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An abridged history of Equestria, exploring over two-thousand years of pony history, from the Equestrian Exodus to the Return of Luna and everything in between.
*Be aware that this is very much a fluid work-in-progress, and is subject to any and all relevant developments in the show's canon. Predominately head-canon based chapters are marked with an asterisk.*
*Edited and revised for Season 4!*
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dis going to be gooood!! Also make it longer if you can but still good
Fascinating, I don't think I've seen anything quite like this.
I really like this (hi)story of the ponies. I can imagine this in a sourcebook for a pony-RPG or a history book for elementary school.
And I adore the names: All hail lord Shinypants!
I assume that as per tradition, he never actually wore any pants. Shiny pants as a metaphorical concept, if you will.
Somehow I had never made the connection that the Whitetail Woods was a deer reference.
1451573 It probably isn't, but that's how I saw it. It's all head-canon anyway.
Glad to see you didn't go with the "griffons invade, slaughter, and eat everypony" approach to griffon warfare that I've seen in a few fics.
What I think is the most horrifying: In a battle among flying units, the one who loses, falls. In the end neither side can even collect their fallen because there is no way you can distinguish one broken heap of flesh and bones from the other.
Best you can do is make it a grave field for all the fallen warriors. Gruesome.
1491987 Three words: cloud safety nets. Seriously, don't read too much into this.
1492860 Why not? If you try to write a "realistic" history, I can add as much "realism" to it as I like. And this kind of history, red in tooth and claw (or hoof) is as good as any explanation for the rather peaceful and harmonious Equestria we know. Just because we don't learn from our history doesn't mean that the ponies have too.
1493833 Touche'
Some very interesting theological influences in this chapter. 7 years of madness, I like it. Long enough to have made a major impact on society, but shorter than a single generation - makes for plenty of ponies who remember both the before and the after.
I really, really love the idea that Celestia and Luna received the Elements at the top of the Canterhorn and arrived at the bottom in triumph after defeating Discord on the way down.
Talking burning shrubbery? I see what you did there.
I pity the historian for the next chapters. Obviously a lot happened around the turn of the millennium that the princesses have not seen fit to share openly.
I'm pretty sure somewhere in Canterlot sits an old and bitter historian who would give an arm and a leg for an interview with Celestia or Luna.
But they are always to busy.
With cake and other important stuff.
1640941 This historian was actually able to substitute cake for said arm and leg!
Interesting, so no connection between Clover the Clever and Starswirl the Bearded then, unless Starswirl was massively old somehow. Or a time traveler.
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Or the Hearth Warming Eve pageant is more of a history fanfiction and less of a reliable retelling of actual events. Which wouldn't be that much of a surprise.
1643199 I was wondering about that so I went back and reread the first few chapters, and while that does seem like (IPN)'s interpretation, there is still mention of the characters in the pageant by name, including Clover. You are correct in that Clover being connected to Starswirl is historically questionable based on the events as presented so far, but there's still the matter of the time spells that are kept in the Starswirl the Bearded wing - they had to come from somewhere, which opens up the possibility that he did some timeline jumping after developing those spells.
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Oh yes, timetravel! Let's go down the wibbly wobbly timey wimey path of things.
A Pony Tammany Hall? Awesome!
I honestly do not know why this does not have more views. This is great.
Nice explanation for where the royal nephews and nieces come from.
Seems reasonable. Luna did display some pretty impressive social awkwardness in Luna Eclipsed after all, so it makes sense that could have been part of the lead up to NMM.
By analogy to 'Anno Domini', it should be 'Anno Equestriae' - In the year of Equestria.
Oh, that is nice.
2019525 True enough, but it was never meant to be an exact translation.
You may never know how much you've (quite unintentionally) rewritten my headcanon. Sheer brilliance has that effect on me.
Ooh, another 'brief history' fic. Neat!
*Starts to read.*
This is very well done, I'm looking forwards to another chapter!
Sweet, the printing press. Arguably one of the most important inventions in history. Makes sense from the semi-industrialized society we see in the show that they've had it for a few hundred years or so, plenty of time for an educated populace to become the norm.
I'm assuming The Time of Reason is a bit of a take off of The Enlightenment? Or do I not quite have the timing/cause of The Enlightenment correct?
2135723 More like the late Renaissance. The Enlightenment was after all the stuff I've paralleled here.
2136939 Ah, Renaissance, I knew I was forgetting the more appropriate term.
I can't imagine how those scholars reacted to Celestia's comment:
"Your highness, you worked with the sun and the moon for several hundred years and never noticed this?"
"Must have slipped my mind."
Another good chapter.
I feel this is coming to a conclusion.
How many more chapters do you think there might be? Are we 3/4 of the way through?
Toby is definitely best donkey.
I'm loving the pirates. Pinkbeard, oh yes.
Missionaries? We haven't seen Celestia or Luna as founders of a religion or as objects of religious worship and I really can't see them excepting any worship of that kind. I'd even go so far to say that they would firmly discourage any pony that tried to start a cult like that.
Excellent story, love the references.
One minor grip i have is when Starswirl is called a savant as a savant is usually mentally handicapped in some way while excelling in another. Such as an autistic person being able to play a song perfectly after hearing it once.
2391257 We know that ponies do have some semblance of religion (see Mr. Waddle). I never said that it was based around the Princesses, however.
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I guess you mean the scene from "Hearts and Hooves Day"? You don't need a religion to bury your dead.
And in addition, I don't consider anything canon that's part of a song. Unless it's a canon, of course.
Steve being a reference to George Stephenson?
2407928 Stephenson's Rocket, yes.
And I still say that if the great goddess had wanted stallions to vote she would not have made them a 10:1 minority!
Magnificent chapter, I love it
Excellent work.
Well 1000 after the nightmare moon crisis is AE 2010. So we are getting close to the events of the first FIM episode. Are you planning on updating soon?
It's funny to me how different a feel I get for her with the description "nineteen-year-old Twilight Sparkle". Not completely certain sure why, either.
I love that Fluttershy is basically politely described as unemployed. Made me laugh.
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We've been corrupted by inconsistent human concepts of adulthood, perhaps? ("You can go fight in a war somewhere. Just don't try to buy yourself a drink.")
Book Smart.
Yeeeeeeaaaaaaah.
You can just smell the contradiction.
Is this refering to the (seemingly) overabundance of mares in modern Equestria? Because that would not make any sense, since after one generation the count should be 50% mares 50% stallions again.
On the other hand, if it was refering to the destruction of the Homeland and loss of life in these years, it would make as much sense as saying "modern Italy still recovers from the fall of the roman empire". Those observations don't have any historic value at all.
Anyways, still curious how your fic will play out :D