Renarr

Renarr [ren-AR]Steven Erikson Interview and Discussion of The Kharkanas Trilogy - Books with Banks - As pronounced by Steven Erikson at 35:50 was a young girl who lived in Neret Sorr. She was the daughter of Gurren, the town mason, and Shellas, a deceased captain of Urusander's Legion, who had died saving Urusander. Forge of Darkness, Chapter 12, UK HC p.347
== In Forge of Darkness==
Renarr had recently returned from time spent at the Yan Shake Monastery in Yannis and was courted by Millick, an apprentice mason. She was two months past her first night of blood (presumably the arrival of her menstruation) when she went to the ford outside Neret Sorr looking for a river rock, a local romantic tradition. There she met Osserc, Lord Urusander's son, who seduced the young girl. Just how young she was only became apparent when he realised that he was her first lover, her wit leading him to believe her to be much older.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 12, UK PB p.488-496
Two or three days after Renarr's encounter with Osserc, Millick ambushed the latter, saying that Renarr had told him everything. In a rage, thinking Millick had beaten Renarr, Osserc strangled him with one hand.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 12, UK HC p.506/507 Renarr's father believed that Osserc had done him a service by killing the man who had so injured his daughter, whom he had never liked anyway.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 12, UK PB p.512/513 Lord Urusander offered the services of his healers to Renarr's father for the injured Renarr, and also promised Gurren that he would formally adopt her and care for her the rest of her life. Ostensibly, this was a settlement for the crime committed by his son, but Urusander also relished the opportunity to be able to help Gurren, who had never forgiven him for being the cause of his wife's death.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 12, UK PB p.520-523
Once healed, Renarr reflects on the events that led to her current situation, such as how Millick had seen the change in her and got her to tell him the whole story. Then, when he had been drunk, he had told his cousins, Eldin and Orult, about her confession. When their laughter and taunts drove him mad, he had blindly lashed out at them, accidentally also injuring Renarr, who had come across the fight. Because of her injuries, broken jaw and cheekbone, and damaged left eye, she was not able to explain to her father what really happened.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 12, UK PB p.525
==In Fall of Light==
Renarr killed Lord Urusander after his marriage to Mother Dark, stabbing him in the heart through his back, after telling him that she forgave his son Osserc, but not him and that there would be justice.Fall of Light, Chapter 26, US HC p.834-836
==Trivia==
*Renarr proved to be a fateful character in the real-world writing process of Walk in Shadow. Steven Erikson was around 300 pages into the novel--"wandering around in the narrative", avoiding the topic of the Tiste civil war and unready to return to it--when he felt he finally found his feet in the book in a scene featuring Renarr. Erikson describes her as "a correlate to Tavore" and "if I think about that with respect to this trilogy then suddenly everything starts making sense."Steven Erikson Interview and Discussion of The Kharkanas Trilogy - Books with Banks - See 02:50Steven Erikson Interview and Discussion of The Kharkanas Trilogy - Books with Banks - See 37:15 He says Renarr "is kind of the warped mirror reflection of Tavore in terms of that kind of role that she's going to play--she's unreadable in the same fashion that Tavore was. And I really like that."Kharkanas (and more) with Steven Erikson - Smiley's Podcast - See 1:25:00
==Notes and references==
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