Janna protects Shurimans and other sailors around the seas near the Serpent Isles.

Ezreal discovered a magical gauntlet in a Shuriman tomb.

Draven accompanied Viego to Shurima in search of a fetter.Cassiopeia hired Sivir to raid the Tomb of the Emperors and later was transformed by a Shuriman curse.Aatrox was an Ascended before Shurima's fall.The city of Shurima has risen, and nothing will ever be the same. Rumors spread of ancient heroes reborn, of a war between gods that will shake the very foundations of the world. Whispering winds from the heart of the desert speak of mighty cities rising from the earth, of a golden warrior marching at the head of an army of sand. Yet the ancient myths of Shurima do not rest easy and are stirring once more. Others try to forget the past, looking to the future and nations across the ocean as partners in trade.

Some hunt buried riches among the ruins of the fallen empire or earn a living as sellswords, warriors for hire who fight for rich paymasters before disappearing into the sands. Most of Shurima's inhabitants now dwell in small tribal outposts clustered near water or built upon the bones of ancient cities, venerating the glories of the past. In the millennia since Shurima's fall, tales of its glorious capital and gleaming sun disc became little more than myths and debased religions among the descendants of the empire's few survivors. Now Shurima is a barren wasteland, an unforgiving desert where only the strongest survive and its people cling to the few remaining oases and strips of fertile land around the coast. Its gleaming capital was all but destroyed in an earth-shaking cataclysm and the empire was left in ruins, its people scattered and its mighty cities devoured by the sand. After an era of expansion and prosperity, its last emperor was betrayed by his closest friend, and the empire fell to ruin.

Shurima was once a powerful empire that spanned the farthest reaches of the vast southern continent. 2.3 The Icathian rebellion and the Void War.

Ancient cities gameplay