Montgomery

Lore:

Leonard Montgomery always had a propensity for the smithing, considering his large size and well-built stature. The people of Piltover would more often than not only come to his forge to watch him pound hot metal with his hammer, held by arms tougher than the metal he would flatten. However, Montgomery would never suffice for his talent of metalworking. Standing all day in the heat of the forge, repeating the same monotonous actions of pounding metals over and over. In secret, he always held an admiration for the technological science. Of course, how long could he have held that secret? Not long apparently, as he would eventually change his occupation to that of inventor, and tutored under the greatest minds of Piltover no less. Some years later, most of which as an apprentice to professors, Montgomery finally found the time and space to complete his first invention. Being all too familiar with hot environments, he sought to create a machine that would condense pure heat into a single location and subsequently convert it to Hextech energy, all the while lowering the temperature in the room. Tough it took some time, he finally made it. With his mentor as his only witness, he was ready to give the prototype a test run. However, what would be an exciting moment in a dream career would quickly turn into a life-changing event. As the machine went array, by the time Montgomery noticed something was wrong, it exploded. Now with his face in front of the floor, Montgomery found himself in a room full of hot mist. The left side of his body hurting severely; his skin burnt to a crisp of red. Confused and dazed, he looked around. He found his mentor dead, immolated beyond recognition. But more interestingly, he found the machine to be completely intact. Neither a scratch nor a wrinkle, it remains whole while its inventor is now left in confusion and despondence. Though it took him some time to get over the incident, he came back to the machine, and he couldn’t quite figure out why it malfunctioned. However, upon further inspection, he found something peculiar: the Hextech core he used was replaced with a dummy. What was even more interesting is that Montgomery knew who made it. It was the work of the Lost Children of Zaun, a group of misfits he is all too familiar with during his time in Zaun. With anger leading him, Montgomery took the machine he had with him now and modified it. Creating a suit and a hammer that would synergize with its mechanics, the machine, which he named the Shock-to-Heat Absorb-and-Convert, or SHOTHAAC for short, is now a device for reckoning and an agent of destruction. He took his new weapon as he carried it on his back, heading off to Zaun to figure out the truth. Hopefully, he can find it. But will it suffice?

Appearance:

Montgomery is a large, built man somewhere in his 30s wearing smith attire. He is bald, as he chose so since he used to work under hot conditions, but he kept it since he would eventually grow a liking to it. The left portion of his upper body has severe burn wounds, starting from the left side of his face and ending in his forearm. In his hands, he carries a large hammer of Piltover design, which is connected by an electronic tether to the SHOTHAAC, which he carries on his back. The SHOTHAAC takes the appearance of a large stove-like device which is roughly the size of the man carrying it (so yeah, pretty large). He also carries a bandolier of Hextech grenades.