Ren

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**Ren** is an uninitiated huntress of the Dawn Spire. She makes her debut in Rise of the Dragon Star.
After saving the Silver Isle Pride from a plague, she is initiated by Princess Embra.

## Information

Ren is the second daughter of Balrenik, and Siva's only daughter.
### Description

A sky-blue Aesir gryfess with golden eyes and a yellow beak.
### Personality

Ren is a very nervous young gryfess. Despite being born in to a long line of huntresses, Ren lacks the desire to follow in their foot-steps and instead prefers to hunt for knowledge instead. She is also an amateur geologist. Ren deeply values personal honor and morality occasionally to a fault. As shown when Halla encourages her to invite herself to the migration to the Silver Isles when Shard gives any Greatmeet griffon attendants permission to invite themselves if they haven't had permission from Kjorn or Thyra to travel along, Ren initially refuses. Not because she doesn't want to go but because she felt that she was being selfish to her family and the Aesir Monarchs due to her uninitiated status. However after being praised by Queen Brynja, Ren decides to go with or without Kjorn or Thyra's permission. After learning that the Silver Isles Pride has become infected by a mysterious plague, Ren becomes determined to find the source of the plague in order to save the Silver Isles.
### Role

Ren is the main protagonist in Rise of the Dragon Star. Her desire to hunt for knowledge played a crucial rule in determining the source of a mysterious plague that broke out in the Silver Isles.
## History

### In ***the Dragon Star Saga Arc***

#### *Rise of the Dragon Star*

Ren struggles to fall asleep when Starstones crash in the outskirts near the Winderost. Ren is curious about it but her parents order her to remain inside their den. When Ren suggests to her mother that the "Stars" might be an omen of her upcoming hunt, Siva (Ren's mom) cools down. She then informs Ren about a rumor that's been going around which suggests a special opportunity offered by Rashard and Kjorn to those allowed to be a the Greatmeet which usually excludes uninitiated gryfons/gryfesses.
Three days later, Ren takes part in her inition hunt. During the hunt, Ren is distracted by a Starstone which costs her initiation. Afterwards, Ren is taken to the healers den where she encounters Rorik. He suggests that Ren trainers to become a pride healer, Ren refuses the offer however. After her recovery, Ren returns to her family den where she's confronted by Siva. After Ren reveals that her newly discovered rock is what allowed her to fail, Siva is enraged promoting Ren to get into an argument with her mother. While arguing with one another Siva destroys Ren's rock collection much to Ren's dismay and fury.
After Ren stubbornly refuses to surrender arguing, Siva kicks her out of their den as punishment for Ren faling her hunt along with her defiance. As Ren proceeds to exit the den, Balrenik arrives and wonders what the fuss is all about. Ren however decides to let her mother explain the comotion right before she leaves the den. While walking outside that evening, her wingsister, Halla bumps into her and asks how her initiation hunt went. Halla is deveasted when Ren reveals that she failed but is curious about her discovery and suggests they find more information about the rock at the Greatmeet. Ren is doubtful that the plan would work since she is uninitiated but Halla reminds Ren that Siva can't forbid her from attending the Greatmeet even is the latter wishes for a couple of reasons. First Siva banished Ren from their den and no longer had custody over her while Thrya and Kjorn are in charge on who gets to attend Greatmeet not Siva. The wing-sisters then decide to seek an audience from Queen Thyra and King Kjorn in attempt to convince her that Ren should attend Greatmeet despite failing her hunt in order the  gather more information about the rock. When the duo ask Thyra to grant Ren permission to attend Greatmeet, Thyra hesitates but eventually gives in after being persuaded by her cousin-in-law, Ex-Prince Oslar along with her son, Crown Prince Kvasir. Before Ren and Halla can attend Greatmeet, Ren needs her retrieve her rock. She subsequently returns to her parents den to obtain her rock while Halla distracts Siva. While looking for her rock, Ren is interrupted by her father who asks why Ren had returned. Ren explains that she needs to find the rock she'd found earlier today. Balrenik agrees not to sell Ren out to her mother after a brief discussion. Ren is able to find the star-rock and leaves. On the day for Greetmeet, Ren flies alongside Halla as they join the other attends flying to the Vehinem Shore for the meetup. As soon as they land Ren and Halla part ways and entertain themselves why waiting for the Vanir and the Dragons to arrive. After the Vanir arrive Ren overhears Ara gossip about her and her unsuccessful initiation hunt to a group of random griffons. After Ren reveals herself and critizeses Ara, the latter dares Ren to prove herself by hunting something Ara cannot. Blinded by pride, Ren impulsively accepts. Why trying to figure out win the bet, Ren decides to hunt for fish as Ara is too traditional to hunt fish since Asier don't traditionally hunt seafood. Ren immediately flies out to sea in attempt to hunt for a fish.
Due to her inexperience, she ends up drowning and calls for help. She pleas are answered by a griffon Ren believed to be a Vanhar. Ren's savior is a male griffon with gray feathers and green eyes. After the stranger assists Ren he suggests that she signs up for swimming lessons run by Ilse. After Ren returns to shore Halla who witnessed Ren's rescue reveals that the stranger was King Rashard of the Vainr. After Ren returns to shore, a family a Sunland Dragons arrive. Ren learns that the head of the family trio is  Chrocnler Jura

## Relationships

### Siva

While Ren cares deeply for her mother, their relationship is somewhat complicated due to Siva being less understanding of Ren's interests than Balrenik. Siva is often a little too strict towards Ren. However her slightly harsh attitude is do to Siva fearing that Ren might not be able to look out for herself and Siva's own understanding that she doesn't know the best way to help her daughter.
### Balrenik

Ren care's deeply for her father. Their relationship is better than Ren's with Siva.
Unlike his mate, Balrenik is more open minded and lenient.
However, Ren becomes bitter towards her father after learning from Embra that Torva (Balrenik's orignal mate) was pregnant with Tove (Ren's half-sister) when her father departed the Silver Isles. But Ren believes that Balrenik may not have known that Torva was expecting his firstborn since she finds it hard to believe that her father delebertly left Torva pregnant with his firstborn. However this is highly improbable as Torva had been preganant for at least 3 months when Balrenik left for the Winderost.

### Halla

Halla is Ren's Wingsister. She also encourages Ren to believe in herself and proves herself to be a valuable asset to Ren during Rise of *The Dragon Star.*She also participates in the The Battle at Long Lake and saves Ren's life when she's captured by one of the pikes.
### Ara

Ren and Ara get along poorly do the the latter mocking Ren's hunting abilities and interests. During the great-meet, Ren overhears Ara and a couple of young initiates gossiping about her to some of the new arrivals in a negative light. After Ren brings Ara an eel as proof of her worth,
Ara initially refuses to accept defeat thinking than Ren cheated by not catching the usual prey even though Ara never said it had to be an orthodox prey. When Brynja confronts Ara about her reaction she reluctantly accepts defeat.

### Tove

Tove is Ren's paternal half-sister from Balrenik's previous partnership with Torva. They aren't particularly close due to Tove being disturbed by their father's absence in her life. Tove may be jealous of Ren because of that because even though they have the same father, Balrenik wasn't near as much of a father to Tove the same way he was with Ren. Ren wants to get close to Tove but due to the reasons stated above, she decides to keep her distance out of hope Tove will give her the chance to improve their relationship with one another. Ren decision to keep her distance with Tove and interacting as little as possible when the sisters are together is also motivated by Ren knowledge that Tove needs to heal on her own terms.
## Family Tree

### List of all Family Members

**Halla**; Living, The Silver Isles
**Father**
**Balrenik**; Living, the Winderost
**Mother**
**Siva**; Living, the Winderost.
**Half-Sister**
**Tove**; Living, the Silver Isles.

## Trivia

* She is the main protagonist in Rise of the Dragon Star.
* Ren's name is Japanese for "Water Lilly".
* She's the first Aesir to serve as the main protagonist in a Summer King Chorincles Arc.

## Gallery

### Canon

Ren with HallaRen featured o the left bottom of the comic pageRen on the *Rise of the Dragon Star* cover

## Citations

### References

1. ↑ Jess E Owen's Patron Page
2. ↑ Rise of the Dragon Star: Chapter 1