Joy Morningstar

## General Overview

Leader and first of the Four Horsemen. She personally recruited the other three into the squad. Widely regarded in Phandelver as the most terrifying women in the continent. All with a smile on her face.

## Joy Morningstar

### Aliases

The Smiling DeathGrin Reaper

Wicked Witch of the Stars

Scourge of the 7 Isles of Harmony

Great Attractor of Death

The Starpocalypse

## Appearances

### Appears in

light blue skin, royal blue hair, golden eyes

## History

Joy Morningstar was born in Starglow Valley within the jurisdiction of the Lord's Alliance, her village was poor and supplies were low. Joy dedicated herself to cheer up her village, but it turned to the most twisted methods she could devise.

First she tried to entertain them with comedy and theater, but none of that worked. Next she hired some travelling warlocks to enchant everyone and force a smile on their face, this lasted a week before they returned to normal and were unhappy with Joy. Secretly she tried again using a formula she got from a plague doctor who came from Neight Veil, she called it "Smile Gas" and exposed everyone to it to force a smile on them. The village recovered from it and forbade her from doing anymore attempts.

Her last attempt would be the last. She figured that terrible events would make everything seem better by comparison, so she spent all her money to hire Neight Veil Kneights to ravage her village. Half of them died from the raid and she was kicked out by the remaining half. After travelling for a long time she came across Black Spider who took her in after he had heard from his Kneights that she hired them to raid her village on purpose.

She learned magic from Black Spider as he is an accomplished wizard himself and became a graviturgist. Black Spider would send Joy on a quest to locate a Divine Hand that legends say fell from the sky. The Divine Hand in question was the Starpocalypse, a legendary mace that has the power of a star. This would be her first mission as a true wizard and would earn her the name Joy Morningstar.

She would commit her first atrrocity as Joy Morningstar at the age of 20, when she lifted the capital of the Lord's Alliance from the ground and crushed it with the power of gravity and killed everyone inside, all with a smile on her face. Black Spider was the first to propose the concept of the Four Horsemen and assigned Joy to seek out the remaining 3 members in his elite legion of the apocalypse.

She recruited Modurk soon after he was exiled from the Lord's Alliance at the age of 22, but was hesitant at first since she resented the Lords of War. But after seeing he had differing ideologies with the Lord's Alliance and became an outcast, she became more welcoming to him and recruited him as the second member of the Four Horsemen.

Joy would encounter Leonan Crestfist in the wilds after trying to locate the Divine Hand "Gorehammer" with Modurk at the age of 24. Leonan proved a great asset to locate and track the Gorehammer. She also saw his worth in his deadly goals. While she wasn't exactly sure why he joined, she trusted him that if he betrayed them that she would be the one to hunt the hunter.

The last member to join was Kindel Inferno, daughter of Surtr. She had never seen another demigod before besides Black Spider, she saw potential in the child of fire. Joy also saw a broken girl with so much to give, so she took pity on Kindel and became her closest ally at the age of 25. While Kindel didn't exactly have goals or intentions that lined up with the rest, she became irreplaceable and proved to be a force to be reckoned. If Kindel did not leave the Horsemen and fought in the final battle with Fenrir alongside Joy, then Black Spider might have won.

She would continue to terrorize Phandelver for her remaining time on Midgard and earned the nickname "The Grin Reaper" to warn all those who were in her path of eternal happiness. Her repetoire was vast and bloody, all in the name of happiness and peace.

Her time would come to an end at the hands of Silk after being thrown into Ginnungagap, but escaping last second to fulfill her last order from Black Spider, to save him from the Heroes of Phandelver.

Joy's final act would be performing the Wish spell that would save his life and turn Black Spider into the monstrosity that is Black Fenrir.

## Legacy of the Grin Reaper

Joy's legacy would leave a stain on history, she was widely agreed to be to the most devasting terrorist (besides Black Spider) to ever grace the land. Even after death, mentioning her name caused anxiety and fear to her surviving victims.

Beale the Minotaur would inherit the Starpocalypse, but even her weapon would leave a lasting stain on people.

Suffice to say, what she left behind would be a line of blood and twisted smiles.

## Trivia

* Joy Morningstar is loosely based off of Jester, played by Laura Bailey, from Critical Role
* Her accent is a mock swedish
* She was created as a foil to Silk's personality
* The first Horsemen they party met
* The gravity motif is symbolic of "bringing people together"
* Her sense of style is reminiscent of like 50's dresses with a scifi astrology motif.
* The first Horseman to actually help the party when Jon Miscellaneous took over Alfheim
* Was created on the spot
* Credit to Laura Bailey for inspiration
* Credit to original creator, me