Renna the Snow Witch is a character from Elden Ring. We never actually meet Renna in person, instead Ranni initially introduces herself to us as Renna, and eventually we find the Snow Witch armor set in Renna's Rise after Ranni moves on to the latter part of her quest.
Some people have debated if Renna was actually the Snow Witch who served as a mentor to Ranni, but I'm not sure why the debate exists because this is about as spoon-fed to us by From software as it gets. Not only was Renna the actual identity of the Snow Witch, she is also the Third Sister of Rennala and Rellana.
What is an actual mystery from the lore perspective, is what exactly happened to Renna? By the time the Tarnished player character gets to move the story forward she appears to be gone, and most likely dead. Only traces of her remain, and perhaps Ranni assumed Renna's identity to hide from the Two Fingers after pulling off the double assassinantion during the Night of the Black Knives. She modeled her new body appearance after Renna and managed to avoid detection for a very long time... The only way the deception would have been effective, is if Renna was indeed famous enough for Ranni to pull off that stunt. So this may be obvious to us as the story unfolds that Ranni is not who she initially claimed she is, but we do not get any decent information hinting regarding what actually happened to Renna the Snow Witch and how or why she died. This is rather important because both Rennala and Rellana were clearly extremely powerful, and expecting their third sibling to be lacking in both power and importance to the overall world development is strange...
This was an ink drawing which was modified and painted over digitally to create the image you see above. This is not my usual style but I decided to try something new and to leave it rather simple.
Some people have debated if Renna was actually the Snow Witch who served as a mentor to Ranni, but I'm not sure why the debate exists because this is about as spoon-fed to us by From software as it gets. Not only was Renna the actual identity of the Snow Witch, she is also the Third Sister of Rennala and Rellana.
What is an actual mystery from the lore perspective, is what exactly happened to Renna? By the time the Tarnished player character gets to move the story forward she appears to be gone, and most likely dead. Only traces of her remain, and perhaps Ranni assumed Renna's identity to hide from the Two Fingers after pulling off the double assassinantion during the Night of the Black Knives. She modeled her new body appearance after Renna and managed to avoid detection for a very long time... The only way the deception would have been effective, is if Renna was indeed famous enough for Ranni to pull off that stunt. So this may be obvious to us as the story unfolds that Ranni is not who she initially claimed she is, but we do not get any decent information hinting regarding what actually happened to Renna the Snow Witch and how or why she died. This is rather important because both Rennala and Rellana were clearly extremely powerful, and expecting their third sibling to be lacking in both power and importance to the overall world development is strange...
This was an ink drawing which was modified and painted over digitally to create the image you see above. This is not my usual style but I decided to try something new and to leave it rather simple.
