Celestial Winter

The Celestial Winter, also known as the Long Winter, the Winter of Celestia, the Great Winter, or the 20 years winter, was a period of 20 years, from 415 A.M. to Admirestar 5th, 435 A.M. where the regions of the Butterfly Queendom would be affected by very cold temperatures, snow, blizzards, ice, hail, and other characteristics typically associated with winter.

This period of prolonged winter weather was caused by Queen Celestia Butterfly, Queen of the Butterfly Queendom in an attempt to cause the winter of 415 A.M. to have summer weather which would cause an increase in crop production which would help pay The Crown's debts.

### Background

After the Second Mewnian War, Queen Helia Butterfly would gift all Kingdoms that attended the Great Council of Mewni gold and silver fruits from her gold and silver trees. The seeds of these fruits could be replanted to help pay for those kingdom's debts. However upon the death of Helia Butterfly the trees disappeared. Many kingdoms would come to the Butterfly Queendom and request other financial aid, most of them reporting they felt cheated. Queen Celestia Butterfly would compensate all kingdoms and would give them each 5 million gold suns.

Celestia would use The Crown's treasury to pay for these compensations with the plan that crop production would be increased and accelerated, which would be overseen by House Fields. However between 411 A.M. to 415 A.M. The Crown only managed to pay off 2% of its debt. Celestia would then look for ways to help the problem.

### History

Upon meetings with House Fields and her own personal studying, Celestia discovered that crop production was 3 times faster in the summer months. She then decided to use her magic to change the winter weather into summer weather. Celestia would question Sir Glossaryck on how to make a spell have its most powerful effect. He advised her that a spell was most powerful in High Mewnian. A few nights later, despite her only basic knowledge of High Mewnian, Celestia would cast the spell that would change the weather, however during her spell she recited the High Mewnian word "Verno" (Winter) instead of "Veron" (Summer). Celestia did not notice her mistake and would go to sleep. She awoke the next morning and reported that she expected summer weather but instead woke up to a blizzard.

The blizzard brought extremely cold weather to the Queendom as well as an extreme amount of snow. On the first night of the blizzard many died from hypothermia. Celestia did nothing and decided to wait and see if the blizzard went away on its own without telling anyone she caused it. However weeks past, the rivers and lakes were freezing and the plants were dying. It was very difficult to travel during this time. The lack of food, water, and resources, as well as the extreme cold left many, mainly commoners to die. Celestia would confide in King-Father Clovad Butterfly and King-Consort Jasper Stone, as well as her best friend Lady Glacia Waterson, revealing to them she caused the blizzard.

Celestia would begin ordering the Mewnistry to help with the commoners. House Fields was ordered to find away to help crop production in blizzard weather as well as release their food storage, House Stone was ordered to provide funds for fires, blankets, and other items to commoners, House Redbird was ordered to escort commoners if they needed to go somewhere, House Cross was ordered to provided medical attention to anyone who needed it, as well as make home visits, as well as all Houses being ordered to house effected commoners in their house seats. Celestia would also receive reports that other kingdoms of Meteora Butterfly were being affected by the blizzard, even a cooling in the temperature of the Underworld. Celestia would also receive reports from House Forest and House Redbird, as well as from commoners that attacks were happening on villages and farms of the Queendom from, as a House Redbird report described them, "Slender, pale figures like ice that brought the blizzard." Celestia ordered House Forest and Redbird to investigate and defeat. A week later the sole survivor of the group described that he was attacked by "snow women" who killed the rest of the group and that they were marching toward the Capital.

Celestia would then order that all villages were to be evacuated and the commoners were to come to the capital and lodge in the house seats. All the food that was had was stocked. She then ordered that the walls of the Capital be reinforced and that wooden ramparts were also to be constructed additionally in strategic points around the Capital, however in blizzard conditions the construction of these ramparts and reinforcements were poor. Celestia ordered all knights, guards, and men-of-arms of the Queendom were called to action. The Butterfly forces locked themselves inside the Capital walls. A week later a very large, and extremely powerful blizzard was then spotted over the horizon moving toward the Capital. The Snow Women and their ice creatures would emerge from the blizzard and charge toward the Capital. The Snow Women and their army would then cross the barricades and defenses and would begin attacking the stone walls. When the ice creatures had done a considerable amount of damage to the walls, the order was given by Celestia that a gate be opened and the Butterfly Forces would charge through. The forces would engage.

Celestia would notice a group of ice women observing from the horizon. Celestia, King-Consort Jasper Stone, Lady Glacia, and the Queensguard, would move toward the position of these women that were expected to be the leaders. As they got deeper into the blizzard, Celestia and her group were attack by a giant ice spider, which stabbed Glacia in her heart killing her. This caused Celestia to enter her Butterfly Form, where she would defeat the ice spider along with other snow women and creatures. Celestia would use her form to move the heavy blizzard away from her which would lead to private confrontation of the Ice Queen and Celestia. Celestia was almost defeated after her wings froze and shattered, however she was saved by the Etherian Dragonettes who melted everything made of snow. The battle went on and the Butterfly Forces would push back the Snow Women army to Celestia's position. After seeing that she was defeated the Snow Women Queen and her remaining forces would retreat and would reveal that Celestia had caused the blizzard and not them. They took the blizzard with them but the winter weather still remained.

Despite the victory it was not celebrated. Many died, including half of the Butterfly forces, 3 of the 8 200 year old dragonettes, and countless commoners. The loses reportedly fell heavily on Celestia. The Queen reported "from the servants to the knights, from the peasants to the mewnisters, all maintain a judgmental gaze upon me." Celestia would order the system of thermal waters that kept Butterfly Castle warm to be reformulated throughout the subsoil of the Capital and surrounding rural areas. This caused a slight decrease in deaths and a slight increase in agricultural production between 416 A.M. and 419 A.M. In 491 A.M. 5 more dragonettes would die of cold and age. Lady Minguanta Butterfly would die from pneumonia and King-Father Clovad from hypothermia. In 420 A.M. Celestia would give birth to Princess Meteora Butterfly. In 423 A.M. House Price, House Fox, and House Bell would come to Butterfly Castle to seek loans from The Crown to help maintain the villages they were responsible for. Celestia would write loans to the houses however they would never pay them back. This would lead to the Red Winter Rebellion, where they houses would rebel and Meteora Butterfly would destroy them.

In 434 A.M. Meteora Butterfly on her 14th birthday received the Royal Magic Wand. Upon contact with Meteora's hand, before it could metamorphose, the wand's bell rang. This led reportedly to a beam of sunshine shining in the throne room. Celestia fell to her knees and cried. This ended the Celestial Winter.