Hearth's Warming Tidbit 5 - The Zebras of Epon

Well, here we are again, a new Hearth's Warming Tidbit for you all and this one is a big one. Never have I considered making such a bold lock in my universe. The zebras have always been a confusing puzzle to the fans. Some have their own theories, well for my universe this blog is the canon events on the zebras. The Zebras of Epon.

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Thousands of years before the Equestria was founded, long before the war between the mortals and immortals sparked there was one war that changed the very land of Epon for all.

This war was sparked by one of the very Ideals that had existed before the universe was created. Sanity. After the creation of the universe Sanity wandered over all the planets and lands until he came upon the planet Ep. There he felt a large amount of magic growing, so much magic.

The zebras didn’t even know much about the planet and lands beyond Ep, nor did they know about the war that would soon break forth.

Ep had five massive continents on it. Among the mighty lands masses was the original land of the zebras, Zebrica. It laid to the far east beyond Giffinstone and even the lands of the kirrins.

Zebrica was a land of peace and wildlife. The zebra seemed primitive but were vastly more brilliant than their appearance gave credit. Knowledge in things outside of the magical realm and powers that seemed too strange to be ignored.

These traits are what caught Sanity’s attention when his floating castle landed on Zebrica’s shoreline. He arrives at this landmass to gain allies on this planet. Zebrica was far from the first place he visit on this planet, nor would the zebras be the first creatures he sought allyship with, but this event would havea massive impact on the zebras from many millennia to come.

The mighty god saw great potential from these creatures and wish to have them on his side. So from his flesh he drew forth a child that would gain the trust of these zebras.

The child would be called Zeb Zecobra. A strange being that resembled a cross between zebra and cobra. The hybrid was quickly accepted into the clans of the zebras and over the years gained a mass of followers.

Eventually, Zeb and his followers banded together and launched several attacks on neighboring clans. Pitting each clan against eachother, it was until it was too late that the clans found out the attacks were all part of a play.

As the clans fought, the zebras loyal to Zeb would take all kind of knowledge from the zebra clans they were once loyal.

Once the knowledge was gathered the loyal zebras would be convinced to leave Zebrica forever and live aboard the floating castle. These zebras were to be soon called the Verloor Clan.

The Verloor Clan stayed loyal to Zeb and eventually Sanity throughout the travels through many lands until they reach Epon, the eventual home of Equestria. Sanity wanted this land most of all since this was the magic source he had been sensing.

Sanity and his allies lead a great war against the highest species of Epon, the alicorns. The war lasted longer than any mortal being could recount. In doing so, the Verloor Clan just like normal zebras not being of immortal bloodlines began to forget their original home and even fracture in their trust of the Ideal and his seemingly unaging agent.

However the splintering didn’t start until after Sanity was defeated and imprisoned. Many of the species under his command either fell apart of stayed loyal, this include the Verloor Clan which finally split into two new clans.

The Nie Verlore and the Gevind.

The Nie Verlore stayed loyal to the Ideal despite even Zeb abandoning them. They fled to the south and settled in the harsh deserts at the bottom of the continent.

Meanwhile the Gevind stayed in the very land they had attempted to invade and broker a truce with the alicorns. The alicorns gave them the forest covered mountains near the Everfree forest and peace was finally settled. Or at least it was for a time.

Both clans saw no reason to go back to Zebrica. They had been gone far too long. Not only could none of even the oldest remember the way, but that even their ways of life had vastly changed from the zebras they once knew.