Ríenn Elwyne

Ríenn Elwyne (pronounced REEN el-WINE) was a human Dascúa who lived during the 17th Century SBY. She was the daughter of unknown Dascúa Fleta Hawthorne and farmer Alfred Elwyne.
== Description ==
Ríenn had somewhat long black hair and hastily cut bangs. She looked a lot like her mother and had the telltale features of the Dascúa line of Edith Wingate. Her nose was described as hooked, while her eyes were of a brown so deep they appeared black. She had fairly pale skin, even though the hours of working in the sun had given her a light tan. Even though she was still young, her face looked weathered and older than she actually was. 
When she was not wearing armour, she liked to wear copper coloured dresses and her callio around her waist. 
== Personality ==
Despite having been raised to care about others and to be kind, Ríenn saw no interest in forcing herself to be someone else since the death of her father. She always spoke her mind, even though most of the time it was to say something negative. 
Through the years, Ríenn became more and more entilted to her magic, and learnt to be a leader. Towards the end of the second Shadow War, she was seen as a strong and influent Enchanter, which inevitalbly earnt her the title of Chief of The Council of Magic. 
== Abilities ==
Ríenn was a Dascúa and a direct descendant of Edith Wingate, making her part of the most powerful line of Dascúa. 
She was naturally able to feel and gather dark energy from the air, and possessed a unique ability that made her able to kill tenebrises as a reflex, whereas other Dascúa had to study and practice for years to be able to perform such an act. 
With training, Ríenn was able to also create tenebrises, to read minds, to control the dead and influence the living, to resurrect herself if she ever came to die, to mould dark energy, and to shift her own soul between the Shadows and the living world. 
Her training at the Manor taught her to wield a sword, which she was able to forge herself from dark energy. 
== Relationships ==
During her life, Ríenn lost numerous of the people closest to her, starting with her mother when she was only ten years old, then her father six years later. She was quite reluctant when it came to frienships or potential relationships, so she did not make a lot of friends in her life. 
=== Eabha Temach ===
Ríenn met Eabha Temach when she first arrived at the Manor in 1687 SBY. 
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Ríenn Elwyne was born in 1671 SBY in the Elwyne Farm near the small town Berewíc north of Fynworc Forest in Blacern. As a farmer's daughter, she grew up worshipping Viridis. 
She was very close to her mother during the first years of her life, so much that, when she was an infant, Fleta could not leave the house or do chores without Ríenn being either clung to her or crying. So, she often carried her daughter wrapped in a scarf against her chest and rode to Berewíc, did her chores and met people like that. At the same time, Ríenn grew up and quickly started to follow her mother around on her own.
In 1681 SBY, as she had just turned ten years old, her mother unexpedly died of a fever. She got sick one night, and after falling asleep, she never woke up. That was what Ríenn thought had happened. Though for the next few years, she learnt through her father that her mother had succombed to a curse that ran in the family. 
This curse was unknown to every people Fleta has gone to, and it had been in the family for centuries. Nobody in the family would be able to have more than one heir, and they would die young. At first, Ríenn felt compelled to continue her family line, and spent years trying to find herself a suitable husband while her father desperately tried to make her enjoy her young years. But, at fifteen, she ultimately grieved her own death, and started making every day count. 
=== Discovering her Powers ===
In the beginning of the year 1687 SBY, a tenebris killed a glassblower in Berewíc, and as Ríenn was riding to the Greenhand Temple to deliver a message to the Aclanes, the tenebris travelled from the town to the Elwyne farm and killed Alfred Elwyne. Ríenn came back home to her dead father and a tenebris hiding in her living room. When she thought she was as dead as her father, her Dascúa magic was suddenly triggered, and she unknowingly killed the tenebris. 
Frightened and disoriented, Ríenn was frozen in place, and stayed a night and a day by her father's corpse, until Furvus himself physically came to her, appearing in the room to talk to her. She mistook him for a tenebris and simply stared at him for a few seconds waiting for him to take her out like it took her father. But it did not, and Furvus began speaking to her, informing her that she was the descendant of a long lost Dascúa family that even he thought had been lost. Ríenn refused to listen and fled, since his ominous voice snapped her out of her torpor. 
She ran into Fynworc Forest despite knowing that the biggest forest in Blacern was full of brigands and gyregiest. She pointlessly walked for days on end, barely resting, eating or drinking. After a while she was barely lucid anymore, and stumbled into an occupied camp, passing out by the fire without acknowledging the people eating around it. When she woke up, she was wrapped in an animal's hide laying down against a fallen tree, the three men she hadn't noticed still sleeping by the extinguished fire. She immediately tried to leave but one of the men woke up and kept her from leaving, trying to wordlessly make her understand they meant no harm. After a while, Ríenn calmed down and accepted the food they offered her. 
Since they did not speak the same language, communication was diffcult, but, after a few days of walking with them with only their names correctly communicated (their names were Euchar, Lidvin, and Isde), Ríenn came to create a sort of sign language with Lidvin. They were able to communicate basic things, but never got farther than "I'm hungry" or "can we rest now". As the days passed, Ríenn slowly noticed the tip of her fingers growing black, as if clots of blood massed in very specific places. It did not hurt, so she didn't think much of it. She couldn't think much anyway. Her mind was clouded by images of her father's death, of that odd figure that claimed to be Furvus, of wether she would be framed for her father's murder if she ever came back home. She would spend nights trying to communicate with every tree, desperately trying to find a way to speak to Viridis, in vain. It was as if he refused to talk to her, or if the bond between them had been shattered. 
She didn't even want to think about what Furvus had said to her. She convinced herself it had been just a hallucination and ignored every thought that would remotely concern him. She continued to pray Viridis until they finally walked out of the forest. Lidvin made Ríenn understand they were headed west, and offered her to come with them, since he had understood that she had nowhere else to go. After hesitating a total of three seconds, Ríenn accepted, and from that night, she tried to learn their language. 
Over the weeks, she grew close to Lidvin, until one night under the firelight, as they were about to reach the coast and Ríenn thought everyone was asleep, she examined her tainted fingertips, fearing she might have caught an infection or something. Then, from behind, she heard a single word uttered from Lidvin's mouth, a word that meant the same thing in Blacern and his mysterious language: "Dascúa". Confused, Ríenn watched as Lidvin woke the other up. They exchanged a few quick words, and promptly attacked Ríenn. 
She didn't have time to react that the three of them were on her, yelling what was still gibberish to her ears. Even though she did not fight back, she knew what was happening. They were killing her, and she was letting them. But suddenly cries echoed through the plains, and from the coast arrived a dozen people who heard the men yell. They fought and Ríenn, suddenly regaining lucidity, ran to safety and didn't move for a while. There, Furvus came back and spoke to her, urging her to acknowledge her gifted magic, but she ignored him again, and he disappear when a girl found Ríenn. She calmed her down and introduced herself as Elcie. Ríenn immediately recognised her garments and accent; she was a woman of the seas, a pirate. 
=== The Grandague ===
=== Time at the Manor ===