| “ | Tonight, we bind ourselves to justice! | „ |
| ~ Runnan to his group as they make an oath to kill Harrow and Ezran. |
Runaan is a major antagonist in the Netflix TV Show The Dragon Prince and the deuteragonist of the graphic novel Moonshadow Huntress. He was the mentor of Rayla and the leader of a group of assassins who were sent to murder King Harrow and Prince Ezran out of revenge for the former killing Avizandum and seemingly his son Azymondias as well.
He was voiced by Jonathan Holmes.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- He is a leader of an assassin group, who kill anyone they are ordered to.
- He taught Rayla how to become an assassin.
- He and his group of assassins went on a mission to kill King Harrow and his son Ezran as revenge for the deaths of Avizandum and seemingly of his egg.
- He ordered Rayla to kill Marcos when the latter found their group while on patrol.
- When Callum tried to convince him that he wasn't lying about the egg of the dragon prince being not having been destroyed, Runaan planned to kill him.
- Despite knowing that the humans didn't kill the dragon prince and there could be a chance for peace, Runaan refused to listen to Rayla and decided to try to kill Harrow and Ezran.
- In the novelization of Book 1, Runaan taunted Rayla about how she was a failure like her parents.
- He attempted to kill Rayla for defying him.
- He almost killed Callum with an arrow, and only didn't because Soren took the hit for him and got hit in the shoulder.
- By shooting an arrow at Harrow's body, he ended up killing Pip, making Runaan responsible of animal cruelty, although he was unaware of this.
Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- How many people did Runaan kill both before his mission to kill Harrow and Ezran relies on fridge horror, and it's never shown to how many assassinations Runaan did in the past.
- Without the fridge horror, he fails the heinous standards to Finnegrin, Kim'dael, and Warlon (who also fails the standards), who did worse than Runaan with similar or slightly higher rescourses. Doesn't help that his one act of personal villainy towards Callum and Ezran ended up not actually being true as Harrow had survived through Pip's body.
- He's a genuinely well-intentioned extremist, as his assassinations were done to protect his home and loved ones, and believes that his actions are necessary to stop more innocents from being killed. He also admits that while it's his job to take lives, he doesn't take them lightly.
- He genuinely loves Ethari, spending a day trying to find a birthday gift for him, and comforting him when Runaan was leaving to go complete his assassination mission, promissing that he would deliver his "heart" to him when he came back.
- Despite being cold towards Rayla, he truly did care for her, as he wanted to avoid telling her about his work as an assassin when she was a child, and saving her when she was about to drown. He also told her to go back to her tribe in case he and the other assassins didn't come back from her mission, not wanting her to be in danger in spite of her lying to him about killing a human soldier. When confronted by Rayla while trying to free him from his cursed coin, it's revealed Runaan is deeply regretful and tormented by previously having tried to kill Rayla, calling her his daughter, and believing he is a monster for what he tried to do.
- He genuinely cares for the people of the Silvergrove, wanting to protect them from dangerous people.
- He is shown to be honorable, giving Rayla a cloth to clean her blades and congratulating her when she lied about killing Marcos.
- He saved Suroh from Kim'dael when the latter kidnapped Suroh to sacrifice him to prolong her youth and strengthen her power.
- He has moral standards, calling Viren a monster for trapping elves in cursed coins and saying that Kim'dael is a disgrace to their kind.
- He cares for Tiadrin and Lain, as he was horrified when he saw them trapped in cursed coins.
- He refused to tell Viren about Aaravos, wanting Aaravos to stay trapped in his mirror so he won't bring destruction and death to the world.
- He's rendered a scapegoat due to being trapped in a cursed coin just because he refused to tell Viren about Aaravos, where for two years he was trapped in a loophole of his moments of being painfully extracted into the coin, with even Gren being horrified by his fate, despite knowing that Runaan had taken part in King Harrow's assassination.
- After being trapped in a cursed coin, he is played for sympathy almost every time he is mentioned, and Rayla regrets her role in his seeming death, and Callum doesn't hold any grudge against him and helps Rayla in trying to get him out of the cursed coins along with Rayla's parents.
- He redeems himself by allowing himself to be freed from a cursed coin to keep his promise to Ethari and help Rayla, with it also being shown that he holds no hard feelings for Callum in the present. He later works to stop Aaravos from bringing about eternal night and bringing an end to their world, as well as making sure Rayla was no longer a ghost to their village and genuinely helping others out of atonement for his past crimes.
External Links[]
- Runaan on the Dragon Prince Wiki
- Runaan on the Villains Wiki
- Runaan on the Heroes Wiki
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