Sterk

"You're a fool, Parel! You have no idea what we're capable of."

- Sterk to Parel.

Sterk is an antagonist in Noah: Man of Destiny, the first book in the Remnant trilogy by Tim Chaffey and K. Marie Adams, which takes place during the biblical time of Noah. He was a member of the village of Zakar, but eventually joined an evil organization known as Sepha, which is infamous for human sacrifices and other immoralities.

History
Sterk was once part of the Zakari village which has left the city of Bothar for its immoralities, but he eventually betrayed his tribe by joining Sepha and plotting to sacrifice his own nephew, Elam, and a girl named Kani. He and some other men caused a diversion by kidnapping Elam and Kani, while also burning down the village's barn with its resources inside.

Soon after that, Noah and his friend, Aterre, as well as the village's elder, Varelk, and the latter's son, Parel, and their guards, Liun and Erno, go on the search for Elam and Kani. Noah starts to suspect that Elam and Kani did not wander off but were kidnapped, and his suspicions are confirmed when he sees a big footprint in the ground with two smaller ones. Parel then finds that Kani dropped her two carved wooden hair rods with carved butterflies on the end, which he knows if her favorite, giving the group hope that they would be able to rescue Elam and Kani.