Celestia was suspicious of Bone Marrow's reply. He had blurted out something, his attention went elsewhere and the room had stopped freezing for just a moment. She knew that the young colt wasn't telling her the truth, but then again, honesty wasn't one of his elements.
The princess raised her head out of Bone's view and smirked to herself. Her sister had to be alive or his sight wouldn't have worked at all. She didn't know where her sister was, but knowing that she could still be saved was a gift of its own kind.
Her head lowered into Bone's icy gaze once more, "I should let you know what Scenic and I discussed, while you were here."
Bone's ears perked at the mentioning of his friend, though his temper continued its steady chilling of the room.
"I wanted to know the kind of pony you are; when the void inside of you isn't as strong." Celestia lowered herself onto the icy rug, her body melting away the chill and caused the floor to steam. "I wanted to see if it was already too late for you to turn back. I tested you with the Elements to ensure there was the tiniest shred of hope, and I was surprised to find the good in you."
The colt's eyes narrowed, emphasizing the skulls that rested within. "If you actually cared to know me, you'd just ask instead of having ponies hunt me. You just want things from me, and when I can't or won't give them to you, you'll kill me like all the other necromancers."
The solar princess rested her warm head on her forehooves in a display of patience. "I've come to a decision on that, thanks to your friend Scenic. I will remove the wanted posters, the call for your arrest, everything. You've had more than enough chances to kill ponies, to cause destruction and carnage... but instead you went for a banana split."
Bone shook his head, "I already told you that I don't want to hurt anypony. I just want to be left alone and live a normal life."
Celestia nodded, "I understand, Bone. The only problem with your argument is that I've heard it before from the other necromancers. They each said the same as you, and then they went on a rampage through Equestria."
"Maybe it was because you kept hunting them?" Bone snipped, "Why are you trying to be nice to me all of a sudden, anyway?"
She pointed a hoof at the small blanket wrapped colt. "Because you, Bone Marrow, may be the first necromancer I've come across that has a chance at preventing an even worse necromancer from replacing you."
Bone was unimpressed. "So you don't want to kill me because it would be annoying to deal with another necromancer? Why don't you just leave all of us alone in the first place?"
Celestia shook her head, "What were you planning to do with your skeletons in Scoria? You could've taken whatever you wanted then, had my Knights not been there."
The necromancer pulled his hood over his eyes, "Just leave me alone. You're not even trying to know me, you just want an excuse to kill me later."
The room's temperature began to rise along with Celestia's temper. "I'm not going to kill you."
Bone was frightened by the display of anger and power, shrinking further away from the princess underneath his bed.
Celestia took a deep breath and vented steam with a huff. "I apologize, Bone Marrow. I will leave you with your friend now; she's been waiting just around the corner for me to call her. Hopefully she can reach you better than I can."
The door was pulled open by the Princess' bright magic, the Alicorn sighing before closing the door behind her.
Moments later, the door opened once more. "Bone?"
The colt poked his head out from under the bed to find his friend looking for him. "Scenic!"
She spotted Bone immediately, her face confused before becoming worried. "What happened in here?"
"Celestia happened," Bone hissed. "She tried to apologize for how she treated me, then she wanted to know if Princess Luna was alive. She doesn't even care about her own ponies! She let me wander around Canterlot with you because she wanted to know if I would start killing everypony."
Scenic crawled underneath the bed next to her blanketed friend, pulling him close with a hoof. "She's... complicated."
Bone huffed and rolled his eyes, still upset with the princess.
"She just banished her sister a few months ago and doesn't even know if she's alive," Scenic explained, "She's worried about the Bright Moon raiding towns and she feels horrible about the towns that were lost from bandits."
"The loss of towns? Is that what she's calling the deaths of innocent ponies? The towns weren't lost, they were pillaged and burned. I can still see the ponies of Galloping Glades still floating in the lake with ash and blood in the water. Lost towns," Bone scoffed, "She probably hasn't been outside of Canterlot in years."
Scenic could see that trying to explain things to her friend wasn't working, so she instead went for her backup plan. "Hey Bone, guess what I snatched while Celestia was away?"
Bone looked over to notice Scenic's wing was bulkier than usual, hanging further away from her body. "Did you steal something from her?"
"Is it really stealing if it never leaves the palace?"
Her wing pulled back and she bit the corner of a book, resting it in front of Bone.
Necromancy for Necromancers, by Necromancers
Bone's eyes went wide with both excitement and worry. "Where did you get this!?"
"Keep it down, she might be lingering around somewhere," Scenic reminded her friend. "Celestia wanted to speak with me in private because she was worried you might have some weird magical influence over me. So, she brought me to a library at the far end of the palace. When she went to go speak with you, I had a few moments to look around and spotted this book! I don't think she even knows I took it; most of her books were coated with dust when I glanced over them."
"Won't she know you took it?"
Scenic batted a hoof at the concern, "She's busy doing princess stuff. Besides, if she was so interested in reading books then why would they all be dusty? Nopony uses things that are dusty."
Bone was uncomfortable with this, but equally interested. "Let's see what it says!"
The two foals pulled the book's cover open to eagerly read the first few lines of the old tome before quickly realizing something.
"What kind of language is this?"
Letters were jumbled together in an incoherent garble. Paragraphs ended where sentences began, some being upside down or scrambled together and some pages were entirely covered in ink.
"Is it supposed to be like this?" Bone wondered, lighting his horn to get a better view of the mess in front of him.
As he stared at the letters, the soft blue glow of his magic began to transform the pages. Colors shifted, lines formed and designs sprung from the page. Bone's ears folded back in surprise as the paragraphs rearranged themselves into proper order; words unscrambling themselves with things begginning to make sense.
Welcome, Necromancer. If you are reading this, then either I have suffered a horrible case of amnesia and stumbled upon this book, or I have died. In any case, I pass the knowledge of my years on to you- or myself once again.
In this tome you, and only you, will find a list of abilities that I have personally discovered over the centuries of my life. You may already be aware of the basics, such as Consuming your foes or other forms of life, but it was only later that I discovered the most important spell innately known to a born necromancer.
The Soul Jar.
It sounds ominous, I know. In practical use however, any object with a lid may be turned into a soul containment device. As an absurd example, a cook pot with a lid could be a soul jar, should you will it.
How do you make a soul jar, you may ask? The answer is surprisingly simple. You state the name of a pony or other being you know the name of and point your hoof at the object in question.
Yes, I know. I was startled to learn it was that easy myself. Then again, most things involving death are simple for us to learn, aren't they? It's our special talent after all, and it wouldn't be acceptable if just anypony could wield the powers we do with a degree in magical studies and gratuitous amounts of patience.
"Can you make any of this out?" Scenic asked, "It looks like gibberish to me."
Bone pointed to the page he was reading, "What, you can't read that?"
Scenic leaned over and shrugged. "Uh... Rotacove a-targ is ut coh eregel..." She shook her head, "It looks like complete gibberish."
"It's the first line, the pony that wrote this is saying hello to me, I guess."
Scenic raised an eyebrow, "Hey, maybe its better if only you can read this stuff, right?"
Bone looked down to the page once more, picking up where he left off.
Now is the understandable point that you would be asking yourself, 'Book, why in Equestria would I need whatever a Soul Jar is? Why is it so important?'
Well, the purpose of this book is to tell you why, of course. You can contain or protect the soul of anypony, excepting an Alicorn of course; a most infuriating discovery that has killed me more than once.
Why would you, an immortal necromancer, need a soul jar? Well, the answer is straightforward. You might not be able to die, but those you care about will die. It is guaranteed fact that they will die.
We both know better than the Princesses when it comes to how necromancers really are, after all. We know that nopony is an island to themself; our own will is not the weight that keeps us from fluttering away in the breeze of insanity.
By protecting the souls of those you care about, or by containing an annoying adversary that you'd rather not bother confronting personally, we Necromancers are able to manipulate the flow of life and death in a less obvious manner than any other pony.
Now, I must provide some clear distinction between protecting and containing a soul. If you intend to protect a soul, then you must not feel anger when you cast this spell. Anger and the biting cold that accompany it will twist your intentions into containing the soul, killing the pony and trapping them within the Soul Jar until its destruction.
If your mind is clear and you are at ease with the world, however fleeting a moment that may be in our dangerous lives, then your Soul Jar will protect that pony, preventing them from dying in an almost similar manner to your own. They will not receive a mark of death in their eyes as we do, and they cannot resurrect themselves like we Necromancers can, but you, dear reader, will be able to bring them back.
Should your beloved die at the hooves of another- and you've protected their soul- fear not. You will be able to return them to life, physically unharmed. They will be terrified, of course, at having experienced the death of their body. It will be up to you to explain to them what has happened, and that they are safe.
How do you bring back a pony? It is simple. You speak their name aloud with the Soul Jar nearby, and they will return to life if you've enough magic within you to spare. Be warned that the process will take up to a full minute to complete.
Another important thing to explain about Soul Jars, is that they are completely pointless for you, dear necromancer, to employ for your own soul. How would you speak your own name if you are dead?
Bone's head drooped onto the page for a moment. "Guh."
Scenic lifted her friend's chin. "Are you okay? Your eyes went weird there for a second."
"This book has a whole lot of information in it," Bone muttered tiredly, his thoughts fighting to remain coherent, "Way, way too much writing..."
"You've only been staring at that page for a few moments since we talked, Bone. You can't read that fast, can you?"
The young necromancer rubbed his head, resting the side of his face on the pages of the book. "I feel like somepony hit me over the horn with a library..."
Scenic ran her hoof through Bone's scraggly mane. "When was the last time you slept, Bone?"
He thought for a long moment, recalling the previous days as well as he could. "Uh..." Bone paused for a long while, his eyes fading in and out of focus. "When did your mom find me in the forest? Does death count as sleep?"
The filly's eyes went wide. "You haven't slept in weeks!?"
Bone shrugged, "I guess? I haven't really felt tired until I read this book..."
Scenic pulled the sides of Bone's blankets closer to his muzzle. "You, young mister, need to get some sleep."
He blinked tiredly, using the book as a pillow. "I don't even know if you're older than I am..."
She placed a lighthearted hoof on her chest, "I, am just old enough to be older than you, so that makes me the older friend, and I'm saying you need to get some sleep!"
Bone's argument died down at the same moment he took a sleepy breath, "But what about the princess?"
"I'll make sure you're safe, okay Bone? Nothing will get past me, not even Celestia!"
"Scenic..." Bone mumbled, "You're the best...I'm gonna put you inna... jar..."
As her friend passed out, Scenic's ears folded down a bit. Put her in a jar? That didn't sound too great... though maybe he wasn't making sense because he was tired?
Her thoughts were distracted as she heard a large clanging noise from outside. Peeking her head from underneath the bed, she noticed that Bone's skeletons were having trouble standing upright.
"Uh oh..."
One after the other, the four skeletons that guarded Bone's room collapsed onto the floor. Their bones were still intact and a dull glow emanated from their eyes, though their bodies had come to pieces.
"Sure hope you wake up soon, Bone..."
The morning came and went with Bone Marrow still sleeping atop his book underneath the bed when Scenic awoke. Celestia hadn't bothered either of the two foals, but the door had opened for a Royal Guard to nervously push the skeletons that fell apart outside to join the rest of the heap.
Scenic tapped her friend on the muzzle, hoping he would stir. "Hey Bone, are you okay?"
The colt mumbled, his face turning away and burying itself in the crease of the book.
She sighed, at ease that her friend was sleeping peacefully but still concerned about the both of them being discovered. She decided to leave a note for Bone that told him where she was going if he woke up while she was gone. She didn't want him to worry that Celestia had taken her away somewhere in the night.
Pulling carefully away from her friend, Scenic made her way towards the room's door and exited into the hallway. She was going to talk with Celestia again, to ask her what had happened last night between the two.
Her tiny hooves clacked against the marble tile of the palace's halls, guards nodding as she passed by. They weren't scared of her like they were of Bone, she noticed. The corner of her mouth curled in sympathy, recognizing what it must be like for everypony to be one glance away from screaming in terror.
The pegasus passed by the first room Celestia had taken the two of them, noting that the door was cracked open. Peeking her head through she noticed the Princess of the Sun herself standing at the far end, staring at the Elements of Harmony.
She did her best to sneak in, her hooves doing her no favors in stealth. Celestia turned her head quickly, noting that it was Scenic instead of somepony else.
"Come in, Scenic," Celestia offered. "I noticed that Bone Marrow fell asleep last night; his minions were passed out on the floor."
The filly cautiously approached, "He hasn't slept in weeks; since the last time he died."
Celestia sighed, "I should have guessed."
"What are you doing?" Scenic asked as she stood next to the more casually dressed Princess of the Sun.
"I feared that I was losing myself after banishing my sister. That I wouldn't be able to use the Elements without her if I needed to."
She looked up to the faintly glowing gems that rested on their pedestals. "Do they still work?"
Celestia slowly shook her head, "Barely. I may be able to use them only a single time before they turn to stone."
Scenic reached her hoof out to the Elements, curious as to how they would respond to her. Loyalty was the first to glow, brighter than any of the others that followed. Generosity, Kindness, Laughter, Honesty... all but magic.
Celestia smiled warmly, "I had assumed as much about you, Scenic Sights. The youngest ponies are often the ones that resonate most with the Elements. I was surprised when your necromancer friend came here."
"Has anypony had all of them glow before?"
Celestia nodded. "My sister and I, once upon a time... Now I fear that our time has passed. That the Elements have found ponies more worthy."
Scenic squinted, "What do you mean? You might be mean to my friend, but I haven't seen you act that way to anypony else... that doesn't mean the gems don't like you anymore, I think."
"Is your friend awake?" The princess asked in an effort to change the subject, "I would like to speak with him."
"I don't think he'll want to talk."
The two shared a moment of silence. Celestia lost in thought and Scenic worrying for her friend.
"I should go back to Bone..."
The princess nodded. "If you wish, Scenic Sights."
She moved away from the princess while looking over her shoulder, wondering what Celestia might be thinking about. If she was considering letting Bone Marrow leave in peace.
When the filly had left and closed the door behind her, Celestia placed her hoof close to the Element of Magic. All six elements barely glowed as the princess searched them for answers.
"What do you want from me?"
Scenic returned to Bone's room, pulling the handle slowly before pushing the door open. Bone was still underneath the bed, though he was staring at the tome about Necromancy more intently than he had been the night previous.
"Hey Bone," Scenic announced as she closed the door behind her. She noticed the skeletons were back on their hooves, though they mostly faced the door rather than remain out in the hallway.
The colt looked up with a smile, "Scenic!"
"Read anything interesting?"
He nodded eagerly, pointing to his pocket watch around his neck. "I had the best idea ever!"
Ducking down in order to climb underneath the bed, Scenic pulled herself next to her friend on the soft rug. "What idea is that?"
"I'm going to put your soul inside of my pocket watch!"
Scenic blinked, "You're what?"
Bone pointed to the book in front of him, a jumbled mess of gibberish to Scenic's eyes. "It says right here that if I'm happy and I say your name out loud, I can protect your soul in a soul jar. The book says a jar is basically anything with a lid, and..." He clacked the pocket watch open and closed repeatedly, a smile growing on his face. "This has a lid!"
The filly wasn't so sure about the idea. "Uh, wouldn't my soul fall out or something if you opened it?"
Bone quickly shook his head, "No, that's what's wonderful about it! Rich said this pocket watch is indestructible, right? I decided to test it, and see if it was really true. Look," He focused his glowing eyes on the pocket watch as small bubbles formed along the outer layer of metal. "Nothing!"
Her eyebrow raised, "What did you do, exactly?"
"I tried to consume it! I also tried to kill it too, but that didn't really work either. It doesn't have anything to kill, you know?"
She smiled, "You seem a lot happier this morning."
His eyes sparkled, a growing warmth to them just behind the skulls of his Iris'. "If I cast this, then I don't have to worry about you getting hurt anymore! If I die, it doesn't matter so long as I stay away from Celestia or a volcano. If you die... nevermind, it doesn't matter!"
Her ears folded a bit with uncertainty, "You're sure you know how to do this spell thing?" She nodded towards the book, "It looks like a bunch of nonsense to me..."
Bone nodded enthusiastically. "It'll be fine, all I have to do is say your name and point to the pocket watch!"
She hesitated a bit, looking to the jewelry around Bone's neck for a moment. "Does it hurt?"
He turned to the book, "Uh... it doesn't say?"
The promise of never dying, Scenic wondered. What does it feel like to have your soul in a pocket watch?
She shrugged, shaking her head incredulously at her own decision. "Go for it, I guess."
The room chilled as Bone smiled, his eyes suddenly glowing brightly, "Scenic Sights, tu ni airdyh!
The filly clutched her chest as she felt something being pulled away, her eyes widening with shock. She looked down and saw a wisp of energy coming from her and blinked. Before three seconds had passed, it was over. The pocket watch glowed a bright gold now and she was a bit chilled.
"Are you okay?" Bone asked, placing a hoof on his friend's side. "It didn't hurt, did it?"
Scenic checked herself over, feeling the place where the wisp had come from. "I... I don't know. I'm a bit cold?"
Bone pulled himself closer to her, closing the lid of the soul jar.
She warmed soon after, pressing her hoof against the pocket watch around Bone's neck. "That's so weird."
"Feeling better?"
"Can you open it again?"
Bone did as asked, and the chill returned. Scenic shivered, "Ooh, please close it; that feels so strange!"
It clicked shut, the young necromancer resting his muzzle on Scenic's hooves. After a moment's pause, she rested her head on Bone.
"Now we're both safe," Bone voiced happily, "We could leave Canterlot while Celestia isn't watching us; we wouldn't have to worry about either of us dying, and we could take this book with us!"
Scenic shook her head a bit, ruffling Bone's mane. "I don't think that's a good idea, Bone. She's really trying to do better, I just think that she's not used to it."
"Used to what," the necromancer scoffed, "Being nice for a change?"
"Would you give her a chance, Bone? If she's still mean to you, then we'll both know we're wasting our time."
He didn't reply for a while, mulling over the request in his head.
"For you I will," Bone replied quietly, "But if she thinks she can win me over with a few words of apology, we're leaving."
Scenic nodded, nuzzling into her friend's mane. "Good enough for me."
Kinda immortal soul jar Scenic, this might get interesting.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!! Now Scenic will be safe for all eternity! I'm so happy I could just
Well, I can't tell how the soul jar is going to work out. In essence, Scenic is immortal since the watch can't be destroyed. But the book didn't say anything about any potential side effects. Though if he loses the watch, he'll lose her.
I can see exactly why defeating a Necromancer is to get them into a soul jar, as was said by the knights ealier. As the book said, you can't speak your own name when dead.
Once again, Scenic is the one to convince Bone to follow a better path. She continues to be his rock and conciseness.
Great Job! I think Scenic could be one of the next element bearers. As for the soul jar,it is a good idea to prevent Scenic from having the same fate as her mother. But, please, Bone, don't get angry. She doesn't deserve such a fate of being trapped in that thing.
Awesome, Scenic is safe as can be!!🥇
I eagerly await the next wonderful chapter.
Keep up the amazing work!!
Immortal Scenic! This.is.so.AWESOME!!!
Yay. Now scenic is 'safe'. Also keep up this pace man I'm loving the chapters
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I'm pretty sure that the whole don't be angry thing was only on the first cast, now she's safe.
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It seems so but that doesn't mean that a side effect could have the same outcome if he gets angry
Celestia would probably be pretty pissed if she ever finds out about Bone's Soul Jar. She likely wouldn't know about the positive things a Necromancer could do, like protecting a soul, and think Bone actually trapped somepony.
Also, I'm pretty sure this isn't going to be some extremely alternate universe. Twilight and the rest will probably still exist and become Element Bearers and whatnot in the future, but Bone Marrow's story is being injected into the past.
I wonder how other ponies would react if they knew Bone Marrow could grant them all immortality? That's potentially quite a lot of political power for Bone Marrow if he plays it right. I imagine at least some ponies would be willing to turn against Celestia with the promise of immortality.
Bone has a lot of power now, some very obvious and some more subtle, I'm really excited to see how he does and doesn't use it and how Celestia tries to put him on a path that she approves of.
Also, am I the only one that thinks there is something really romantic and a little creepy about Scenic literally just giving her soul to Bone Marrow? If they get married they won't even be able to say "until death do us part."
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Agreed. Being that this is extremely far in the past and if bone marrow is abesnt for a majority of time between then and the main events of the tv show, then its possible it could link up.
Bone has his first crush!
First come love then comes marriage! OH look! Angry Celestia! HAPPY DAYS!
The fact that that was the first thing in the book says that possibly most of the necromancers were not evil or bad, maybe they just had too many bad things happen to them.
I am SO happy for them!!! So long as bone does not fully die in lava the two of them can live forever long as they want together Happy!
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...Wouldn't that make Granny Smith something like 1,014 years old or something at the time of the show?
I can just imagine the locket getting lost at some point.
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Moreover, what happens if Scenic wants to die one day? Does Bone know how to take her soul *out* of the indestructable pocket watch?
So with the introduction of the soul jar does that mean that if Scenic dies of old age Bone can just reincarnate her back to her 12 year old body?
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probably the reverse action?
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I'd assume that if he put the soul into the pocket watch, by pointing at the pocket watch and saying her name, then he could reverse it by pointing at scenic and saying her name with the intention to put her soul in her body.
..... Okay, the Soul Jar is officially one of the creepiest things ever invented.
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I hope so. It'd be awful to be stuck in the same child's body forever.
Maybe it wants you to learn that nothing can be born a monster. You can only be turned into one.
I'm concerned that there is some unknown symptom(/side effect) with the soul jar, like Scenic not being able to leave Bone's side or the pocket watch's side or something. I also wonder how Celestia will react to this. Eager, as always, to see what will happen next.
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No worse than a Soul Gem. The lore behind those things is creepy and dark as hell.
Glad the jar worked. Honestly I feared he would kill Scenic right here!
Well now... more and more development in everypony's interactions. Celestia is starting to see that she took things too far with Bone. And Scenic and Bone are getting even closer, though yeah, I'm a bit concerned about repercussions from the Soul Jar. After all, if Bone gets thrown into a Volcano or turned to stone, then Scenic's soul will be trapped in that pocket-watch permanently. Though if something happens and Celestia DOES use the elements against him, I guess he could be released in 1000 years once the Main 6 take possession of the Elements.
Never thought necromancy would be cute
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I would go with the saying : "Until a volcano do us part!" 😆
Yay!
I like this chapter and the direction it takes.
And am i the only one who think Celestia may have intentionally ¨given¨ the book to Scenic?
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The implication seems to be that Scenic is still completely mortal, the soul jar simply allows Bone to resurrect her; given the highly intuitive nature of his powers, it shouldn't be very difficult for him to undo the soul jar if Scenic asked him too, though whether he would is another matter.
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No, i get that impression as well; the nature of the book, and the described dustiness, implies it was in one of the restricted sections of the archive, Celestia would not have taken Scenic into such an area by accident.
Your
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I'm not saying it would be impossible by any means! I mean, does Bone know how to do it?
I mean if a previous necromancer didn't explain it in his book then he'd have to take a shot in the dark. Or worse, if the book just says "You have to destroy the soul jar to release the soul contained within"
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It is also interesting to note that the first thing Bone read was information about keeping someone you love alive. Something that Celestia could very well want Bone to know.
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Well yeah; the Necromancer who wrote it considered that particular knowledge the most immediate priority for any new Necromancer, for fairly obvious reasons.
I doubt Celestia forged or tampered with that book, it was almost certainly confiscated from the lair of one of Bone's predecessors.
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If Bone sticks around to put her soul in a jar, she could easily be over a thousand years old.
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I'm gonna reformulate: Celestia is probably smart enough to know Scenic is and will keep being the one who holds Bone in place, the last thing she want is for him to go nuts after her death, I'm pretty sure she at some time managed to figure out what was written in the book and knew what was written there. I doubt she'd want him to have the book if the first thing it said was ¨how to kill alicorns¨
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true enough.
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Hmm... makes me wonder if the original author of the book was a lot like Bone at one point. I wouldn't be surprised if some previous necromancers only went on rampages because something, or someone, drove them to it. If they lost someone they cared about and went after those they feel is responsible. You know, like Celestia and her Knights. And with all the fear and hatred of necromancers spread throughout, wouldn't be much of a stretch to extend that to Equestria as a whole. It would explain why keeping loved ones safe would be first and foremost: keep yourself sane.
Something it seems everyone has missed, Bone will go fully mad with the void without a anchor. The Book and his behavior after being confronted by Celestia by himself show will get worse if he's alone. And after the events at Riches manor, I think he can't even go into large crowds, if his entry into Canterlot is any incantation. However Scenic back at the manor and in Canterlot has pulled Bone from the void and his anger and is helping him stay even keeled.
Really He needs friends and love ones to fight the void. Funnily enough I think Cadence could stomp him without killing him if they fought with her Love magic.
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You mean like in Madoka?
So a soul jar is basically something similar to a horcrux?
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Horcrux spilts the soul into multiple pieces while Bone just took the entire soul into that indestructible pocket/locket. It makes alot more easier for resurrecting
Thou art amazing. Honestly. A chapter every day? Simply amazing. And the story is wonderful.
If the main OCs in this story were voiced, what would they sound like?
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The implication seems to be that the Soul Jar safely anchors the soul in place, separated from, yet still connected to the body; Scenic's soul is now anchored to that watch, her body will still grow old and eventually die, but whether by old age, violence, or accident, Bone can now resurrect her.
It's kind of like a Lich's Phylactery, minus the automatic regen function.
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Not any more -- I seriously doubt the elements would react well to one without their soul present. It was a good thing Scenic had her test BEFORE the soul jar thing.
Protecting his friend's an potential future marefriend's soul in an indestructable container so she can now stay by his side forever? Me likey. How Romantic~ The ship has officially set sail~