Equestria

**Equestria** is the homeworld of Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Spike, Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna. Equestria's only sentient inhabitants are mainly ponies, unicorns, and pegasi (in the canon show), though the likes of non-pony sentience like mythic beasts and dragons are not uncommon, even though not all of them are directly or completely native here. It's peaceful, pretty, and colorful. It has a very rich, complex, and sometimes surprisingly dark history considering it's a world of short, multi-colored horses, it's under the heroic protection of Twilight and her friends, and is ruled by Princess Celestia, the sun princess, and Princess Luna, the reformed moon princess.

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## Original And Canon History

### **Origin and Old Ages**

#### **Formation**

Billions of years ago, before the events of The Great Universal War, Equestria had not yet been blessed with the magic of friendship.

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#### **Alicorn God Era**

Equestria would later come to be reformed by almighty Alicorn gods, many of which include those that controlled the weather, the tectonic and volcanic attributes, animal and plant life, and so on, all lead by the head gods, Queen Philosophia and King Temperanus in Alicornia. Celestia's ancestors controlled the Sun and Moon.

The Equestrian gods created the ponies that inhabited their world and made them among the purest so that they can be their mortal successors destined for greatness. Earth ponies were created by the Alicorns on Philosophia's side of the family that controlled the earth, Unicorns were created by her main family side which controlled harmony and peace, and Pegasi were created by the Alicorns on her side of the family that controlled the sky. Other magical entities like the First Tree of Harmony were made by Philosophia, and these three pony tribes lived in friendship, which is their term for peace and harmony and thought of that as their own religion, doing anything to please them. Back then, the world was populated mostly by Alicorn Gods and Ponies, though some like Victus Mortuus, Lord Chaos and his brother Lord Order, and Prince Woeus went rogue.

#### **The Prehistoric Ages/The First Windigo Ice Age**

During the days when mortal creations began to be a developing hobby, and after the predictable destruction of the dinosaurs, the first sentient creatures emerged including mammoths, aurochs, wooly rhinos, indricotheres, Irish elks, toxodons, and the ancestors of ponies mesohippuses. These creatures, though semi-primitive, could coexist peacefully with each other thanks to the Alicorn Gods' influence. A magic society quite different from Equestria today was created, and the world flourished. But when the magic of the world evolved, magical creatures evolved with it. The worst of them were Windigos. Taking the form of larger Alicorn Gods at the time because of their alternate biology, they began to have a world hunger crisis when hate started dying out especially with Prince Woeus being imprisoned. The ruler of the Windigos, Permafrost, sought a solution to keep his rule when he was threatened by more honest candidates that aimed to get food more honestly and without causing chaos. Permafrost instigated a global war amongst all the creatures in Equestria, causing them to hate each other. This allowed the Windigos to thrive again for 100,000 years.

But his rule was threatened once more when his actions were slowly killing the creatures his people fed off of. The creatures were forced underground in caverns where they lived for 10,000 years. These events caused Permafrost to accidentally confess his crimes of starting the global war, which cost him his throne to the old candidates and got him turned to permafrost as punishment. Thus the other candidates ruled and stopped the global ice age, but were disappointed that the damage Permafrost did was already done, resulting in modern ponies and other modern creatures to evolve in their place which flourished more than their ancestors. Ponies spent their beginning days in a land called Dream Valley, which would now come to be known as Questra.

#### **Chaos War**

For thousands of years, Equestria seemed to be peaceful. Then, not too long after The Great Universal War began, Alicorn Gods began to go rogue and had to be banished or imprisoned. The most notable incident to come out of this event was an evil spirit called Tyranny, who was the first of a race of chaotic beings called the Draconequus, which were created by followers of Darkspawn called the Kaos Beings, came to Equestria and led his entire race, as well as monsters and beings of chaos, into spreading war and chaos throughout the land in an event referred to as the Chaos War. Many communities fell in the hands of Tyranny, including that of the mortal pony tribes' communities, as they lost faith in the Alicorn Gods for the surreal chaos their land was reduced to.

The Alicorn Gods fought against Tyranny as both sides had incapacitated many members, causing Tyranny's race to turn against him because of the risks when Alicorns were at their most hopeless. However, a stroke of genius occurred when Philosophia had encountered an outsider by the name of Bronach Evelyn Yeager, and inspired her to make weapons for a future generation to utilize and gathered all the Gods in one spot to create one of them: The Elements of Peace.

Outraged at the betrayal, Tyranny went on a chaotic rampage seeking to kill both the Alicorn Gods and Ponies, then enslave his race by force. The Alicorn Gods had defeated him with the Elements of Peace, sealing him in the Frozen North forever, and would have lost their immortality in the process if not for another set of elements secretly created by the Draconequui who would rule in the future: the Elements of Hope. However, using the Elements of both Peace and Hope did not come without sacrifices, as some Alicorn souls were not lost, but scattered across the world, including that of Philosophia and Temperanus.

With the help of the Draconequui, the Alicorn Gods instructed the ponies to build a temple where the now powerless Elements of Hope would be sealed until they would be needed again.

#### **Post-Chaos War/The Second Windigo Ice Age/The Founding of Equestria**

As Equestria recovered from the Chaos War, the Alicorn gods had gone into hiding, leaving the three mortal pony tribes to take care of themselves. However, those ponies had lost hope of the friendship religions they cherished greatly, and began to hate each other in a period referred to as the Old Ages. Each of the three tribes didn't care for whatever troubled the other two, but only for their own welfare. The Pegasi controlled the weather in exchange for food from the earth ponies. The unicorns were in charge of controlling day and night in exchange for the same thing. But mistrust between the tribes increased until a mysterious blizzard caused by Windigoes, winter spirits that feed off of argument and frustration and make things as cold as the fight continues, overtook their land in a period referred to as the Windigo Ice Age. Each group of ponies decided to find a new place to live, but they all arrived at the same new place, and as their mistrust increased, the blizzard followed them as the Windigoes did. On the land that would later be named Equestria, six ponies: Clover the Clever, Princess Platinum, Chancellor Puddinghead, Smart Cookie, Commander Hurricane, and Private Pansy, discovered the Windigoes and figured out they must fight off the blizzard by treating one another warmly. With this driving the Windigoes away and ending the Ice Age, the 6 ponies founded Equestria. As Equestria grew, the three pony tribes moved into the Middle Ages as they centered themselves in Equestria, leaving much behind in their old lands as they grew too inhospitable. With this happening, the empty lands were available to be claimed by other races like dragons, centaurs, griffins, etc. as they formed their own lands and countries. Thus, with Equestria being the main territory for ponies, and only few ponies living outside Equestria, the world became one on its own with different lands and races.

The unicorns used magic to build Canterlot and once the city was finished, they invited the pegasi and ponies to a party, which became a yearly event called the Grand Galloping Gala. But then they are approached by two seemingly rogue juvenile Alicorn Gods named ??? and ???, who helped raise the sun after seeing unicorns struggle and weaken after trying to raise it themselves, earning their cutie marks in the process and claiming the thrones as leaders of Equestria. Being descendants the Celestial Alicorns, they ran away from Alicornia after their parents were thought to have abandoned them to fight the war. When light came back to Equestria, ??? and ??? came out of hiding, and saw that the Sun has come back, but was unstable since unicorns were placed in charge of controlling day and night after the Alicorn gods were gone. They went on many adventures while searching for their parents, not knowing that they had perished until they met another surviving Alicorn God named Death Coffin, the new Alicorn of Death since Mortuus went rogue. 8 years later, they arrived in Equestria, took their family mantle of controlling the Sun and Moon, and became their rulers. After 40 years, they healed the relationship of the surviving Draconequui, gave them a home on an island East of Equestria, confessed their love for each other, got married, became royalty, and gave birth to Celestia and Luna, who would grow up to be friends with the Prince of the Draconequui Discord, and be tutored by Clover's mentor Starswirl the Bearded.

#### **Discord's Reign**

Celestia and Luna grew up with their parents in a world remnant of their ancestors' design. Starswirl taught them how to be adequate rulers for their parents, finding it a challenge to tutor the children of the latest descendants of the Alicorn Gods. Discord, however, grew to feel he was not appreciated among ponies, and this resulted in him being captured by his exiled older brother Mayhem, who lied about ponies discriminating him as he deviated away from the Draconequui's new ways, and thus turned him against Celestia and Luna. The two thus invaded Canterlot, and took control of it. Though Mayhem was the most powerful of the two, he handed the ruling job to Discord soon after, and became vice-king and commander of Discord's guards. Ruling Canterlot together, Discord and Mayhem began to make the three pony tribes suffer greatly to their disharmonic magic. Months later, Discord and Mayhem claimed total rule of Equestria, creating unrest and unhappiness wherever they went for their own cruel amusement, turning some of the sentient creatures there into many chaotic monsters, which were captured into slavery by Mayhem, which Discord didn't really seem to care about.

??? and ???, and their now-adolescent daughters had been tortured and pranked by Discord as well, mainly his former friends Celestia and Luna whom he felt betrayed by. His most notable torture was fluctuating their magic to the point of becoming unstable. After being oppressed a hundred times, the frustrated Celestial family decided to use their powers to escape, and search for a way to stand up to Discord as their magic couldn't reverse their influence, and the two sisters, in their adolescent ages, were frustrated at their mistreatment, and their parents said that they could only access their Alicorn magic again if they let their immaturity go and become 'true alicorns' before they turned up missing the next day, captured by Mayhem and entrapped in Plunderweed Cocoons, leaving Celestia and Luna on their own. The two watched in horror at the influence Discord and Mayhem had on the three mortal pony tribes, making them suffer in misery, unrest, and unhappiness for their amusement. As a result of the harsh impressions left by such, the ponies didn't take kindly to the sisters, but then a surviving Starswirl found them and aided them as a considerable parental figure. Starswirl had given them sanctuary in the Temple of Hope, which had contained the Elements of Hope: Guidance, Sincerity, Courage, Compassion, Faith, and Belief. When the time was right, Starswirl revealed that he had kept the First Tree of Harmony itself safe from threats like the two Draconequus brothers as he knew it was the only thing that could stop them. Aside from the six elements within: Magic, Kindness, Laughter, Honesty, Loyalty, and Generosity. As a result of their adolescence and little experience in pony culture, Celestia and Luna didn't quite understand the ponies' religions since the Alicorn Gods not only gave little to anonymous concern about mortals for millions of years, but they never took the time to understand true pony nature, and viewed them as pushovers and distractions that were just worth saving from Discord's influence, and only treated them as lepers and inferiors as they tried to make the Tree's Elements work for them, unaware that their mistreatment over them was the problem.

Unfortunately, Mayhem discovers this, and declares chaos in Equestria to be doubled as punishment for treason. Celestia and Luna realized how wrong they were as they watched the raw torment and emotion within the ponies, finally understanding the power of harmony, and the Elements rejuvenated their magic with its own harmonic magic. Mayhem retreats and tells Discord about their plans. Desperate to stop them, they planned to use a Plunderweed Infestation to capture the Tree's magic and reverse the sisters' immunity to his influence, as well as kill the tree itself. As Starswirl was taken by these Plunderweed and put in a cocoon, he urges the sisters to find the Tree and use the Elements to defeat Discord and Mayhem, and restore harmony in Equestria. They found them, they fought their way past Mayhem's elemental guards and forces, reached Discord and turn him to stone. Mayhem came in and saw what happened to his brother. The sisters went after Mayhem, but because he was twice as powerful as Discord, he counteracted the Elements, and fled Equestria without a trace after swearing revenge on the Celestial family. With harmony back in Equestria, the freed King and Queen put up a protective invisible magical barrier to keep Mayhem from exacting his revenge, or stealing any of the Elements of Harmony, everything the two brothers did were reversed, and Starswirl had the sisters graduate for an overachieving act that made them true alicorns at last.

### **The Middle Ages**

#### **The Great Fear War/The Loss of the Pillars of Equestria**

Half a century after Discord and Mayhem's defeat, Equestria successfully recovered and Celestia and Luna, now pre-adults, have ensured that history doesn't repeat itself with what happened after the Chaos War. Equestria has healed and moved onto the Middle Ages to where Equestria reaches it's second generation, despite Draconequua disheartened by Discord and Mayhem's actions. Starswirl started to tutor Celestia and Luna to think like the ponies and soon learn how to properly protect and rule them, forming a bond with them as if they were their own children. However, they gain their first otherworldly threat in eons in the form of Pitch Black the Boogeyman, who came to Equestria after the end of the Dark Ages in his world of *Rise of the Guardians*, hid in the shadows, made an alliance with Taraxippuses, or ghosts that haunt ponies, learned black magic from them, and used these gifts to haunt ponies with them as his followers all over in a reign of fear and bad dreams. Celestia and Luna's parents were unable to defeat Pitch, as they were haunted by their fear of losing their family to total darkness and evil, or even their own people or subjects, and were eventually rendered to fear Pitch himself. Soon, Pitch did the same thing to Celestia and Luna, making them powerless to defeat him as well by haunting them by fearing that their own family or loved ones would fall into evil or mistrust. He even killed the First Tree of Harmony to ensure that their elements would not be used to defeat him.

Free from the Celestial Family's protection, Pitch continued to raise fear in Equestria, and caused millions of communities to fall. Starswirl was the only one left to fight back against him, and he protects the Celestial Family with his life, and eventually meets the Pillars of Equestria: Mistmane, Flash Magnus, Somnambula, Mage Meadowbrook, and Rockhoof, when they first fight off The Dazzlings, thanks to the distress call of Stygian, and form an alliance. However, the fear starts to get to Starswirl and the Celestial family, as they try to keep public relations on other worlds in tact as Pitch's actions leave them too mistrusting, and it even causes the founding of the failing Union of Centaurs, Dragons, and Griffins, among other races, which failed even from the start for more reasons than Pitch. Starswirl himself even succumbed to the fear as the pressure started to get to him to where he made what was considered his biggest failure by trying to defeat the Dazzlings and ended up having to banish them to another dimension as a contingency, and his surrogate daughter Clover and the founders of Equestria ended up disappearing after they fought a betrayed and misunderstood good-hearted darkness-succumbed Windigo named Gale who was brought there by the arguing and hatred brought by Pitch's actions, and even the loss of the source of pure love in Equestria, the Crystal Empire, after Pitch earns an alliance with the Umbrans of the North of which King Sombra was descended from through the image of an ancient unicorn tyrant named Obsidious, who ruled before Princess Platinum's father, King Bullion, defeated him and turned him into a Taraxippus, and had become the Taraxippus' top fearmonger, the infamous Pony of Shadows, until he was defeated again not too long after Sombra betrayed his foster home after being taught by Pitch in the ways of black magic in order to cast Equestria in an endless reign of fear and hatred hoping to be the next Pony of Shadows, but ultimately failed when Starswirl got Celestia and Luna to fight for the love of their subjects who trust them, and thus they defeated Sombra and turned him to shadow, banishing him to the frozen arctic, but not before he caused the Empire to vanish into thin air.

The loss of the Crystal Empire caused Celestia and Luna to go back into fearing mistrust and evil in their close circle again now that the source of all love has vanished, and at the same time an unknown and unspoken brother of Celestia lost hope and ran away. Thus, with the ultimate result of Starswirl's fears making theirs come true when Stygian is cast out for something he was blinded to. Thus, after an argument resulting in Celestia and Luna losing trust in their own mentor, they finally lost all hope. But while the Celestial family was now seemingly powerless to stop Pitch, new heroes began to emerge in the form of Pitch's archenemies, The Guardians of Childhood, who came after finally hearing that Pitch was causing mischief in another world, and taught the Celestial family to confront their fears at last with their most fond memories, and eventually stop Pitch's dark trick on them. Thus, it works, and they dispel and banish the Taraxippus in the Shadow Realm made from the essence of Prince Woeus after defeating their next Pony of Shadows Doldrumsta Blue. Thus with his forces gone, the Guardians and the Celestial family finally confronted and defeated Pitch, banishing him from Equestria forever as he swore to return in a future generation to instill fear once more. After that, the Guardians grew interest in Equestria's religions of trust and affection, and decided to introduce their well-known holidays and beliefs. ??? and ??? were interested, and decided that Christmas and Easter would be celebrated every 5-10 years. After that, life in Equestria was more peaceful and wondrous than ever.

#### **The Loss of the Celestial Parents/Rise of Nightmare Moon**

However, fear ended up destroying the Celestial family when Starswirl not only 'fails' a family in Hollow Shades when it ends up abandoned, but Stygian returns from there with a new surprise: He is now the new Pony of Shadows, and has thus sworn to bring the Taraxippus back, and after he turns Starswirl against Celestia and Luna, the Pillars finally confront in Ponehenge and go to limbo, taking the Pony of Shadows with them. Thus, Celestia and Luna are disheartened and Luna, succumbing to fear and anger, wishes Starswirl good riddance. However, things got worse half-a-century later. A ruthless pirate named Captain Taiklar Blackheart had plundered Equestria for it's riches, killed ??? and ???, absorbing their souls, and set his sights on stealing the Elements of Harmony. But he failed to realize that he had no idea where to look for them, and his crew missed it. After they left, Celestia and Luna took over Canterlot as rulers at last when they finally mature, and kept the Elements safe.

However, they failed to realize that during the Great Fear War, Pitch Black created something else: A nightmare realm on Equestria's moon. In this realm, Pitch Black corrupted precious animals and turned them into menacing creatures called the Nightmare Forces. These forces were meant to help Pitch get revenge on the Celestial family if he should ever be defeated, which he was. Luna, due to her fears being confirmed, was feeling deeply angered by the loss of her parents that she soon had a bad attitude, which only got worse when the three pony tribes seemed to shun and slept during the night, which made Luna grow bitter and jealous. The Nightmare Forces used her bitterness and fears to take her over, making her jealousy grow stronger and stronger until she eventually refused to lower the moon to make way for the dawn. And soon, Luna's bitterness and jealousy made the Nightmare Forces convince her to become the evil Nightmare Moon. Pitch had also promised that Nightmare Moon would give the Forces a chance to take over Equestria and have a kingdom of their own. Celestia battled Nightmare Moon, and used the Elements to banish her into the moon, where she would move onto the lunar land of Aradia, the homeland of the Nyxes, which are creatures capable of crafting good dreams and dispelling nightmares, as she turned them into more Nightmare Forces, and after haunting Celestia in her memories through this, she continued to do this for a thousand years, even as she moved on without her and eventually founded the E.P.U Guard and also the Wonderbolts.

### **The New Ages**

Less than one thousand years later, Celestia is still around, and Nightmare Moon still remains banished in the moon, a new student has come to Magic University after years at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. Her name was Twilight Sparkle. She and her associate, Spike, have found Magic University to be a great place, but have a lot of trouble after getting enrolled into a revived fraternity led by Valerie Farmer following a controversy involving a fellow student named Augusta Cardinal.

Twilight would later be roped into signing a contract to become a student of Madame Sphynx as well as Celestia's in an attempt to save the former's friendship. Madame Sphynx was planning to take over Equestria and help protect it in the event that Nightmare Moon should return by using her contracted students to build an army of rebels to fight back because Celestia wasn't much into protecting it by waging war.

Twilight's friendship with the Alpha Nu Kappa house would later be tested one Hearth's Warming when they, along with occlumency teacher and Twilight's Celestia-obsessed cousin ???, were summoned to what she believed was Equestria's frozen arctic. But she actually, and unknowingly, had banished them to the arctic of the *Rise of the Guardians* world, where they met up with the Guardians of Childhood and learned that there was trouble going on there, too. Pitch Black, after being banished from Equestria, has teamed up with a winter spirit named Cold Heart the Sadistic, has placed a curse on Santa's Workshop, making Santa weak, his reindeer mean, and his yetis crazy, in an attempt to destroy the Christmas Spirit. Twilight and the group offer to help, but they were still fighting with each other, especially Valerie, who was revealed to prefer Christmas over Hearth's Warming, putting her at odds with Twilight.

But being banished into the world of a fearful enemy has made Twilight vulnerable to Pitch's dark magic, and has bad dreams about her sudden fears and problems every night. After making friends with a few other animals, the group plans to stop Pitch and Cold Heart. However, Twilight is tricked by Pitch into betraying her group, eventually causing her to almost give up her role as Celestia's faithful student. The group separates, and Twilight runs away to Antarctica where she accidentally gets her horn broken after trying to attack Pitch with a sudden burst of black magic as an act of revenge. However, Twilight soon meets a penguin and walrus duo named Milo and Otis, who convince her to fight her hatred and fear, and save her group. She comes back, and then helps them and the Guardians stop Pitch and Cold Heart.

After that, they returned to compete in the Spell Games, an annual competition in Magic University, and after many hardships, the Alphas ultimately win. A few years later, the bonds of friendship within the Alphas and the Celestial Alliance of Magic University would again be tested when Maestro Falltalon turns their elf member Cody Christmas against them. After a series of misadventures throughout the school, they convince Cody that now that they're friends, his tutelage under Falltalon doesn't matter anymore, especially since his crush Sierra might be very disappointed in him, and with the help of various other students, and ???'s occlumency lessons paying off, Twilight succeeds.

However, even after all those years, Twilight still has different flaws. She is still vulnerable to fear and black magic, and she is still concerned about Nightmare Moon's return.