What Only League Of Legends Fans Know About Arcane’s Characters

He was once described as a “magical sci-fi gerbil” by a staff member at Riot Games (per the Los Angeles Times), but Heimerdinger — or Cecil B. Heimerdinger, to give him his full name — is, in fact, a Yordle, a race of spirits that adopt a wide variety of appearances in the “League of Legends” universe. They hail from a mystical city known as Bandle, a place that exists beyond the material realm and is seldom visited by mortals. Time works differently in Bandle City (those mortals that do manage to reach it always come back looking significantly older, if they come back at all), where Heimerdinger has carried out some of his experiments. It proved “insufficient for field research,” he revealed in one research journal, which is presumably what led him to cross realms and settle in Piltover.

Heimerdinger is seen as a genius in the City of Progress, of which he’s considered a founding father. The same can be said of the Heimerdinger we saw in “Arcane.” He’s a widely respected scientist with a seat on the council when we first meet him, and he remains that way until the end of the first season, when he’s given the boot in a vote initiated by Jayce. His actual age wasn’t confirmed, but Yordles live way longer than humans, and Heimerdinger’s colleagues on the council were growing increasingly impatient with his lack of urgency when it came to the advancement of hextech.

He was once described as a “magical sci-fi gerbil” by a staff member at Riot Games (per the Los Angeles Times), but Heimerdinger — or Cecil B. Heimerdinger, to give him his full name — is, in fact, a Yordle, a race of spirits that adopt a wide variety of appearances in the “League of Legends” universe. They hail from a mystical city known as Bandle, a place that exists beyond the material realm and is seldom visited by mortals. Time works differently in Bandle City (those mortals that do manage to reach it always come back looking significantly older, if they come back at all), where Heimerdinger has carried out some of his experiments. It proved “insufficient for field research,” he revealed in one research journal, which is presumably what led him to cross realms and settle in Piltover.

Heimerdinger is seen as a genius in the City of Progress, of which he’s considered a founding father. The same can be said of the Heimerdinger we saw in “Arcane.” He’s a widely respected scientist with a seat on the council when we first meet him, and he remains that way until the end of the first season, when he’s given the boot in a vote initiated by Jayce. His actual age wasn’t confirmed, but Yordles live way longer than humans, and Heimerdinger’s colleagues on the council were growing increasingly impatient with his lack of urgency when it came to the advancement of hextech.