Opaline Arcana

> "*Those little ponies finally figured out how to stabilize the magic. Took them long enough. And now that they have, it's time to take back what is mine!*"
> ― Opaline
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## Queen Opaline Arcana

* Alicorn
* 2D

## Character Information

### Friends

The Crystal King
Harumi
Misty Brightdawn
Princess Dark Matter
Nerissa
Council of the Crystal King

### Enemies

Ninja
Mane Six
Newbie Five
B.L.A.N.K. Ninja Squad
Princess Celestia
Princess Luna
Princess Cadance
Princess Flurry Heart
Megan/Princess Eternity

## Background Information

### Voice

Athena Karkanis

**Queen Opaline Arcana**, also known as the **Shadowy Alicorn**, is one of the three main antagonists (alongside the Crystal King and Chaos) of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life*, serving as one of the two unseen overarching antagonists (alongside the Crystal King) of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Journey of Heroes* and one of the four main antagonists (alongside the Overlord, Nerissa and Chaos) of *Season 5: Generations*. She is Misty Brightdawn's boss and adoptive mother and Sunny Starscout's archnemesis.

She is an Alicorn who embarked on a discrete, but impactful campaign to instil distrust and resentment among the Earth Ponies, Pegasi and Unicorns to divide Equestria. To do this, she seeks advice from the crystallised spirit and he tells her that he will destroy the balance by turning them against each other. Opaline agreed and the two decided to bring back Chaos by finding the Amulets of Chaos. After Oberon's Takeover of Ninjago, Opaline joins the Council of the Crystal King, along with her minion Misty. She plans to steal the Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu and the Elements of Harmony and turns them into the Weapons of Destruction and the Elements of Chaos. Her goal was succeeded, as she decided to take over the multiverse and destroy the peace of the realms.

## Depictions in the Series

### Backstory

Prior the events of the series, Opaline was an Alicorn filly who grew up in a place called Skyros, and her specialty was fire magic. However, she was bitterly jealous of both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, who were also fillies at the time, because of they were capable of controlling the sun and moon respectively, which made them quite popular. At one point, Opaline tried to make friends with them, only to be snubbed by them, causing Opaline to become resentful and giving her the need to prove that she shouldn't be underestimated. Unlike all of the other Alicorns of Skyros, she believed highly of her status and that alicorns were superior to the other pony tribes. This caused the other Alicorns to banish her into Equestria.

During Twilight's Reign after Celestia and Luna retired, Opaline invaded Equestria and began absorbing all of the dragonfire from the Dragons, transforming her into a fire alicorn. She aimed to absorb the magic of all three pony races, but Twilight intervened, casting a protection spell across Equestria and encasing all Equestrian magic and Dragon magic inside the three Unity Crystals and the Dragonstone, respectively. Because of this, Spike was forced to be separated from Twilight and her friends and was placed into a long hibernation for many moons.

Weakened, Opaline tries everything she can to regain her power and resume her conquest of Equestria. During then, Opaline searched for the most powerful magic in Equestria to claim back for herself. While searching, she comes across a filly by the name of Misty Brightdawn, who was lost in the woods after following a bunnycorn. Taking pity on the poor unicorn, she raises Misty as her servant.

For moons, Opaline treated Misty poorly by keeping her in her room, which allows her to forget her past, including her father.

## *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Journey of Heroes*

While Opaline doesn't physically appeared in the film, her actions played a big role in shaping the events of it due to her being responsible not only separating the three pony tribes which caused Equestria to lose its magic and each of them blame each other, but also causing Sprout to turn himself into a petty and bullish yet insecure and cowardly deputy sheriff into a power hungry and tyrannical "emperor" of Maretime Bay who wants to wage a war against Pegasi and unicorns. But luckily, Sunny and her friends managed to stop him from doing so and succeeded in reuniting the three pony tribes together which brought the magic back together.

## *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Perfect Together*

### Chapter 1

Opaline first appears in the hour-long special Make Your Mark, appearing very briefly near the end beside her unicorn servant Misty.

### Chapter 2

In Izzy Does It, Opaline tasks Misty with spying on the Mane Five to observe their newly acquired magic so that she can eventually take it from them, and she schemes to find a way to see inside the Crystal Brighthouse. In Growing Pains, she intermittently spies on Sunny Starscout via a magic compact mirror Misty left for her in the previous episode. In Portrait of a Princess, she tasks Misty with luring Pipp Petals and Zipp Storm into a trap in order to get rid of them.

In Ali-Conned, after Misty's trap in the previous episode fails, Opaline pretends to be Sunny's inner voice and pressures her (via her magic compact) to embrace her Alicorn status and command respect and adoration from other ponies. In The Cutie Mark Mix-Up, Opaline uses her magic to create an artificial mouse-like critter and sends it to sneak into the Crystal Brighthouse and find the source of the ponies' harmony magic, eventually discovering that the Mane Five channel the Unity Crystals' power through Sunny's magic lantern.

In The Traditional Unicorn Sleep-Over, Opaline tasks Misty with infiltrating the Mane Five's group so that she can steal the lantern. This episode also reveals how Opaline first rose to power during the age of ancient Equestria and that Princess Twilight Sparkle shielded all of Equestria in a magic bubble to keep Opaline out. In Hoof Done It?, after Misty fails to steal Sunny's lantern, Opaline sets her sights on Sparky Sparkeroni and his magic dragonfire. In Have You Seen This Dragon?, Misty fails to kidnap Sparky but obtains a small amount of his dragonfire, which Opaline absorbs.

### Chapter 4

In Top Remodel, Opaline learns of the message Twilight Sparkle left in the Unity Crystals. She also reveals to Misty that she can't absorb the magic directly from the Unity Crystals until she is able to equal or surpass their power. In Sunny Side Up, Opaline punishes Misty for once again failing by using her magic to pin her to the floor of her room. She also reflects on her past with Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, claiming that they thought themselves better than her, and seeks out the Dragonstone, a powerful artifact that can help her drain Sparky's fire. In The Manesquerade Ball, she succeeds in obtaining the Dragonstone.

In Missing the Mark, Misty finally brings Sparky to Opaline, who proceeds to start draining the baby dragon's fire. When the guilt-ridden Misty attempts to make amends for this act by leading the Mane Five to the castle, Opaline captures them, praising Misty for seemingly bringing her enemies to her. After Sparky's stolen dragonfire finally restores Opaline's full magical power, she finds that the Mane Five have escaped (thanks to Misty's efforts, unbeknownst to her). In the clash that follows, Opaline is overpowered by Sunny when her friends' cutie mark magic gives her a boost. After her foes depart with Sparky, Opaline realizes that other dragons must be active, and makes plans to take their fire to power herself up further.

### Chapter 5

In Cutie Blossom Bash, Opaline is completely unaware of Misty's absence, and believes her to still be on her side when she returns. In Mane Smelody, she gloats to Misty about her plans to steal the dragons' fire.

In Nightmare on Mane Street, Opaline discovers that she can use the Together Tree the Mane Five created to work around the barrier Twilight placed around Equestria. After arriving in Maretime Bay, she is deeply annoyed by how everypony believes her to be wearing a Nightmare Night costume. She proceeds to steal Posey's cutie mark and return to her castle, readying herself to track down the dragons.

### Chapter 6

In The Isle of Scaly, Opaline uses the Dragonstone to brainwash a pair of dragons she kidnapped, turning them into her servants.

In Roots of All Evil Pt. 1, she uses her Together Tree to corrupt the others, and starts stealing ponies' cutie marks. She also captures Spike and the other dragons when they attempt to save their friends. She travels to Maretime Bay to finish her work, and is confronted by Hitch Trailblazer, whom she restrains and takes the cutie mark of.

In Roots of All Evil Pt. 2, she travels to Zephyr Heights and takes Pipp and Zipp's cutie marks. She also finally learns that Misty has been working against her, and takes her former servant's cutie mark also. After she takes Izzy Moonbow's cutie mark, Sunny confronts Opaline directly. With her power boosted by the stolen cutie marks, Opaline overwhelms Sunny and takes her mark as well. At that moment, all of ponykind sings in support of Sunny, causing Sunny's locket to release a magical rainbow that restrains her. At the same time, Sparky uses his magic to purify the Dragonstone, releasing the cutie marks and Opaline's Together Tree. The tree takes Opaline's own cutie mark, then traps her inside its roots when she attempts to reclaim it.

## *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Wonderful Stories*

### Season 1

Opaline makes several supporting and background appearances in the 2D animated YouTube web series *Wonderful Stories*, usually communicating with Misty via a magic locket around Misty's neck. In Dragon Dad, which is set after *Perfect Together Chapter 2*, she appears in Misty's flashback obsessing over Sparky's dragonfire. In Nightmare Night Party, she has Misty sneak into the Mane Five's costume party, cause trouble, and get the ponies to use their magic so she and Opaline can observe how it works. In Haunted House, Opaline observes Misty lure the Mane Five to a haunted house so she can steal Sparky from them.

In Baby Critters Club, Opaline briefly appears when the Mane Five's critter friends contact her via Sunny's magic compact mirror, believing she is being crank-called. In Under the Mistytoe, which is set near the end of Winter Wishday, she once again orders Misty to kidnap Sparky, but Misty accidentally kidnaps Cloudpuff instead. In Secret Ad-mare-er, Opaline briefly appears during Izzy's song Ain't Gonna Wait. In Ponykind Parade-emonium, she orders Misty to cause chaos during the Ponykind Parade by inducing rage and hunger in Maretime Bay's critters.

In Sparky's Sick, Opaline senses a surge of dragon magic in Maretime Bay when Sparky comes down with a case of hiccup-burps. In Mission Imponable, she harasses Misty during her efforts to steal the Unity Crystal. In Opaline Alone, Opaline has a mundane, boring day alone at her castle while waiting for Misty to return with the smoothie she tasked her to get. In As the Misty Clears, Opaline exerts her dark influence over the Mane Five via Misty's necklace, until Misty shatters the necklace to pieces. In I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain(bows), she appears in flashbacks retelling the events of Missing the Mark. She also appears in the present, revelling in her restored fire magic.

In Lavarynth, Opaline is mentioned by Hitch Trailblazer when he and his friends encounter a trio of dragons. Spooked by the dragons' behavior, Hitch mentions the belief that he and his friends had thwarted an unknown curse of Opaline's making. In Nightmare Nightmarket, Opaline observes that Sunny and her friends have been accidentally turned into foals, and decides to take the opportunity to strike. But by the time she arrives, the problem has already been resolved and her enemies have departed. Annoyed, Opaline decides to take Onyx's cutie mark as compensation.

In The Rise and Fall, events from both halves of Roots of All Evil are played out from Opaline's point of view.

### 2022 My Little Pony Comics

The second issue of the G5 comic series reveals that she was responsible for driving ponies apart in the first place, making her responsible for the isolated and prejudiced world of modern Equestria by the time of *Journey of Heroes*. As a unicorn, she encouraged other unicorns to believe they were superior to other ponies, causing racial tensions. Twilight and her friends eventually managed to defuse the situation, but Twilight decided to create the Unity Crystals to preserve all magic in Equestria. If racial tensions ever developed again, the crystals could be separated to ensure ponies couldn't use their magic against each other.

However, her actions led Discord to become a fearful extremist who believes that magic is a source of conflict and division, so that's why he plans to destroy the Unity Crystals so the magic won't returned to Equestria again which causes the conflict between him and Mane Five.

## Personality

Opaline is a selfish, vile, greedy, cruel, cunning, vain, prideful, arrogant, ruthless and extremely power-hungry individual who hates the idea of unity and equality. She feels entitled to all magic, believing it all to be rightfully hers, and also believes that ponies should fear and love the Alicorn species, which she believes are meant to rule Equestria as the only magical ponies. She is fully aware that she is evil, as she claims her evil laugh as "maniacal" in "Growing Pains" and demanded everypony (except for Posey) to fear her instead of adoring her in "Nightmare on Mane Street". Even after absorbing a little of Sparky's dragonfire, she became even more greedy than before as she demanded for more. Due to having little magic, she easily gets jealous of others when they used powerful magic and voicing out her resentment at both Celestia and Luna while telling her backstory.

Opaline is very abusive towards her assistant and adoptive daughter Misty, either out of sadism or anger. She constantly berates, belittles, intimidates and humiliates Misty, harshly scolding her for even the smallest or most innocent mistakes, and cruelly tells her that she's nothing without Opaline and will not be enough until she can prove herself useful. She is also sly, devious and manipulative, as she preys on Misty's insecurities and desire for a cutie mark to secure her loyalty, and also used her magic to appear as Sunny's inner mind from the magical mirror in an attempt to corrupt her by "encouraging" her to fully embrace her Alicorn form. However, Opaline also appears to have a short temper as she is easily annoyed or angered by even the smallest of mistakes, showing her pettiness.

## Powers and Abilities

Like other Alicorns, Opaline is capable of very powerful magic, far more than any Unicorn. She can fly better than any Pegasus and has been shown to grow rare plants that even Earth Ponies can not bring forth alone. However, she is implied to have once been much stronger, and that her magic was 'compromised' likely in a battle against Twilight Sparkle. Since then, she has been confined to her Castle, determined to find the source of her lost power to become whole again.

Due to her magic, Opaline's lifespan is far longer than ordinary ponies as she has been alive since at least the reign of Twilight Sparkle (which was stated by Argyle to have been ten generations past). Her more traditional Canterlot accent may imply that she is even older. She's stated that she witnessed events that occurred hundreds of moons ago.

Despite her limitations, Opaline is still formidable with magic ability from her home in the Dark Castle. She has a magic projector which allows her to observe the rest of Equestria through a bird's eye view. She also has a magic cauldron which can do everything from create rare plants from nothing and even synthesize animal life. She is capable of bewitching many items such as ever-burning torches to light her Castle and mirrors to allow her to spy on her enemies and even communicate with them better than modern cell-phones. As a result, Opaline does not keep any semblance of modern technology in her castle, as she likely has no need for it.

Opaline is convinced that a number of sources could restore her full power. Key among them being Sunny's own Alicorn magic, the Prisbeam magic of the Unity Crystals, as well as the magic inducted in Sparky's dragon fire. After obtaining a small breath of dragon fire, her magical power is shown to become greatly augmented. It's arguable that her obsession with magical attainment and exploration of dark arts has warped her personality to become cold, cruel and downright mad.

Even without her magic, Opaline is a force to be reconned with. She is intelligent and clever, devising a number of plans to chip away at Equestria's social fabric. She rarely ever engages directly with her enemies, allowing the havoc of her influence to proceed her. She prefers to know everything about a situation before making a definitive move. Despite yearning for attention and admiration, she concedes that working from the shadows is her best approach.

Though outwardly a bully, Opaline possesses something of a silver tongue, allowing her to manipulate, entice and coerce her opponents and subordinates. She is even a capable brawler, having knocked the relatively peaceful, but combat experienced Fluttershy to the ground without much effort.

## Appearance

Opaline is a slim, magenta-purple-coated Alicorn, with her chest being noticeably colored in a slightly lighter shade. She possesses almond-shaped deep-ocean eyes, long thick eyelashes, arched black brows, deep-ocean hooves, and dons makeup consisting of glittery-blue eyeshadow and angled mascara. Her most distinctive feature is her silver-white mane and tail with various thin streaks of cyan-green. Her main is also shoulder-length, and is parted into two side sections, with small braids around her ears holding the hairstyle. Her hairstyle also resulted into the parts of her mane being left down form a tapering spiral pattern that makes it appear thicker by her shoulders. As for her cutie mark, it consists of a violet-magenta horn having an inscribed transparent rhombus, and accompanying it are two, cyan-blue flames on the side that resemble wings. Opaline is much taller than the other ponies, which is specifically shown when standing next to Misty.

As per being her pony type, she possesses a long, slightly curved horn with the tip being colored in a slightly paler shade, along with a pair of large, retractable feathered-wings with a violet-to-magenta gradient approaching the wingtips. Opaline's only choice of clothing is that of metallic, emerald-green cuffs on the ankles of all four of her hooves. The front of each cuff vaguely resembles that of unicorn head with feather-like spikes, with both the pegasi and unicorn imagery in her accessories refers to her status as a true alicorn.

After consuming a large amount of dragon fire from Sparky, Opaline's horn and wings produces bright and powerful fire, possessing a gradient color scheme consisting shades of cyan-blue, white and purple. The streaks of her main now also glow a brighter cyan, and her neck, down to her chest, has some noticeable glowing assents, implying that the dragon fire now runs through the inside of her body, most likely her veins.

## Appearances

### *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life*

#### Season 5: Generations

* 208. "Maretime Bay Day Ruckus"
* 220a. "Imprisoned" (mentioned)
* 224b. "The Council of Disharmony" (mentioned)
* 225a. "Opaline"
* 225b. "Behind the Mask"
* 231a. "An Ill Wind"
* 231b. "From Harmony to Chaos"
* 232a. "The Takeover"
* 232b. "Rise of the New King"
* 235a. "Sidetracked"
* 237. "The Coming of the King"
* 238. "Return to Primeval's Eye"
* 242. "Brave But Foolish"
* 248. "An Issue of Trust"
* 249. "Dragon Form"

### *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Perfect Together*

#### Chapter 2

* 2. "Izzy Does It"
* 3. "Growing Pains"
* 4. "Portrait of a Princess"
* 5. "Ali-Conned"
* 6. "The Cutie Mark Mix-Up"
* 7. "The Traditional Unicorn Sleep-Over"
* 8. "Hoof Done It?"
* 9. "Have You Seen This Dragon?"

#### Chapter 4

* 12. "Top Remodel"
* 13. "The Jinxie Games" (voice)
* 14. "Sunny Side Up"
* 15. "The Manesquerade Ball"
* 16. "A Little Horse"
* 17. "Missing the Mark"

#### Chapter 5

* 18. "Cutie Blossom Bash"
* 19. "Family Trees Pt. 1" (mentioned)
* 20. "Family Trees Pt. 2" (mentioned)
* 21. "Father of the Bridlewood" (mentioned)
* 22. "Mane Smelody"
* 23. "Nightmare on Mane Street"

#### Chapter 6

* 24. "The Isle of Scaly"
* 25. "Roots of All Evil Pt. 1"
* 26. "Roots of All Evil Pt. 2"
* 27. "Secrets of Starlight" (mentioned)

### *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Wonderful Stories*

#### Season 1

* 29. "Dragon Dad"
* 30. "Nightmare Night Party"
* 31. "Haunted House"
* 32. "Baby Critters Club"
* 39. "Under the Mistytoe"
* 44. "Secret Ad-mare-er"
* 45. "Ponykind Parade-emonium"
* 46. "Sparky's Sick"
* 49. "Mission Imponable"
* 50. "Opaline Alone"
* 53. "As the Misty Clears"
* 54. "I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain(Bows)"
* 62. "Lavarynth" (mentioned)
* 63. "Nightmare Nightmarket"
* 67. "The Rise and Fall"
* 68. "Crystal Ball" (mentioned)