Katja
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Katja is one of Dark Core's Dark Riders. She is the antagonist in Starshine Legacy: The Riddle of Dark Core, and one of the antagonists in Star Stable Online
Appearance
Before update
Katja appears in an all white, almost icy blue outfit. She has light skin, and shoulder length white hair with bangs. Her eyes are blue. She wears a white turtleneck with a white coat over it. She wears a white skirt, white knee high socks and white boots.
After update
Katja has light gray hair and cloudy light gray eyes. She wears a tunic (reminiscent of the Kallters) that fades from dark gray at the top to white at the bottom, with tassels at the bottom as well. She wears a gray necklace with a diamond-shape and an ice blue center, black pants with some faint tears and scratches visible on them, and black sandals. She is often seen with a white violin.
Personality
Katja is better behaved than her fellow Dark Riders, and has a classier attitude towards the Soul Riders and player. She is not rude nor friendly, and comes off as chic and cold. She is extremely confident in herself and Garnok’s capabilities. Katja is not very expressive and does not lose her temper, unlike Jessica.
Star Stable Online
James explains to Alex and the player that he has been having nightmares, likening to the ones he had a few years back when he encountered Katja at Jorvik High School. With the help of Mrs. Holdsworth, it is soon revealed the girl in his nightmares is indeed Katja, and the old woman helps them cease.
On the second visit to Dark Core, Katja is summoned from the portal as the apparent fourth general, the Dark Riders now being four thanks to Justin. Upon later realizing Justin is not skilled with supernatural powers, she, along with Jessica and Sabine proceed to have him eliminated. She doesn't succeed, after being summoned to the oil rig by a false alarm thanks to Mr. Sands.
Soon thereafter, Dark Core begins to spy on the Keepers of Aideen with their drones. The player and Lisa call their bluff, speaking out in the open about Fripp being unwell. The Dark Riders and Mr. Sands buy this, and he proceeds to send out Katja to capture Fripp.
After the player lures the Dark Rider for a distance, she is caught by the three to her confusion. Upon realizing that she was tricked, she is challenged to race by Linda by the Pandoria codex. Katja sets the location at Scarecrow Hill, where she tells the player to meet her.
Upon coming to Scarecrow Hill, she sets the course, and the race begins. The player soon realizes they are not at Scarecrow Hill, but instead in a concoction of one of Katja's nightmarish illusions of reality. Soon after the race, Katja finds amusement at the fact they were tricked, but is then tricked in turn by Alex who bribes her with a false golden apple.
By the code of Pandoria, they were allowed to derive one truth from her, be it any question they could ask. Linda proceeds to ask where Concorde is, and Katja laughs at this question, thinking it daft that they would ask for such a pathetic truth. She reveals that unfortunately he perished, thanks to the Pandorian environment.
The Dark Rider leaves the Soul Riders behind thereafter, realizing her loss was more of a win after all.
Comics
Katja
Music
Katja made her musical debut during the 2022 Rainbow Festival with the release of her first Single, Dark Riders. This coincides with the update of her in-game model and is the first time she depicted with a violin and musical ability.
Songs
Etymology
Katja is a Greek name, meaning pure or pure one. In German speaking countries and Scandinavia, Katja is often used as a shortened version of the name Katherine.
In the Winter Riders and Summer Riders, Katja is referred to as Kate. This name is another shortened version of Katherine, and like the name Katja, also means pure.
Trivia
- In The Winter Rider and The Summer Rider, Katja is called “Kate”
- Katja’s all white angelic appearance, name meaning “pure”, and favorite food being angel food cake, portrays that she is a girl of good nature with pure intentions, masking her evil powers and goals.
- Mr. Sands frequently refers to Katja as the “Nightmare Rider” instead of her name.
- It is assumed that Katja's powers are the opposite to that of Linda's.
- In the 2022 Rainbow Festival quest line, she states that "Everything I touch turns cold... gray... even dies, whether I will it or not." This would be more of an opposite of Lisa's powers of healing.
- In the 2022 Rainbow Festival quest line, Mica states that "There are legends of an ice witch from Icendell Katja said everything she touches turns cold and dies" From this a Conspiracy Theory is formed by Mica, Nic & the Player that it is possible but NOT CONFIRMED that Katja is the so-called Ice witch.