Magic

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Magic is a metaphysical and supernatural force present in all Creation, as it was magic what created it.

## Types of magic

### Natural Magic

It’s magic that exists in the nature and uses the natural elements. It includes elemental manipulation where the user turns his own magic into the elements of nature. Every living being has potential for each of the six elements, transforming their own aura into these elements or manipulating them. Fairies are naturally skilled in this area of magic. The six basic elements are: fire, earth, light, darkness, water and wind. Each element is naturally weaker than and stronger than another:

* Fire is strong against Wind but weak against Water.
* Wind is strong against Light but weak against Fire.
* Light is strong against Darkness but weak against Wind.
* Darkness is strong against Earth but weak against Light.
* Earth is strong against Water but weak against Darkness.
* Water is strong against Fire but weak against Earth.

Basically, if an elemental spell is put against another elemental spell of the same level, but of a stronger nature, then the spell with the superior nature will prevail.

#### Affinity

In general, every being's aura has an affinity towards one of the six basic nature transformations. One's affinity can be determined using pieces of paper made from a special type of tree that grows at the Enchanted Forest. When these pieces of paper are exposed to even the slightest hint of energy, it reacts according to the aura's latent element:

* Fire: the paper will ignite and turn to ash.
* Earth: the paper will turn to dirt and crumble away.
* Light: the paper will wrinkle.
* Darkness: the paper gets dark.
* Water: the paper will become wet/damp.
* Wind: the paper will split in two.

Beings have an easier time learning to create and control a nature that matches their affinity, although even then it may take a number of years. They are not limited to the nature they have an affinity for, and it is in fact common for fairies to have mastered two natures or more.

#### Combined natures

By using two or three natures simultaneously, one can create a completely new elemental nature with unique properties that wouldn't exist on its own. It is stated that the ability to combine the elemental natures it is needed an affinity for the natures they must simultaneously use.

However, it is possible for somepony who doesn’t possesses an affinity for two natures to get a combined nature. But this only can happen under certain circumstances, like a special light.

For now, only these combined natures had been shown and named.

**Double Natures**:

* **Ice**: created by simultaneously combining the Water and Wind natures. It allows the user to freely create and manipulate ice. When the user releases their chakra, the surrounding vicinity becomes cold enough to cause snow to fall. Additionally, any nearby water is an advantage, as the user can simply freeze that water to create ice.
	+ Known users: Queen Ingrid; Icy; Crystal Frost
* **Wood**: created by simultaneously combining the Earth and Water natures. It allows the user to create wood as well as various plants, from simple seeds to even flowering trees. Wood and plants can be produced from any surface.
	+ Known users: Leaf Mane; Tirek (with wild energy); Hepheus (with Ten-Tails); Grogar (with Ten-Tails); Apple Bloom (with her dreaming cloak)
* **Magnet**: created by simultaneously combining the Wind and Earth natures. It allows the user to create magnetic forces in different properties and usages. It is characteristic of the One-Tail and its Jinchuriki.
	+ Known users: One-Tail; Chief Strongpaw; Chief Sandstorm; Glen
* **Haze**: created by simultaneously combining the Wind and Darkness natures. It allows the user to create a dense atmosphere that can poison the opponent or take the sense of sigh and smell.
	+ Known users: Star Knight; King Grover
* **Lava**: is created by simultaneously combining the Fire and Earth natures. A characteristic of the Four-Tails and its Jinchuriki. It allows the user to use lava and molten rocks.
	+ Known users: Four-Tails; Black Granite; Mystic Heart
* **Vapour**: is created by simultaneously combining the Water and Fire natures. A characteristic of the Five-Tails and its jinchūriki. It allows the user to use steam.
	+ Known users: Five-Tails; Vapour Fist; Mystic Heart
* **Swift**: is created by simultaneously combining the Wind and Light natures. It allows the user to move with instantaneous speed.
	+ Known users: Heartbeat; Sweetie Belle (with her dreaming cloak)
* **Blacklight**: is created by simultaneously combining the Light and Darkness natures. It allows the user to create a piercing blast of obscure light and cause pain in the opponent without causing visible damages. It is said to be unstable and capable of consuming the user if not controled properly.
	+ Known users: Ulysses; Tirek
* **Gale**: is created by simultaneously combining the Light and Water natures. It creates energy beams that can be guided towards the enemy.
	+ Known users: Arcing Thunder; Scootaloo (with her dreaming cloak)
* **Ink**: is created by simultaneously combining the Darkness and Water natures. It creates a thick ink that can be used to blind the adversary.
	+ Known users: Eight-Tails; Hawthorn
* **Explosive**: is created by simultaneously combining the Light and Earth natures. It gives the wielder the ability to utilise explosive energy in combat.
	+ Known users: Rothbart; Thunder Blitz
* **Scorch**: is created by simultaneously combining the Fire and Wind natures. It gives the wielder the ability to evaporate all the liquid inside the enemy.
	+ Known users: Gina
* **Poison**: is created by simultaneously combining the Darkness and Earth natures. It gives the wielder the ability to use toxins.
	+ Known users: Cypress

* **Flare**: is created by simultaneously combining the Fire and Light natures. It gives the wielder the ability to create fiery lights that can both burn physically and the energy of the target.
	+ Known users: Gunter

**Triple Natures**

* **Steel**: is created by simultaneously combining the Fire, Earth and Water natures. It allows the user to use steel.
	+ Known users: Golden Paladin
* **Particle**: is created by simultaneously combining the Fire, Earth, and Wind natures. It can pulverize anything.
	+ Known users: Hard Stone
* **Crystal**: is created by simultaneously combining the Light, Earth, and Water natures. It can use crystals as a weapon.
	+ Known users: King Sombra
* **Glass**: is created by simultaneously combining the Fire, Light and Earth natures. It can use glass to act as defense and create portals.
	+ Known users: Mirror Coat
* **Pulse**: is created by simultaneously combining the Wind, Light and Earth natures. It allows its users to manipulate the inertial properties of objects.
	+ Known users: General of Chaos; Scorpan; Tirek
* **Rust**: is created by simultaneously combining the Earth, Water and Wind natures. It can cause rust and decay with everything they come into contact with.
	+ Known users: Gentle Light

#### Natural Energy

Natural Energy is energy that can be collected from the atmosphere and terrain. If one can collect the natural energy from around them and combine and balance it with the inner energy, they can have a boost in power, both physical and magical.

### Magical Manipulation

It’s one of the most basic kind of magic. Telekinesis is a form of magical manipulation where the user can move or exert force on objects, being the most common form of magic in unicorns. It is also possible to control the magical aura, being possible to change its size and form. Elemental manipulation, beyond belonging to natural magic, is also part of this kind of magic, as it uses the aura to manipulate the elements of nature.

### Musical Magic

It’s a kind of magic that can be used through music. Melody is the supreme master of this kind of magic.

#### Siren pendant

It allows Sirens to use their hypnotic and manipulative voices to turn ponies against each other or to cause pain.

#### Thirteenth Note

It’s a special kind and most powerful form musical magic. It has its source in the orange star seed, Melody’s star seed. Only certain individuals, called Prodigies, are capable of using it, doing it in various ways. When combined with a Siren’s voice, it can hurt even the General of Music. It's revealed that the sirens once possessed the power over that note.

### Dark Magic

   It’s a “malevolent” kind of magic that is used by the Lord of Chaos and most of his followers. Dark Magic is not necessarily "evil", just because it's labelled "dark", but it possesses a corruptive effect on the ones who use it.

#### Wild Energy

It’s a kind of dark magic that opposes to natural magic. It turns a living creature into the most aggressive being. Ten-Tails, the most dangerous creature that exists in all Creation, was made through a great concentration of wild energy.

## Beings and magic

### Earth Ponies

Earth ponies tend to crops and care for plants and animals. They have a magically ingrained connection to the earth that makes them better at working with plants and animals. Fluttershy, a Pegasus whose special talent is working with animals, is something of an exception to the rule in this regard.

### Pegasus Ponies

Pegasus ponies frequently alter the weather, clearing the clouds from the sky and building up clouds to arrange a storm. Snowflakes and rainbows are made in a Pegasus-run weather factory in Cloudsdale. Pegasus ponies work together to create a hurricane that lifts water from a reservoir to Cloudsdale.

Non-Pegasus ponies require a magic spell to be able to walk on clouds, while Pegasus ponies naturally possess this ability. Some Pegasus ponies create weather-related wakes when they perform aerial acrobatics. Rainbow Dash creates rainbows several times during her acrobatic flights, and creates a special burst called sonic rainboom.

### Unicorn Ponies

While earth ponies and pegasi have passive forms of magic, unicorns can actively perform magic. Before King Cosmos and Queen Galaxia, unicorns controlled the sun and moon.

A common ability among unicorns is using telekinesis to levitate or move objects. The ability to cast other spells varies widely and sometimes depends on the unicorn's special talent. Unicorn magic requires concentration and effort, as Twilight explained once to Spike.

#### Colors of magic auras

When unicorns cast magic, it produces a colored aura around their horns and any objects their magic affects. The color of the glow is different among individuals. For the ones with special lights, like the Generals, the color matches the color of their star seeds.

#### Baby unicorn magic

Unicorn babies don’t have control over their magic and this can make them get strange magic surges that come and go.

### Alicorns

Alicorn magic is much stronger than the unicorn magic, capable of doing things the latter is not capable.

### Discord

Discord possesses magic that allows him to cause chaos everywhere. He can get strange things happen, such as cotton-candy clouds raining chocolate milk or cola (as mentioned by Rainbow Dash), roads turning into soapy water, giant pepper shakers float in the air, bunnies grow long, lanky limbs, and more. Discord apparently steals the Elements of Harmony from Celestia's magical safe, which she initially believes only she can open. He makes some ponies behave the opposite of how they normally would, a spell which Twilight Sparkle breaks by using a "memory" spell to restore the ponies' friendship.

### Queen Chrysalis and the Changelings

Chrysalis and her Changelings are capable of changing their form and feed on love that is able to strengthen their own magic.

### Sirens

Through the use of their pendants, Sirens can use their voices to manipulate ponies, turning them against each other and getting stronger with the negativity gerated.

### Gorgons

A regular gorgon can use her eyes in a hypnotic way, but when three gorgons combine their power, they can turn beings into stone.

## Magical objects

### Elements of Harmony

   The Elements of Harmony are said to be one of the strongest magic known to ponydom. It's told that they were used by Princess Celestia to banish Nightmare Moon in the moon to prevent her from plunging Equestria into eternal night. They are later used by Twilight and her friends to turn Nightmare Moon back into Princess Luna, and again to encase Discord in stone. Initially simple spheres, the elements later become pieces of jewellery that match each of the main six ponies' cutie marks after they are used on Nightmare Moon: the initial five elements each take the form of a necklace, and the element of magic becomes a tiara. Said tiara takes a new appearance after Twilight's ascension to Alicorn state and royal status. They are the only kind of magic capable of breaking the effect of the Elements of Chaos.

### Elements of Chaos

The Elements of Chaos are the opposite magic of the Elements of Harmony, being able to corrupt any being. The Lord of Chaos is the only known user of this kind of magic. The Elements of Harmony are the only kind of magic capable of breaking their magic.

### Crystal Heart

   The Crystal Heart is a magical artifact used to protect the Crystal Empire from any external treat and the arctic weather itself.

It is also represented in a crystal sculpture carved by the Crystal Ponies in honor of Spike, who they venerate for being the one who saved the Empire by bringing the Heart to Princess Cadance.

### Alicorn Amulet

    The Alicorn Amulet is a mysterious and powerful dark magic charm that blesses the bearer with "untold powers." However, the more the amulet is used, the more it "corrupts" the user. It has a built-in magical lock that prevents any pony other than the bearer from taking it off.

### The Crystal Mirror

The Crystal Mirror acts as a gateway to the human world that opens once every "thirty" moons. It can also be used as a portal to other worlds using magic like the Elements of Harmony.

Magic is a metaphysical and supernatural force present in the pony world.

## Earth Ponies

Earth ponies tend to crops and care for plants and animals. They have a magically ingrained connection to the earth that makes them better at working with plants and animals. Fluttershy, a Pegasus whose special talent is working with animals, is something of an exception to the rule in this regard.

## Pegasus Ponies

Pegasus ponies frequently alter the weather, clearing the clouds from the sky and building up clouds to arrange a storm. Snowflakes and rainbows are made in a Pegasus-run weather factory in Cloudsdale. Pegasus ponies work together to create a hurricane that lifts water from a reservoir to Cloudsdale.

Non-Pegasus ponies require a magic spell to be able to walk on clouds, while Pegasus ponies naturally possess this ability. Some Pegasus ponies create weather-related wakes when they perform aerial acrobatics. Rainbow Dash creates rainbows several times during her acrobatic flights, and creates a special burst called sonic rainboom.

## Unicorn Ponies

While earth ponies and pegasi have passive forms of magic, unicorns can actively perform magic. Before King Cosmos and Queen Galaxia, unicorns controlled the sun and moon.

A common ability among unicorns is using telekinesis to levitate or move objects. The ability to cast other spells varies widely and sometimes depends on the unicorn's special talent. Unicorn magic requires concentration and effort, as Twilight explained once to Spike.

### Colors of magic auras

When unicorns cast magic, it produces a colored aura around their horns and any objects their magic affects. The color of the glow is different among individuals. For the ones with special lights, like the Generals, the color matches the color of their star seeds.

### Baby unicorn magic

Unicorn babies don’t have control over their magic and this can make them get strange magic surges that come and go.

## Alicorns

Alicorn magic is much stronger than the unicorn magic, capable of doing things the latter is not capable.

## Discord

Discord possesses magic that allows him to cause chaos everywhere. He can get strange things happen, such as cotton-candy clouds raining chocolate milk or cola (as mentioned by Rainbow Dash), roads turning into soapy water, giant pepper shakers float in the air, bunnies grow long, lanky limbs, and more. Discord apparently steals the Elements of Harmony from Celestia's magical safe, which she initially believes only she can open. He makes some ponies behave the opposite of how they normally would, a spell which Twilight Sparkle breaks by using a "memory" spell to restore the ponies' friendship.

## Queen Chrysalis and the Changelings

Chrysalis and her Changelings are capable of changing their form and feed on love that is able to strengthen their own magic.

## Magical objects

### Elements of Harmony

    The Elements of Harmony are said to be one of the strongest magic known to ponydom. It's told that they were used by Princess Celestia to banish Nightmare Moon in the moon to prevent her from plunging Equestria into eternal night. They are later used by Twilight and her friends to turn Nightmare Moon back into Princess Luna, and again to encase Discord in stone. Initially simple spheres, the elements later become pieces of jewellery that match each of the main six ponies' cutie marks after they are used on Nightmare Moon: the initial five elements each take the form of a necklace, and the element of magic becomes a tiara. Said tiara takes a new appearance after Twilight's ascension to Alicorn state and royal status. They are the only kind of magic capable of breaking the effect of the Elements of Chaos.

### Three of Harmony

    In the season four premiere, Twilight uses Zecora's potion to see into the past and discovers that the Elements were originally a part of the Tree of Harmony in the Everfree Forest. In the same episode, she and her friends return the Elements to the tree, after which it produces a hexagonal chest with six locks.

### Chrystal Heart

    The Crystal Heart is a magical artifact used to protect the Crystal Empire from any external treat and the arctic weather itself.

It is also represented in a crystal sculpture carved by the Crystal Ponies in honor of Spike, who they venerate for being the one who saved the Empire by bringing the Heart to Princess Cadance.

### Alicorn Amulet

    The Alicorn Amulet is a mysterious and powerful dark magic charm that blesses the bearer with "untold powers." However, the more the amulet is used, the more it "corrupts" the user. It has a built-in magical lock that prevents any pony other than the bearer from taking it off.

### The Crystal Mirror

The Crystal Mirror acts as a gateway to the human world that opens once every "thirty" moons. It can also be used as a portal to other worlds using magic like the Elements of Harmony.

### Rings of Scorchero

    The Rings of Scorchero are a set of magical gold rings, ranging large to small, that possess a dark enchantment. Once scattered to the four corners of the Tenochtitlan Basin, Ahuizotl collected the Rings, with the help of Dr. Caballeron, and brought them to the Fortress of Talacon. The Rings are stacked on top of one another through a large pillar, as part of a ritual to usher in eight hundred years of unrelenting heat.

Rainbow Dash and Daring Do thwart Ahuizotl's plans to control the Basin by removing the Rings from the pillar, causing the Fortress of Talacon to collapse, and shattering the largest ring to pieces.

### Enchanted comic books

A store in Canterlot called the House of Enchanted Comics sells magically enchanted comic books. Spike buys one such comic, an issue of ‘’Power Ponies’’, and reads a line of text on the inside of the back cover. This triggers a spell that pulls Spike and his friends into the comic and has them assume the roles of its main heroes. They escape the comic book world by defeating the villain.

### Meadowbrook's eight enchanted items

Twilight Sparkle mentions eight magical items wielded by the great unicorn mage Meadowbrook. Starlight Glimmer claims to own a ninth artifact called the Staff of Sameness, a wooden staff that supposedly grants her the power to remove other ponies' cutie marks and replace them with equal signs. It is later revealed that the staff is a counterfeit made by Starlight to hide her true power.

### The Cutie Map

    The Cutie Map is a magical map of Equestria. When all of the Mane Six sit on their thrones with their cutie marks on them in the Castle of Friendship, the map appears in the middle of the throne room. The map is connected to the Mane Six's cutie marks as it causes their cutie marks to glow whenever they are summoned to solve a friendship problem somewhere in Equestria.

## Dark Magic

    Princess Celestia describes dark magic; she demonstrates it to Twilight Sparkle by firing a beam at a crystal, which causes black crystals to sprout from the ground. When Celestia uses dark magic, her horn is engulfed in a purple haze and her eyes glow green and have purple mist flowing from them. Twilight utilizes this same magic explaining to Spike that she picked up the trick from Celestia. She attributes the magical door she finds at the bottom of a stairwell to King Sombra's dark magic.

## Rainbow Power

    When the mysterious chest of the Tree of Harmony is finally opened, it transforms Twilight and her friends and imbues them with a powerful magic. The magic is similar in nature to the Elements of Harmony, and it is with this magic that the ponies are able to defeat Lord Tirek after he absorbs the magic of unicorns, Pegasi, Earth ponies, and the Alicorn princesses, stripping him of his ill-gotten magic and returning it to its rightful owners.

As a result of the transformation, the ponies' manes and tails become longer and infused with various colors; in the cases of Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy, their wings also become colorful. More symbols appear in the ponies' cutie marks, such as more stars in Twilight's cutie mark and more diamonds in Rarity's, and multiple symbols resembling their cutie marks appear on their hooves as well as on Rainbow Dash's face. Other changes include an apple in Applejack's hat, star shapes and a blue bow in Pinkie Pie's mane, diamond shapes in Rarity's mane, and the red ribbons in Applejack's mane and tail become green.