ARIELLE

Real Name: Arielle

Identity/Class: Extradimensional/alternate reality (Reality-93060/"Ultraverse") human (citizen of unidentified Godwheel kingdom/Lord Pumpkin's domain)

Occupation: Knight, rebel

Group Membership: Rebels fighting Lord Pumpkin

Affiliations: Mr. Mischief

Enemies: Lord Pumpkin, her unidentified father

Known Relatives: Unidentified father (deceased)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Godwheel

First Appearance: Lord Pumpkin#0 (October 1994)

Powers/Abilities: Arielle was an experienced knight, an expert in horse riding and sword fighting. She wore full plate-mail armor, and wielded a cursed sword that held the trapped souls of her soldiers; if under duress, the sword would unleash them to fight for her. If she let go of the sword it would open an interdimensional portal and pull her through it; she had no control over where it might send her.

Height: 5'7" (by estimation)
Weight: 155 lbs. (by estimation)
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red-blonde

History:
(Lord Pumpkin#0 (fb) - BTS) - Arielle grew up in a kingdom on the Godwheel that had fallen under Lord Pumpkin's rule. Her father was a knight who had chosen to serve the tyrant, and Arielle grew up hating him for his betrayal of their people. Arielle became a knight herself, and in time gathered a force of fellow knights who opposed Lord Pumpkin, forging them into a rebellion that launched an attack on the royal castle.

(Lord Pumpkin#0) - While some of her forces breached the castle courtyard and distracted the main force of the castle's defenders, Arielle led a smaller squad of knights on a sneak attack on the throne room, hoping to slay Lord Pumpkin and his guards before enemy reinforcements could arrive. Unaware Lord Pumpkin was actually trapped on Earth, the rebels stormed the chamber and engaged the defenders within. During the melee, Arielle suddenly recognized her father by his distinctive armor and attacked him; recognizing her in turn by her voice, Arielle's father managed to run her through with a spear, but Arielle defiantly pulled herself further down the shaft so she could strike her hated sire with her sword, delivering a fatal blow.

    She collapsed just as her men finished off the last of the guards, and her lieutenant rushed to her side to remove her helmet. With blood dribbling from her lips, she urged them to leave her and focus on slaying their target, but the lieutenant insisted he would not leave her to be tortured and that there was still time, then pulled the spear out. As the lieutenant cradled the dying Arielle in his arms, she asked him if Lord Pumpkin was dead, and he admitted they had been unable to locate the monster, bemoaning their whole assault had been for naught. An unexpected interjection from a new arrival startled Arielle's men, and they turned to see a strangely garbed, visibly not-quite-human man now casually leaning against a wall. Identifying himself as Mr. Mischief, he offered to heal Arielle and deliver Lord Pumpkin at the price of her men sacrificing their own souls. It only took a moment of hasty discussion between the knights before they agreed; Arielle cried out for them to stop, but Mr. Mischief disregarded her, sucking the knights' souls into a glowing sphere. He offered it to the healed Arielle as she struggled to rise, but she angrily ordered him to keep his black magic away from her and vowed to kill him for what he had done. Feigning hurt feelings, Mr. Mischief threw the souls into Arielle's sword, and warned her to not let go of it as he walked through a portal which he'd just materialized. As he left Arielle shouted after him that she would see him in Hell, and he glanced back and ominously promised that she would indeed.

   Grabbing her sword by the hilt, Arielle stumbled across to her father's corpse and berated him for siding with Lord Pumpkin and destroying her life. She swore she would find the fiend and make him pay, and decried Mr. Mischief for not delivering on his promise to deliver the tyrant to her. However her tirade was paused when she heard faint voices nearby, prompting her to look more closely as her blade, where to her horror she saw the faces of her men, their souls now trapped inside. Feeling guilty at their fate, she shouted that they should have let her die, then redirected her pain back at Lord Pumpkin, blaming him for all they had lost. In a rage, she threw the sword away, and as its blade impaled the wall a glowing mass of swirling energy appeared below it. Suspecting this was her route to finding Lord Pumpkin she tentatively reached forward, but found she could not pass through. Seeing guards racing into the throne room, Arielle realized that to stay was certain death, and suddenly recalling Mr. Mischief's instructions she grasped the hilt and was immediately pulled through the portal and sent flying through the cosmos.

   Arielle emerged from a second portal near New Jersey on Earth, right outside a carnival that Lord Pumpkin had taken over. A dwarf in a jester costume greeted her with a spiel about the sights she could see inside, and when he heard her proclaim that this had to be "the Pumpkin's" domain he eagerly led her inside, proudly showing her the circus' other performers, held captive on display with their bodies twisted into inhuman forms and pleading for death. The dwarf then led the horrified Arielle into the big top, where Lord Pumpkin and his new minions, more performers transformed into grotesques, awaited. He warmly greeted her, though promising he still intended to rip her heart out, but she defiantly spat in his face. Angry, he struck her down, then unleashed his creatures on her, but as they threatened to overwhelm her the souls trapped in her blade exploded forth, taking on solid form to slay her foes. Arielle struck at Lord Pumpkin, slicing his ringmaster jacket, so he blasted her with flames from his mouth. Struggling back to her feet, Arielle stumbled towards her foe using her sword like a crutch, swearing that nothing would prevent her from destroying him, but Lord Pumpkin derisively kicked her impromptu crutch, causing her to fall to her knees before him. Cocky, Lord Pumpkin took a second to gloat, but this proved a fatal error on his part, as Arielle snatched up her sword and threw it into the monster's mouth, shattering his pepo skull. Arielle's foe began to expire, but because she had let go of her sword another portal opened up in the air; as her knights' souls were sucked back into the blade, both the weapon and Arielle were forcibly pulled through the dimensional rift and vanished.

(Lord Pumpkin/Necromantra#1 (fb) - BTS) - Arielle was the namesake of the daughter of Lord Tavon.

Comments: Created by Dan Danko, Aaron Loresti and Gary Martin.

   This profile was completed on 03/24/2024, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary's celebratory event to represent Lord Pumpkin.

Profile by Loki.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Arielle has no known connections to:

images: (without ads)
Lord Pumpkin#0, p25, pan3 (main image)
Lord Pumpkin#0, p29, pan1 (face close-up)
Lord Pumpkin#0, p16, pan3 (souls trapped in sword)
Lord Pumpkin#0, p31, pan1 (souls emerging from sword)

Appearances:
Lord Pumpkin#0 (October 1994) - Dan Danko (writer), Aaron Lopresti (pencils), Gary Martin and Aaron Lopresti (inks), Roland Mann (editor)

First Posted: 09/14/2026
Last updated: 08/21/2026

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