Rankle

Rankle's History

Rankle is a faerie rogue from Eldraine known for his evil pranks. A mercurial fae of the Wilds, he delights in tormenting the stupid knights of the Realm and their idiotic virtues. To an outsider, Rankle's antics seem pointless, and they frequently are, but while most faeries of his kind are annoyances, Rankle's pranks are downright cruel. Rankle shows an occasional glimmer of low cunning, concocting elaborate plots to create desired outcomes. The price to win an audience with Rankle can range from compromising one's virtues to plucking out an eye, depending on his mood and sense of humor that day. His behavior shows him to be not only vicious, but arrogant, childish, and myopic as well.

One day, Rankle was kicked out of his court by his fairy subjects, who revealed they all hated him. Distraught, he wandered the land for some time before a chance encounter with Ayara, the Queen of Locthwain. He resolved to be her next husband and set off to find a love potion.

When Rankle went into a witch's shop to buy a love potion, she sent him on a wild goose chase for an imaginary flower that was supposedly a necessary ingredient. While in the wilds, he happened upon a dog that grew mechanical components and attacked him; it happened to be that New Phyrexia was invading the Multiverse. He was rescued by Torbran, who was traveling to Locthwain. Rankle accompanied him, but upon arrival, found that his love, like the rest of Locthwain, had been compleated. Unfazed, he stole Torbran's ring of three wishes, which the dwarf had planned to use to fight the Phyrexians, and wasted the first two wishes on a basket of cookies and a love potion. While Torbran complained that Rankle had doomed them all and they had no way to lure the invading Phyrexians into a chasm that would soon form, he confidently used his third wish on a rain of love potion. His plan worked; all the Phyrexians, affected by the love potion, pursued Rankle and fell into a chasm to their deaths.