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Ranrok is the main antagonist of the 2023 action role-playing game Hogwarts Legacy. He is a goblin rebellion leader obsessed with finding a secret power source hidden beneath the Hogwarts castle and the protagonist's archenemy.
He is voiced by Matthew Waterson.
Appearance[]
Ranrok is a stocky goblin. He is commonly seen sporting dark goblin armour that contains glowing red points. He is bald with pointed teeth and solid red eyes with black scerla.
Personality[]
Ranrok is a vile short fused, and possibly shell-shocked goblin, willing to murder anyone who gets in his way. His hatred toward wizardkind race was the result of rivalry between both them and his kind.
Biography[]
Background[]
| “ | A sad tale, really. I think I know where Ranrok's unfortunate vendetta against wizardkind began. Although dragon-breeding was outlawed by the Warlocks' Convention of 1709, Ranrok stumbled upon an illegal dragon camp. He was young — found the creatures fascinating. He'd visit the camp in secret whenever he could, never making his presence known. After weeks of sly surveillance, he finally summoned the courage to speak to the wizard in charge. Ranrok wanted to join them — and the creatures. The wizard happened to drop his wand: Ranrok saw an opportunity! He picked it up, went to hand it back as a means of introducing himself. The sight of a goblin with a wand sent the wizard into an instant rage. He beat Ranrok nearly to death. Ever since, Ranrok has despised wizardkind — sees us all as cruel. | „ |
| ~ Rowland Oakes regarding Ranrok's backstory. |
When he was young, Ranrok stumbled upon a wizard's illegal dragon-breeding camp, and became fascinated by the creatures. After observing them for weeks in secrets, Ranrok attempted to try to befriend them, even attempting to return one of their fallen wands at one point. But because of it had been a while since the law that forbade magical creatures from touching a wand had been established and illegal dragon handlers' unexpected bigotry against goblins, the endeavor nearly costed him his life, causing him to despise wizardkind race and vow vengeance.
Taking into account of the turmoil of the era he lived in, the aforementioned tragedy proved to be just one of many horrors and desolation from wizardkind and goblins' prejudice against one another he would witness. And each one further steeled his resolve to overthrow the former as the dominant race in Wizarding World.
Presumably through some of notes left behind by his Tudor-era ancestor Bragbor the Boastful pertaining the latter's collaboration with Isidora Morganach, Ranrok learned about the stockpile of tainted ancient magic the latter created by extracting pain from countless people long ago. According to goblin beliefs of ownership, Ranrok believed such stockpile of tainted ancient magic belonged to his people considering Bragbor crafted repositories specifically to contain them. In time, he learned how to harness the dark power and shared it among his army of loyalists consisted of goblins who similarly dissatisfied by wizardkind race's reign over Wizarding World.
Ranrok soon launched an open conflict against Wizarding World at some point in the 1880s until 1890, with the earliest known battle being a raid on Feldcroft. Along the way, he sought more of Isidora's hidden repositories and join forces with Victor Rookwood's gang due to its leader's ties with one of Keepers who once trained Isidora herself. Among surviving victims of the raid was Anne Sallow, a fourth year Slytherin student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who cursed by Victor himself, though the loyalists' presence resulted the eyewitnesses erroneously assumed them to be responsible leading her twin brother Sebastian to despise goblins. The alliance between both parties was an uneasy one, more so considering Victor Rockwood happened to be a wizardkind supremacist.
Hogwarts Legacy[]
Ranrok first appeared in the intro in the newspaper. Despite the damage he caused, Ranrok was a believed minor threat to The Ministry during the 1880's. He is first mentioned in the opening cutscene by an off-hand comment about The Ministry not finding him to much of a threat to the wizarding world, when the protagonist's carriage is attacked by a dragon Ranrok sent to reclaim portkey key that Miriam smuggled into their and Fig's hands.
He is later seen in vault 12 at Gringotts.
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