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Rugnor is the son of King Assan, and prince of a distant and unnamed land. He is the main antagonist in Prince of Persia 3D.

Biography[]

Prince of Persia 3D[]

Rugnor is a half-man, half-tiger. Ruthless and cruel to the teeth[3] (which are characteristically intimidating), he is responsible for coveting the Princess. He is superhumanly strong, agile and a master Swordsman as well. Rugnor is alluded to be a secluded figure that common citizens know virtually nothing about except for his name[4]. When the Princess sees him for the first time, she is clearly shocked, indicating that very few people (possibly not even the Sultan himself) are aware of Rugnor's inhuman nature[5].

Long before, Assan and his brother made a deal that once the former's daughter reached the age of 21, she would be married to Rugnor. When the Sultan doubled back on the deal by allowing his daughter to marry the Prince, Assan invites them all to his kingdom, wishing for Rugnor to marry the Princess whether she likes it or not. The Prince, is imprisoned and Princess is locked in her room.[5].

At first Rugnor thinks the Prince has been taken care of in the prison, and tells so to the Princess, thinking she would be more willing to marry him now. After Prince escapes the prison and confronts Assan. Rugnor drags the Princess with him to the dirigible, and sends his assassins after Prince who follows him. Prince manages to stow away on the dirigible and confronts Rugnor, resulting in him falling off the dirigible. Rugnor however manages to save himself with a giant bird, and snatches the Princess before Prince could get to her. Prince tries to swing to the bird but falls. As the Princess mourns the Prince, Rugnor then tries to comfort her and use the opportunity to finally make her accept him as her new husband. When Princess sticks to her resilient ways, Rugnor begins to treat her more and more harshly. When she angrily rejects his advances anyway, Rugnor loses his temper and starts openly threatening the Princess. Fed up with her mistreatment, the Princess unexpectedly draws Rugnor's sword and cuts off his left paw. Enraged, Rugnor knocks her out and subsequently has an artificial limb made of gold prepared for him to make up for the lost paw[5].

In order to get rid of both the Prince and the Princess, whom he now loathes for maiming him and no longer wishes to marry, Rugnor devises a trap: he ties the Princess up to a huge piece of machinery, a mechanical gear as big as a room, in the Moon Temple. Rugnor tries to give the Princess final chance to be with him, but her spitting in his face seals her fate. The Prince comes to the rescue, and Rugnor breaks the activation level, so the machine couldn't be stopped. Rugnor and Prince have a long fight which the Prince ends up winning. Rugnor falls into his own machinery: the gold limb he had been provided with gets caught within the gears, thus putting the entire system to a stop, just seconds before the Princess gets crushed by it. The rest of Rugnor, on the other hand, dies in unimaginable torment[5].

Notes[]

Rugnor's mutated body is never once directly referred to throughout the entire game and one can only speculate as to why he looks the way he does.

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