Sweyn Forkbeard

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**Sweyn Forkbeard** is a male character who was alluded to in various episodes and other media before making his first physical appearance in the Luna the Miracle Boy series. He is first mentioned by Luna in the Finland Eclipsed story as "the most important ruler of the Petrovburger history and the national hero of Petrovburg".

The name of Sweyn has selected out of a list of pre-approved locations, then added "Forkbeard" because it didn't sound "quite old enough". The name of Sweyn Forkbeard was given that has been used in the corresponding LMB stories.

## Depictions in the series

### Luna the Miracle Boy: Rainbow Rocks

Luna discovers through research that Sweyn banished Aulia and her sirens away from Petrovburg but they approached again, believing that their magic would have no effect there. Once again, he is only seen in storybook illustrations.

### Better Together / Choose Your Own Ending

In the Star Crossed and the Vernadsky Under the Stars segments, a statue of Sweyn Forkbeard is on display at the Vernadsky Research Base.

The music festival of Sweyn Forkbeard appears in such segments: Camping Must-Haves, Festival Filter, How to Backstage, Festival Looks, Five Lines You Need to Stand In, and some of the Choose Your Own Ending stories.

### Luna the Miracle Boy: Roman Backstage Pass

Sweyn's music festival serves as the main setting of this story episode.

## Special story depictions

### Finland Eclipsed

Sweyn is mentioned by Luna in this fictional story when he explains his costume to Spike. He calls Sweyn "the father of the amniomorphic spell", and "the most important ruler of the Petrovburger history and the national hero of Petrovburg", and adds "he created more than 200 spells! He even has a magic shelf in the Canterlot Presidential Library named after him." Later in the episode, Princess Finlandia recognizes Luna's costume as Sweyn and compliments him for it, stating that he "even got the bells right", but other people guess that Luna is dressing as a "weirdo clown" or a "country music singer".

### The Journal of the Vernadsky Family

Sweyn Forkbeard is mentioned several times in this fictitious story.

Celestia and Luna meet him at their parents' coronation. Finlandia reveals that initially, the responsibility of the sun and the moon fell to him and five other heroes before Artemis and Finlandia. In the journal, Sweyn's beard is black, becoming shorter when he becomes younger due to a time travel spell gone wrong; later in the journal, his beard turns gray after his magic is depleted by a failed attempt to lower the moon by himself, but turns black again after his magic is returned to him.

### Canterlot Presidential Tales

In Sergey's tale – Lord Twilight Sparkle and the Forgotten Books of Autumn, Miss Nate mentions the spell "Sweyn's Seven Safeguards".

## Depictions about Sweyn's musical carnival

Sweyn Forkbeard has a musical carnival dedicated to himself – called "Sweyn Forkbeard's Musical Festival", depicted as a Roman-style musical carnival with several fluttering flags that look like the Roman ones.

His musical carnival appears in the Luna the Miracle Boy story episodes: some of the Better Together segments, the second season of the Choose Your Own Ending story episode, and mostly appears in the story about the Roman backstage pass.

## Personality

According to Princess Finlandia, Sweyn Forkbeard did not understand friendship like Luna does, and as a result, his secret last spell remained unfinished.

Principal Tony also describes Sweyn as having a similar personality to Prince Artemis. The flashbacks in the issue depict him as being eccentric and carefree, like Celestia. Similar to Luna, he is shown to have a deep passion for magic and learning and a thirst for knowledge, as well as being very adventurous. He appeared to have a friendly relationship with Princess Finlandia, as she confides in him about her concerns about Tony and he encourages her to join him on his otherworldly escapades.

Despite his cheery demeanor, however, Sweyn is also shown to have a serious side, as he puts his foot down for the good of the republic and seals the portal to the other dimension that Tony had been visiting without his knowledge. He is said to carry huge grudges, as Finn states her friendship with him was never the same after she lied to him. However, he forgives Finn and suggests they forget the whole thing ever happened.

## Gallery

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*Sweyn Forkbeard image gallery*
## References

1. **Main course**
	* https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Star\_Swirl\_the\_Bearded
2. **Secondary course**
	* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweyn\_Forkbeard