Struthionis Family/Ren

Name: Ferminia Cerverai Struthionis

Patron Bird: Zapata Wren

Realm: Assassins

Description

Ren is a bit shorter than average, and her soft features couple with the fact to make her appear somewhat younger than she really is. Despite her feminine frame, however, she is a tomboy at heart, evinced by the messy, matted, and mussed up manner in which she keeps her golden brown hair, and the short length it is trimmed to.

Aggressive to the core and rarely sympathetic to the plights of others, Ren's ambition can lead her to recklessness, and her recklessness can lead her to neglect. She likes wearing her armor, even when it's not appropriate, and doesn't really have much of a sense of manners.

History

Like her brothers Aepyornis and Coturnix, Ren was born in the Colonies, in the region of South Bakker. A fiery and independent youth, with only her brothers to keep her company, she took to more masculine traits and developed a promising flair for combat.

Unhappy with her given name as a child, she would insist on being called by her namesake's more common name. The following uproar within the family would have resulted in the child being cast from the home to fend for herself, had not the intervention of her brothers saved her from this fate.

Joining active service in the Assassins Guild with her brother Aepyornis, Ren would eventually join several nobles in departing from the Guild. She traveled to nearby Lukon to seek her fortune, but departed from the realm due to incompetence in Lukon's military and a general rejection of the ex-Guild members' presence by Lukonian nobles.

She traveled then to Giblot, taking time to observe their military and political structure before dedicating herself to service in a new realm again. What she saw, however, was a grossly inefficient and strict decision-making process in their democracy.

At long last she returned to the Guild, frustrated and unsatisfied.

Ren would grow to consider her life to be validated by her martial prowess. For a time she would float from region to region, offering her sword to new lords who would just as quickly lose their positions and regions. She consistently refused her brother Aepyornis' offers of a share in his region, insisting his charity was unneeded. A stagnant defensive period in the Guild would only serve to frustrate her lust for battle.

Eventually Lukon would join in the Assassins' drawn out war against Wetham, and so a great offensive was undertaken much to Ren's delight. Many of Wetham's soldiers would see their end impaled on the sword of the fierce woman, bloodlust etched into her glaring eyes and her wild hair dancing to the sound of their death. Dissatisfied still, she began to covertly seek the secrets of those that gave the Guild its name.

Relationship with the Family

Ren's rejection of her given name has had repercussions all her life. She simplified the technical name and thereby insulted sacred family tradition - only by the quick minds and mouths of her two brothers did the young girl save herself from exile, but her reputation is still tarnished and garners no respect.

Multiplying this problem, Ren's departure from the Guild was taken as an abandonment of duty, and she is now considered completely barred from Struthionis grounds.