Stella Argentine

Stella was a half-dragon Sorcerer / Warlock in the Firebreathing Kittens guild. After the events of Season 2022, she joined a dragons' game and became the Silver Dragon Stellfaeira of the Infinite Spirits. 
After the events of Sitters and Souls, she has Lenny Brandybuck working for her as a squire, aide, personal chef, and personal brewer. He used to go on FBK adventures and other jobs with her, and he is now her prime Exarch. In exchange, he gets a cut from her earnings and she can help him make connections. She bought his soul from Hell’s Casino, but she does not own it - Lenny sticks with her for his own reasons. 
Stats
Level	19
STR 	8
DEX 	14
CON 	19
INT 	10
WIS 	12
CHA 	22
== Description ==
Being half dark elf and half silver dragon, she has the body of a 6' tall female elf with very pale skin, long white hair, dragon horns, spines, a long tail, slitted blue eyes, and silver scales on some of her body. She has a pair of silver dragon’s wings she kept hidden under her cloak until the events of Chet-conomics, where she learned she could fly. Once tiny and useless, they are now an impressive 12 feet long when spread and look just like her twin brother’s. She likes to show off her features, and she wears outfits that are *moderately* revealing and a blend of fancy and casual. Picture a k-pop star but more casual. She doesn't get cold, but she wears a cloak and sunglasses outside during the day to shield her skin from the sun, as her skin is very sensitive to sunlight. She turns as red as a tomato when she burns, so she tries to avoid the sun as much as possible. She's not a vampire - she’s albino! 
Her pale blue Firebreathing Kittens Guild tattoo is on her upper left arm, just under her shoulder. It is usually visible but easily concealed. She also has a golden vine-and-leaf tattoo on her right hand and arm that Maelaurian gave her as a souvenir. 
== List of Significant Relationships ==
In no particular order. Includes PCs that were featured in more than one adventure she was in or that she significantly impacted. 
* Zamfira Argentine: mother
* Blithe Hoard: absent biological father
* Sterling Argentine: twin brother
* Ruby Argentine: baby sister
* Maelaurian: wife, warlock patron
* Willy: flatmate, friend
* Jenny: fellow half-dragon friend
* Skirmish: friend. Gave him swimming lessons! This unfortunately involved a lot of freezing the Argentine Estate pool...
* Wing: friend. Gave her a brooch from Nugget's scales - a treasure! 
* Jade: role model (but one Stella finds too difficult to follow), friend
* Lenny Brandybuck: friend, companion and faithful servant. She doesn't know what she'd do without him, tbh. 
* Tanager Goodfellow: former landlord/roommate, role model she finds easier to follow
* Pan: wingman/god. She drank him from a flask, once. 
* Don Ravioli: hated him for capturing her brother. Kidnapped him and then forgot him in the Argentine Estate dungeon. Whoops! 
* Dieter von Richtenbach: froze him when Jenny used the Fireball Wand on him. It's good to place ice immediately on burns, right?
* Sally: demon/dealer from Hell's casino whose soul she won in Sitters and Souls. Sally's soul is now trapped in a necklace that gives Stella extra Constitution. 
* Gatsby: went to a castle he ended up inheriting. That was a strange but fun sleepover! 
* Walter Tebow: flirted with him for information. They did have a fling, at some point. 
* Pugsley: friend. She gave him some of her power, turning his soul into draconic desire for happiness. He became some sort of powerful magic entity.
* Kaern: friend. They were involved in some... less than legal, morally shadowy dealings. 
* Safeira the Safety Dragon: most-used form of her summoned dragon. 
* Ernst Lee: former boss
* Poppy Lindun: business partner
== Background ==
Stella is the daughter of Lady Zamfira Argentine, a female silver dragon who owns the Argentine Estate in the Elysian Fields district outside Niqamui. Her biological father, a dark elf named Blithe Hoard, was absent for her whole life until Stella learned the truth in Winter in July. Turns out he was hiding in plain sight, avoiding the family, this whole time! She was more disappointed than anything to find out his identity, as she had romanticized the idea of her father, whom her mother refused to talk about, for a long time. Was he a powerful elven mage her mom had a tryst with? A dragon slayer who fell in love with his quarry? An adventurer who died protecting her? Or an evil overlord whose name cannot be uttered? Nope, just a deadbeat shady businessman who knocked her mother up and left her, then sold out her brother to the mob. Well, she's almost an adult so she's gotta deal with reality! That's a problem for when she's sober. 
Stella has a twin brother named Sterling, who is the heir to the Argentine Estate. They came from the same egg, but Sterling emerged first. Thus began a pattern of Stella living in Sterling's shadow, no matter how hard she tried. 
Sterling has large dragon wings he uses to fly and can appear as a winged elf or silver dragonborn, whereas Stella always looks more elven. Between the two of them, their features form a full elf and a full dragon. He does not have a breath weapon, but his arcane magic was always more powerful than Stella's. Sterling was also smarter and more athletic than Stella, and everyone praised him while Stella was politely acknowledged but otherwise ignored. 
He did have a breath weapon, and draconic powers, but he lost them in a battle with an assassin when he and Stella were about 50 years old. He narrowly defeated the assassin, falling unconscious from his wounds, but a panicked Stella unleashed her ice powers on the assassin to finish them off, accidentally (?) dealing her twin brother a death blow as well. As a result, she absorbed his soul and gained the powers of a full silver dragon, which remained dormant in her for decades. Their mother knew what Stella did, but she helped her daughter keep the secret, even after resurrecting Sterling, who was unable to recover the draconic part of his soul. He only had his elven magic left. He kept his draconic features and limited shapechanging, as they were physical features he already developed, and vowed to never lose in combat again. Zamfira resented her daughter, as she wished Sterling had inherited the full dragon's powers instead. Stella never told anyone what she did until she spilled her dark secret to Maelaurian in Pan's Handlers. In Bottoms Up Buddy, she and the party learned that this tragic moment was, in fact, her happiest memory - as her dragon's soul rejoiced in becoming whole. 
Eventually, Zamfira sent both of them to Atrios Academy of Wizardry, a prestigious and expensive boarding school of magic located in a remote area of Guaso. Of course, Sterling excelled in his classes while Stella barely passed hers, turning to drink and partying when she was always outshone by Sterling. She was never able to learn any wizard spells, instead using her basic sorcery magic to its potential and taking some easy classes about magic and history. 
When the final exam came, Stella was nowhere near prepared. Sterling was going to pass, of course. He held a fey-themed party the night before the exam, which Stella attended. In a display of impressive but arrogant showmanship, Sterling opened a portal to the Yosekai and accidentally summoned an Archfey. Amid the chaos, the Archfey said she will choose one worthy person to go into the Feywild with her. To everyone's surprise, she chose Stella, not Sterling. The Archfey was Maelaurian, the Archfey of Desire, and she liked Stella. She likes underdogs, as they rarely get what they desire and could benefit from her powers the most. In exchange for a favor*, of which Stella's memory was wiped, Maelaurian decided to grant Stella what she desired most - to outdo Sterling in something. So, when Stella went to do her exam, Maelaurian influenced the examiners' minds to pass Stella and fail Sterling, making him repeat at least another year even though he was much more qualified to graduate than Stella. 
Atrios Academy certifies its graduates to be Level 6 wizards, and Stella was nowhere near that - she was just a level 1 sorcerer. Yet she "passed" the exam with flying colors and received a certificate. She tried to use this certificate to apply for jobs, but she rarely lasted a week. Eventually, businesses and reputable guilds in Niqamui learned that she wasn't really qualified, and she could not get a job anywhere. 
After a decade of aimless partying, Stella's life changed. A few years prior, an egg thought previously inviable hatched, and Zamfira became a new mom again. Very protective and moody from raising Ruby, Zamfira decided to cut off Stella's allowance. She also scared all of Stella's guests away when their partying was too loud and kicked Stella out for a while. 
Stella, having learned about the Firebreathing Kittens' good deeds and unusual adventures, decided to join them. She didn't use her fake credentials this time! Her goals are to try and make her mother proud, be a good role model for her sister, and hopefully, someday, no longer live in her brother's shadow. 
=== Multiclassing into Warlock ===
*In the night before Stella's graduation, she and Maelaurian would have spent a bunch of time together (days? weeks? she wouldn't know, as time passes differently in the Yosekai than it does in the Material Plane), and they grew fond of each other. Stella didn’t want to go back - she liked it too much in this world. She wanted to become an Ekenblim. But Mae didn’t want that for Stella. She knew that a mortal becoming an Ekenblim would mean losing fundamental parts of its identity and the ability to change, so Stella had to go back. Mae wanted her to have a taste of success - she wanted to plant the seed of desire in her so it could grow into something great that Mae could use. She wanted Stella to be one of her warlocks because she sensed she had great potential. But Stella wasn’t interested in the power, and she would rather perform a favor for Mae than some stranger. So, Mae decided to grant a wish Stella came up with on the fly (being better than her brother at something) and told Stella “there is no favor you can grant me right now. Perhaps in time you may be able to do something for me. You will find me when you are ready and understand what it is I desire most.” She sent Stella back and removed her memories of her time in the Yosekai, as it was dangerous for her to keep them. She created an unfulfilled pact where Stella’s wish was basically granted so she would have some desire to live and a taste of success, and she left a tattoo on Stella as a way to watch her (because she is easily bored and finds Stella’s exploits entertaining) and as a lead to find Mae eventually. So, the favor has not happened yet, and it will be for Maelaurian if Stella finds a way to help her get the thing she desires most - freedom. 
== Adventures ==
*The Forgotten Friend
*Boaty McKittenface
*Petting Zoos and Finding Clues
*Babysitting The Stars (as an NPC)
*Dust Busters
*Sitters And Souls
*Winter in July: their biological father met Stella and Sterling and sold him out to the mob. 
*Party Animals 
*Always Carry a Blarpie (modern setting!) 
*A Whale Of A Tale 
*Chet-conomics: her dragon's wings were revealed, and she flew for the first time!
*Pan's Handlers: became Maelaurian's lover and warlock 
*Gatsby's House of Spirits : acquired the Disaster Orb that would later cause a natural disaster in Niqamui
*Bottoms Up Buddy 
*Kaern: The Worldbreaker : fought her brother Sterling in a Dragon's Duel
*Legends Are Born (brief appearance as an NPC) - Disaster Orb fell out of her portable hole while she was on a date with Mae 
*Season 2022 Epilogues: Stella Argentine became Stellfaeira of the Infinite Spirits 
*I Can't Believe It's Not Better and Minimum Rager 
== Extras ==
=== Deeper character goals/development she worked towards ===
# Protect her friends and family. She feels like she has failed to protect a family member in the past and that event scarred her for life (but is also her happiest memory?) and is the main reason she has a drinking problem.
# Be a better person. This one is not really a secret. Stella does questionable things and her morals are all over the place (she extorted 400 GP from a woman who nearly lost her husband, lies regularly, and pretended to be an escort). She has been to jail many times (though someone from her family always bailed her out after a day or so) from her nefarious deeds and woke up in hospitals and unfamiliar places more times than she can count. The law has no meaning or relevance to her, and she hardly understands when (or why) she breaks it. She wants to be a better role model for her sister and looks up to Jade for her ability to abide by the law. 
# Become famous. She achieved this goal by modelling and now appears on covers quite often. She also crashes Sterling's live-streams sometimes - usually without meaning to or believing he is in danger. 
# Form lifelong connections with people. She has absolutely no problem making friends because she's so charismatic, but she has trouble maintaining those relationships.
#Find love - she did with the demigoddess Maelaurian! Hopefully they can keep it going.
=== Modelling shoots / art prompts ===
Note: none of her tattoos appear in these. 
*Rogue Magazine: Small portion of a page in the middle of the magazine. Cute, slightly edgy shot of her in a lacy, ruffled, schoolgirl chic black dress and tights playing with an ice-made dagger. In the Gold Edition (classified as an Uncommon magical item and collected by people with lots of money to burn), she is animated by illusion magic to throw the dagger in the air, where it shatters into a million ice shards, and reforms it just before she catches it. She then grins at the artist and licks the edge of the ice dagger. It is unclear whether the blood that drips down the blade is real or illusion. 
* Ice Queen: Just her in a long, robe-like glacier blue dress sitting cross-legged on a throne made of clear ice. Her hair is half-up in braids and she looks down at the artist.
* Rogue Magazine: Full page feature. Title: "rigor mortis." Inspired by one of the undead in Dust Busters, Stella is trapped in an immense 30' ice structure of her own creation (Binding Ice spell) wearing a tattered black-and-silver ball gown (remade to look like the one from the graveyard). The shot is zoomed in to her, and she looks like a gory but glamorous pale zombie with special effects and makeup. It is easy to see her wide-eyed, glassy, dead expression in the piece, and her body is twisted in awkward angles. In the Gold Edition, she is at first perfectly still with her eyes closed, then reanimates and struggles to break free, staring blankly at the artist the entire time. At the bottom of the photo reads "Inspired by true events in Mishui." Next page is a sunny, idyllic advertisement for the Town of Mishui. Who the heck decides the ad placements??
* Ice Queen: “Colours day” feature where she is dressed in all white with a paint-spattered white cloak on a white background. She holds a piece of ice cut like a diamond/prism. When she blows into it, a rainbow emanates from the ice crystal.
*Rogue Magazine: Cover. Also featured in "Who is Stella Argentine?" article. Here, her dragon-spiked back and one wing face the audience and her head is turned to look at them, showing her side profile. Her hair is braided and tossed over her shoulder, mostly hidden. She wears only a white silk gown and minimal makeup. You can see golden flecks in her slitted blue eye. In the article, she reveals that she and her brother are half silver dragon - though she does not give any details of her parentage.
*Rogue Magazine: Cover. Shown in hybrid form stroking her summoned dragon "Stell'feira," which is also her dragon form. She wears the starry blue dress from Pan's Handlers. Also in "Draconic beauty" article, where she is riding "Stell'feira," dressed in riding clothes and pants.
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