Ren was born in the high-aelvar village of Sylivar, where he spent a peaceful childhood among the extended families of the Wan clan. He knew Esriella only distantly, as a younger, distant cousin. At sixty, still a child by aelvar standards, Ren was hunting beyond the village when he witnessed pale-aelvar assassins slaughter its inhabitants and leave no survivors.
He was rescued by the aging dverg adventurer Shouglin, who continued to raise him and carried him across the continent on his travels. Soon after, he undertook the ritual to become a mage, against Shouglin’s advice, from a mage they travelled with for a time. At 102, Ren and Shouglin encountered the Company of the White Wing, where they recognized Esriella and soon joined its ranks. Ren later helped overthrow King Albric and became Valmark’s representative to the wood-aelvar of the Forest of Unending Shadow. Though loyal and highly skilled, Ren retains a deep hatred of the pale-aelvar and was the company’s most outspoken opponent of allowing Isha to join them.
