Renza Fierro

Renza, a character in the The Royal Masquerade book, is the lady of House Fierro and The Regent's twin sibling. She is first seen in Chapter 2.

Appearance
No matter the appearance of King/Queen-Regent, Renza will have fair skin, brown eyes and brown hair done up in a intricate, twisted hairstyle, and it can be assumed they are fraternal twins. She wears an elaborate purple dress printed with gold flowers, an indicator of her family's wealth. She also wears a silver necklace inlaid with purple stones.

Personality
Renza appears to be of high intelligence, wit, and cunning, as seen in her cutting remarks towards Cyrus Vescovi, even before he threatens your alliance. She is also jealous of her twin sibling - the Regent and the positions of power he/she is placed in. As she puts it, "hate can be as powerful as desire" and it appears it is hate that motivates her and her actions.

The Royal Masquerade

 * Chapter 2: A Noble Effort
 * Chapter 3: Predator and Prey
 * Chapter 4: A Night Under the Stars
 * Chapter 5: Valor and Vanity
 * Chapter 6: Confessions
 * Chapter 7: Betrayal
 * Chapter 8: Sisters (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 9: A House Divided
 * Chapter 10: Wildfire
 * Chapter 11: Court of Whispers
 * Chapter 12: Lovestruck
 * Chapter 13: Love and Power
 * Chapter 14: Secrets (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 15: The Conclave
 * Chapter 16: Truth
 * Chapter 17: Unity

Damon Fierro
She is Damon Fierro's daughter. When Damon chose his successor to be her twin sibling, The Regent, Renza did not protest forthright. Damon also arranged an advantageous marriage for her to benefit House Fierro, which she had no choice but to agree. In Chapter 6, she explains that her destiny was handed to her twin and she was dismissed into the bed of a stranger but she was not going to let others decide her future. If you try to reason or use your House as leverage for Damon to reconsider his decision, he tells you that Renza has been power hungry since birth. She did not manipulate him, but just moved around the pieces on a chessboard.

In Chapter 11, he asserts his position as Head of House but when Theodosia announces her game Court of Whispers, he has Renza stand in his place. In Chapter 12, if you decide to eavesdrop on Renza's Chamber of Ultimate Desire, you find Damon and Renza plotting in a wine cellar. He is disgusted that you -a commoner- have beaten his daughter, but Renza assures him that she will sow discord between you and Theodosia. That doesn't last, and in Chapter 15, you are able to prove to him that her actions were selfish and not with House Fierro in mind by producing Kendra's will naming The Regent as her successor and passing the monarchy to the Fierros.

When you win the Conclave and become Queen, Damon and Renza do not accept it. After Renza is unsuccessful in her assassination attempt, Damon uses her death as an example to the masses that your coronation was wrong and that you usurped the throne, manipulating the Regent and conspiring with Kendra's self-proclaimed "assassin" Crown Shield. He states that Renza was trying to stop you but you killed her.

King/Queen Regent
"Perhaps the fault is in our ways. Perhaps our births should never promise us power."

- "The Regent" to You

She is King/Queen-Regent's twin sister. Even though she admits that The Regent has a better knack for politics and leadership, she simply does not care about the welfare of Cordonia. She wants the power and will not let her twin stand in her way. Once she exposes her twin's affections for you in Chapter 6, they don't speak much to each other as she basically had Damon cast The Regent out of House Fierro. When she was younger, Renza was very close to her twin. Whenever The Regent would receive an injury, Renza would distract with a game of rhyming couplets while the medicus attended to the wounds.

In Chapter 9, they run into each other after The Regent helps you into his/her former home to find the blackmail Renza has on Zya. No love is lost as Renza orders Carlo to attack, but Crown Shield is able to knock him aside. In Chapter 12, if The Regent is your love interest, Renza has no difficulty throwing knives at him/her during Theodosia's Lovestruck game.

Your Character
In Chapter 2, when you first meet her, she helps Your Character by giving her advice about the nobles. From there, when you ally your House with House Fierro, she helps you try to attain a suitor from first House Beaumont then House Nevrakis to strengthen your alliance. In Chapter 6, after you become engaged to your Nevrakis suitor, she manipulates her twin into confessing his/her love for you thereby having their father strip her twin of his/her title. This angers you, but you find yourself unable to do anything about it. She confesses that she has poisoned you from your first meeting and if you don't help her secure the throne, she will let you die. You refuse her and she locks you away in a cabin aboard the Fierro yacht.

"Only a tyrant would seek personal power when the country had already been promised a wise and kind leader."

- You to "The Regent"

In Chapter 7, unbeknownst to her, Vasco, Crown Shield, and her twin find you and you tell them everything that she confessed. After Vasco hides you in your own cabin, you hide yourself under your bed when she and Cyrus Vescovi enter. During their tryst, you get ahold of a vial of antidote that she hid on her body, drink a portion of it, and then escape from under their noses. You have the premium options to abscond with their clothes and their House charms to embarrass them. With Vasco, Crown Shield, and her twin, you escape the yacht and head home.

In Chapter 8, the Regent tells you that he/she cannot arrest a noble without evidence and even though he/she believes you, it would be your word (and your House) against Renza and Cyrus. Deciding that putting in your bid for Queen is in the best interest of your House and Cordonia, you discover Renza has already sowed seeds between you and Zya, who she has blackmailed. Just as you destroy the blackmail, Renza's hired assassin commits arson on the Beltane Festival and the fires lay waste to many peasants' homes and businesses.

In Chapter 10, you announce your bid for Queen to Renza and Cyrus's smirks, their laughter fading when the townspeople rejoice. The happiness doesn't last as you are pit against Renza in Theodosia's Court of Whispers and then Lovestruck games. Even when you win the games, Renza manipulates Theodosia into requesting a marriage alliance to secure her vote. You come to another agreement with Theodosia, and in Chapter 14, you turn your attention to finding out what sort of "guarantee" Cyrus has against Renza to protect himself. You discover it is Queen Kendra's will that bears Renza's seal as the Keeper of the Royal Archives. It names the Regent as her heir, which she wanted him to destroy but he kept instead.

In Chapter 15, you and the other nobles vote at the Conclave, watching both Cyrus and Emery Beaumont change their votes to and fro. You bring up the will to Damon, not to push for the Regent to win the throne (as the will is nullified at the beginning of the vote) but to prove to Damon that Renza was not thinking about House Fierro. If she was, then the Regent would be king/queen and House Fierro would become the reigning monarchs. Because she wanted to destroy the will, she was not putting House Fierro first but her own self-interests and quest for power. After all is said and done, you win the votes at the Conclave but House Fierro does not support you.

In Chapter 16, after you coronation, Renza and the assassin slip into your chambers. She stabs you in the chest with a dagger. Unbeknownst to her, you had anticipated her attack and Crown Shield had placed a barrier protecting you hours before. Once her attack proves futile, in Chapter 17 you and your love interest chase her through the palace, trying to apprehend her and the Assassin. After the Assassin is killed, Renza tries one last attempt to kill you but plunges to her own death. Even if you attempt to save her, she falls - her last words that she has already "won".

Cyrus Vescovi
In front of others, Renza acts disgusted with Cyrus Vescovi, playing on the general distaste other members of court have for the Head of House Vescovi. In Chapter 7, you find that this is mainly a ruse as you hear their conversation in your cabin on the Fierro yacht, that they conspired together to kill Queen Kendra and take the throne. It is unclear if Cyrus' bid for King was a ploy as they both intend to dominate over the other, but Renza says that once she is crowned Queen, she would annul her marriage and force him to marry her instead.

Even though Damon finds them both in a state of undress on deck, he does not fully berate his daughter until Chapter 11 when you tell everyone present about their intimate activities during Theodosia's Court of Whispers game. In Chapter 13, Cyrus withdraws his bid for King and says he supports House Fierro but during the Conclave in Chapter 15, the votes keep flipping back and forth until he is arrested for Kendra's death. It is the last time they speak as he is incarcerated in the dungeons and Renza continues to plot without him.

Percival Beaumont
At a social function a long time ago, Percival taught Renza how to throw knives.

Trivia

 * In Chapter 3, she revealed that she doesn’t like being outdoors. Whenever she goes outdoors, she usually packs comforts like imported cotton pillows, umbrella and food to help her get through the trip.
 * Her crimes include blackmail, conspiracy, kidnapping, treason, and attempted murder.