Stella, Miraculist of the God-Emperor

Her name is Stella.

Alabaster skin, a stoic posture, golden hair and the luminous eyes of a living statue.

Yet, this skin is covered by cracks, hard as marble and cold to the touch, and her eyes bleed when her powers manifest.

Is she a miracle of the Emperor? A martyr? A conduit of His will? Or do these signs betray her filthy mutant nature? This duality follows Stella throughout her entire life. She has never doubted her divine purpose, but for the Lord Captain, the answer is far more complicated.

Stella was still a child when Confessor Bernart of the Saint Cognatius Order of the Ecclesiarchy took her into his care, recognising her gift as a sign of the God-Emperor’s favour. Becoming as much her mentor as her warden, he personally oversaw her upbringing as a Miraculist — a living weapon of the Ecclesiarchy. Blessed with the gift of divination and the power to unleash purifying flames, she spent years accompanying the Confessor in his pilgrimages across the Koronus Expanse.

Her blazing aura would lend weight to Bernart’s sermons, her powers exposing heresy in all its forms. To the judgemental and uncompromising Bernart, she became an invaluable instrument for demonstrating the might of the Emperor and guiding the faith of His subjects. Ever grateful to the man who had raised her, Stella served with unwavering zeal, believing this to be her sacred calling and sole means of serving the God-Emperor.

There were, however, those who whispered of something sinister lurking within this woman. Of dark shadows passing across her eyes. Of fits of anger, of heretical markings upon her flesh. Of her collar that suggested that she posed a danger to those around. Some even dared to question her divine nature!

The Ecclesiarchy, of course, was always swift and merciless when dealing with such heretical suspicions.

These journeys spanned many years, but recently, something has changed. Stella was always capable of divinations, but never before have her visions been so detailed or so purposeful. They hint at a person of great wealth and influence, someone who will lead her to a place of unspeakable horrors to fulfill her destiny.

The hierarchs of the Order of the Saint Cognatius soon recognised these visions as a sign from the Emperor himself: a holy mission construed to the order. An expedition was assembled to seek out this mysterious figure — a planetary governor, perhaps, or an Imperial Fleet commander. And when they emerged from the warp storm in the same system as the von Valancius flagship, and discovered the Rogue Trader as the person foretold in Stella’s visions... what could this be, if not a miraculous intervention by the God-Emperor himself?

Will you allow them on your voidship and aid them in their mission, Lord Captain? Will you play the part foretold for you, as the God-Emperor wills, or exploit the situation to your own advantage? Will you seek the truth behind these events, or is it the spoils of the expedition and the riches of the void that you’re after?

Or could Stella herself become the greatest prize of all, one of the most valuable possessions of the von Valancius dynasty?

There is only one way to find out.