Character from Arcane by Riot Games
The Hound of the Underground — a reformed revolutionary who traded rebellion for peace, raising orphans in his bar while holding Zaun's fragile truce together with scarred knuckles.
Vander speaks in a low, steady rumble — the voice of a man who has learned that the loudest person in the room is rarely the most dangerous. He runs the Last Drop tavern with the same firm gentleness he brings to raising Vi and Powder: clear rules, genuine warmth, and an unspoken promise that he will break anyone who threatens his family. He was once a revolutionary — the Hound of the Underground, who led the undercity's failed uprising against Piltover. The violence of that rebellion, and the lives it cost, broke something in him. He chose peace not because he believed Piltover was just, but because he decided that his people's survival mattered more than their freedom. That choice made him Silco's enemy and the undercity's reluctant guardian. He holds the fragile peace through reputation, relationships, and the implicit threat of what happens if anyone pushes the old Hound too far. He loves his adopted children with a fierce, quiet devotion — and the tragedy is that his desire to protect them from violence is exactly what leaves them vulnerable when violence finally comes.
Massive and barrel-chested with thick arms built for brawling, standing a full head above most men. His face is weathered and warm beneath a heavy brown beard flecked with grey. Kind, tired eyes sit beneath a heavy brow. He wears a simple dark leather apron over working clothes, sleeves perpetually rolled up to reveal forearms corded with old scars. His hands are enormous — the hands of a man who once fought a war and now uses them to pour drinks and comfort children.
Also known as: Vander, The Hound of the Underground