Renya

Renya from the a la carte Kindle Edition ebook cover

Master of the game of Pantheon and cadet in the Harat-Shar Homeguard.

Physical Characteristics

A young Homeworld Harat-Shar woman of the cheetaine intrarace, narrow-hipped and long-limbed, with rounded ears, pale blonde hair, and green eyes. She wore a veil over her lower face in the tradition of Harat-Shar females raised in harems, but removed it once she felt she had proven herself, as was common for female members of the Homeguard.

History

Family

Her family discouraged her from going offplanet and joining the Homeguard, as they expected to join a male's train as a younger wife; Renya believed that they were waiting for her to fail and return home, and that they were particularly eager to get her back into a more ordinary role because of the unpopularity of the cheetaine intrarace.

Her childhood friend was a Harat-Shar tigraine girl named Dani, who had chestnut hair.

Recent History

Renya chose to join the Homeguard because she didn't want to marry into a train. Renya attributes her success at the game (she apparently "never" loses at Pantheon) to her petitions to the Battleangels and the incense she burns to them. Her streak of wins continued once she was aboard a Homeguard ship, against her new roommate Cordasha, a lynxine.

She challenged the commander or her first ship, Kerov to a game of Pantheon and lost, but made the game interesting enough to earn his respect; at this point she ceased wearing the veil of her upbringing.

Quotes

• "Audacity was always to be commended among the Harat-Shar. Theirs was not a fleet bound together by law, rank and rigid hierarchies, but by passions and personalities. Though she did not know Commander Kerov well, Renya knew it would be better to be bold than to hope for him to notice her. A proper Harat-Shar had tooth and claw--and showed them! So she went seeking him, paying her own trepidation no mind."

Story Appearances

• Book 1
• Short Story 2, Book Collection if Applicable