Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Wizard City / Darkmoor – Renfield FlyGob

Renfield FlyGob – R. M. Renfield
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfield

Renfield FlyGob

Renfield FlyGob greets Wizards upon arrival at Castle Darkmoor and guides them on their quests. He was once Sir Blackwater’s squire.

R. M. Renfield is a fictional character who appears in Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. He is Count Dracula’s deranged, fanatically devoted servant and familiar, helping him in his plan to turn Mina Harker into a vampire in return for a continuous supply of insects to consume and the promise of immortality. Throughout the novel, he resides in an asylum, where he is treated by Dr. John Seward.

Renfield is an inmate at the lunatic asylum overseen by Dr. John Seward. He suffers from delusions which compel him to eat living creatures in the hope of obtaining their life-force for himself. Later Renfield’s own testimony reveals that Dracula would send him insects, which he begins consuming. He starts with flies, the death’s-head moth, then develops a scheme of feeding the flies to spiders, and the spiders to birds, in order to accumulate more and more life. When denied a cat to accommodate the birds, he eats the birds himself. He also changes his ideas to accommodate Mina Harker by quickly eating all flies and stating that it was an old habit. Seward diagnoses him as a “zoophagous maniac”, or carnivorous madman. Later Renfield attacks Seward, acquiring a knife and cutting his arm; as Seward’s blood drips from his hand, Renfield licks it off the floor.

Dwight Frye as Renfield in Dracula (1931)

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Renfield image is (c)1931 Universal Pictures

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