could shrug off mortal wounds, squeeze into places humans could not and who would obey any command. When the pair dug further, they discovered the project was being funded by Saito Takeda, a Chem-Baron with a notoriously violent temperament and reputation for bloody gang warfare.

They questioned the morality of experiments that seemed entirely driven to produce a creature of unmatched aggression. Most of the alchymists attributed this to nothing more than a simple reflex response, but two among their number weren’t so sure. If treated well, it responded with childlike glee and playfulness, but when its response to pain and aggression were tested, the alchymists lost numerous augmented sump-scrappers in the ensuing destruction. Simply put, it mirrored whatever stimulus was provided to it.

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS ZACC SERIES
Via a series of experiments designed to test negative and positive reinforcement techniques, the alchymists discovered the coagulate mass within the pool appeared to have psychotropic tendencies. Over the protests of the local residents, the alchymists pumped the contents of the pool into vats and carried the substance back to their laboratories for experimentation. The “Returning Pool” became well-known to Zaun’s Sump dwellers, and eventually drew the attention of a shadowy cabal of chemtech alchymists. Despite such humble origins, Zac has grown from primordial ooze into a thinking being who dwells in the city’s pipes, occasionally emerging to help those who cannot help themselves or to rebuild the broken infrastructure of Zaun.Ī group of Zaunite children first encountered Zac when they were out skimming rocks over a sump pool and some of the stones were thrown back. Zac is the product of a toxic spill that ran through a chemtech seam and pooled in an isolated cavern deep in Zaun’s Sump.
