Sharada

"*What would you like to assemble today? Or do you want to learn a melody?*"

**Sharada Losarta** (born 1574 AT) is a Thamunzar Celestial who lives in Siangwaan on northern Jerde.

## Appearance

In her true form, she appears as a dark brown-skinned woman with silver hair and a slender build. She usually wears a smooth yellow dress and a sun hat.

In her disguise as the goddess Lurisha, she wears silver armour and a blue-green dress.

## Personality

Sharada can be gentle, but she does not hesitate to fight when she or her friends are in danger.

She likes drawing pictures with a pen, wearing light clothing, and crafting artifacts and works of art. However, her dedication and obsession with her arts and crafts can become her weakness. At the bottom of her dress are a ring of yellow crescents pointed downwards to resemble smiles: when Sharada is angry, the crescents glow with her magic.

## History

She was sent with her brother Losoi and her friend Raunonto to hunt and slay the sorcerer Kakadu. As they searched for Kakadu, she became a fan of Lurisha, as she wanted to interpret the character as someone who was gifted with intelligence.

As she was patrolling Siangwaan, she and her friends agreed to help several ghosts rebuild a diner to break their curse by finding several bricks all over the region. She took on several disguises, such as Ang Yeung's music teacher Talyalong: they became close friends as Ang Yeung liked her knowledge of legends and other trivia. She also protected certain people from their nightmares and spiritual enemies, such as Wiresa to protect her soul from being enslaved by a distant witch by helping her kill the witch.

At around the 19th century AT, Sharada visited the Jasper Mountains and Umbirab with her friends.

In 1812 AT, she also made her own home at the Pung Hwong Shaan Mountains, where she carved various tales into the caverns with her magic. Every December, she carves an animal made of glass or crystal that she collected from the mountains, and leaves it at a random village as a gift. She returned ninety years later to see how were the immortals at the nearby town of Tai Bo doing: they barely repelled a ghost attack using Celestial artifacts that they found in a cave below the limestone mountains.

Sharada sometimes helped people in Siangwaan and its allies learn to utilise the technology of her people, occasionally visiting archaeological projects to explain about the machinery found on the sites. In an interview with her in 1902 AT, Sharada stated that she wanted to help the people of Jerde use it to defeat the tyrants plaguing their world, and help each other become more advanced.

In the tragic first years of Bujan's independence, she visited the country to investigate any paranormal activity caused by the preceding mass killings. She encountered a wandering ghost, who introduced herself as "Herellia", cursed to appear in the form of her favourite character. Appearing as another character from Herellia's favourite show, Kauoria, she comforted the ghost and became friends.

Since the 1920's AT, she became a music teacher. She was sometimes seen doing piano performances. She was sometimes invited to other nations to teach students to use Celestial technology, such as in the Royal Institute of Ancient Technology in Bujan. To reach them, she just used a cheap portal at a spaceport like hundreds of other normal passengers, rather than teleporting herself.

## Relationships

Throughout the centuries, Sharada made many friends, including:

* Karigwenta - a librarian from Tebwe
* Wazewaron - an astronomer from Heronoja
* Gharauwinda - a Heronoi garderner from Josol
* Pairavjaz - a craftswoman from Josol who built toys
* Zang Seng - the wight (guardian spirit) of Pung Hwong Shan, who rides on a five-coloured bird. He sometimes assists her smithing work.
* Lai Yundak - a smithing woman from Siangwaan who learned to build Celestial technology from her

Sometimes, she teaches young boys and girls music, art, and Celestial technology. She refuses to teach them any magic as she thinks it would be too dangerous for her human friends: her examples included several unfortunate sorcerers who lost their arms, hands, and even their own lives while casting spells.

Radumo may had been one of her favourite students, because of her curiosity over the Galaxy's first civilisation and its tragic downfall. She began learning from Sharada on January 1948 AT, and at times Sharada and Radumo enjoyed dressing up as the goddess Mithura, using magic spells and tricks to pretend to actually use divine powers.

## Abilities

As a Thamunzar Celestial, she can:

* shoot blasts of solar energy/fire/light
* shine in the dark
* use magic to shape pieces of metal into any tool that she can think of
* use magic to spin objects and enemies around in circles, or make them float in the air
* continue working for several weeks without needing to rest or eat
* visit dreams
* absorb electricity and energy and use it against her enemies
* distort physics and matter

Like her favourite character, she can:

* summon miniature stars to light the dark or burn her enemies
* summon strong winds around her
* blast beams of energy from her hands, and even use them as whips to slash her enemies or tear them apart.

She uses a magic sword as her weapon.

## Trivia

* Sharada was based on Princess Allura and Farseer Taldeer. In fact, she and her friends' appearance was also inspired by Allura's appearance from Voltron: Legendary Defender.
	+ Her name was derived from the Sanskrit word for "autumn" and Jeremy Sharda's name.
	+ When people first met her, they thought that she was Tornarin or Rifandian due to her skin, or Umbirabian because of her white hair.
	+ The author was also inspired by the online campaign "Justice for Allura": to honour Allura, he decided to expand more information about Sharada and her adventures. The poor writing of Voltron's Season 8 also motivated him to write more stories about Sharada.
* Her favourite spot was Tang Sen Boulevard at the northern shore, by a chess table under a tree overlooking the windswept sea.
* Sharada is an honourary member of the Order of Zeuk Kiu, as she helped its members find certain terrorists and defeat aliens and ghosts. When she was away battling monsters and demons in other planets, they took her lessons to fight threats on their world.
	+ The main reason why she was a member of the Order, added by the author on 2023, was that she helped the Siangwaanians and their allies learn to adapt the Celestial technology scattered across their realms. Without her, not even the Porasonids and Umbirabians would have a complete understanding of the Celestials' arcane machinery and history.
	+ Therefore, a lot of what modern Jerdiskar knew about the Celestial Empire and its history was from surviving knowledge that she and other friendly Celestials had learned.
* Sharada might be one of the author's favourite characters.