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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.
Warwick is a monster who hunts the gray alleys of 
Zaun. Transformed by agonizing experiments, his body is fused with an intricate system of chambers and pumps, machinery filling his veins with alchemical rage. Bursting out of the shadows, he preys upon those criminals who terrorize the city's depths. Warwick is drawn to blood, and driven mad by its 
scent. None who spill it can escape him.
 | "Spill blood...draw the beast!" — Warwick |
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Background[]
Early life[]
During his past life as a human, Warwick was a 
Zaunite gangster named 
Vander who decided to retire from crime (but not revolutionary ideals) and live a better life as a good and honest bartender. Vander adopted both Vi and Jinx as his daughters. 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 eventually captured, experimented and later resurrected on by the mad scientist 
Singed, who pumped him full of chemicals containing spliced monster DNA in an attempt to transform him into the "beast" he was deep down inside. Although Singed's experiments initially killed Warwick, they later resurrected him as a a biomechanical, werewolf-like beast with an insatiable thirst for blood.
Recent events[]
(TBA)
Appearance[]
Warwick is a large werewolf-like creature, having a mix of human and canine anatomy. He is covered in bluish-gray fur, though his lower face and the front of his torso are paler. He has a canine muzzle full of massive fangs. His eyes are yellow-green by default but can turn a ferocious red in heated moments. His long, pointed ears have pink skin on the inside. He has a hulking, muscular upper body with slimmer legs and a fluffy tail. As a werewolf, he can move on two legs or get down on all fours. He also has numerous scars all over his body due to lacerations.
Warwick's body is augmented by asymmetrical chemtech machinery composed of brass-colored metal connected by tubes that house glowing green liquid. When Warwick is stressed, this liquid may turn yellow. Most notably, he has a clawed gauntlet on his right forearm and a large cylindrical chamber protruding from his back. This chamber features a single spike, almost giving it the appearance of a syringe. He also wears a pair of brown patchwork pants that are torn and faded.
Personality[]
While not much is known about Warwick's past life, it can be assumed that despite his role as a gangster, Warwick still cared about the well-being of others and sought different ways to better himself, with 
Singed even describing him as a "good man". However, after Singed's experiments on him, little remained of the old Warwick or his memories, as he was replaced with a bloodthirsty, monstrous creature of pure wrath.
Warwick is a creature in constant pain and wants desperately to remember his past life, but his chemical mutations prevent him from seeking this out. He is proud of his Zaunite origins and holds a special hatred for the chem-barons and the Zaunites who have abandoned the undercity for 
Piltover. Warwick also sees Yordles as "alpha predators", growing distracted by them like a dog would be by a squirrel.
Even though Warwick has lost most of his memories, he sometimes gets flashes of his former life as a human. These last remaining memories prevent him from harming innocent people and cause him to only attack criminals, specifically those who have blood on their hands.
Abilities[]
- Chemically Altered Werewolf 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 bestial physiology that made him strong enough to pose 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[]
- Warwick and Singed are long-time friends. Warwick has also likely supplied Singed with a myriad of test subjects over the years.
- The potion Singed concocted for Warwick that transformed him into a werewolf might be derived from his own Insanity Potion.
- The potion
- In his post-potion thirst, Warwick killed and flayed Urf. He occasionally wears the Manatee's carcass as a sort of morbid trophy.
- The chemicals that are pumped into Warwick's body every time he smells blood along with Singed's experiments on him have taken a heavy toll on his psyche. He remembers very little of his former life as a human, sometimes recalling the cries of a little girl implied to be Jinx ("You were there", "Let me forget") and apparently knowing Vi before she defected to League of Legends Wiki. ("Zaun needed you!")
- Warwick was ultimately confirmed to be Vander, the adoptive father of Vi and Jinx, in Act 2 of Arcane's second season.
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References[]
- ↑ Official Riot Force Twitter
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Arcane: Season 1, Episode 1: Welcome to the Playground
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Arcane: Season 1, Episode 3: The Base Violence Necessary for Change
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Arcane: Season 1, Episode 2: Some Mysteries Are Better Left Unsolved
- ↑ Arcane: Season 1, Episode 9: The Monster You Created
