Starlight Commons only has one established artist, PalletEclipse, who can produce Official Stellaborn that can be purchased to participate in the Starlight Commons ARPG. All Stellaborn must be present on the Starlight Commons Masterlist to be considered an official Stellaborn.

Starlight Commons does not recognize the co-ownership of characters. Each character belongs solely to one account.

Starlight Commons imposes no sale rules on its users. Users may sell, trade, or gift their Stellaborn or Roamkin for any value they see fit, so long as they are transferable. To transfer a Stellaborn or Roamkin, your username must be listed as the owner on the Masterlist.

Starlight Commons [SLC] does not approve duplicate, near-duplicate, or copied designs. This rule exists to protect the integrity of the Design Approval system and to prevent design theft, harassment, and scamming.

What this Rule Covers
- Submitting a redesign that is identical to, or noticeably similar to, an existing Stellaborn.
- Repeatedly submitting near-identical designs across multiple Masterlists to bypass rules on transferring, voiding, deleting, or reusing characters.
- Copying another user's design through tracing, color-picking, heavy imitation, or “recreating” their look with small changes.
- Stolen designs, including recolors, slight edits, and copy-based redesigns.

Enforcement
If duplicate or copied designs are found, they may be removed, even if previously approved. This includes designs approved by mistake. Users are expected to design in good faith, and repeated abuse of the Design Approval system may result in a warning, an ARPG strike, or a permanent ban, depending on intent, content, and severity. Starlight Commons [SLC] considers intentional copying, replication, or reuse of another user's design to be harassment.

How to Report Duplicates
To report duplicates or copied designs, visit the Advanced Support counter at the Service Desk and submit a ticket under Report Users.

Example 1 | Masterlist Duplication and Circumvention
A user repeatedly submits the same design concept with minor edits across multiple masterlists to create nearly identical versions of the same character. This is considered an attempt to circumvent this rule and Section 3.5 Converting Personal Characters into Stellaborn, Voiding Characters, and Redesigns, which disallows voiding, deleting, or transferring designs between different characters. If the user then sells one of the near-duplicate characters to a new owner, this may be considered scamming under Section 4: Community Behavior. Multiple copies of the 'same' character create an unfair situation for buyers and undermine the integrity of the Design Approval system, and may be removed once discovered.

Example 2 | Color-Picking and 'Accidental' Recreation
A user takes another Stellaborn's design, color-picks the palette, and recreates similar markings, silhouettes, and themes with only small edits. Even if the user changes a few details, the finished redesign still reads as the original character. If this is submitted and approved by mistake, it still undermines the Design Approval system and may be removed once discovered.

Starlight Commons does not void or delete characters from our masterlist for logging purposes. However, we do allow players to convert their Stellaborn into other characters, even though we do not recommend it.

Do not order personal characters as Stellaborn or convert a Stellaborn into other species if you intend to sell the forms individually down the line. If you are uncomfortable with a Stellaborn existing in our system forever, there is nothing we can do once it is made.

Example: If a user purchases a Stellaborn, converts it into a humanoid or an anthro character, then sells the Stellaborn but keeps the additional form, it is considered scamming under our Terms and Conditions. It is unfair to the new owner to have two versions of the same character, but only own one.

Do NOT sell your design with the understanding the new user will not use it and must hide it. This is unfair to all future owners of the design. Starlight Commons takes no responsibility if new owners choose not to accept the terms established by the seller who did not want a previous design used. Members are welcome to use any approved design associated with that Stellaborn, hidden or not. Starlight Commons considers these kinds of agreements as scamming.

Any user who continuously abuses the design approval system to apply new designs to a Stellaborn to create a new character and sell the Stellaborn version while still using the character in a new form may receive a warning or permanent ban depending on intent, content, and severity.