Ren's fate was woven long before her birth, with the onset of Lucinda's story. To summarise, Lucinda was a talented portal weaver and devout follower of the Evlagian goddess, Taladi. Evlage was a dying realm, and as the seams of the universe came undone there, Taladi, the progenitor goddess, was able to catch a glimpse of another, younger universe that could be consumed to save her own: Actaera. After several unsuccessful various attempts with other champions to cross the rift between universes, Taladi managed to guide Lucinda to Actaera, setting her plan to consume their world in motion. Instead of biding her time in isolation as Taladi had wished, however, Lucinda chose to venture out into this new world and discover what it had to offer. As a result, her unusual presence was noticed before Taladi could transfer a greater extent of her powers and will to Lucinda. Her presence was detected by Actae himself, the progenitor god of Actaera. Ever the curious, experiment-minded soul, Actae took it upon himself to study Lucinda and her odd powers, which eventually resulted in the two producing progeny. The child had two purposes: they were supposed to be a wild card of sorts, a factor uncontrolled by Actae that would serve as a unique variable in his universe, and they would, in a worst case scenario, serve as Actae's successor as overseer of the world he had made. This 'child', however, ended up being a set of twins due to Taladi's influence.
As the secondborn (and unintentional) child of Actae's halfling twins, Ren was deemed to have inadequate magical potential to fulfill either role and was to be disposed of shortly after her birth. However, after Lucinda pleaded with the creator god, Ren was instead stripped of her immortality and cast out into the world under the assumption that she would either die in the wilds, or on the off chance that she survived, live out the uneventful life of a mortal. She was promptly discovered in a patch of Vesperland woods by Ida Thasor, an aging alchemist with a storied past, and was taken in. Ida was strict and determined to provide the girl with a proper upbringing, but still loved Ren like the daughter she never had.
A few days after Ren turned sixteen, however, she would wake up in the middle of the night to find her home ablaze. When she found Ida in her chambers, the alchemist was dead, brutally murdered at the feet of a red-haired masked stranger she had never seen before. The stranger, actually her twin brother, Halvatt Sali, proceeded to kidnap Ren and imprison her in a dilapidated Vesper ruins. A few days later, Ren overheard a conversation between Halvatt and an unfamiliar voice, Edvard Iorskaf, on how they would extract Ren's hidden powers once they cut her body open in ritual sacrifice. Terrified, the latent magic within Ren began to stir, causing her to shapeshift for the first time in her life. Now in the form of a dragon, she broke free of her magical prison and fled the scene, taking advantage of the chaos caused by an escalated argument between Halvatt and Edvard.
After hours of fear, adrenaline, and unsteady flying, Ren managed to land in a secluded forest grove, where she would shift back into a human. Though she wanted to continue to run and find help, she had used up much of her kheji, and struggled to move. Using the last of her strength to cry out for help, she was miraculously found by a passerby halfling, Aidan Fasura. He took her to the Lumen town of Sausetnyur, where his uncle, Zagun, resided, and nursed her back to health. Upon hearing her strange story, Aidan offered to take Ren to Rehjolvnatys, the plane of the divine. As she had nowhere to go, Ren accepted, hopeful that this new path in life would eventually lead her to the truth of what happened.
The gods of Rehjolvnatys were shocked by Ren's ability to achieve a draconic form, a trait only seen in offspring of the upper echelon of divinity. However, try as they might, the gods could not accurately determine her heritage, as she appeared to be a normal human in all senses. After much delibration, they allowed the Elder god Yrets to temporarily adopt her, not wanting her strange abilities to fall into Vesper hands. Given the gift of immortality, Ren became a full-fledged halfling and began her training as a member of the Rehjolvnatys Guard.