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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.
Arcane
| “ | "It's Jinx now. Powder fell down a well." |
—  Jinx to  Vi, When These Walls Come Tumbling Down
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Jinx (born as Powder) is a notorious 
Zaunite criminal and one of the two lead characters of the animated series Arcane, alongside her older sister 
Vi.
When their parents were killed by 
Enforcers, Powder and Vi were adopted by 
Vander, who let them take up thievery jobs with their adopted siblings 
Claggor and 
Mylo. However, when Powder accidentally murdered Claggor, Mylo and Vander, Vi abandoned her to 
Silco, who adopted Powder and molded her into becoming Jinx to enforce the formation of Zaun. Jinx delivered the Hextech Gemstone to Silco for them to use against 
Piltover, but her loyalties wavered when Vi returned to her life with 
Caitlyn Kiramman in tow. After following Vi and Caitlyn out of Zaun, Jinx confronted them before fighting Ekko, which ended in Jinx being critically wounded and having her body infused with Shimmer to save her life. Wishing to confront her issues, Jinx kidnapped Vi, Caitlyn and Silco in a tense confrontation that resulted in Jinx accidentally killing Silco and using Fishbones to bomb the Piltover Council.
Left in grief, Jinx learned that Vi and Caitlyn were pursuing her, so she and 
Sevika teamed up in an attempt to kill them but failed to do so. Months later, she stepped away from her criminal life to raise 
Isha in peace, but when Isha got herself captured by Enforcers, Jinx and Sevika infiltrated Stillwater Hold to rescue her and Jinx’s supporters. There, Jinx learned Vander was alive in the form of a 
mindless beast, prompting her to recruit Vi to search for their adoptive father. Jinx and Vi were successful in reconnecting with Vander and sought out 
Viktor with the hopes of turning him back to normal. Their efforts were foiled by Jayce Talis and 
Ambessa Medarda, however, and an open confrontation broke out until Isha sacrificed her life to stop Vander and save Jinx. Because of this, Jinx became depressed to the point of surrendering herself and attempting to commit suicide until Ekko stopped her to unite the forces of Zaun to stop Ambessa’s assault on Piltover. Jinx teamed up with Vi one final time to fight Vander, which ended in Jinx seemingly killing herself to save her sister’s life.
Background
Early Life
As a child, Powder had a good relationship with Vi, her sister, and her parents. However, when her parents died during a battle on the bridge between Piltover and Zaun, she and Vi were the only people left in their family. After the battle, Vander found the two siblings; he adopted them and raised them as his own, alongside Mylo and Claggor.[1]
Life in the undercity was harsh, difficult, and full of challenges. Powder had managed to avoid significant trouble, keeping to herself and staying safe, until the day she, Vi, Mylo, and fellow adoptee 
Claggor decided to act on a risky plan. Together, they made the decision to break into the Piltover workshop belonging to 
Jayce Talis. Their goal was clear: they intended to steal, to commit burglary, and to take what wasn’t theirs.
During the burglary, Powder mishandled unrefined Hextech crystals. These were volatile, unstable, and dangerous materials. Her mishandling caused an explosion—a powerful explosion—that severely damaged the building, leaving it in ruins.[1] The explosion was loud, destructive, and impossible to ignore. It immediately drew the attention of the Enforcers, the city’s police force, who arrived quickly and gave chase. They pursued Powder, Vi, Mylo, and Claggor through the streets. The chase was fast, chaotic, and relentless, pushing the group to flee for their safety. In their desperation, they led the Enforcers straight back to their home in the Zaunite slum known as The Lanes, the heart of their community and their place of refuge.
To protect the group, Vander, their caretaker, made a difficult choice. Vander took responsibility for the explosion, crime, and chaos that followed. He surrendered to the Enforcers, allowing himself to be arrested to shield his adopted children.[2] But the situation escalated further. Silco, a Zaunite crime lord, attacked the Enforcers. Silco ambushed and assaulted them, using the moment to kidnap Vander. Silco’s actions were driven by a personal vendetta. His goal was revenge for a betrayal by Vander years earlier and to gain power, influence, and control in the process.
The children decided to rescue Vander, but Vi told Powder to remain home. This led to her being sad and crying in her room until she discovers the stolen Hextech crystals' destructive potential and goes to Vander's location. Upon seeing her family in trouble, Powder set off a handmade bomb, powered by Hextech crystals. The explosion destroyed Silco's Shimmer production facility, but also killed Vander, Mylo, and Claggor. After finding out Powder was responsible, Vi yelled at her, referring to her as a 'jinx' that ruins lives before walking away. Powder had another breakdown and found comfort in Silco, who adopted her as his daughter.[3]
Powder was scarred from this experience, hearing the voices of Mylo and Claggor in her head constantly and even seeing hallucinations of their dead bodies. During her stay with Silco, she became more destructive as well as chaotic, adopting her name as Jinx.
Stolen Crystal and Vi's Return
After Jinx failed to protect one of Silco's shipments of Shimmer, she wanted to prove herself to him again. To do so, she decided to violently steal a newly made Hextech gemstone from Jayce Talis' Progress Day presentation. Although Silco was originally agitated that Jinx's theft killed several enforcers and consequently led to increased scrutiny of his criminal enterprise, he later approved of her actions when she showed him the gemstone. Silco told Jinx that she should make a hextech weapon with it in order to match Piltover's hextech; thus putting them in a better position to demand Zaun's independence. The stolen gemstone lead to economic-affecting sanctions by Piltover and searches being performed in Zaun by enforcers. While Silco was able to redirect the enforcers' aggression towards the 
Firelights via his man Sheriff Marcus, a rogue enforcer named 
Caitlyn Kiramman—alongside her associate Vi—investigate the Undercity for the stolen gemstone and the true culprits of the crime.[4] Meanwhile, Silco has to deal with discontent from disgruntled Chem-Barons who blame Jinx for their suffering businesses and increased penalties from Piltover.
Shortly after, Jinx found out that Vi had returned from prison after interrogating Sevika. Afterwards, Jinx decided to light a flare that Vi had given her as a child. She was told to light it in case of an emergency and that Vi would come find her. She went to the rooftop of a tall building and lit the flare. Vi saw this and came to see Jinx. However, she came with Caitlyn Kiramman, an enforcer, leading her to think that Vi was only there to get the gemstone back and arrest her. After a fight with the Firelights—who have been tracking them—the gang stole Jinx's gemstone, and also kidnapped Vi and Caitlyn while they eluded Jinx.[5]
Experimentation
As Jinx recovered from her battle with the Firelights, Jinx became more jealous of Caitlyn and obsessively tried to reassure herself that Vi was focused on reuniting their family; not pleasing Caitlyn. Jinx tracked Caitlyn, Vi, and Ekko to the Bridge of Progress, where they were intercepted by Sheriff Marcus and his enforcers. Witnessing Caitlyn and Vi's intimate relationship, Jinx furiously attacked everyone with her swarm of insect-bombs—killing Sheriff Marcus and his enforcers. Jinx shot at Caitlyn and Vi but Ekko engaged her and covered their escape. Ekko and Jinx fought a duel, which Ekko won, but Jinx detonated one of her bombs while he was distacted—injuring Ekko and critically injuring herself. Nevertheless, Jinx had managed to recover the stolen hextech gemstone from Caitlyn and Vi.[6] In desperation, Silco turned to 
Singed, a scientist, to save her—chemically altering her but saving her from death. However, this chemical alteration would amplify JInx's mental problems, making her paranoid that Caitlyn was trying to steal Vi from her.[7]
The Tea Party
After learning that Silco had the chance to give the undercity independence from Piltover in exchange for giving her up to the enforcers, Jinx kidnapped him, Vi, and Caitlyn and tied them up around a dinner table. She made two chairs for herself, with one having 'Jinx' written on it and the other having 'Powder' written on it to represent her younger self. Jinx asked Vi if they were still sisters and if they could be together again. Vi said yes, but Silco said that they would be together only for one day before Vi would come to her senses and realize that Jinx is a different person. He said that he would have never given her up to the authorities and that she should just kill Vi. As Jinx struggled to come to a decision, Silco freed himself from his bonds and pointed a gun at Vi. Jinx, in the midst of a mental breakdown, shot him multiple times. With his last words, Silco reaffirmed that he would have never given her up to the enforcers.[8]
Vi asked Jinx to untie her and run away with her like she had before, but to her horror, Jinx sat down in the chair labeled 'Jinx', reaffirming her new identity and that the girl that Vi knew as a child was gone. She then took the weapon that she built with the Hextech gemstone and used it to launch a rocket into the room where the Piltover Council, a council consisting of the highest ranking members of the most prominent institutions of the city and the rulers of Piltover, were meeting.[8]
Appearance
Jinx (formerly Powder) is a very slender and pale Zaunite with naturally blue hair and wide blue eyes (before being injected with shimmer by Singed).
In Act 1 as Powder, she had shoulder-length hair tied back into a singular plait, with hastily cut bangs accented with silvery intricate clips, some freckles, and wore purple and dark-blue stitched-up and worn Zaunite clothing.
In Acts 2 and 3, Jinx has ankle-length hair, styled into two plaits with a chin-length swoop of hair on the right side of her face. She wears a worn black sleeveless leather crop top with a leather choker, knee-length distressed purple striped trousers often complemented by dark leather accessories with purple accents on her arms, a pair of intricate worn black leather ankle-length boots with purple laces, and a worn crisscross band-aid on her left knee. She has pale blue stylized cloud tattoos on her right arm and midriff and her nails are covered with blue and pink paint. After Singed saved her life through the use of the drug “shimmer”, Jinx became far paler, and her blue eyes turned to a pinkish color due to the shimmer with visible purplish veins by her eyes.
Personality
As a child, Powder was kind but curious, clumsy, impulsive, and reckless, often making decisions that would badly affect the people around her. She was constantly criticized by Mylo for this, and it made her hate herself when she made these decisions. Deeply traumatized by the death of her parents, she would have attachment issues, specifically towards her sister 
Vi. After she caused the deaths of Mylo, Claggor, and Vander and Vi seemingly abandoning her during her most weakest moment, her trauma would become more pronounced, experiencing both auditory and visual hallucinations of Mylo and Claggor's dead voices and bodies. She would put on a veneer of a bubbly and energetic person, only to hide the hurt and trauma of past events. She's also very sarcastic, extroverted with a twisted sense of humor.
After she was adopted by Silco, Jinx became more chaotic and more prone to hallucinations, even enjoying becoming a criminal and being slightly sadistic. Sevika stated that Jinx is someone impossible to control, even for Silco.
Although chaotic and unstable, she's a very skilled inventor with a high level of creativity and intelligence, creating her own arsenal of weapons.
Her chemical alteration by Singed would further deteriorate her mental stability, making her even more paranoid and more erratic. With the return of her sister (seemingly with another person), she would do whatever it took to not lose her again, even kidnapping her and accidentally killing Silco. Despite being mentally unstable, a part of her as Powder remained inside her; this would make her feel scared of being the same fearful, weak, and timid child before Vi abandoned her, thus creating an inner struggle about her true identity. However, after Silco's death, she fully embraced her new identity as Jinx.
Abilities
- Chemically Altered Physiology: Due to being subjected to a horrendous experimental surgery by Singed that used an advanced version of Shimmer to save her life, Jinx was permanently altered by the drug's effects, giving her superhuman physical abilities in exchange for an even more deteriorated mental state.
- Enhanced Strength: Jinx is substantially stronger than the average human. Despite her slender build, she was strong enough to knock Caitlyn out with one punch and lift Vi’s deactivated Atlas Gauntlets almost effortlessly, a notable feat given that Vi could barely lift even one deactivated gauntlet on her own. She was also strong enough to toss Fishbones, a rocket launcher almost as long as she is tall, into the air as if it were a basketball and easily jump high enough to catch it in mid-air so that she could use it to take a shot.
- Enhanced Speed: Jinx can move at incredible speeds, as displayed by how she was able to disarm Caitlyn in a split second and knock her out before the latter could react in time to defend herself. She was also able to dodge and parry many of Warwick's attacks during their confrontation in Stillwater and could move so fast that even he had trouble keeping up with her speed during certain points of their fight.
- Enhanced Durability: Jinx is far more durable than the average human. She was able to tank numerous punches from Vi's Atlas Gauntlets, which are strong enough to easily shatter ribs, without suffering any broken bones and withstand several of Warwick's attacks while only sustaining moderate injuries, a notable feat given that Warwick can easily eviscerate people with his claws.
- Enhanced Endurance: Jinx has an inhumanly high tolerance to pain. Despite all the punches that Vi landed on her during their fight in Janna's temple, she was able to keep moving and fighting back against her older sister with little trouble. She was also able to withstand the pain of getting her middle finger shot off her left hand, with the injury only slowing her down by several seconds, and inhale large amounts of the Grey for a prolonged period of time without passing out or suffocating.
- Inventor: Despite not having any formal education, Jinx is a prolific engineer and inventor, having created numerous contraptions and weapons with her own creativity and ingenuity. She was also able to quickly reverse-engineer the hextech technology created by Jayce and Viktor with just the aid of their research journal, making her the first Zaunite to build hextech weapons for her own use.
- Pow-Pow: A machine gun of her own design, this would be Jinx's primary weapon during her usual escapades around Piltover and Zaun.
- Fishbones: Designed from her childhood drawings, this rocket launcher has a chemtech payload known as Super Mega Rockets. At one point, this weapon was modified to use a hextech gemstone as its power source, enabling it to shoot its payload over longer distances with greater power.
- Gun: A pistol that fires chemtech bullets and is easily capable of injuring any targeted person. Jinx would later modify this weapon to use a hextech gemstone as its power source, enabling it to fire blasts of arcane energy at her targets.
- Chompers: Inspired by her childhood bomb designs, these bombs have a chemtech payload inside them. Disarming one can prove to be very dangerous, as its inner mechanisms are difficult to go through due to their random scrapheap design, even for highly skilled engineers such as Viktor and Jayce.
- Brawler: Although not as skilled as Vi, Jinx is competent at hand-to-hand combat, as displayed by how she was able to hold her own against her older sister during their scuffle in Janna's temple.
Relations
Violet
| “ | "I thought maybe you could love me like you used to. Even though I'm... different. But you changed too. So here's to the new us." |
| — Jinx to Vi, The Monster You Created
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Violet and Powder are sisters who grew up together under the care of Vander after their parents' deaths. Vi is overprotective of her sister, defending her often against their adopted brother Mylo who teases her. She is Powder's biggest supporter when they were young, they often sat together looking at the mechanics Powder had made.
After the kidnapping of Vander, Vi told her sister to stay back so she wouldn't get hurt. But Powder had a mental break down until she discovered she could enhance her bombs with the hex crystals she stole. Believing she could help her family, Powder ultimately went to the warehouse and threw a bomb, killing her adopted father and brothers by accident. The disaster led to Vi calling Powder a 'Jinx' and say other hurtful words in frustration before walking away from her to clear her head. Although Vi intended to return to Powder when she saw Silco was approaching her, she was drugged unconscious and kidnapped by 
Marcus. Due to Vi's absence, Powder believed she was abandoned. According to Jinx, Vi was what motivated her to become stronger and to create the persona Jinx.
As adults, Powder and Vi reunited but Vi's sister was no longer Powder but rather Jinx. Powder's Jinx persona, along with her willingly working for Silco, disturbed Vi and troubled her; while Vi's intimate relationship with Caitlyn upset Jinx. Although she missed her sister, Jinx felt very confused. Part of her thinks Vi no longer loves her but sought to manipulate her in order to get into Caitlyn's favor—notions that were encouraged by Sevika and 
Silco. Jinx didn't entirely trust Silco or Sevika either since they've lied to her about Vi being alive, in spite of Silco raising Jinx as his own daughter.
Ultimately, their reunion was short-lived. They were separated again and their misunderstandings made their relationship tense and occasionally hostile.
In order to protect her sister, Jinx ended up killing Silco; the consequence of that event caused Vi's sister to abandon her Powder persona and embrace her identity as Jinx.
Deep down she still loves her sister but feels that she cannot reconcile with her.
Vander
After the uprising, Vander took in Powder as his own child. He would teach her to live a better life, guiding her to be a better person than himself. However, being guilted by her own actions that caused Vander's death, she would regress into her own childhood memories, trying to avoid the trauma of what had happened. The images of Vander would come and haunt her, bringing her much pain whenever they surface.
Claggor
Claggor was the elder adopted brother to Jinx. Unlike Mylo, he was much more calm and caring to her and didn't ridicule her. After the bomb exploded during the rescue mission of Vander, he died. Jinx built a doll version of him, including his signature goggles. She doesn't hear his voice as much as the other ones of her deceased family.
Mylo
Mylo was her elder adopted brother back when she was still Powder. He'd often ridicule her for her clumsiness and incompetence for completing missions, saying she jinxed every mission, and often compared her to her older sister. They often butted heads, where Mylo struggled with things Powder exceeded in, such as shooting. After Powder was left behind during the rescue mission of Vander, she eventually came to try to help which ultimately led to Mylo's death. Jinx is later haunted by his voice, becoming the embodiment of her doubts, anxieties, and self ridicule. She also built a mechanical version of her deceased brother to talk to.
Ekko
Ekko and Powder were childhood friends, often praticing fighting moves, or playing around together. There are hints in the League of Legends game that he had a crush on her in childhood ("I had a crush... until you started talking to the gun"). In the series, there is currently no such information. When he and the Firelights established their base, they painted a mural of all the people they've lost; Ekko apparently painted Powder as part of the mural, signifying that he believed his childhood friend was gone. As adults, Jinx willingly worked for Silco—and she killed many Firelights on his behalf and fought Ekko several times. During the fight between him and Jinx on the bridge, it paralleled their childhood fighting games that they used to play. Although Ekko usually lost those games when they were children, he defeated Jinx in a real battle and was ready to land the final blow before seeing Jinx's face, which reminded him of the Powder he used to know. That sentimentality distracted him, and she ended up detonating a bomb, injuring Ekko and gravely injuring herself.
Silco
After the deaths of Vander, Claggor, and Mylo alongside being abandoned by Vi, young Jinx was orphaned once again and all alone. She turned to the first person who was there to seek comfort in which was Silco who adopted her. Silco became the most powerful Chem-Baron in Zaun, and Jinx was Silco's precious adopted daughter and most trusted agent. He covered up her messes, and never punished nor blamed her—only rarely remonstrating her when she got way out of hand. He loved her as his own even when other agents disliked her and her tactics. Silco entrusted Jinx to administer his shimmer injections to his disfigured eye and to carry out his most important schemes. Jinx in turn, sought to become formidable to gain his approval and trusted him until she overheard that he may sell her out to the Piltover authorities in order to gain Zaun's independence. When she later accidentally killed Silco to save Vi, he still comforted her in his dying moments as she realized what she had done.
Isha
Jinx saw Isha as a younger version of herself, and wanted to fix the mistakes she made with Vi in their relationship, even being willing to risk her own life to ensure Isha's safety.
Sevika
After she was adopted by Silco, Sevika rose to the rank of second-in-command, responsible for making sure her bosses operations went smoothly. However her and Jinx had a strained relationship, as both competed for Silco's favor and JInx was responsible for destroying her arm. Sevika saw Jinx as a loose cannon, unhinged and often prone to violent outbursts that result in things going out of control.
Caitlyn Kiramman
Jinx's entire perception of Caitlyn was twisted before she even met her. Vi's intimate relationship with an Enforcer confused Jinx and made her jealous, since she not only felt replaced (by their enemy no doubt) but also thought Vi was not sincere in wanting her back. Rather, Jinx was worried Vi was trying to undermine her criminal activities in order to please her Enforcer girlfriend. She would be haunted by hallucinations of Caitlyn during her Shimmer operation. At one point, she would even offer Vi an ultimatum: kill Caitlyn in exchange for getting Powder back, as she saw Caitlyn as a villain who stole Vi from her.
Arcane Show Appearances
| Season One appearances: 9/9 | ||
| Welcome to the Playground: Appears |
Some Mysteries Are Better Left Unsolved: Appears |
The Base Violence Necessary for Change: Appears |
| Happy Progress Day!: Appears |
Everybody Wants to Be My Enemy: Appears |
When These Walls Come Tumbling Down: Appears |
| The Boy Savior: Appears |
Oil and Water: Appears |
The Monster You Created: Appears |
Trivia
- Before the official confirmation with the release of Arcane, Vi and Jinx were often theorized by the community to be sisters. The reference to this on Jinx's release was her quote, "You think I'm crazy? You should see my sister". Though there was never any implication that the sister was Vi, players equated Jinx's antagonization of Vi specifically as "sisterly bonding".
- Jinx is stated to be 11-12 years old in the first act of Arcane and is estimated to be 17-19 years old in the second and third act of the series.[9]
- Jinx's official height is 160 cm (5'3).[10]
Media
See Also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Arcane: Season 1, Episode 1: Welcome to the Playground
- ↑ Arcane: Season 1, Episode 2: Some Mysteries Are Better Left Unsolved
- ↑ Arcane: Season 1, Episode 3: The Base Violence Necessary for Change
- ↑ Arcane: Season 1, Episode 4: Happy Progress Day!
- ↑ Arcane: Season 1, Episode 6: When These Walls Come Tumbling Down
- ↑ Arcane: Season 1, Episode 7: The Boy Savior
- ↑ Arcane: Season 1, Episode 8: Oil and Water
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Arcane: Season 1, Episode 9: The Monster You Created
- ↑ Jinx's age in Arcane: Official information
- ↑ Arcane characters height chart