Renea was raised by her father, after her mother died as collateral damage of a fight between a Solar exalted and a Dragon-Blooded. Since that moment, Renea has a strong dislike for Dragon-Blooded, as the Dragon-Blooded that accidentally killed her mother started the fight.

Har father, having little experience raising a daughter and not wanting to be remembered of his wife every day, decided to raise Renea as a boy. For a long time, this was very confusing to Renea. At the start, she like being allowed to play in the mud, but during puberty she started to doubt whether she was a man or a woman. Eventually she decided that she looked like a woman, had a man's job, and that she did not care what others thought of that. She started to wear grey because it was easy.