60 Fun Facts About Arcane

Arcane is set in the universe of which video game?

Riot Games first announced the series at the game's tenth-anniversary celebration in 2019.

Which French animation studio produced Arcane?

The Paris studio had made music videos for Riot since 2013, including the one that introduced Jinx, which is how the partnership started.

Who voices the adult Vi in Arcane?

IGN singled out her performance as the show's standout in a 10/10 review of season one.

Which actress voices Jinx, and won an Annie Award for the episode 'When These Walls Come Tumbling Down'?

Mia Sinclair Jenness voices the character as a young girl in Act 1 of season one.

What was Jinx's original name as a child?

Vi calls her a 'jinx' in grief after the explosion that kills Vander and their two brothers, and the name sticks.

What are the names of the two cities whose conflict drives Arcane?

Piltover is the rich, utopian city of progress; Zaun is its oppressed undercity.

Who created Arcane?

Linke first had the idea in 2015; Charrue and Delord directed every episode of the first season.

Arcane's first season premiered in which month and year?

It had originally been slated for 2020 before the pandemic pushed it back a year.

How many episodes are in each season of Arcane?

They were released in three-episode 'acts', one act per week over three weeks, in both seasons.

Which band performs 'Enemy', Arcane's opening theme, with rapper JID?

The band had earlier recorded 'Warriors' for the 2014 World Championship of Riot's game, and 'Enemy' spent nine weeks atop Alternative Airplay.

Who voices Jayce Talis, the inventor of Hextech?

Faustino Duran voices the young Jayce in flashbacks.

Harry Potter alumna Katie Leung voices which Piltover enforcer?

The character starts as Jayce's former lab assistant and becomes Vi's love interest.

Which crime lord becomes Jinx's surrogate father after Vander's death?

Jason Spisak voices him; he leads the Chem-Barons and controls the undercity's drug trade.

What is the name of the bar Vander runs in Zaun?

The band that sings the show's theme cameo as the bar's house band in season one, with JID as its rapper.

In season two, Vander is transformed into a wolf-like beast known by what name?

He is a long-standing champion in the game, so the reveal was a payoff fans had theorized about.

What is the name of the purple, mutagenic drug that Silco floods Zaun with?

In the very first episode Silco and Singed test it on a rat.

Ekko leads which revolutionary Zaunite group?

Reed Shannon voices him; the group fights Silco and rehabilitates addicts.

Who is the diminutive founder of Piltover who mentors Jayce and Viktor?

Mick Wingert voices him; Jayce engineers his ouster after he orders the Hexcore destroyed.

Ambessa, Mel's mother, is a brutal war general from which nation?

Ellen Thomas voices her; a prequel novel, Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf, was published in 2025.

Singed's real name, revealed in season two, is what?

His experiments are aimed at saving his cryopreserved daughter, Orianna, another League champion.

Which Hollywood actress voices LeBlanc, leader of the Black Rose, in season two?

Shohreh Aghdashloo voiced Sheriff Grayson in season one.

What is the name of the young orphan Jinx rescues and takes under her wing in season two?

Lucy Lowe voices her; she later sacrifices herself by overloading Jinx's pistol with Hextech gems.

What is the title of Arcane's first episode?

It opens with the two sisters finding their parents dead on the Bridge of Progress.

What do the sisters and their brothers steal from Jayce's Piltover penthouse in the first episode?

The younger sister shatters one of them and blows out part of the building, kicking off the whole plot.

What are the names of Vi and Jinx's two adopted brothers, who die in the failed rescue of Vander?

Yuri Lowenthal and Roger Craig Smith voice them; in the alternate timeline of season two both are still alive.

Which councilor secretly backs Jayce and Viktor's early Hextech experiments?

Toks Olagundoye voices her; she later begins a relationship with Jayce.

Piltover celebrates which anniversary on Progress Day in the season one time-skip?

Jayce plans to unveil a gemstone device that day but backs off after his mentor warns him.

Where does Caitlyn find the adult Vi imprisoned?

Sheriff Marcus, secretly on Silco's payroll, had locked her up years earlier.

What colour is the flare Vi gave her little sister, which the sisters use to reunite in season one?

Their reunion falls apart when Jinx sees Caitlyn, and Ekko's gang then abducts Vi and Caitlyn.

Who does Viktor accidentally kill while experimenting with the Hexcore in season one?

She was his assistant and childhood friend with an unrequited crush; her spirit accompanies him in season two.

What does Jayce offer Silco in exchange for handing over Jinx?

Silco laments the choice, Jinx overhears him, and the season one finale spirals from there.

How does Silco die in the season one finale?

With his last breath he tells her she is 'perfect', and she fully embraces the Jinx identity.

What does Jinx build from the Hextech gemstone at the end of season one?

She fires it at the Piltover council chamber just as the council approves the peace deal.

Which member of Caitlyn's family is killed in Jinx's rocket attack on the council?

Jayce, Mel, Shoola and Salo survive; Salo is left crippled.

In season two, Ambessa manoeuvres Caitlyn into which role after Piltover declares martial law?

Ambessa had secretly orchestrated the memorial attack that pushed Piltover toward war.

What name is given to the volatile arcane anomaly discovered in the Hex Vault in season two?

Encountering it flings Ekko and the old professor into a parallel universe and Jayce into a ruined future.

In 'Pretend Like It's the First Time', which character never became Jinx and loves Ekko?

In that timeline Hextech was never invented, Vander and Silco are friends, and Vi died in the penthouse robbery.

Who is revealed to be a spy and sabotages Jayce's plan in the series finale?

Mel kills her; Caitlyn had entered a relationship with Maddie earlier in the season.

The hooded mage who saved Jayce as a child turns out to be whom?

Jayce uses that revelation to talk Viktor into destroying the anomaly, and both vanish in the process.

Who joins the Piltover council as Zaun's representative at the end of the series?

Amirah Vann voices her; she was Silco's right-hand woman throughout season one.

Arcane became the first Netflix series to win which Primetime Emmy?

It also swept the Annies with nine wins and took the inaugural Best Adaptation prize at The Game Awards 2022.

How many countries saw Arcane hit No. 1 on the Netflix Top 10 chart in its debut week?

In the United States it peaked at second place, and it was Netflix's highest-rated series within a week of premiere.

What was the reported combined budget for Arcane's two seasons, including marketing?

Merrill put the actual creation cost at 60 to 75 percent of that headline figure.

Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent said the first season took how many years to develop?

The studio's staff grew from around 15 to around 300 during that time.

Episode one's global premiere drew a record concurrent audience for a Netflix show on which streaming platform?

Creators were allowed to co-stream the first three episodes with in-game drops, a first for a Netflix series.

What is the name of Jinx's shark-styled heavy weapon in the game?

Pow-Pow is her minigun and Zapper her shock pistol; the Valorant premiere drop was a 'Fishbones' gun buddy.

Which 2013 animated music video introduced Jinx and first paired the studio with Riot?

Agnete Kjølsrud of the band Djerv sang it; it went up on YouTube on October 8, 2013.

Which stage-and-screen actor voices Viktor, Jayce's research partner?

Viktor is originally from Zaun; his obsession with perfecting humanity drives the second season.

Which Chinese streaming service released Arcane's first season simultaneously with Netflix?

The November 6, 2021 launch was scheduled for both Netflix and Tencent Video, with the nine episodes released in three weekly acts.

How many season two episodes leaked online in the August 2024 post-production vendor breach?

Netflix said a post-production vendor, later reported to be Iyuno, was compromised; some outlets called it the worst anime leak of all time.

Which distributor acquired the home video rights to Arcane in 2024?

GKIDS released season one digitally on September 24, 2024 and on 4K Blu-ray two weeks later.

Which singer performed 'Lonely Warrior', the alternate opening theme used for Arcane in China?

Chinese viewers heard Eason Chan's '孤勇者' in place of Imagine Dragons' 'Enemy'.

Arcane won which inaugural category at The Game Awards 2022?

The category was created for media based on video games, and Arcane was its first winner.

Who wrote the 2025 prequel novel Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf?

Published February 18, 2025, the tie-in novel follows Ambessa Medarda before the events of the series.

Arcane was first announced at the League of Legends anniversary celebration in which year?

The reveal came at the game's tenth anniversary event, two years before the series premiered.

How many concurrent viewers watched Arcane's livestreamed global premiere on November 6, 2021?

Riot streamed the first episode itself and let approved creators co-stream the first three, a first for a Netflix series.

Which actor voices Silco, the Zaunite crime lord and leader of the Chem-Barons?

Spisak was among the voice cast announced in September 2021 alongside Steinfeld, Purnell and Alejandro.

What position does Grayson, voiced by Shohreh Aghdashloo, hold in season one?

Grayson is later succeeded by Marcus, who is secretly working for Silco.

How many Annie Awards did Arcane sweep for its first season?

It was the first streaming series to win every award it was nominated for at the Annies in a single year.

Which actor voices both Sheriff Marcus and Caitlyn's father, Tobias Kiramman?

Doubling is common in the cast: Josh Keaton voices both Deckard and councilor Salo, and Kimberly Brooks plays Sky and Margot.