“Singed would reveal his subject’s true nature-the deadly beast hidden within a “good man.” Warwick’s bio has very similar wording from Singed. Throughout the first act, Silco makes regularly reference to showing Vander what he truly is. With Silco having apparently abandoned him and the warehouse destroyed, Vander would be Singed’s last sample of Shimmer. If Singed were to emerge from the burning laboratory, quite literally singed, he would stumble across Vander’s mutilated corpse. Singed is not pictured with the rest of Silco’s gang in the final scene, leaving him missing in action. While Vander lies wounded, his creator, Singed, is unaccounted for at the end of the third episode. Singed is a member of Silco’s gang in Arcane. Gravely injured and his bloodstream full of Shimmer, Vander can still hear his adopted daughter’s cries as he lies dying on the ground. As he bleeds out on the cobblestones of Zaun, he can hear Jinx screaming “Violet!” after Vi strikes her and leaves her for killing their friends with the Hextech grenade. This description lines up perfectly with where Arcane leaves the mutated and wounded Vander at the end of episode three. Screaming something he couldn’t understand. But then he heard a little girl screaming. “Warwick struggled to recall a single memory from his past… All he could see was blood. Warwick’s official lore says he doesn’t recall how he fell into Singed’s grasp, but he does remember one haunting memory in particular. This hints that Warwick, the violent Zaunite revolutionary, left that name in his past and took up the name Vander to play peacekeeper between Zaun and Piltover. But no matter how hard he tried to move on, he could never escape the sins of his past.” “Though many think of Warwick as no more than a beast, buried beneath the fury lies the mind of a man, a gangster who put down his blade and took up a new name to live a better life. Warwick’s lore describes Warwick’s past as very similar, including taking up a new moniker to live a peaceful life. Vander was once a violent man, who hung up his cast iron gauntlets in an attempt to protect his adopted children and save the people of Zaun from more suffering. Warwick’s lore was updated in 2017 to give him a backstory very similar to that of Vander. A Zaunite thug refers to him as “the Hound of the Underground”, Silco calls him a “lap dog” for associating with Piltover. Throughout the series, specific language is used to relate Vander to canines through intentional wordplay. Warwick’s past has long been mysterious, with most of his lore coming from his 2017 in-game rework, which turned the aged werewolf into a horrifying Chemtech beast. ![]() There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that Vander ends up being transformed into Warwick. This is where the hints from throughout Riot’s games come in, suggesting that Vander is actually a champion that fans know, love, and likely fear, Warwick. Here, it seems that Vander is fully dead, and remains motionless for the rest of the episode as Vi and Jinx are separated. Outside the warehouse, the mutated Vander lies still in a pool of his own blood. In an attempt to save his adopted daughter, Vander uses his previous restraints as brass knuckles and fights his way past one of Silco’s Shimmer-infested goons before being thrown from the bridge into several crates of Shimmer after refusing to kill Silco for the second time.Īs Silco sends his minion to find Vi, Vander ingests Shimmer, becoming an enormous monstrosity, killing Silco’s henchman, and fleeing the building with Vi. The flames are seen rushing downstairs and towards Singed in the laboratory beneath it. ![]() The grenade kills Vi’s friends, collapses the roof on her and Vander, and lights the warehouse on fire. The attempt goes horrifyingly wrong when Jinx sends a toy monkey armed with a Hextech crystal as an improvised grenade. Trying to free Vander, Vi and her crew break into Silco’s headquarters and attempt to rescue him. Vander is seemingly killed in the third episode of Arcane, but he’s likely to be brought back. Silco seems to intend to experiment on Vander using Shimmer. The kidnapper is his once-close friend Silco who has been employing a Zaunite chemist, Singed, to brew a substance known as Shimmer capable of giving humans superhuman strength at a horrifying cost. In the third episode of Arcane, Vander is kidnapped after trying to turn himself in for the theft of Hextech technology from a Kirraman family-funded laboratory in which Jayce Talis works. Vander in Arcane’s present-day is an old man trying his best to forget or atone for his past, keeping Zaun’s internal peace on The Lanes to abate the watchful eye of Piltover’s Enforcers.
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