• Dark Spark

Dark Spark is the first deputy quaestor of the Archmagical Sconce of the Isle of Yore.

Early Life

Dark's father is Dark Coals and her mother is Chert Spark, residents of Tephra Island. Dark Coals, a metallurgical mage, is part of a family descend from the colonists of Tephra Island who settled there during the Catastrophe. Chert Spark, a resident of Sparkle City and a graduate student in History at Radiance University, travelled to Tephra Island to consult CDAN for her studies. While there, she met Dark Coals; they began a relationship that continued via correspondence after her return to RU. When she graduated, she took up a post as a teacher at Fireburg College and married Coals in 3601.

On 1 Fruits 3608, Dark Spark was born to Chert and Dark Sr., their second foal and first filly. (Her older brother, Flinty Coals, was born in 3603.) She was a pegacorn, the first in her father's family, but one of several in her mother's extended family. (By the 37th century, the rate of pegacorn births to pegasus-unicorn couples in Sparkle City had reached 1:2000, up from approximately 1:20000 in the pre-Harmonic era, and a vast increase from their extreme rarity in the Golden Age.)

Dark Spark had a mostly uneventful childhood, though darked by the death of a childhood friend in an industrial accident in Fireburg's burgeoning machinery district. Dark's father testified as an expert witness in the resulting court case, which she attended as an audience member. She was late to receive her cutie mark, not attaining it until her first year of secondary school; her cutie mark was for chemistry.

Dark did well in school, getting the best marks, unsurprisingly, in chemistry. She thought she might pursue a career as an alchemist or maybe a lawyer, and during her studies in Fireburg College, she was secretary-treasurer of the pre-law student association for two semesters. She ultimately decided to study the emerging field of chemical magic (distinct from, but related to alchemy). Dark graduated from college with honors, majoring in magical science with a minor in chemistry in 3630. She worked for a few years for her father's smelting business, meeting her future husband Amide Bond, who was a visiting scholar at Fireburg College. She married him in 3631. Shortly after becoming pregnant with her first foal, she received an offer of a scholarship to Eastern Ponyland University to study forensic magic, through a program sponsored by the Oneiric Curacy. At EPU, she earned a master's degree in Forensic Magic, and interned at the Docktown office of the Archmagical Sconce of the Isle of Yore. Her foal, Amino Spark, was born in 3632. She graduated from EPU in 3635 and was hired by the Sconce as a Specialist Custos.

After completing training and a probationary period, Dark Spark was assigned as an assayer and forensic alchemist for the Sconce. Her duties included testing alchemical products for safety, efficacy and purity. She was based mostly in Docktown, though her work required frequent travel to other parts of the Isle of Yore, causing some difficulty with her young family. Fortunately, she received a promotion to Assistant Deputy Quaestor of Artefacts, based in the New Canterlot headquarters of the archmagical sconce, which required less travel. She had sought this position eagerly, as Amide was from Solaria on the Lake and wished to return to New Equestria.

Dark's career in New Canterlot made good progress.

Dark Spark Pegacorn Mare, 37 y/o Has a 13-year old colt, Amino Spark, at home with her spouse, Amide Bond and her in-laws, in a New Canterlot townhouse. Grew up on Tephra Island, to which her grandparents moved after converting to the religion of that island. (She herself is a cultural/non-theistic practitioner) Special talent - chemistry Education - Baccalaureate in Magic with honors, Fireburg College (legendary with its hoofball rivalry with Fireberg Tech) Masters in Forensic Magic, University of Eastern Ponyland Occupation - mid-level government wizard (First Deputy Quaestor of the Archmagical Sconce of the Isle of Yore, historically an investigator of magical malfeasance, now a general-purpose executive agent of the sconce) Hobbies - Painting, building model railroads with her son, enjoying the New Canterlot cultural scene, camping.