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Brackern[]
Surrounded around the Shuriman Continent are several clans of Brackern, including clans in the Shuriman desert.
Dormun[]
The Dormun are gigantic, slow-moving creatures protected with large chitinous plates covering their body. In the harsh conditions of Shurima they have evolved to survive the perpetual drought by utilizing an unknown sense to locate hidden reservoirs of water. Incidentally, certain nomadic tribes have built themselves a permanent home upon the backs of these beasts where they clean the creature and hunt any airborne pests who venture near.
Eka'Sul[]
Desert goats that travel in herds.
Mwatis[]
Mwatis are goatlike creatures with large plated casques on their heads. Mwati wool and plate are prised for felting and insulation.
Kmiros[]
Gigantic scarabs that roam in swarms, looking for unfortunate travelers to feed on. They seem to be common prey for 
Rammus.
Outerbeasts[]
- Main article: Voidborn
Beside the Xer'Sai, other creatures from the Void, referred to as 'outerbeasts', can be found in the desert.
- Xer'Sai: Creatures from the Void that plague the southern deserts. They are the size of big dogs on average, but can be smaller or much bigger.
Rek'Sai, as the queen, is by far the largest and most dangerous of her species. Xer'sai burst from their small burrows and ravage anything nearby, to the detriment of desert caravans. Once dead, the Xer'sai decompose at an abnormally rapid rate and become inedible.
Ralsiji[]
Large and aggressive minotaur-like creatures. They are humpbacked quadrupeds with long limbs and thick horns.
Shuriman Camel[]
A breed of camels native to the deserts of Shurima and are used by caravans as well as common folk as primary mode of transportation. Despite being well-suited for lengthy travels in the desert landscape, they are still prey to a many predator such as the Xer'Sai.
Sandswimmers[]
Sandswimmers
Sandswimmers are massive quadrupedal creatures that traverse the Shuriman desert in cyclical patterns. They got their name due to their preferred method of travel. Their narrow bodies and webbed feet are perfectly design for swimming under the sand. They feed on bugs and other small creatures most desert beasts ignore. Scavengers will often memorize the predictable paths these creatures take, and jump onto their backs to ride as far as they wish.
Skallashi[]
The Skallashi are large quadrupedal herbivores. These hardy beasts of burden are common across Shurima, ideally suited to the harsh desert environment. Their key body feature is their long legs. Notoriously bad-tempered, they are nevertheless treated with great reverence. Their brown hides are often painted with sacred symbols of protection, and their horns hung with totems and charms. While these creatures are mostly used for travel and carrying heavy loads, on some larger skallashi people are able to built miniature rooms for more comfortable travel. To own one is often considered a sign of considerable prosperity.
Universe
A prodigy from the rough streets of Zaun, 
Ekko manipulates 
time to twist any situation to his advantage. Using his own invention, the 
Z-Drive, he explores the branching possibilities of reality to craft the perfect moment. Though he revels in this freedom, when there’s a threat to his friends, he’ll do anything to defend them. To outsiders, Ekko seems to achieve the impossible the first time, every time.
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Background
Early Years
Born to 
Inna and 
Wyeth who envisioned a brighter future for their son in 
Piltover, Ekko grew up watching his parents age beyond their years, toiling for too many hours under dangerous conditions in suffocating factories. They believed, it would all be worth it, if it meant their son could one day rise to the city above.
While his parents saw only pollution and crime of 
Zaun, Ekko recognized the vibrant energy and potential for innovation that thrived amidst the city's chaos. This appreciation for Zaun's resilience and resourcefulness fueled Ekko's youth, leading him to form bonds with the scrappy orphans of Zaun, known as the 
Lost Children of Zaun.
Surrounded by the ingenuity of Zaunites and inspired by their ability to thrive in adverse conditions, Ekko's childhood was marked by wild invention and exploration. From constructing simple machines before he could crawl to embarking on escapades through the labyrinthine streets, Ekko embraced the spirit of his city and its people.
Creation of the Zero Drive
During a solo trek into the rubble of a recently demolished laboratory, Ekko stumbles upon a shard of hextech crystal that would change the course of his life forever. He scrambled to find more pieces, but the encroaching 
enforcers told him he wasn’t the only one looking. Ekko barely escaped, and returned to his home.
Ekko's discovery of the hextech shard set him on a path of experimentation. With relentless determination, he worked to harness the shard's temporal powers, culminating in the creation of the Zero Drive—a device capable of manipulating time in small increments. Despite initial setbacks and the creation of multiple versions of himself due to a temporal distortion, Ekko persevered, refining the Zero Drive and pushing its limits.
On his name day, Ekko put the Zero Drive to the test, using it to save a friend from a perilous fall. It showed Ekko the potential of his invention and solidified his role as a protector of his friends and city.
Hero of the Zaunite Youth
As Ekko continued to refine his time-bending abilities, he earned a reputation among the youth of Zaun as a hero capable of defying danger. With each trial and error, the Zero Drive grew more stable, allowing Ekko to protect his friends with increasing precision. Despite the physical toll of repeated use, Ekko embraced his role as the defender of Zaun's youth, inspiring others to challenge the status quo and dream of a better future.
Ekko's mastery over time has garnered him attention from the most inventive and formidable figures in both Zaun and Piltover, making him a potential obstacle to their endeavors. Soon Ekko started to be targeted by the worst of them.
Potential Future
Future Ekko time warps through the Multiverse.
In a possible future, Ekko becomes more enraptured in his technology, neglecting his loved ones. He would use his Zero Drive to rewind situations with his friends and family to get the optimal outcome. He eventually drifts away from all his friends and seldom returns home to see his parents. The Poingdestre Chembaron family would greatly increase their Syntixi manufacturing, much to the ire of Clan Ferros, causing Piltover to increase their chemical dumpings into Zaun. The increased pollution would strengthen the noxious Zaun Grey, causing a city-wide quarantine to be put in place. In retaliation, the Poingdestres would launch attacks against Piltover. Ekko would do his best to save lives on both sides, but to little success. With the cities on the brink of civil war and the pollution forcing his parents to leave Zaun, Ekko resolved to improve his technology to allow to travel further back in time to stop the war.
After numerous failed attempts, Ekko is able to turn his Zero Drive into the Chronoport, but at the expense of his last Zero Drive. With his last chance, he travels back to stop Clan Ferros from hiring the Poingdestres to manufacture artificial Hextech, but arrives too late. Despite Syntixi being discovered, Future Ekko decides to round it all up before the Poingdestres amass to much power and recruits his younger self to aid him. After the two Ekkos gather all the Syntixi, Future Ekko plans to create a Syntixi bomb and detonate it at the half way point between Piltover and Zaun, not only to destroy the Syntixi but also Clan Ferros' Hextech vault, rendering both cities powerless and averting civil war. His past self is horrified that his future self would sacrifice so many innocent lives to stop the war, but Future Ekko disregards him.
His past self would team up with Camille to stop him from detonating the bomb. After beating him, present Ekko manages to talk him down, but the bomb is already armed. However, Future Ekko decides to take the bomb and hurl it through a rift in time and destroy the Syntixi at the cost of his own life. As he hurdles through time and space, Ekko sees the multiverse. In one timeline, he sees his parents have decided to stay in Zaun and steps through, hoping his past self forgives him.
Appearance
Ekko is a short, thin, brown-skinned young man with hazelnut brown eyes. He has white hair fashioned into a mohawk. While originally designed with straight hair, Ekko is sometimes portrayed with textured hair. Typically, his forehead and nose are painted white with the shape of an hourglass.
He usually wears a baggy builder's overalls, with a red scarf with protective glasses on his neck, semi-sewn baggy green pants and black boots.
Personality
He had a ingenious mind, even when he was a baby, he could invent simple machines. He is also very determined to save his allies, as he was willing to go back in time to save a friend of his life.
Abilities
- Agility: He is shown to have agility to get around the streets of Zaun.
- Time-Rewind: He can rewind time to the point before he gained any injuries.
Relations
Wyeth & Inna
Ekko's parents work overtime in one of Zaun's many factories, so they're rarely home.[2]
Jinx & Vi
The graffiti Ekko often visits has paintings of girls with blue ( Jinx) and pink (
Vi) hair. Ekko and 
Jinx were childhood friends and often played together. He had a crush on her before she started talking to 
Fishbones and 
Pow-Pow.
The Lost Children of Zaun
Ekko and friends belong to a gang called the Lost Children of Zaun, a group of orphans and teenagers drawn together by their mutual interests and desire for community. Members of the Lost Children include:
- 4 Ajuna Lem, a scavenger whose death weighs heavily on Ekko.
- Aximander, the older brother of Lem and an archivist of Zaun, highly knowledgeable about its people, history, feuds, and secrets.
- Chancee, an inventor who thinks Ekko relies too much on his Zero-Drive to fix his mistakes.
- Elie, a former apprentice costume designer at the Fenlox theater, she now has her own boutique clothing store in Entresol.
- 3 Kay, a talented inventor focused on cloning research.
- Lem, the younger brother of Aximander and a bright inventor with a fondness for animals. He looked up to Ajuna Lem and adopted his surname and donned his goggles in his memory.
- 1 Shomi, a highly proficient hoverboarder.
- Skids, a teenager who enjoys headbutting people.
- Red, one of Ekko's oldest friends and always trying something to new to find her passion in life.
- Rungs, the toughest member of the Lost Children and a skilled fighter.
Piltovans
Ekko dislikes Pilties like 
Jayce, 
Ezreal, and Caitlyn, as he sees them as arrogant and self-important, as well as to promote Zaunite nationalism. He is convinced Piltover is not the only progressive city in Valoran and is proud to be Zaunite. Seeing his former friends leave for the City of Progress gave him a bit of a chip on his shoulder. Not to mention his 12-year-old friend 
4 Ajuna was killed by a Piltie.[3]
However little by little Ekko began to stop judging the Piltovians, beginning to establish certain relationships or even to become familiar with them, like Camille and Seraphine.
Ezreal
Jayce & Viktor
To him, Jayce and 
Viktor are the opposite extremes of the same decadent spectrum, and hopes he doesn't turn out like either of them.[5]
Zaunites
Ekko also dislikes Zaunites like 
Viktor, 
Singed, and 
Dr. Mundo, as they embody everything that is wrong with the city. Ekko once saved his friend from 
Dr. Mundo by rewinding time; however, Mundo remains aware of the changed timeline.
Ekko appreciates 
Zac for what he has done for Zaun. Ekko remarks that he would poke at Zac to learn about the composition of his chemical body.[6]
He likes 
Blitzcrank for unknown reasons and fights alongside him in The Climb.[7]
Heimerdinger
The only Yordle Ekko has met is Heimerdinger. The two of them shared stories with each other while Heimerdinger visited Ekko's hideout in Zaun. He hasn't met any other Yordles (at least not without glamour) and has only heard tales of them.[8] He respects 
Heimerdinger as an inventor despite him residing in and working for Piltover.[9]
Seraphine
Ekko and his friends have been shown to attend 
Seraphine's performance. They are likely her fans despite her strong ties to Piltover And he respects Seraphine's desire to unite the two cities through music.
Zeri
Ekko met Zeri after she freed a group of hostages, including Ekko's parents, from a warehouse owned by Renata Glasc. It's implied in CONV/RGENCE that they and their families keep in touch with each other.
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Alternate Universes
Trivia
XII on Ekko's 'bat'
- His canon appearances in chronological order: Enemy, Arcane, True Genius, Lullaby, Chronobreak, Seconds, A Perfect Life, CONV/RGENCE, The Unexpected Spark.
- During his release, it was stated that Ekko was a 16-17-year-old teenager.
- Like Jinx and Vi, 'Ekko' is not his actual name but rather what his friends call him.[10]
- Ekko is basically a gifted, unrefined genius that tends to take on more than he can initially handle. He managed to create the Zero-Drive and the Timewinder simply through trial and error, and as a result splits the timeline to fuel his perfectionism[11]
- Ekko mainly uses the Z-Drive to undo his mistakes and find key points to exploit, such as taking down a Vigilnaut (the techmaturgically augmented goon he fought in Seconds).[12]
- Despite being able to undo physical effects on his body, Ekko retains some residual effects over the rewind, including physical pain and mental fatigue. His cognitive age does not change over the course of rewinding.[13][14]
- Ekko's facepaint and Zero-Drive are both shaped after an hourglass, an expression of his personality as well as the symbol he adopted for himself.[15]
- Ekko's 'bat' is a clock second-hand he stole from a Piltover clocktower (as evidenced by the Roman 'XII' at its base)[16]
- Ekko believes in and cares for Zaun and its future despite not fully understanding the bigger picture.
- As evidenced by his joke, the Zero-Drive sometimes functions unexpectedly.
- It being the product of makeshift hextech powered by a shattered crystal of undocumented properties might have something to do with it.
- The shattered crystal is implied to be part of the one that Viktor and Jayce fought over in their biographies.
- And that also implies the current Zero-Drive isn't the first of many broken before.
- The shattered crystal is implied to be part of the one that
- As evidenced in CONV/RGENCE, the Zero-Drive can create time rifts capable of tearing different timelines even in different universes.
- It being the product of makeshift hextech powered by a shattered crystal of undocumented properties might have something to do with it.
- The Timewinder is powered by the Zero-Drive.
- Ekko had at first another function for it in mind (likely a smoke/flash grenade) but several successive malfunctions prompted its current incarnation.
- Using the Zero-Drive, Ekko is able to create afterimages of himself.
- While in-game, an afterimage can be seen throwing his Zero-Drive to activate Parallel Convergence, in The Climb and Ekko's Arrival the device thrown is shown to be an unique one also shaped like a hourglass.
- This device temporarly stops the flow of time in an area area.
- This device temporarly stops the flow of time in an area
- In the non-canon The Path of Champions Adventure, one of Ekko's afterimage named Ozzi starts acting on its own and desires to not be reset and remain as an individual. It's unknown if afterimages from Runeterra Prime are also capable of this.
- While in-game, an afterimage can be seen throwing his
- Zilean and Bard may be concerned by Ekko fracturing the timeline.[17]
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References
- ↑ Official Riot Forge Twitter
- ↑ Ekko's parents
- ↑ Ekko hating Piltover
- ↑ Ekko and Ezreal
- ↑ Ekko and Jayce, and Viktor
- ↑ Ekko and Zac
- ↑ The Climb
- ↑ Ekko and Yordles
- ↑ Ekko and Heimerdinger
- ↑ Ekko's name
- ↑ Z-Drive experimentation
- ↑ Ekko and Urgot-looking goon
- ↑ Ekko aging
- ↑ Ekko injury
- ↑ Ekko's face paint
- ↑ Ekko's bat clarified by lead writer
- ↑ Ekko no no with time