Ranrok

Ranrok is a goblin who is leading a rebellion in Hogwarts Legacy.

Biography[]

Early life[]

During his youth, Ranrok one day came across an illegal dragon-breeding camp run by wizards and was fascinated by the creatures. He'd then visit the camp in secret whenever he could to see them before finally mustering the courage after several weeks to speak to the wizard in charge as he wished to join them. Ranrok saw his chance at introductions when he noticed the wizard had dropped his wand and proceeded to pick it up to hand it back to the wizard. However, seeing a goblin with a wand, which had been made illegal in the 1600s, sent the wizard into a rage and he assaulted Ranrok to the point of nearly killing him. This event left Ranrok with a hatred for wizards.

Ranrok's rebellion[]

By the late 19th century, Ranrok had gained enough traction that he had a sizable group of followers, Ranrok's Loyalists, who spread mayhem throughout the Scottish Highlands. During one of his searches, he had his younger brother, Lodgok, go collect some of their ancestor Bragbor's journals, which revealed that Bragbor had been commissioned to build some repositories for several talented witches and wizards: Rackham, Fitzgerald, Bakar, Morganach, and Rookwood. On learning of these repositories and names, Ranrok then had Lodgok and others go out to try and locate them, starting with Rookwood Castle, as Ranrok had managed to convince Rookwood's descendant and Rookwood Gang leader, Victor Rookwood, to join forces.

While they succeeded in finding the repository, when Lodgok revealed he'd let Miriam Fig, a witch who'd been there earlier doing her own research into Ancient Magic, leave with an odd container as she had treated Lodgok with respect, Ranrok became furious. He had his brother ousted from the group and a short time later, Ranrok tracked Miriam down and killed her and took her wand, but found she'd already sent the container elsewhere.

Hunting down a student[]

Eventually, Ranrok learned a member of the Ministry, George Osric, had the container. However, when Victor didn't move fast enough to intercept George as he boarded a Hogwarts school carriage with Professor Eleazar Fig and a new student, Ranrok had a controlled dragon attack the carriage as he knew once the container reached the school, it'd be out of his reach. This didn't go quite to plan though as, while it killed George, unbeknownst to Ranrok, the student could see ancient magic and unlocked the container, which contained a portkey that whisked them and Eleazar to safety.

Soon after though, Ranrok got word from a Loyalist guard stationed deep in Gringotts that the student and professor had been spotted on the way to Rackham's old vault, Vault 12, undoubtedly due to what they found in the container. He then headed there and made his way into the vault's secret area that the student and Eleazar had just uncovered. As he tried to get them to hand over what they found though, the goblin banker that oversaw the vault's rules interrupted, noting he was only to allow the ones that had the key in and therefore, Ranrok and his followers needed to leave. Impatient and perceiving the goblin as a traitor, Ranrok quickly killed the bank worker with corrupted magic and attempted to duel Eleazar but this resulted in a large Pensieve Guardian to appear and attack Ranrok, allowing the student and professor time to escape.

He then saw a chance to try and get to the student when the student took a trip to Hogsmeade and requested Victor to create a distraction so he could abduct them. However, he didn't reveal to Victor the student could likely wield ancient magic and as a result, the student not only held off the troll attack but completely obliterated one of the trolls, leading to an argument between Ranrok and Victor in a nearby alley. Without revealing the full truth, Ranrok merely noted if Victor couldn't get the child, then he had no value to him before cutting the conversation short on spotting the very student in question eavesdropping with a school friend of theirs before they ran off. Ranrok then left the area to let Victor deal with it.

That fall, Ranrok and Victor's uneasy alliance was becoming more strained as they were still having no luck getting to the student, and they argued at Rookwood Castle over who was at fault for letting the container get away. As Victor remarked Ranrok was only there because he allowed the goblin to tunnel under his family's home, Ranrok countered he only kept Victor around because he was a descendant of a Keeper and thus, might be valuable to Ranrok at a later time, before reiterating their agreement: Ranrok would share the power he discovered but only if Victor could locate the repositories he hadn't found yet.

Associated quests[]

External links[]

Ranrok on Harry Potter Wiki