Renea Sundance

Appearance

Renea is a soldier, from tip to toes it fairly screams forth from her. Her face, in another life possibly considered beautiful, was hard. Her frame was well muscled and scarred and she held herself with a lithe confidence, a wary sense of entitlement that might may not make right but it could certainly make it happen none-the-less. She would usually let her light brown hair hang about her shoulders, tickling the midway point of her back unless she was preparing for a battle, then she'd tie into into a tail at the nape of her neck to keep it out of the way. Her eyes were of a green color, deeper than emerald and tending more towards the verdancy of moss and they could flash vibrantly with anger when it was warranted but generall they just carried the haunted pain of someone who couldn't learn to let go. Ever present at her side is an aged longsword, handle worn smooth with years of use and stained with the sweat and blood of a hundred or more battles, she is rarely without it and never far from it. Occasionally she will also carry a small round shield, steel, strapped across her back but unless she expects trouble she leaves the cumbersome thing behind.

Before

Renea's past is, to most (including herself due to the fickle nature of memory), a clouded enigma of a thing. She was a mercenary from an early age, found as an orphan and trained as a kindness, an act that fuels her current maternal instincts towards strays. In her early twenties she signed on with an army and due to random acts of heroism, culminating in the rescue of a kidnapped empress, became the ultimate general answering to the emperor alone. She spent many years in this position winning many battles and gaining prestige and a relative fortune which she never found the time to spend. She married a paladin and met friends that became closer than family to her, chief among those the Firewitch Rielle and the son of a Goddess BetaFlame. Resentful that her work was more important to her than he was, her husband ultimately left her, breaking her heart, the sense of betrayal fueling her (still quite active) hatred of paladins, and resulting in her retirement from her military post and subsquent suicide by trolls. An ultimately selfish act that would have rippling repurcussions she couldn't even begin to imagine.

Eventually, for reasons of their own, her life was restored by the efforts of Rielle and Beta and despite her resentment of the pair for bringing her back to a life she no longer wanted to live she refrained from further acts that would obviously result in her death though continued to be careless of her life and health. In time she fell in love again and even became pregnant, finding a measure of peace and even happiness in her new life, but then one day she just disappeared.

Due to a recent encounter with Jarod, a young man she used to foster who has somehow become other by his association with Catch, Renea has been de-aged to an 18 year old version of herself.

Now

Renea found herself in Myrken Wood in the winter months of the year 212 following what she thought was a random choice as she watched for opportunities to ply her trade. She stumbled onto the tavern late one night and fell asleep in the common room to be woken the next day by Rielle. Far from the random choice she had thought Renea had been subconsciously following a magical bond that tied the two women together that had been forged years before, a woman that Renea hadn't seen since her disappearance more than ten years before. Renea quickly fell in love with the area, finding something in it that called to her sense of home more than any place had since her death. She forged connections to the people here, discovering even more family that she hadn't seen in a long time and making new friends. She found a place for herself in the little town and in its troubles she identified a need for someone with her skill set. She pointed out this need to members of the council, offering to take the position of running the small militia within just a few days after she'd made the decision to stay.

It was about this time when she'd met Catch. The madman triggered her maternal instincts, her compassion for the strays of the world and she quickly found herself feeling protective of the man. Despite the injuries he inflicted on her in his madness she never once became angry with him, remaining gentle and careful regardless of the fact he could quite easily snap her in two if he cared too. During one of his episodes he tossed her against a wall so hard that her ribs were broken and much to her surprise when he gathered her into his arms some form of silver energy flowed into her, healing not just her current injuries (the ribs as well as a horrible burn from a previous encounter) but also an old injury that had caused her to limp.

Events escalated, a new governor was declared and Renea was offered a position on the Myrken Defense Committee, created for three people to take the place that had previously been held by a single man as the Defense Councillor. She accepted the position and that of Marshall for the local militia, also becoming the committee's liason to the constabulary. During this period Catch had kidnapped the daughter of a half dragon woman Drache and in the ensuing chaos Renea had taken him into custody. She locked him in the cells and spent all but a few hours by his side for the days that followed until the day he somehow caused the earth to explode and escaped in the confusion that followed the earthquake and fires. Once the fires had been extinguished and the militia and constabulary were put to work calming the masses and restoring the town and buildings Renea set off to pursue the addled man hoping to find answers. She eventually found him and learned that he was far more than she could have even begun to imagine. She was left with the instruction that she must not allow him to find the severed part of himself, the piece that would make him whole and trigger the collapse of everything she knew. Even with this warning in mind Renea still could not find it within herself to treat him differently than she had before, with kindness, gentleness and compassion.

As if the situation with Catch was not enough of an issue for Myrken to deal with there was also a possessed monster on the loose who had, once upon a time, gone by the name of Aeryn Karolinger. Renea had been unfortunate enough to stumble upon the axe-wielding daemon, also styled "The Eight" by Catch, in the courtyard of the Broken Dagger Inn one evening and found herself engaged in a pitched battle. Between the original combatants, Zilliah and Alton, and herself they managed to run the fiend off without injury to themselves. With this evidence it was surmised that the once man was responsible for the spate of recent murders around the town and countryside and so an investigation was initiated to attempt to find a solution.

Shortly after the incident with Karolinger Renea met the other members of the Defense Committee, Agnieszka Kaczmarek and Kerrak al'Nerun. Renea felt an immediate connection and respect for Agnie and they began forming the what could end as a strong friendship and work relationship. Kerrak was regarding with a certain amount of wariness based on his history in Myrken and his ability to channel magics, something that Renea neither understood nor wanted to understand. She came to learn that Agnie had a history with the crazed axe-murderering Karolinger and based on her growing friendship with the woman Renea promised to make every attempt to bring in the man alive so that he could be saved, rather than the easier task of killing him outright.

Current Events

Catch tries to pull off Renea's face to see what lies beneath.

Renea unknowingly helps to trigger a war with Thessilane.