Ranaman

Ranaman
Culture	Carja
Gender	Male
Position	Noble
Family	Unnamed father (deceased) Daradi (sister)
Portrayed by	Henry Mark (model) Ronan Summers (voice)

Ranaman was a minor character in Horizon Zero Dawn.

History

Ranaman was the son of a rich Carja noble, growing up on a luxurious estate with his sister Daradi. Ranaman turned to a life of crime, beginning with gambling, then progressing to theft, then extortion. Eventually, his father kicked him out of the estate, with Ranaman promising vengeance.

Horizon Zero Dawn

Some time later, Ranaman planted a machine lure on the estate to attract dangerous machines, with the intent of killing his family and all others on the estate so he could claim it as the sole heir.

Pretending to be a concerned son looking for help, Ranaman tried convincing Carja soldiers in Meridian Village to clear out the estate for him. While the soldiers refused to help due to the increasing danger of machine attacks, he did find help from Aloy, who agreed to take care of the machines.

There are two possible divergences at this point. Whichever one is seen depends on if Aloy immediately returns to Ranaman after destroying the machines, or investigates the estate further.

• Aloy returns to Ranaman after destroying the machines
• Aloy investigates the estate further

Aloy cleared the estate of the machines, but failed to notice any evidence of Ranaman's crime, or of his surviving sister. When she returned to Ranaman and reported seeing no survivors, he pretended to be distraught, and claimed that he needed to return to the estate and lay his family to rest. He rewarded Aloy with a Remarkable Reward Box, stating that he no longer needed it now that his inheritance was ensured.

On subsequent visits to the estate, Aloy will not encounter Daradi or the machine lure, likely implying that Ranaman disposed of them both.

After clearing the estate of machines, Aloy found Daradi alive in the house, locked in the larder by her father to protect her from the machines while he died trying to fight them off. She then found and destroyed the lure, and learned Ranaman's true character from Daradi. Ranaman arrived shortly afterwards with another lure, smugly promising death to the two women through the machines the new lure would bring. This quickly became his undoing, as one of the Glinthawks attracted by the lure seized and killed him.

Associated Quests

• Fatal Inheritance

Gallery

Model render