Rennac

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Rich "Merchant"
Rennac
Species	Human
Class	Rogue
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Brown
Base	Carcino
Debut	Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Rennac is a recruitable character from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones.

Background

Carcino was the son of a noble merchant in Carcino. However, his fatehr was stingy with his money, so he and his brothers and to work for it. This caused them to learn the value of hard work at a young age. Rennac also learned ballroom dancing and apparently set fashion trends at Carcino, but he was apathetic about most things. He developed a love for money and eventually left home to try to make money for himself as a mercenary and a thief. He was eventually for the seemingly straightforward job of acting as an escort for Princess L'Arachel from Rausten to Renais around the beginning of the War of the Stones, being joined by the loyal vassal Dozla. Rennac was annoyed by her commanding and egotistical style, and he was quickly tired by everything he was forced to do, yet he continuously found himself drawn back to her group.

The three of them initially appeared in "Chapter 4: Ancient Horrors" when L'Arachel drew them into trying to help Eirika near Renais, but they arrived too late. Afterwards, she brought them to a port town to try to find passage back to Rausten, but they had trouble due to a phantom ship scaring most people off the seas. Rennac was seen with the group in "Chapter 9: Distant Blade" of Eirika's path (where they ate sugar pastries, and Rennac was annoyed by the idea of walking on foot to Rausten) or in "Chapter 10: Turning Traitor" of Ephraim's path (where he was very reluctant to follow L'Arachel's plan to battle the phantom ship). In both paths, Rennac silently runs away from L'Arachel's group soon afterwards in search of new work, as he had only been hired to bring L'Arachel to Renais and had not yet been paid for that. In Eirika's path, Rennac could also be found hiding within a house in Chpater 9 and gave a Dragonshield to the visitor to keep them quiet. If the chapter was cleared with no villages being destroyed, Rennac then ran off on his own seeing that L'Arachel and Dozla had left, and he gave Eirika an Angelic Robe out of gratitude.

He next appears in "Chapter 14: Queen of White Dunes" of Eirika's Path and "Chapter 14: Father and Son" of Ephraim's Path, having joined with Grado's forces in both paths due to the prospect of pay. Eirika or Ephraim could hire him to their side by paying him 9.980 gold (and Rennac showed a great fear of Ephraim due to the stories he heard about him). Otherwise, L'Arachel could use her strong will to persuade Rennac to join them for free. He remained in Ephraim and Eirika's combined forces for the remainder of the war. Once it ended, Rennac was ready to finally be free again, but L'Arachel ordered him to continue accompanying her as she still had many missions left to tend to. Rennac seemed to set off on his own at some point afterwards, only to be forced to return to Rausten when L'Arachel summoned him. He was never able to escape his service to Queen L'Arachel, but at the same time he did not try very hard to.

Support Conversation Summaries

Rennac is capable of having support conversations with four other characters:

• Colm - Colm approaches Rennac claiming to know his secret - that he's a thief and questions whether that's acceptable behavior being in the L'Arachel's entourage. Rennac however dismisses Colm as being an urchin and brags about his style of clothing and the special embroidery inside his jacket. Later Colm speaks to him after learning that Rennac comes from a rich family and shouldn't need to steal, but Rennac explains that his father taught his kids the value of hard work and never gave them anything for free, and thus being a thief is merely his occupation. Colm tries to relate with his own upbringing of having to hunt and garden to survive, but Rennac dismisses it as not being 'real work'. Angry, Colm declares he's going to steal something important from Rennac. Later Colm reveals he stole Rennac's embroidery after the other thief had failed to notice. However Rennac reveals that he had replaced the embroidery with a fake, but compliments Colm on his ability and that he's glad he doesn't have Colm for an enemy.
• Dozla - In the first conversation, Dozla warmly welcomes Rennac back to the fold, and Rennac complains that Dozla is horrible at reading people and that he hates that he continuously winds up serving L'Arachel in battle. Rennac points out the difference between there jobs in that Dozla is a sworn vassal while Rennac is a temporary employee, and he decides to demand 50,000 gold from Mansel when they return to Rausten. Dozla misunderstands his figure of speech and thinks that he wants 50,000 ears, and he begins to work out how that would be done. In the next conversation, Rennac laments that life is hollow and meaningless, and Dozla fumbles with a simplistic answer about the basic definition of life, then he sidetracks himself into thinking about food. Rennac envies both him and L'Arachel due to the fact that they seem to have no worries in the world. He also goes on about his background and his love for money, and he points out that L'Arachel's ability to make them jump through hoops while being overbearing and egotistical is a skill that most normal people do not possess. Dozla assures him that the princess makes the impossible possible and guesses that he is with her because she made a deep impression on him as well. Rennac compares his situation to a type of brain freeze, and Dozla once more misunderstands his figure of speech and offers to thaw out his head. Rennac shouts at him correcting him, but Dozla was just teasing him. Rennac sighs that the two of them make a good pair, as Dozla was the only one who could keep up with L'Arachel. In the final conversation, Dozla fears that he may not survive the war due to his age, and he tells Rennac that his dream is to see L'Arachel happily wed one day. Rennac points out that finding a worthy prince who was willing to marry L'Arachel would be no easy task. Dozla asks Rennac to take care of the princess for him if he does not make it, but this makes Rennac flip out and refuse, once more citing that he just wants to get his pay and disappear. Dozla is disappointed by Rennac's cold response and begins to describe what the wedding ceremony would be like. Rennac begins to play along and offers some sardonic commentary which ends in Dozla describing L'Arachel recruiting Rennac into being her guard on her honeymoon. Rennac tells Dozla he is getting carried away, but Dozla tells him that he is now a true vassal to L'Arachel, body and soul. Rennac is left with a terrible feeling that he will never be free of L'Arachel.
• L'Arachel - Rennac is startled when L'Arachel approaches him, and explains that it is because she is noisy which disrupts his work. She is offended by this, preferring to be described as showy or flamboyant. She reminds him that his priority on the battlefield should be protecting her, but Rennac tells her that his priorities have changed due to the other members of the army respecting his abilities. L'Arachel tells him he has no idea how to treat a lady and should be more refined, but this offends Rennac because he considers himself a gentleman and lets slip that he is a fabulous dancer. She questions this, and Rennac offers to prove it by dancing with her. L'Arachel declines by using their different social stations as an excuse, but he accuses her of covering up her own lack of dancing ability. This makes L'Arachel agree to dancing together when they next meet for just one occasion and suggests he practice in the meantime. Rennac promises to make her eat her words. In the next conversation, L'Arachel suddenly approaches him, ready for the dance off. Rennac is flabbergasted by the idea of dancing in the middle of a battlefield, but L'Arachel initiates the dance anyway. She is impressed by his moves, and he explains how he learned dancing. L'Arachel tells him he should not have kept such good skills secret, but she tells him his treatment of ladies is still lacking. Rennac then quickly excuses himself, which leaves L'Arachel confused. In the final conversation, Rennac sighs at her approach, and she suggests that he learn from her so that he could be truly happy and not sigh so much. L'Arachel asks him what makes him happy, and he replies gold, because it is what motivates him so that he could buy what he desires. She advises him to treasure what he does possess as opposed to lamenting what he does not have, the road to true happiness. Rennac understands the moral but points out that it does not mean anything when spoken by someone who has everything. L'Arachel dismisses that point as irrelevant and tells him that he does not need money or fame when he has her, and that serving her is the greatest pleasure man can know because people dream of having a sweet and lovely employer such as herself. Rennac wonders how she got such a large ego, but she tells him that he complains too much and leaves, ordering him to follow her. Before leaving, Rennac lags behind and wonders if this is what happiness feels like.
• Tethys - Rennac introduces himself to Tethys and is disappointed that she hasn't heard of him. She is too busy to tallk to him at the moment, so Rennac decided to engage her later and suggests that she dance for him alone. Tethys asks if he is trying to woo her, wanting him to stop if so, but Rennac denies this while also saying that many women who turn him down wind up coming around to him eventually. Tethys says she will keep an eye on him and possibly change his mind, and he leaves with this. She is left hoping that he did not take her seriously and did not get his hopes up too high. In the next conversation, Rennac briefly checks with Tethys, and she says only that he seems "unobjectionable" and still has a long way to go. At her suggestion, Rennac decides to try to get her a gift but has trouble thinking of one. In the last conversation, Rennac brings her some gem-encrusted object that she had requested, even though she did not seem to remember what she had asked for. He asks if she has been avoiding him, but Tethys denies this. Tethys tells him that she has only learned from this that he is a hard worker, and she still does not yet consider him to be a good catch. The conversation ends with Tethys beginning to describe a different gift she desires.