Arcane Characters

Vander

Bar owner · Former rebel leader

Vander once led a violent uprising against Piltover, saw the cost, and chose peace. He took in Vi and Powder after their parents died and runs a bar called The Last Drop while keeping an uneasy truce with Piltover's enforcers. He's the father figure the sisters spend the rest of the series measuring everyone else against. What happens to him after the first act is one of the show's slow-burning mysteries.

Voice

JB Blanc

Silco

Crime lord · Would-be founder of Zaun

Silco was once Vander's closest ally, and the scar over his eye is a reminder of how that friendship ended. He wants the undercity to become an independent nation, and he funds that dream with shimmer, extortion and murder. He's also the person who picks up the abandoned Powder and raises her as his own. The show never lets you forget he's a monster, and never lets you doubt that he loves her.

Voice

Jason Spisak

Ekko

Firelights leader · Childhood friend

Ekko is the little kid who tagged along with Vi's crew and was closest to Powder. Years later he leads the Firelights, a group of young undercity rebels hidden in a secret refuge, who fight Silco's shimmer trade with hoverboards and stolen tech. He's the clearest picture of what the undercity could be if it weren't being fought over. His duel with Jinx is one of the most talked-about sequences in the show.

Voice

Reed Shannon

Sevika

Silco's enforcer

Sevika is Silco's right hand: a hard, cynical brawler who fights with a mechanical arm and a steady supply of shimmer. She resents how much attention Silco gives Jinx, and she's a constant reminder that his empire runs on loyalty that has to be paid for. Season two gives her more room to show what she actually believes about the undercity's future.

Voice

Amirah Vann

Singed

Chemist

Singed is a quiet, disfigured scientist who works in the shadows for Silco and created shimmer. He talks about progress in the same calm voice whether he's discussing medicine or experimenting on living creatures. His past connects to Viktor's in a way the show reveals gradually, and his projects are behind several of its darkest turns.

Mylo and Claggor

Vander's adopted boys

Mylo is the mouthy one who picks on Powder; Claggor is the quiet, steady one. Along with Vi and Powder, they make up Vander's adopted family in the opening episodes. Their fates in the first act, and Powder's part in them, follow Jinx through the rest of the series.

Benzo

Shopkeeper

Benzo runs a junk shop in the undercity and is one of Vander's oldest friends. He's a kind presence in Powder and Ekko's childhood, and his small role matters more than its screen time: he's one of the reasons Ekko grows up the way he does.

Finn and the chem-barons

Silco's business partners

Finn is a smug chem-baron who runs a slice of Silco's operation and openly wonders whether he'd do a better job. The chem-barons as a group are the undercity's would-be aristocracy: rich from shimmer, loyal to whoever pays, and quick to look for a new patron when Silco's grip slips.

Jayce Talis

Inventor · Councillor

Jayce is a confident young scientist whose experiments with magic get him expelled, then nearly arrested, until Viktor helps him make hextech work. He becomes Piltover's golden boy and is quickly pulled into politics. Jayce genuinely wants to help people. His tragedy is that each compromise he makes for the greater good takes him further from Viktor and closer to the kind of leader he never meant to be.

Voice

Kevin Alejandro

Viktor

Scientist · Jayce's partner

Viktor grew up in the undercity, walks with a cane and is quietly dying of an illness he doesn't like to talk about. He works as Heimerdinger's assistant until he sees what Jayce has discovered and becomes his partner. Viktor wants hextech to lift people out of suffering, starting with the place he came from. As his health fails, that goal grows into something much larger and more unsettling.

Voice

Harry Lloyd

Mel Medarda

Councillor

Mel is Piltover's most politically skilled councillor and the one who sees hextech's commercial potential first. She's also the daughter of a Noxian warlord, sent away as a child because her mother saw her gentleness as a weakness. She becomes Jayce's patron and lover, and her family history becomes much more important in season two, when it turns out she has abilities of her own.

Voice

Toks Olagundoye

Heimerdinger

Yordle professor · Councillor

Heimerdinger is a yordle, a small, long-lived being, who has been on Piltover's council for centuries. His caution about hextech can look like cowardice to young inventors in a hurry, but he has watched too many brilliant ideas end badly. After he's pushed off the council, he ends up in the undercity, where his time with Ekko shows a gentler side of him.

Voice

Mick Wingert

Marcus

Sheriff

Marcus is Piltover's sheriff, and secretly on Silco's payroll. He took the deal to protect his daughter, and he hates himself for it. He's one of the show's quieter tragedies: a man who knows exactly what he's doing wrong and can't see a way out.

Grayson

Former sheriff

Grayson is the sheriff in the childhood episodes. She works with Vander to keep the peace between the cities and is one of the few people in authority who tries to deal with the undercity fairly. Her partnership with Vander is the peace that Silco sets out to break.

Cassandra and Tobias Kiramman

Caitlyn's parents

Cassandra is a councillor and a pragmatist who worries her daughter is wasting herself on police work. Tobias is the warmer, more indulgent parent. Through them the show sketches what it means to be born at the top in Piltover, and why Caitlyn feels she has something to prove.

Ambessa Medarda

Noxian warlord · Mel's mother

Ambessa is a battle-hardened general who believes strength is the only thing that keeps a family alive. She arrives in Piltover looking for weapons, and she's one of the most commanding presences in the show: charming, ruthless and sincere in her own way. Her clash with Mel over what power is for drives much of season two's politics.

Voice

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Isha

Undercity orphan

Isha is a small, silent girl who attaches herself to Jinx. She's tough, funny and completely unafraid of her. Through Isha, Jinx gets a chance to be the older sibling she never managed to be, which makes their scenes together some of the warmest in season two.

Warwick

Shimmer-fuelled beast

Warwick is a huge, wolf-like creature that stalks the undercity in season two. Who he is, and what was done to make him, is one of the season's key reveals, and it lands hardest on Vi. League players will recognise the name long before the show explains it.