Castle of Friendship

The **Castle of Friendship** is a castle in Ponyville that Princess Twilight Sparkle acquires in the season four episode Twilight's Kingdom. It is called the "Castle of Friendship" by Spike in Curseworld and in some merchandise, the **Friendship Rainbow Kingdom** in other merchandise, and **Twilight's Castle** in other merchandise.

## Depictions in the Series

### The Princess of Friendship

At the climax of the episode Twilight's Kingdom, the crystalline tree-castle is created from the mysterious chest that sprouted at the base of the Tree of Harmony in Princess Twilight Sparkle. The chest is launched from the tree to a site on one side of Ponyville where, in a matter of seconds, the tree grows into its full size.

The tree-castle bears some resemblance to the Golden Oak Library, at least the aboveground portion of which is destroyed earlier in the episode by Lord Tirek, but is many times larger and appears to have a multi-level castle in its branches, which includes a great balcony, two spires, and a tower. The structure has at least one banner flying on the side marked with Twilight Sparkle's cutie mark, and the top bears a large crystal star. Two sets of five strings of beads hang off the side of the structure much like the white beads that hang off the Tree of Harmony. At the foot is a great golden stair for the two-leaved golden door into the tree's body. Two open lancet windows flank the door.

The lobby's two stairs lead into the castle rooms where lancet two-toned green glass windows and crystalline lathed columns with scrolled tops line the hall decked by a brown rug with scrollwork. At its end is a golden-framed green glass fanlighted door to the throne room where the Mane Six and Spike each have a crystalline throne about a star-shaped dais on a golden dish on a violet rug with scrollwork. Even with its door are a set of green glass spire lights.

### Marks of Possession

Beginning with the season premiere, the castle takes the Golden Oak Library's place in the theme song.

In Cutie Markless, the castle reacts to the Mane Six's cutie marks, and a crystal platform rises from the center of the throne room and creates a three-dimensional interactive map of Equestria. The map calls the Mane Six to a remote village to solve a friendship problem.

In Stiix Sweet Stiix, the castle is shown to contain high-rising ceilings, long hallways, and a dining hall that Twilight and her friends hold a pancake breakfast in. To make the castle feel more like a home to Twilight, her friends fashion a gem-lined chandelier from the Golden Oak Library's roots and hang it in the throne room. In addition, Rarity decorates the dining hall, Applejack spruces up the kitchen with "rustic farm decor," Rainbow Dash puts up Daring Do posters in the library, Fluttershy places some stuffed animals in Twilight's bedroom, and Pinkie Pie installs a number of hidden confetti cannons.

In ???? and Make New Friends But Keep Discord, Spike has his own bedroom in the castle. In ????, the Cutie Map calls Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash to Griffonstone.

Twilight's bedroom first appears in Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?, and the castle library first appears in ????. In the latter episode, the Cutie Map calls Applejack and Rarity to Manehattan.

In ????, the castle is decked out for Hearth's Warming Eve. In ????, a dangling sign with a crown on it hangs outside, most likely to play up the horror movie cliché of a haunted castle. In ????, the Cutie Map calls Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle to the Smokey Mountains.

In Curseworld, each time Starlight Glimmer and Twilight alter the timeline, the castle disappears, but the Cutie Map remains due to its connection to the Tree of Harmony.

### The Changing Effect

In Crystal to Famed, it is revealed that the castle is the new home of Starlight Glimmer now that Twilight has taken her on as her pupil. Starlight's bedroom appears in Every Little Thing She Does and To Where and Back Again.

### The Pillars of Time

In The Hands of Time, a medal-awarding ceremony is held at the castle for Starlight Glimmer, Trixie, Thorax, and Discord. In The Hatching, Trixie accidentally uses a teleportation spell on the Cutie Map. In Rock Solid Friendship, Pinkie Pie shows Maud Pie the castle, but Maud is unimpressed. In ????, Thunderlane helps the Cutie Mark Day Campers put together a model of the castle out of wood. In To Turn Back Into Time, the Pillars of Old Equestria visit the castle and recognize it as having sprouted from the seed they planted a thousand years ago.

### The Overlord Sons

Beginning with The Mask of Deception, the School of Friendship is built and opened adjacent to the castle.

In Big Trouble, Little Ninjago and Equestria, Pinkie Pie has a cardboard cutout of the castle.

### March of the Oni

In The Beginning of the End, as Twilight makes preparations for her impending rule of Equestria, she plans to give the Castle of Friendship to Starlight. She later moves out during the flashbacks in The Fate of Lloyd.