The Green Canopy
Arena Modifier 🐍
Constriction
The larger the Serpents' lead, the harder it is for the opponent to score. The Canopy tightens.
Lore
The Green Canopy appeared in the middle of São Paulo's concrete sprawl, and it brought trees with it. The arena is surrounded—and partially infiltrated—by vegetation that grows faster than groundskeepers can manage. Vines climb the exterior walls. Roots push through cracks in the concourse floor. The Almighty Ice surface itself remains clear, but the boards are stained green in places where plant matter has pressed against them. The Constriction modifier tightens around opponents the further behind they fall. Le Council's analysts describe it as 'the Canopy closing.' The Serpents thrive in this—they build a lead and the building does the rest. Visiting coaches have started calling it 'playing against twenty-three players and a forest.'
The Building
A brutalist concrete bowl overtaken by nature. The exterior is raw concrete—pillars, ramps, open stairwells—that looks like it was poured twenty years ago and abandoned ten years ago, except it's full of people. Tropical vegetation grows through and over the structure: trees pushing through gaps in the upper deck, flowering vines cascading down the interior walls, ferns growing from every crack and seam. The roof is a lattice of concrete and steel beams through which filtered green light falls. The seating is steep and close, the concrete benches polished smooth by thousands of games. The Almighty Ice surface is pristine despite everything around it being slowly consumed by plant life. The temperature inside is warm everywhere except directly above The Almighty Ice, where the cold radiates outward in a visible boundary—you can see the air change. The concourse smells like wet earth and cold steel. The crowd is the loudest in the league.