Queen Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon, is the head of the Carian Royal Family and former master of the Academy of Raya Lucaria in Liurnia of the Lakes. In her youth she was an astrologer who gazed at the night sky and pursued the stars. She encountered an enchanting full moon that later bewitched the academy; with her lunar magic she rose to become its master, established House Caria as royalty, and anointed the elite Carian Knights (the Glintstone Knights). She prohibited study of the primeval current at the academy and exiled its founders Azur and Lusat. Rennala led the Carian forces in the Liurnian Wars against the Golden Order. After two inconclusive conflicts, peace was secured through her marriage to the champion Radagon. The couple had three children—General Radahn, Praetor Rykard, and Lunar Princess Ranni—who were later made demigods when Radagon left to become second Elden Lord and consort to Queen Marika. Upon his departure Radagon gifted Rennala an amber egg containing the Great Rune of the Unborn. Heartbroken, she lost her former strength and resolve. The academy rebelled against Carian rule, locked her in the Grand Library, and she withdrew into the grim art of imperfect reincarnation, endlessly rebirthing the Juvenile Scholars (her “sweetings”) with the egg while her own mind deteriorated. She has a younger sister named Rellana, the Twin Moon Knight. In childhood the two sisters encountered a pair of overlapping twin moons. Rellana later renounced her Carian birthright, received a gift of Rennala’s lustrous black hair, and followed Messmer the Impaler into the Realm of Shadow, becoming known as the Sword of Messmer. (Count Ymir, a glintstone sorcerer who once served the Carian royals, instructed Rellana in the sorcerous arts before abandoning allegiance to the moon.)