Stella Sparkchild

**Stella Sparkchild** is the self-proclaimed God of Justice and a demi-god adventurer and the only known offspring of the Great and Powerful Spar-ao-ky. She appears to be half-Hound and half-Fairy.

## Official Site Bio

"Stella is a girl born with extraordinary strength and agility. She’s determined to become a god by performing heroic labors."

## History

**Early Life**

Not much is known about Stella's past. While her father is a very respected deity in Fra, Stella appears to have been raised exclusively by her mother, who told her about him. At some point, Stella resolved to become a full-on deity like him. According to the stories, to attain full divinity, a hero must successfully undertake a series of labours so noteworthy that even the heavens themselves have to notice. To this end, Stella decided that the one labour that would fulfil this criterion would be to kill the Demon King of the Falling Tower in Hilla and began travelling across the Metal Lands. Before reaching Hilla, she also planned to obtain a legendary weapon and some disciples and work some miracles.

**SahH**

While travelling across the Metal Lands, Stella rescued a zull artist called Harold and his lama Lorenzo from some bandits. In gratitude, Harold gave her a lift onboard Lorenzo, despite having come from a family hostile to deities. Stella told him about her parentage and plans, and since Hilla was close to Harold's destination, they considered becoming travel buddies. Shortly before reaching town, Stella disembarked upon finding a cave to sleep in, having no money for accommodation. Harold offered to draw her portrait in payment for her saving him. Stella misinterpreted Harold's suggestion as a proposal to sell it, which she found hilarious due to her appearance.

While selling pictures in the town, Harold drew a less than accurate picture of Stella fighting the bandits, in the process detailing her tail with its stripes. A cloaked stranger asked him about her and upon learning from Harold that she was a god offered them both five hundred zucks for a meeting with him and the members of an organisation interested in divinities of Stella's type.

Stella went with Harold to the meeting place the stranger suggested, a creepy old building. While Stella humoured Harold at first, after the strangers failed to arrive, she assumed that he had made it up to impress her. Having become attracted to him, Stella told Harold that making up stories was unnecessary to impress her. When Harold insisted that he was telling the truth, she suggested that they play 'tonsil hockey'.

Harold consented, and the two began kissing, but were then interrupted by the arrival of the stranger, Kyla, and more cloaked cultists, who covered Stella's mouth and nose with a cloth covered in a chemical which knocked her unconscious. When Harold protested, Kyla, ordered a particularly ditzy member of the cult, Starla, to get rid of him. Starla did so, and when Harold confronted her outside, told him that her cult believed that Stella was a shape-shifting creature called a wendigo, a perception not helped by Harold's inaccurate picture. Starla refused Harold's offer of a refund in exchange for Stella's freedom, telling him that the stripes on a wendigo's body could be used to tell the future, and so they planned to skin Stella and use her stripes to tell the future and prevent anything bad from happening.

With Lorenzo's help, Harold defeated Starla and rode back in on Lorenzo, where the now-unconscious Stella was tied between two beams as the cultists prepared to skin her with a seven-branched sword. Harold intervened and began throwing ink at the cultists as well as one at Stella which not only covered her stripes but also awoke her. Stella then took his sword, announcing that she intended to take it in lieu of the promised five hundred zucks. Kyla then summoned from beneath the floor the object of the cult's worship, a giant squid called Qthyl. Stella however, was not intimidated, despite Klyla proclaiming Qthyl's power. Instead, Stella picked up a massive rock and threw it at the squid, having learnt from Harold that this was how he handled gods back home.

With the squid and cultists defeated, Stella and Harold rode away from the town, with Stella helping herself to one of their robes. On the way, Harold drew another picture of Stella's victory, and learnt from him that his first name was Harold. Since she needed a herald for her disciples, Stella concluded this was fate and appointed Harold to the role, leading to a further round of 'tonsil hockey.'

**Stella and the Stables**

Upon arriving at another town, Harold attempted to promote Stella's abilities, although his first attempt left a lot to be desired. Stella however showed off her strength by lifting up Lorenzo, who helpfully demonstrated that he was not an inflatable lama by knocking unconscious a bystander who suggested otherwise. A bird famer, Mr. Bear-Kicker, hired Stella and Harold to clean out his stables of bird guano for two hundred zucks. Stella however viewed the work beneath her as a demi-god, although Harold convinced her that with it they'd be able to afford a week at an inn. Stella eventually agreed, but found the experience decidedly less pleasant than Harold, who had carried out similar jobs back at his family's lama farm. After several mishaps Harold suggested a break.

While relaxing in a hot spring, Stella expressed her frustration at how Harold was better at it than her, despite him being a mortal and her a demi-god. Harold told her that she couldn't expect to be good at everything the first time she tried it, and cited his own past and his father's criticisms of his work ethic, which Stella disagreed with. While on her way back, she ran into Mr. Bear-Kicker, who expressed his approval with their work, which Stella credited to Harold. Seeing she was having some trouble, Mr. Bear-Kicker passed on some advice from his father, suggesting she either work harder or smarter.

Since the farmer was unable to suggest how she go about the latter, Stella took matters into her own hands, and raided the supply closet. After finding a pick-axe, Stella told a worried Harold she planned to work smarter, and demonstrated this by redirecting the hot spring through the stables in order to wash the guano away. Unfortunately Harold's warnings that she consider any unforeseen consequences were vindicated spectacularly when the new river swept him into the stables causing pandemonium as the birds flew off in a panic.

In the ensuing chaos Harold grabbed one of the birds as it flew out of the stables, while Stella gave chase on Lorenzo. Unfortunately Lorenzo misheard Stella's instructions and stopped a lot sooner than she'd hoped. Stella responded by jumping as far and as fast as she could and narrowly missed grabbing Harold. However, she successfully landed on another bird and which swooped beneath Harold, enabling her to catch him when he finally lost his grip. Despite Stella blaming herself, Harold, didn't blame her and instead hugged her, while she flushed, expressing relief he was alright.

The two landed back by the stables, where Mr. Bear-Kicker congratulated them on their flying and told a worried Stella that the birds would return when they became hungry. When he expressed his surprise at how his spring had sprung a leak for the first time in a century, a guilty Stella was about to confess when Harold offered to fix it for another two hundred zucks, which Mr. Beark-Kicker accepted. The two did so with ease and installed a spigot to make cleaning the stables a lot easier in future - only for Mr. Bear-Kicker to tell them that the reason he wanted them to shovel out the guano was so that it could be resold as fertiliser, which is why the flood was a disaster, leading to an awkward round of laughter.

## Appearance

Stella has bright red fur. an unkempt mane of curly hair, and yellow eyes. She has Fairy-style stripes running down her back and on her tail, although they are usually covered by her hair and shirt.

## Personality

Stella is very cocky and extroverted. Believing herself to be the daughter of a God, she has great confidence in her abilities and often over-estimates them. However, she has been shown to give credit to others when they warrant it, and to take responsibility for her mistakes.