Doctor Ren Pockets

Depiction of Ren by @robinartz\_

The current leader of what she refers to as the “*Vairacity Renaissance*”, Doctor Pockets is a *Leidrie Dryad* historian, mystic, mayor among other various hobbies. While most of her personal history is unknown, she seems intent on growing both her town, *Vashtair-Ande*. Her current whereabouts are currently unknown, though she is presumed *Returned*.

## Appearance

Doctor Ren has faded white skin, as if to indicate plant decay, though Ren claims she hasn't felt much younger since childhood. Her hair is made of wild aloe vera leaves with brown tinges at the ends. On the back of her hands are red flower blooms, similar to that of the flowers on a *Hildmans Cereus*. One of her eyes is a dulled out grey, whereas the other one has an hourglass, that of the *Eternem Glass*, engrained.

Ren is above average height, and of slim build. She often wears the same black and yellow robe, with what is presumably a secondary robe underneath.

## Personality

Ren is generally a lax figure, showing apathy towards most inconveniences. However, she can snap on seemingly random occasions, and will show a much colder demeanor. Ren has also shown random fits of anger towards an unknown figure, where she shall curse in *Glerchde* before returning back to her regular, polite self. She often has a tendency to get lost, and can be absent-minded at times, most likely to her old age.

Ren has, as most scholars do, an insatiable sense of curiousity. Despite still being a zealous follower of Vairacity, she tends to also become followers of other religions to learn more about their culture and inner workings. Ren also seems to have little concern for her patients, believing that they'll be fine as long as she is the one treating them. For example, when replacing Behe's heart, Ren claimed to have blessed a fish with numbing properties, but then admitted for it to be a placebo to keep him complacent.

## Biography

### Early Life

While Ren speaks little of her childhood, she was apparently born in a small village as an only child. Her father was a farmer, overseeing the management of the village cacti, and her mother, a trader, whom shortly left after Ren had Sprouted. She had an expressed interest in science, particularly in the field of medicine. She had taken apprentice to the local village doctor, helping treat minor maladies such as dehydration and heatstroke. After living a relatively boring childhood, Ren decided to move away from her village into one of the Leidrie capitals, where scientific and magic innovations happen daily.

### Academic/Scientific Career

After moving to one of the Leidrie capitals, Ren had gained employment at the medical facility, where she learnt the trade of surgery, as well as studying certain medicines and their effects on the Dryad body. Ren established herself as a doctor after publishing her first scientific paper, *The Motor Effects of Transplanted Limbs*, which was initially met with criticism, but had overall begun her career.

During her time as a doctor, Ren met many patients who were followers of *Vairacity*, and, perhaps out of curiosity to begin with, began practicing it herself. She only further enveloped herself in the religion as the rise of *Magically-Reformed Organisms* (MRO) had flourished throughout the Leidrie colonies. One notable paper Ren had published alongside her colleagues was *Magically Reformed Organisms and the Reformation of the Dryad Body*, investigating how the imbalance of magic present in the Dryad body can give way to abnormalities, both positive and negative.

### Time in the Spiritual Planes

Right before Ren had completed her ascension into becoming a Felchmashin, she had left most of her property to her colleagues and her wealth was left in a hidden location, either lost to time or robbed centuries ago, now. In the Spiritual Planes, she decided to wander aimlessly, exploring the wide, infinite expanses, learning the language of the spirits, *Glerchde*, and narrowly avoiding the many gorges into the void.

This was also when Ren gained her hourglass eye. She refuses to speak of the experience, asking "Do you seek enjoyment of arduous suffering?" when questioned. Eavesdropping on Rens mutterings can have one catch words such as "slumber" and "dream". Ren claims she had spent several centuries within the Spiritual Planes, living much longer than a natural Leidrie would.

### Pre-Vashtair-Ande time in Rathnir

After falling from the Spiritual Planes, Ren found herself in Yimmu-Audal, and she decided to wander for a while before joining a small merchant settlement called Die Einde. She built herself a small sanctuary on the outskirts of the town, and mostly kept to herself. She also decided to test her former abilities here, and created a beating heart engrained into the cliffside. This nameless heart would continue to beat for weeks on end, before finally being put to rest by Ren herself. She claims it was an 'act of mercy'.

However, after a while, the leaders of Die Einde respectfully asked her to leave, due to religious differences. Ren happily complied, even though she was a little miffed to leave her current home. She floated around Rathnir aimlessly, until she found the abandoned castle in Sorgliste.

### The Founding of Vashtair-Ande

After finding the abandoned castle and confirming that it was empty, Ren declared herself it's caretaker and settled herself in. She had no plan to make it her permanent residence, intending on restoring the castle and moving on. However, as more travelers settled around the castle, Ren decided to establish the place as a proper community.

### Post-Vashtair-Ande

After Vashtair-Ande collapsed, Ren left on another journey. It's presumed in her old age, she was looking for a place of final resting.

## Relationships

### Courtships

Ren has - controversially enough - married several different individuals from all across Rathnir. As is *Leidrie* culture, while they are all technically married, Ren does not view them in the same way that a human may view their polygamous marriage. Some of her notable courtships include: Nokoniro, Valendaesu, SomeEngineer1 and Katorro Cornaro. While she is quite affectionate towards her partners, Ren appears to have little concerns of her presence within their lives.

### Noctual

The Leidrie word for "Soulmate", a Noctual is generally considered a Leidrie's true partner out of all of their courtships. While they are long gone, Ren's Noctual was a Shieliee named Robin Pockets. Ren has often considered trying to bring him back to life, but declares that the task is impossible, claiming "there is no love in not letting go".

### Behe

Ren met Behe in Iabet, where Ren had help treat Behe's ailments with a corrupted soul. Due to this, the two developed a scientific relationship, using each other as test subjects for their own needs. One notable example of these experiments include Ren replacing Behe's heart not once, but twice, first with her own pinky, then with a special weeping vine Ren had grown to deal with Behe's temperature. Ren was under Behe's control due to taking a potion that she had created, however the effect has worn off since.

## Notable Possessions

### The Chained Revenant

While exploring the surroundings of the abandoned castle, the hulking remnants of an airship was found, buried into the ground. Ren scavenged the ruins, then eventually disassembled it and hid it away. After Vashtair-Ande began to prosper more, Ren decided to rebuild the airship, thus the Chained Revenant was born. It looms over Vashtair-Ande using it's mechanical wings and propeller, and is powered using the mechanical heart Ren had 'borrowed' from one Noctis Cornaro. Ren claims that the reason she rebuilt the Chained Revenant was to give a home for all of her pets.

### The Hourglass Eye

In place of her right eye is glass eye with a grey hourglass engrained onto it. Ren claims this eye 'helps her see the energy around her', though no one else appears to be able to see what Ren claims. This glass eye will on occasion cause Ren great physical pains, where she will be stunned from moving and will yell in either *Glerchde* or in her native Dryad tongue.