His father had fallen in the Battle of Silverpine Forest. When Reno heard the news, he was clearing the battlefield south of Ferry Town.
Reno had a poor relationship with his father, and he had never been given much responsibility in the Silver Hand. His feelings toward his father, Mograine, were complicated.
When he heard of his father's death, Reno felt as though the sky were falling. He lay before his father's mutilated remains and wept for a long time, until his older brother Darion returned.
For as long as he could remember, Reno had lived in his older brother Darion's shadow.
Whatever he did, Darion always outperformed him.
Reno liked to play, but he was fiercely competitive. Unwilling to lose to his older brother Darion, he resolutely rejected old Mograine's suggestion that he study to become a holy priest at Light's Hope Chapel and decided to become a paladin instead.
The road to becoming a paladin was far harder than that of becoming a priest. Paladin training required comprehensive cultivation of both body and mind.
To fight at close quarters, a paladin had to possess the combat skills of a warrior class practitioner.
Their supporting Holy Light spells, meanwhile, needed power comparable to those of a priest.
Reno was physically weak, and his grades in academic subjects had been poor as a child.
Many of his peers believed that Reno, fresh out of school, could never become a paladin through his own training.
For that reason, his childhood sweetheart Whitemane had kept urging him to go to Light's Hope Chapel and study the holy specialization with her.
Yet Reno, who usually loved fawning over her, refused Whitemane's invitation.
In the second year after his brother Darion entered the Order of the Silver Hand's training camp, he moved to Hearthglen.