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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.
| “ | "You've got a good heart. Don't ever lose it, no matter how the world tries to break you." |
| — Vander to Vi, The Base Violence Necessary For Change | |
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Vander, also known as Warwick, was a 
Zaunite bartender and revolutionary, and the adoptive father of both Vi and Jinx. A prodigious boxer and a good-hearted man, he was widely respected by the denizens of the undercity and was willing to die for his own ideals, especially if it meant saving those that he cared about. He was later resurrected as a biomechanical, werewolf-like beast by Singed as part of the latter's goal to save his daughter's life.
Background
Early Life
Vander and Silco were like brothers during their youth, and the two of them originally shared the same dream of liberating their people from Piltover’s oppressive control. They were also close friends with Felicia, Vi and Jinx’s mother, with Vander having been the one to suggest the name “Violet” to Felicia when he learned that she was pregnant with her first child.
However, everything changed when Vander and Silco attempted to lead an uprising against Piltover, which ultimately failed and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of their own people, including Felicia and her husband Connol. When the dust settled and the uprising was over, Vander stumbled upon Vi and Powder crying at the sight of their dead parents and adopted them as his daughters. Out of remorse and sorrow, he also gave up on continuing to fight for Zaun's freedom and vowed to live a more peaceful life for the sake of his new family.[1]
Felicia’s death would drive a wedge between Vander and Silco, and eventually lead Vander to attack Silco out of grief and attempt to drown him in Zaun's polluted rivers. During their fight, Silco managed to fight Vander off with a knife and escape back into the underground, leaving a large scar on the latter’s right arm.[2] In time, however, Vander would come to greatly regret his decision to turn on Silco and attempted to reach out to him to no avail. When it became clear to Vander that Silco didn’t want to be found, he decided to leave a letter for him at their old hideout, stating that he was wrong to blame him for Felicia’s death and apologizing for attacking him in the first place. Unfortunately, Silco never found that letter and as a result, the two of them never got a chance to reconcile.
After the failed uprising and his falling-out with Silco, Vander took control of the Lanes of Zaun and became the head of a bar called the Last Drop, which became the main meeting ground of the undercity. He would also adopt two orphaned boys, Mylo and Claggor, as his own sons and broker an uneasy agreement with the Enforcers of Piltover, which brought relative peace to the Lanes.[1]
Gemstone Incident
After a daring heist in Piltover that was orchestrated by Vi went awry, the peace in the undercity was at risk. Since the workshop they burglarized exploded and belonged to the 
Kiramman Clan, the 
Enforcers were tasked by Piltover's ruling council with apprehending the perpetrators.[1] Not wanting to betray his own children, Vander refused to hand anyone over to Piltover. This decision caused the Enforcers to violently interrogate any Zaunites they encountered in the undercity for the identity of the culprits, which angered many of the people in the underground. Knowing that fighting back against the Enforcers would only escalate the situation and ultimately lead to further casualties, Vander attempted to council his people into remaining calm so that they could keep the peace. Unfortunately, not everyone listened to him and even Vi was angry with him for preventing her from using her boxing skills to defend their home against the Topsiders. However, Vander was ultimately able to convince her to stand down by explaining that violence would never solve her problems and it was better for her to protect what she still had instead of risking it all out of anger.[3]
Vi would take this lesson to heart and attempted to turn herself in to the Enforcers to prevent a potential uprising and further violence.[3][2] However, before she could make her move, Vander swapped places with her and surrendered himself to the Enforcers. Unfortunately, before Vander could be taken to prison, Silco appeared out of the blue, had Deckard, his Shimmer-enhanced henchman, kill Grayson and Benzo, and then took Vander back to his hideout.[2]
Upon arriving at his hideout, Silco told Vander that he was gearing up for a second uprising with Shimmer and offered his old friend the chance to join forces again. However, knowing how ruthless Silco had become, Vander rejected his offer and claimed that he was no longer the same man that Silco remembered him as. Enraged that Vander was willing to die for the cause but not willing to fight for it, Silco berated him for his lack of spirit and had him chained up.[2]
Not long after, Vi, Mylo, and Claggor arrived to save Vander, but failed to notice that Silco had deliberately left him unguarded in order to trap them in. Realizing that they'd have to fight their way out, Vi put on Vander's old iron gauntlets and used them to fend off Silco's henchmen and buy enough time for Mylo and Claggor to release Vander from his shackles and find a way out. Unfortunately, before they could all escape, the hideout was destroyed by Powder's makeshift monkey bomb, killing Mylo and Claggor, and injuring Vander and Vi.
Knowing that Silco would stop at nothing to kill them, Vander put on some makeshift knuckles and starting battling against Silco's surviving henchmen. Although he put up a good fight, he was ultimately overpowered by Deckard, stabbed in the stomach by Silco, and then tossed down into a pile of Shimmer vials. Determined to save Vi, Vander then injected himself with a vial, drastically mutating his body and making him strong enough to easily strangle Deckard before he could get to Vi. He then attempted to kill Silco as well, but upon realizing that Vi was in danger of being crushed by falling rubble, he decided against it and proceeded to grab Vi in his arms and jump out of the building to safety before anyone could stop them.[2]
Grievously injured from the two-story fall and the wounds he suffered against Silco, Vander would tell Vi to take care of Powder before losing consciousness and seemingly dying.
Becoming Warwick
Following the events of his struggle with Silco, Vander was presumed dead. However, even after his supposed death and Silco's takeover of the undercity, Vander was well-respected by the people of Zaun and remembered in a positive light by many. A statue of him was also built in the Lanes, where Silco would later go to and confide in when 
Jayce offered him Zaun's independence in exchange for Jinx.[4]
However, unbeknownest to anyone, Vander didn't actually die in the aftermath of his battle with Silco and was instead taken captive by 
Singed, who kept his body preserved and hidden away in his lab. Shortly after Silco's death, Singed proceeded to conduct a series of experiments on Vander in hopes of finding a way to cure his daughter. In doing so, he transformed Vander into Warwick, a savage and bloodthirsty beast with his human self buried deep below his primal instincts.
Reuniting His Family
Almost a year after Silco's death, Singed was arrested by Enforcers during a rebel rally being held in Zaun by Sevika. However, right before they captured him, he intentionally cut his hand with a scalpel to create a trail of blood. This act triggered Warwick, who then escaped from Singed's lab and relentlessly hunted him down by the scent of his blood, leaving immense destruction and carnage in his wake.
Warwick's rampage eventually led him to Stillwater Hold. After arriving at the prison, he easily overwhelmed Ambessa and her 
Noxian battalion, and brutally slaughtered all the Enforcers who were guarding the place. Upon descending further into the prison in his hunt for Singed, he encountered Jinx and Sevika, who had arrived at the prison earlier to rescue 
Isha, and clashed with Jinx when she used herself as a distraction so that Sevika could take Isha to safety. Although Jinx shot at Warwick numerous times with her Hextech pistol and dodged many of his attacks due to having been physically enhanced with an advanced version of Shimmer, none of her shots were able to deal any lasting damage to him, and Warwick eventually cornered her before she could try to kill him with one of her grenades.
However, just as Warwick was about to finish Jinx off, he caught sight of her grenade, triggering a flood of memories in his mind and causing him to halt his assault against her, with his eyes changing color from red to green. At that moment, he recognized Jinx as his adoptive daughter Powder and even spoke her name, leading her to recognize him as Vander and realize that he had been alive this whole time.
Following his confrontation with Jinx, Warwick retreated back to Zaun and went into hiding in a remote mine shaft. Determined to help the man they once knew, Jinx convinced Vi to help her track him down, with Isha accompanying them. While searching for Warwick in the mines, Vi accidentally gave Isha a nosebleed and the scent of her blood came to Warwick's attention. Overwhelmed by his innate bloodlust, Warwick hunted them down soon enough and attempted to kill Isha, but was interpreted by Vi, who stepped in to protect her.
Due to Vi’s altered appearance, with her dyed black hair and punk makeup, Warwick failed to recognize her and viciously attacked her without hesitation. Although Vi was able to fare better against Warwick than Jinx was due to her Atlas Gauntlets, he was still able to shrug off her attacks due to his regenerative blood and ultimately overpower her. He then turned towards Jinx, who was shielding Isha behind her, and momentarily recognized her as Powder, causing his eyes to flicker back to green, but then went berserk once more when Vi spit out a wad of blood onto the floor.
Now in a savage rage, Warwick moved to attack Vi again, only for Vi to scream out his name as “Vander.” This sparked a memory of a conversation he had decades ago with Silco and Felicia-Vi and Jinx’s mother-about the future of Zaun and the revelation that Felicia was pregnant with her first child, which was enough for Warwick to finally recognize Vi and for his humanity to completely resurface. Vander’s consciousness then fully emerged, allowing him to embrace Vi, Jinx, and Isha in a heartfelt family reunion.
Capture
With Vander now in control of himself, the girls took him to 
Viktor’s sanctuary, hoping that he could use his powers to reverse Warwick's transformation and turn him back into a human. Despite his advanced Hextech powers, Viktor quickly realized that Singed’s experiments had buried Vander’s consciousness deep inside Warwick’s mind, making the process of curing him far more complex than he’d initially anticipated. Nevertheless, due to his earnest desire to help Vander, Viktor committed himself to the challenge on the condition that Warwick was to be restrained at night and spent the next few days working tirelessly to restore his humanity.
Singed later came to visit Viktor and proposed the idea of using Warwick’s regenerative blood to enhance Viktor’s own evolution. However, as Viktor was unwilling to sacrifice Vander for his own gain, he firmly rejected Singed’s offer, prompting the latter to leave. Viktor’s efforts later appeared to be working when Vander protected Jinx from Rictus, snarled at him to “stay away from his daughter,” and then threw Rictus out of a nearby window with tremendous force, severely wounding him.
However, this victory proved to be short-lived when 
Jayce suddenly arrived at the sanctuary and seemingly killed Viktor, causing the residents of the settlement to collapse and perish. As the girls inspected the chaos around them, Singed took the opportunity to inject Warwick with another serum, which caused his blood to turn into a lava-like fluid and turned him uncontrollably savage. Stripped of all reason, Warwick then brutally eviscerated Rictus and turned his attention towards his daughters, Isha, and Caitlyn, whom he no longer recognized.
Before Warwick could move to attack them, Ambessa and her soldiers launched an assault on the sanctuary in hopes of capturing him to use as a weapon under their command. Although Warwick easily slaughtered many of the soldiers who attempted to take him down, he was severely wounded in the process, leaving his daughters, Isha, and Caitlyn with no viable means of escape. In a desperate bid to protect her new family, Isha grabbed Jinx’s Hextech pistol before Jinx could stop her and overloaded it with three Hextech gemstones. Much to Jinx’s despair, Isha then sacrificed herself by taking a point-blank shot at Warwick, creating an explosion of arcane energy that engulfed the entire area and seemingly killed them both. Unfortunately, her sacrifice turned out to be partially in vain, as Warwick survived the explosion and was successfully re-captured by Singed in the aftermath of her death.
Evolution
With Viktor on the brink of death from the fatal chest wound that he took from Jayce, Singed chose to heal him with Warwick’s blood, even though Viktor had previously been against sacrificing Warwick for his own evolution. Although the blood infusion process didn’t kill Warwick, it did wipe most of his memories and lead him to forget his past as a human. Viktor then took the situation with Warwick a step further by possessing him through his powers and turning him into one of his mindless slaves as part of his so-called “glorious evolution.”
During Viktor’s battle with the Piltover-Zaun alliance, Warwick went after Vi and Jinx, and succeeded in forcing Jinx’s hot air balloon to crash through the side of a nearby tower. Due to the fact that neither Vi and Jinx had the proper weapons to kill Warwick or the will to fight against their own father, he easily overpowered them both and attempted to have Viktor use his powers on them to achieve his final evolution. Fortunately, it was at that point that 
Ekko and Jayce successfully broke through Viktor’s defenses, which caused Warwick to release his daughters, with the three of them falling down onto various iron bridges around the tower.
Death
Although Jinx insisted that Vander was unreachable inside Warwick’s mind, Vi refused to give up on their father and remained determined to save him. Unfortunately, it was at that moment that Warwick woke up and immediately attacked her, having reverted back to his mindlessly savage state now that Viktor was no longer controlling him. Realizing that Warwick would get both Vi and himself killed if he kept attacking her, as the bridge they were standing on was wobbly and unstable, Jinx body-slammed Warwick off of her, causing the two of them to fall over the edge of the bridge towards the core below. While Vi was able to grab Jinx’s right arm in the nick of time to prevent her from falling to her death, Warwick managed to grab onto one of Jinx’s legs at the same time and started using her to slowly climb back up onto the bridge.
Knowing that all three of them would die if Vi didn’t let go of her hand, Jinx realized that it was time for her to do for Vi what Isha did for her and forced Vi to release her by disabling her right gauntlet. As Jinx fell with Warwick towards the core, she turned back towards him and cupped his face in her hands, sparking a memory of him tucking her and Vi into bed when they were kids. With a sad and faint smile, Jinx then sacrificed herself by activating her monkey bomb before Warwick could move to stop her, creating an explosion of arcane energy that presumably killed them both and putting an end to the Uncaged Wrath of Zaun once and for all.
Appearance
Vander was a large and muscular middle-aged man with grey eyes, dark hair, and a neatly trimmed greying beard. He was generally seen wearing blue trousers, leather boots, a brown leather jacket over a white undershirt, and a leather pauldron on his upper right arm to cover up the scar that he got from Silco when he was young.
When Vander used Shimmer as a last resort to save Vi from Deckard, it drastically increased his muscle mass, made him grow several feet in height, and made his veins purple and pop out all over his body.
After being experimented on by 
Singed, Vander was mutated into a wolf-like humanoid. While his overall body mass remained the same as when he injected himself with Shimmer, Singed modified his biology to where his body was almost entirely covered in thick dark-grey fur. His left arm was also increased in size, with longer fingers and sharp claws, and his legs became more much bestial. His face also grew more wolf-life, with long ears, a longer, potentier nose, and sharp fangs.
At some point during his transformation into Warwick, Vander somehow developed heterochromia, with his left eye becoming yellow and the right eye becoming green. However, it should be noted both eyes would became red whenever he smelled blood and went feral. Vander also gained several mechanical augmentations from Singed's experiments on him; his right hand was replaced was a large, metal clawed hand and a cooling system was installed on his back to regulate his body temperature whenever he felt intense emotions.
Personality
Vander is implied to have been a brutal and violent man in his younger years, with Silco openly describing him as a "beast" when they fought on the same side in the past. This was also demonstrated during a flashback that Silco had, in which Vander tried to viciously drown him in Zaun's polluted rivers and nearly took out his left eye during their struggle in the water. However, after leading a failed uprising against Piltover that resulted in a tremendous loss of life, Vander began to question the morality of his actions and after seeing Vi and Powder overcome with grief at the sight of their parents' corpses, he gave up on his dream of freeing the undercity from Piltover's control and turned pacifist, dropping his weapons and carrying the two girls away to raise them as their father.
As the leader of the Lanes, Vander was a selfless and compassionate man who was always willing to protect those who needed his help. He was seen as a protector by many and was well-respected by his fellow Zaunites. He primarily governed the Lanes through a paternal authority, and relied on people's gratitude and genuine respect for him to maintain order. Although he turned pacifist after the failed uprising he led against Piltover, he defied his dogma during his final confrontation with Silco, viciously strangling Deckard with one hand and sacrificing himself to ensure that 
Vi would survive.
After being transformed into Warwick through Singed’s experiments, the violent tendencies that Vander demonstrated during his youth were revived and brought to the forefront of his personality. He also became extremely brutal, aggressive, and bloodthirsty, to the point where he would go berserk every time he smelled blood. However, despite appearing to be mindlessly feral, he possessed a sense of intelligence that aided him in battle, as shown when he grabbed Jinx’s hand before she could activate one of her grenades and spared the Zaunite prisoners that he encountered during his rampage through Stillwater.
Due to his extraordinary will to live, Warwick retained many of his memories of his human life, which enabled him to recognize Vi and Jinx, and remember his role as their father. With Viktor’s help, his buried humanity also eventually started to return, as shown when he protected Jinx from Rictus and violently chucked him out of a nearby window as retaliation for trying to kill her. Unfortunately, all of Viktor’s efforts would ultimately be undone when Singed injected Warwick with another serum, causing him to give into his primal instincts, lose his ability to recognize his daughters, and become uncontrollably savage. The blood infusion process that Singed later conducted between Warwick and Viktor to heal the latter's wounds also wiped Warwick's mind, causing him to lose most of his memories of his past life and become an empty shell to be used by Viktor as part of his glorious evolution.
However, after Viktor gave up on his evolution and released the people that he had enslaved with his powers, Warwick reverted back to his mindlessly savage state, causing him to ferociously attack Vi upon waking up. It wasn’t until Jinx rammed him off of Vi and the two of them started to fall was when Warwick’s humanity seemed to resurface and he started to recall some of his memories of his daughters. This would presumably give Warwick a sense of peace and solace when Jinx activated her monkey bomb while he was holding her in his arms, with the two of them seemingly perishing together in the ensuing explosion.
Abilities
- Chemically Enhanced Physiology: After being subjected by Singed to a series of brutal experiments that pumped his body full of chemicals and fused his DNA with that of a wolf, Vander acquired a unique beast physiology that made him strong enough to pose as a deadly threat to both Piltover and Noxus, with even Ambessa admitting that she had never encountered an opponent of such savagery in all of her years of combat.
- Enhanced Senses: Vander's senses are far more potent than that of a normal human. This applies to his sense of smell in particular, as he can smell blood from miles away and easily trace it back to its original source.
- Enhanced Strength: Vander possesses monstrous strength, as shown by how he was able to effortlessly tear through solid metal and viciously slaughter both Enforcers and Noxian soldiers with ease. He was also able to grievously injure Rictus, Ambessa's right-hand man, with a single blow and eviscerate him with his claws, with the latter incapable of properly defending himself against Vander's onslaught. After being "evolved" by Viktor, Vander's strength was further enhanced to the point that Vi, who was previously able to counter some of his attacks with her own strength, was almost helpless against him.
- Enhanced Durability: Vander is shown to be tremendously durable, as shown by how conventional weaponry is virtually useless against him and hextech weaponry only temporarily slows him down at best. After being "evolved" by Viktor, Vander's durability was further enhanced to the point that his skin was almost impossible to penetrate.
- Enhanced Endurance: Vander has an immense tolerance to pain, which enabled him to survive the agony he suffered from Singed's experiments.
- Enhanced Speed: Vander is extremely fast, enabling him to massacre entire mobs of people within the span of several seconds. After being "evolved" by Viktor, Vander's speed was further enhanced to the point that he could move so fast that he appeared to be teleporting.
- Regenerative Blood: Vander possesses blood with special healing properties that enables him to quickly regenerate from any injuries that he suffers in battle, as shown when he instantaneously regenerated his jaw after Vi broke his face with one punch from her Atlas Gauntlets. It is also for this reason that Singed considers Vander to be his greatest success and believes that his unique biology is the key to saving his daughter and curing Viktor of his terminal illness.
- Indomitable Willpower: Vander has immense willpower, which allowed him to survive his presumed death at Silco's hands and retain his sanity through the extreme pain of Singed's experiments.
- Brawler: Vander had a gift for hand-to-hand combat and was shown to dominate most fights he ever got involved in, even against opponents who'd enhanced themselves with Shimmer. He was also the one who taught Vi how to punch, a notable feat considering how skilled Vi became at boxing in her late teens.
- Barkeep: As the owner of The Last Drop, Vander was a competent bartender and could make various kinds of drinks.
- Leader: Vander was a competent and honorable leader, despite his past failings, and many Zaunites respected him for his leadership skills even after he supposedly died.
- Teacher: As the adoptive father of four children, Vander would be their primary teacher in life and instruct them just about every skill they needed to survive in Zaun. Even after his assumed death, his lessons would still resonate with them, as displayed when Vi had a hallucination of him encouraging her to work on her guard and get back up on her feet during her second fight with Sevika.
Relations
Silco
Vander considered Silco to be his brother in their youth, and the two of them once had the same dream of freeing Zaun from Piltovan rule. However, their relationship fell apart when Vander turned on Silco and nearly killed him for unknown reasons. Despite this, Vander never truly hated Silco and eventually felt guilty about what he did to his former friend; Silco in turn still respected Vander until he chose to cooperate with Piltover to preserve peace between their two cities.
Silco plotted a second uprising against Piltover and kidnapped Vander to recruit him for his plans. Silco revealed that he plans to weaponize shimmer against Piltover and thus coerce the Piltovans to recognize Zaun as an independent nation. He offers Vander to join him, despite his betrayal. However, Vander pointed out that Silco had already killed Benzo and turned several Undercity kids into shimmer-addicted monsters. To Vander, Silco's war against Piltover isn't worth the cost. He tells Silco to kill him and get his revenge, but begs Silco to not exploit the Undercity to facilitate his war. Silco is angered that Vander would die for a cause but not fight for one. Vander responds that he isn't that man anymore, but Silco is determined to show Vander that deep down, he's still a bellicose, violent man.
Silco holds Vander prisoner in an attempt to goad his kids to attempt to save him. Once Silco trapped Vander's kids in a warehouse, he sends his goons to kill them, forcing Vander to fight off his goons. The fight was chaotic, as Jinx threw a bomb that took out her family and Silco's forces alike, and also left Vi trapped under a pile of rubble. Vander pushed himself to recover, takes out a majority of Silco's men, and manages to strangle Silco. However, he was stabbed by Silco, thrown over the bridge, and lands on crates of shimmer. Vander injects shimmer into himself in order to defend Vi as a rage-filled shimmer monster. At the end though, rather than pursue Silco, he dies saving Vi from the collapsing building.
Silco continued to hold his old friend in high regard in the years after his death, even having a statue of Vander in the Undercity to memorialize him.
Violet
After his failed uprising, Vander adopted Vi as his own daughter and taught her to both live a better life and be a better person than himself. He was also the one who taught her how to punch and expressed pride in her skills whenever she clobbered someone in a fight.
When Vi was a child, she could not understand why Vander prohibited the Undercity from burglarizing Piltover; especially since Piltover was a city of abundance and would send Enforcers to intrude in the Undercity's affairs. Meanwhile, Vi was made to feel less than the topsiders and wanted more for Powder as well. Vi disobeyed Vander's rules and led her gang of Undercity children to burglarize a Piltover workshop. The burglary was botched however, leading to the workshop's explosion and consequently the Enforcers aggressively searching the Undercity for the perpetrators. Vander gave Vi a talk and taught her that since she's a leader that people looked up to, she must be considerate to where she leads her followers since their fates are her responsibility.
Vi became frustrated when Vander tolerated the Enforcers' aggressive manhunt and fearing they may take Powder, wanted to fight back. Vander took Vi to the Bridge of Progress and explained to her that violence will only beget more problems and losses. He tells Vi that like her, he thought he could change things through a violent uprising, but all he accomplished was get her parents killed.
Although Vi intended to surrender herself to protect the Undercity, Vander interceded and arranged for himself to be the scapegoat for the botched burglary. Before his arrest, he told Vi that she has a good heart and to never lose it. He also urges her to persevere in spite of the harsh world that they live in and to protect their family. Even when Vander was kidnapped by Silco and he ultimately died rescuing Vi, his dying words to Vi was "Take care of Powder."
Ultimately, Vander would have a large impact on Vi, as his teachings would continue to influence her long after his death.
Jinx
After his failing uprising, Vander adopted Powder as his own daughter and taught her to both live a better life and be a better person than himself. Although Powder had a good relationship with Vander, the intense guilt and trauma that she suffered from accidentally killing him with one of her makeshift grenades would haunt her for years after his death and cause her great pain whenever she thought of him.
Arcane Show Appearances
| Season One appearances: 3/9 | ||
| Welcome to the Playground: Appears |
Some Mysteries Are Better Left Unsolved: Appears |
The Base Violence Necessary for Change: Appears and flashback |
| Happy Progress Day!: Absent |
Everybody Wants to Be My Enemy: Mentioned only |
When These Walls Come Tumbling Down: Mentioned only |
| The Boy Savior: Mentioned only |
Oil and Water: Absent |
The Monster You Created: Illusion only |
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Trivia
- Vander's official height is 202 cm (6'7.5).[5]
- With the release of Arcane, many fans speculated that Vander was Warwick before he was transformed into a lycan by Singed's experiments. Although this theory was not officially confirmed until the 5th episode of the second season, there were already several clues in both the animated series and the video game that hinted towards this before the reveal finally happened:
- Vander's alias, "The Hound of the Underground", is similar to Warwick's alias, "The Uncaged Wrath of Zaun".
- Vander is called a lapdog by Silco.
- Both Warwick and Vander were once criminals who put down their weapons to live better lives.
- Vander is the man who taught Vi how to punch, and one of Warwick's lines towards her is ▶️ "Who taught you how to punch?".
- Another one of Warwick's lines, ▶️ "You were there...", is addressed towards Jinx and is a possible reference to her being present next to Vander's body after her monkey bomb destroyed Silco's hideout.
- Warwick's theme is heard during Vander's capture and shortly before his death.
- After he ingested Shimmer, Vander's physique, voice, and growl became similar to Warwick's.
- During her mental breakdown in the final episode of Arcane's first season, Jinx pictures Vander with a wolf-like outline around him.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Arcane: Season 1, Episode 1: Welcome to the Playground
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Arcane: Season 1, Episode 3: The Base Violence Necessary for Change
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Arcane: Season 1, Episode 2: Some Mysteries Are Better Left Unsolved
- ↑ Arcane: Season 1, Episode 9: The Monster You Created
- ↑ Arcane characters height chart