For those readers who enjoyed my musings on the nature of alicorns in Cross Words and Red Tornado, I've just submitted the conclusion to those ideas. In Departure, I present a vision of the true nature of Celestia and Luna. It's not marked as a sequel to Cross Words, but it builds onto that fic's headcanon about alicorns, and their role in Equestria.

(It's still in the queue, but hopefully the direct link works.)

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In the world building in Cross Words, I described how a small number of alicorns were born throughout history, with Cadance being the seventeenth. All alicorns are sustained by the love and respect of their little ponies, and so any of them could have chosen immortality, in a similar form to that enjoyed by Celestia and Luna. But all chose eventually to live a mortal life.

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