Star

**Spoiler Warning**: Plot and/or ending details follow.

> "*You don't have to fight me, or one another, anymore. Peace is your choice. I am not a destroyer, but I cannot say the same for you. I welcome all steeds who want to join me, but I won't be your over-stallion. I won't lead you, and I won't conquer you. Your lives are in your wings."*
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## Book Appearances

### Alive:

Starfire, Stormbound, Landfall, Windborn

**Star**is a rather tall and muscular black pegasus stallionwith a large white star on his forehead, ringlet mane and tail, and oak-brown eyes.

**Star** was a leader of River Herd and Trap Herd in the western Anok territories, and was prophesied as one of the black foals of Anok. He was born to Lightfeather and The Hundred Year Star, and lived as a member of Sun Herd. On the day when The Hundred Year Star where it shown as brightly, was he born within the meadow dwelling herd with his biological dam becoming deceased a few hours after giving birth to him.

Star is very kind, calm, and forgiving. Since he had grown up constantly being teased, he is aware of other's suffering and pities them. He was dud colt with over-sized wings, making him unable to fly. But the ancient prophecy declares that he’ll become the most powerful pegasus in Anok on his first birthday.

## History

### *Starfire*

Star is first seen practicing flying alone in the woods, away from the other foals. He watches the other foals gliding effortlessly through the sky. He sags against a fir tree, hot and tired. He hears voices teasing him and creeps through the trees. He spots Brackentail and Stripestorm, two of the colts, playing and joking. Then, when Brackentail makes fun of Star’s dam, Star races out of the woods and rams Brackentail, sending the two colts tumbling. Stripestorm charges Star, and they begin to fight, until Stars falls into the lake, unable to resurface. He sinks to the bottom and tries to flip himself over. Suddenly, he sees feathers and hears an unfamiliar male voice. Four strange stallions loom over him and grab his wings. Stars escaped and runs, but a captain with one brown eye and one blue eye lands in front of him. The stallions grab Star’s wings and lift off. Star watches as Sun Herd’s territory grows smaller and smaller. He realizes that the stallions are taking him to Rockwing, the over-stallion of Mountain Herd.

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### *Stormbound*

After Star receives his power from the Hundred Year Star, he forms a herd and leads them to a new territory, and calls them River Herd. They face many hardships there, and soon Hazelwind rallies a group of pegasi to follow him back to Sun Herd territory to become the new Sun Herd. Star lets them go, feeling sad that some of his friends have left.

Star finds Shadepebble and saves her from drowning after she was attacked by an ice tiger, and brings her back to camp. Later, Frostfire and his group arrived for Shadepebble, but she refused to go.

Star starts dreaming of Nightwing the Destroyer, and finds out that he is not only alive, but also knows about Morningleaf being important to Star. Star asks Morningleaf to go and hide so that when the Destroyer comes, she would be safe. She doesn't want to at first, but edventually goes along with Shadepebble and Frostfire's patrol, along with some of River Herd as an escort. Star and his group fly to Sun Herd territory after warning the other herds to figure out what they should do. Star could sense that Nightwing was almost there, and orders everyone to hide in the Trap. Most of them went and hid, but many refused to leave their homes.

After this, Sun Herd and Mountain Herd meet, arguing about returning Shadepebble and Morningleaf. The conversation is about to turn into a battle when Morningleaf arrives in the jet streams, and Star catches her in his golden starfire.

Nightwing finally shows up, and when he did, Rockwing, the leader of Mountain Herd, asked to make a pact with Nightwing. This angered Nightwing, and he killed Rockwing with his starfire.

### *Landfall*

The book starts in the Sun Herd territory, with the land on fire and Nightwing facing Star.
They fight and Nightwing injures Star, leaving him in a coma. An Ancestor filly by name of Hollyblaze, Nightwing's past best friend, comes to his rescue, along with all the other weanlings The Destroyer murdered. They ward off Nightwing by chanting "Destroyer, Killer, Coward!" and the Guardian Herd takes the chance to escape to the Trap, where they prepare for war. Star wakes up after being coaxed by Hollyblaze, and Morningleaf is away on a Decoy Mission along with Shadepebble and Brackentail to protect her when Star is revived.

Star manages to convince Hazelwind and the other leaders of the herd factions hiding in The Trap to train each yearling in all the different techniques to defend themselves against The Ice Warriors (lead by Petalcloud) and Frostfire's Black Army, each vying for Star's head as a result of a pact they made with Nightwing.

Morningleaf's convoy returns and Star is elated. To celebrate, Echofrost shows them some berries she saw a hare eating earlier, but the friends minus Star who goes for a walk to clear his head, unknowingly put themselves in danger, for the berries are *deathberries*.

When Star returns to his friends, they're all nearly dead. He heals them, which revives his connection to Nightwing. Trap Herd's time has reduced and Morningleaf's hard work has been undone, but Star's friends, especially Morningleaf, are thankful he healed them.

This allows Echofrost to see all pegasi are capable of making mistakes and forgives Brackentail as a result.

Eventually the time comes to fight the oncoming armies. Trap Herd first faces The Black Army, which they beat. Star heals all of the defeated soldiers, including those of his enemies, by his mother's orders. Half of Black Army submit themselves to Star, while the other half are free to go.

Petalcloud's Ice Warriors arrive and don't divide themselves, resulting in a much harder battle. Eventually Trap Herd wins, and they celebrate, while allowing the defeated soldiers to leave.

However, Star hears the moans of a wounded soldier, and gallops further into the forest. He finds Larksong, Frostfire's mate, heavily wounded and dying, but also pregnant. He heals both Larksong and her foal, ultimately saving their lives.

The guilt causes Larksong to confess to the trap Petalcloud set to lure Star away from his friends and urges him to run. By the time Star gets back, his herd is gone.

### *Windborn*

Star is looking for his herd and flying through the clouds over Western Anok. He finds Frostfire searching too, and the two reluctantly alliance to look for the missing pegasi.

### *After Windborn*

Book 5: After the herds were free from Nightwing's reign permanently, all of the pegasi argued over what their lives should be like. Traumatized from the forced unity did the herds agree that being under one herd is detrimental to their mental healths and so they all seperated into the herds they wanna go to with some pegasi switching herds based on preference.

Morningleaf and Star talked over keeping River Herd or not and Morningleaf was able to convince Star to ultimately return back to Sun Herd as their new overstallion and lead mare in honor of the deceased Bumblewind, Silverlake, and Thundersky. It took a while but Star and Morningleaf accepted and got used to the lives of being over-stallion and lead mare with their names respectively becoming Starwing and Morningcloud of Sun Herd.

After a while of Starwing and Morningcloud leading Sun Herd and everything was going back to normal, frequent incidients of mares being attacked and fought with by stallions had been falling over ears of the two. Beesting a battle mare from Mountain Herd fled to Sun Herd to let them know that mistreatment from stallions had been happening to all of the herds' mares and even behaviors such as enslavement has been made.

Morningcloud; concerned with herself being a mare and the hostile behaviors she was recieving from captains and other stallions demanded for a change in rules and gave Starwing a plan to force them upon Anok. Eventually did a few stallion pegasi from Sun Herd were sent out to send a message to the other herds about gathering in the place where black foals used to be executed- On the giant flat rock in the middle of a large crater the Wastelands surrounded by five trees now called The Roost.

Once all five herds gathered, Starwing let Morningcloud voice a new change of herd systems. How the naming of ranks is changed and that leadership is gonna be the most affected in order to stop the mistreatment and abuse on female pegasi. Pegasi were in an outrage, weren't willing to listen. Out of panic and the desire to not start any wars did Starwing gave a false threat of using the starfire on the herds if they don't accept these rules. Scaring the pegasi into complying and giving equal power to the mares.

The ranks of all herds has been changed since then with the structure combining lead mare and over-stallion into leader, captain turning to deputy, medicine mare to medicine steed, assigning every steed the warrior role if they're 2 years and older, yearling renamed to apprentices and medicine steed apprentice, weanling and foals combined into foal, so on and so fourth. The names of leader also changed, freeing up the word cloud to all members and assigning the suffix -wing to any leader pegasus.

With the change in herd ranks, Starwing told all the herds that every lead mare's name has been reverted back to their previous name including Morningcloud's, whose name became Morningleaf once again and added that the suffix -cloud is now free to be used for any steed in Anok.

Book 6: During Starwing's visit to Jungle Herd to talk with the leader he last knew about taking a moment to admire Spiderwing's nest and contribute to it, Rainwing, he found out that he had been exiled by Jungle Herd and a pegasus mare named Slitherwing was the new leader and a deputy named Frailstep was assigned. Though nothing else has changed and he plucked his own feather to donate to Spiderwing's nest.

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## Detailed Description

Star is a tall, black pegasus stallion with oak-brown eyes. He has a large white star on his forehead, glossy fur, long legs, a curly mane and tail with a distinct ringlet.

## Character Pixels

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Official Art

Official Character Art**Star** on the cover of *Starfire***Star** on the cover of *Stormbound***Star** on the cover of *Landfall*Concept Sketches of **Star****Star** on rough cover concepts
## Trivia

* Star is 2 years old as of Windborn.
* As of Windborn, Star no longer possesses starfire because he gave it all to Nightwing who then destroyed it.
* Star is the second known black foal to survive his first birthday.
* He has Snow Herd lineage via Lightfeather
* He has no pegasus sire, but the author of the book, Jennifer Lynn Alvarez, has confirmed that his 'sire' is the Hundred Year Star. The Hundred Year Star chooses a mare to bear and create the black foal with it.

## Quotes

"*Don't talk about my mother!*"
—Star to Brackentail and Stripestorm *Starfire, page 2, The Deal*

"*Look where we are. And for what? How does breaking us make us whole?*"
—Star to the assembled herds. *Starfire, pages 224-225*

"*You don't have to fight me, or one another, anymore. Peace is your choice. I am not a destroyer, but I cannot say the same for you. I welcome all steeds who want to join me, but I won't be your over-stallion. I won't lead you, and I won't conquer you. Your lives are in your wings.*"
—Star, speaking to the herds after reviving Morningleaf. *Starfire, page 244, Follow Me*
**Star:** *"I understand why you did it. You're a lead mare. It's your duty to protect the entire herd."*
**Silverlake:** *"That's right."*
**Star:** *"But it's not my duty."*
—Star speaking to Silverlake before surrendering himself to the Over-Stallions of Anok. *Starfire, page 220, The Bargain*

Grasswing: *"We have nothing to lose for gaining you, Star."*
- To Star, Starfire

Grasswing: *"I mean it, son! Don't let them tell you who you are."*
- To Star about Sun Herd harassing him in Starfire (Book)