Arcane Characters

Violet, the elder of the two sisters, voiced by Hailee Steinfeld. Orphaned in the undercity and raised by Vander alongside Powder, Mylo and Claggor, she leads the heist in Piltover that sets the story going. After the disaster at the end of the first act she spends years locked in Stillwater, until the enforcer Caitlyn Kiramman frees her to help track down Silco. Protective, stubborn and quick to fight, she spends both seasons trying to reach the sister who became Jinx, and she falls in love with Caitlyn.

Born Powder, Vi's younger sister, voiced by Mia Sinclair Jenness as a child and by Ella Purnell. A gifted tinkerer whose childhood bombs rarely worked, she sets off the explosion that kills Mylo and Claggor on the night Vander dies, and Silco takes her in and raises her as his daughter. As Jinx she steals Jayce's Hextech gemstone and, at the end of season 1, fires a rocket into Piltover's council chamber. In season 2 she looks after the orphan Isha and becomes a symbol for Zaun; her fate after the final battle is left uncertain.

An enforcer from Piltover's wealthy Kiramman family, voiced by Katie Leung; her mother Cassandra sits on the council. Caitlyn investigates the Progress Day bombing, frees Vi from Stillwater and follows her into the undercity after Silco. When her mother is killed in Jinx's attack on the council, she forms a strike team to bring Jinx in, and under martial law she becomes commander of Piltover's forces, before she turns on Ambessa and makes her peace with Vi.

A Piltover scientist, voiced by Kevin Alejandro, whose life was saved by magic when he was a boy and who believes it can transform the city. Expelled from the academy for his magical experiments, he is given a second chance when Viktor offers to help, and together they invent Hextech, which makes Piltover rich. After the Progress Day bombing Jayce is given a seat on the council, and he begins a relationship with Mel. In season 2 he breaks his promise to destroy the Hexcore to save Viktor's life, is lost for a time in the wild rune, and in the end vanishes with Viktor as the two destroy it.

Jayce's research partner, voiced by Harry Lloyd: a quiet, brilliant scientist from Zaun who was Heimerdinger's assistant before he helped Jayce create Hextech. Ill for much of season 1, he presses on with the Hexcore in the hope of curing himself, and an accident with it costs the life of Sky, his assistant and friend since childhood. Fused with the Hexcore to save his life in season 2, he gains the power to heal and gathers a following in Zaun as a 'herald'; in the finale Jayce talks him out of his plan, and the two vanish destroying the wild rune.

Vi and Powder's childhood friend, voiced by Reed Shannon (Miles Brown as a boy) and raised by Vander's friend Benzo. By the second act of season 1 he leads the Firelights, a masked band of young Zaunites who raid Silco's Shimmer shipments from a hidden haven built around a tree. In season 2 the wild rune throws him and Heimerdinger into a parallel world; he builds a time-reversal device to get home, and comes back in time to help Jinx rally Zaun for the final battle.

A Piltover councillor, voiced by Toks Olagundoye, and the disowned heir of the powerful Noxian Medarda family. She sees the promise of Jayce and Viktor's work, backs it on the council and begins a relationship with Jayce. In season 2 the Black Rose, a secret circle of Noxian sorcerers, take her captive, and she discovers magical powers of her own; she reveals that she shielded Jayce from Jinx's rocket, and after the final battle she leaves for Noxus.

The crime lord who rules the undercity's underworld, voiced by Jason Spisak: Vander's former brother-in-arms, leader of the Chem-Barons and the man whose factories make Shimmer. He wants Zaun free of Piltover. After the events of the first act he takes in the grieving Powder and raises her as his daughter, and his love for her is real. At the end of season 1, offered Zaun's independence in exchange for Jinx, he agonises over the choice; he dies during her confrontation with Vi, shot by Jinx by accident.

Mel's mother, voiced by Ellen Thomas: a respected but ruthless war general from Noxus who arrives in Piltover after the assassination of her son to ready Mel for a coming war. In season 2 she pushes the shaken council towards force, secretly arranges the attack on the councillors' memorial to get it, and hunts the Black Rose with Hextech weapons, later allying with Viktor against Piltover. She is killed in the final battle by the Black Rose's sorceress.

The leader of the undercity's failed rebellion, voiced by JB Blanc, who adopts Vi, Powder, Mylo and Claggor and owns The Last Drop bar. Once Silco's brother-in-arms, he keeps an uneasy peace with Piltover's enforcers to protect his people, and he gives his life in episode 3 to save Vi. In season 2 he returns, turned by Singed into a wolf-like beast called Warwick, and both his daughters try to bring the man back.

One of Piltover's founders and, when the story begins, the head of its council, voiced by Mick Wingert: a long-lived scientist who mentors Jayce and Viktor. He warns of Hextech's dangers, and when he orders the Hexcore destroyed, Jayce has him removed from the council. In exile he falls in with Ekko and the Firelights, follows Ekko into the parallel world in season 2, and vanishes there so that Ekko can get home.

Silco's right-hand woman and chief enforcer, voiced by Amirah Vann, who once stood with Vander. Tough, blunt and fiercely loyal to Zaun, she tries to hold the Chem-Barons together after Silco's death, works with Jinx in season 2 and pushes her to lead a revolt, and at the end of the series takes a seat on Piltover's council as Zaun's representative.