Rensha

The Renshas were a Calishite family that conquered Loudwater and much of the Delimbiyr Vale, ruling it from the mid–12 to early 14 centuries DR.

History
Ibun Rensha and several of his family members left Calimshan at the head of a mercenary army and journeyed into northwest Faerûn. They took over Loudwater and laid claim to most of Delimbiyr Vale in the Year of the Scourge, 1150 DR, beginning a period known as the Rensha Rule. Seeing Mielikki's Green Regents and their Scions as threats to their reign, the Renshas banned the ritual to select Green Regents and Scions every Shieldmeet and hunted down any that they found, causing them to vanish for more than a century.

Though the Renshas made the town more prosperous and expanded its connections with the outside world, they exploited the Vale's natural resources and despoiled much of the pristine beauty of the area. Under them, loggers cleared the forests away from the river and farmers claimed the land for agriculture, while miners strip-mined the mountains, all at a shocking pace, and the wealth flowed down the river and out of the vale.

Over time, the amoral Renshas descended into decadence and the pursuit of dark magic.

The last Rensha lord, Pasuuk Rensha ordered a band of talented mercenary hunters to obtain for him a unicorn's horn. His reasons for this were not known, but some worried it was for a ritual of dark magic that would link High Lord's Hall with the Nine Hells, and he was later confirmed to consort with devils. But, in the Year of Spilled Blood, 1315 DR, when they caught the unicorn, one of the hunters, a Nimbrali mercenary named Nanathlor Greysword, instead defended the beast and became the Green Regent Returned. He and his followers fought to overthrow the Renshas and liberate Loudwater, launching the War of the Returned Regent.

Finally, after two years of fierce fighting, the war culminated in the Battle of Tanglefork in the Year of the Wandering Wyrm, 1317 DR, when Pasuuk and the Renshas' forces confronted Nanathlor and his ragtag band. Nanathlor called on Mielikki for aid, and she awakened the trees around the battlefield and set them to attack Pasuuk's forces. In response, Pasuuk summoned a coven of devils to assault the trees. Ultimately, Mielikki's servants were victorious and the devils and Pasuuk were all killed in the fighting. Nanathlor became the ruler of Loudwater.

Although the Renshas were banned from Loudwater, the family survived in Calimshan and in 1373 DR, Sanaja Rensha aided a failed Zhentarim plot to conquer the city.

Notable Members

 * Ibun Rensha: First Rensha lord of Loudwater.
 * Marzut Rensha: Fifth Rensha lord of Loudwater.
 * Misbah Rensha: Second Rensha lord of Loudwater.
 * Paronthen Rensha: A Rensha emissary to the Zhentarim of Llorkh.
 * Pasuuk Rensha: Final Rensha lord of Loudwater.
 * Sanaja Rensha: A distant descendant of the Rensha lords.