Category:Renier Family

This section contains canon info from officially published sources

Hailing originally from the same world as where Mordent was drawn from, the main branch of the Reniers is a clan of wererats that lord over the domain of Richemulot. Led at that time by their patriarch, Claude, the wererat Reniers first entered the Land of Mists through an underground portal while fleeing from lycanthrope hunters in 691 BC. They surfaced in Silbervas, Falkovnia and plagued that nation for a period of years called the Years of Impaled Rats before they were driven out by Vlad Drakov and his servants. After the Reniers fled the domain through the sewers once again, the Reniers surfaced in the newly formed domain of Richemulot that same year. Claude remained family patriarch and darklord of Richemulot until he was murdered and replaced by Jacqueline Renier, his granddaughter.^[1]

The Darkonian Reniers

A lesser branch entered the Demiplane of Dread much earlier with Morden then spread out to Darkon when that domain formed, thus losing their memories before producing native born Darkonian children. These Darkonian Reniers are largely ignorant of their Richemuloise cousins natures as wererats. Although rebuffed by Claude Renier, Jacqueline Renier was eager to keep correspondence with them. During the era of chaos known as the Fall of Kings, many left Darkon for Richemulot at Jacqueline's request^[2]

The Cult of Simon Audaire

Formed by Pierre Renier and Gerard Renier (both Richemuloise but nonetheless not natural wererats) in 735 BC, the Cult represents a major conspiracy to wipe the wererat taint from the Renier family. However, the group is far from Good; they venerate the remains of Simon Audaire, (Jacqueline Renier's father whom was poisoned to death by his wife and Jacqueline's mother, Marie Renier). Simon Audiare exists now exists as one of the reanimated Ancient Dead. The cult meets in the Renier family catacombs beneath Ste. Ronges.^[3][4] Gerard sacrifices both wererat and normal human alike to Simon Audaire when the cult meets at the Rat-Mummy's Temple.^[5]

In Ravenloft Books

The Reniers and their conflict with the Nuikin Family are featured in the Ravenloft novel scholar of Decay.^[6]

Chronology

• 180 BC: Jacques Renier brings his family to Mordent and takes leadership of the then hamlet of Mordentshire. After bringing commerce and prosperity, he eventually builds Gryphon Manor. Even later, the Reniers lose their influence on the town to newly arriving noble families.^[7]
• 654 BC Claude Renier, patriarch of the Reniers, is born.^[8]
• 659 BC Isabelle Museau, matriarch of the Reniers, is born.^[8]
• 677 BC Henri Milette, future husband of Anais Renier and not a wererat, is born.^[8]
• 681 BCSimon Audaire, future husband of Marie Renier, is born.^[9]
• 681 BC Anais Renier is born to Claude Renier and Isabella Museau.^[8]
• 683 BCMarie Renier is born to Claude Renier and Isabella Museau.^[9]
• 684 BC Marguerite Pentarde, future wife of Eduardo Renier, is born.^[8]
• 686 BC Eduardo Renier is born to Claude Renier and Isabella Museau.^[8]
• 686 BC Jacqueline Renier and Louise Renier are born as twins to Simon Audaire and Marie Renier.^[10]
• 691 BC Claude Renier and his wererats enter the Land of Mists from the world that spawned the domain of Mordent. The wererats first turn up in Silverbas, Falkovnia.^[11]
• 691 BC: Falkovnia faces two threats in Silbervas: a rising thieves' guild and an infestation of wererats. They are both led by the Clawed. The period of Falkovnian history known as the Years of Impaled Rats begins.^[12]
• 693 BC Gregoire Alairan, future husband of Joelle Milette, is born.^[8]
• 694 BC: Vlad Drakov drives out the wererats (and their leader of Silbervas and Falkovnia altogether. The Years of Impaled Rats period ends.^[12]
• 694 BC: The domain of Richemulot is revealed.^[13] Claude Renier is its first darklord.^[8]
• 699 BC: Joelle Milette is born to Anais Renier and Henri Milette^[8]
• 700 BC Laurent Haurie, future husband of Antionette Renier, is born.^[8]
• 701 BC Antionette Renier is born to Marie Renier and Simon Audaire.^[8]
• 702 BC Maurice Milette is born to Anais Renier and Henri Milette.^[8]
• 703 BC Jacqueline Renier and Louise Renier are born as twins to Marie Renier and Simon Audaire.^[14]
• 703 BC Elise DeLauren, future wife of Maurice Milette, is born.^[8]
• 707 BC Raul Renier is born to Marie Renier and Simon Audaire.^[8]
• 707 BC Dominic Soufel, future husband of Jacqueline Renier, is born.^[8]
• 710 BC Isabella Museau dies.^[8]
• 710 BC Jacqueline Renier's mother, Marie Renier, poisons Simon Audaire.^[10] Marie gives the Renier surname to her children.^[8]
• 710 BC Gertrude von Zarovich, future wife of Raul Renier, is born.^[8]
• 714 BC Gerard Renier and Pierre Renier, twins, are born to Marguerite Pentarde and Eduardo Renier.^[8]
• 717 BC Sandrine Daugeri, future wife of Gerard Renier, is born.^[8]
• 719 BC A child, a wererat of unknown name, is born to Antionette Renier and Laurent Haurie.^[8]
• 720 BC Joelle Milette and Gregoire Alairan have a child, unknown name and a wererat. Maurice Milette and Elise DeLauren have a child, also of unknown name but not a wererat.^[8]
• 722 BC: The Piper of Hamelyn attempts to rid Ste. Ronges of the massive rat population plaguing the town. He perishes and is unsuccessful.^[15][16]
• 722 BC Eduardo Renier dies.^[8]
• 724 BC Henri Milette dies.^[8]
• 725 BC Anais Renier dies.^[8]
• 725 BC Jacques Renier (Son of Jacqueline) is born to Jacquelin Renier and Dominic Soufel.^[8]
• 726 BC: Jacqueline Renier has a servant poison Claude Renier, her grandfather, before piercing his heart with a silver fork and then rolling him out a high window.^[17]
• 727 BC Jacqueline Renier and Dominic Soufel have a child of unknown name that is not a wererat.^[8]
• 729 BC Jacqueline Renier and Dominic Soufel have a child of unknown name that is not a wererat.^[8]
• 729 BC: Jacqueline Renier approves the Treaty of the Four Towers.^[18]
• 730 BC Gerard Renier and Sandrine Dauggeri give birth to a single child of unknown name and not a wererat.^[8]
• 730 BC Marie Renier dies.^[8]
• 732 BC Jacqueline Renier and Dominic Soufel have a child of unknown name that is a wererat.^[8]
• 732 BC Jacqueline Renier follows after her mother and murders Dominic Soufel and bestows the Renier surname upon their children.^[8]
• 735 BC: Pierre Renier and Gerard Renier conspire against the wererats plaguing their family. They unearth the corpse of Simon Audaire and conspire with the Withered Rat to reanimate the body as an ancient dead.^[19]
• 735 BC: Fall Aurek Nuikin travels to Richemulot from Borca to find a way to restore his wife Natalia back to life from her form as a statue. At his sisters' insistence, He brings along his younger brother, Dmitri. There they fall victim to the machinations of Louise Renier to force Aurek to help her destroy Jacqueline Renier. The plot fails, but things end disastrously for everyone. Natalia's porcelain statue is shattered, and Jacqueline throws the Nuikins out of Richemulot.^[20]
• 743 BC Girard Cavaillon tries to make an under-the-table agreement with the Falkovnian Army to overthrow Jacqueline Renier. Jacqueline establishes a direct communication with Vlad Drakov as a counter offer with some unknown incentive plus a favored consort of Cavaillon offered up for Vlad Drakov's entertainment.^[21]

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