In Equestria, there are four princesses: Princess Celestia the Wise, Bringer of the Day and Protector of the Light; Princess Luna the Brave, Bringer of the Night and Protector of Dreams; Princess Cadence the Just, Bringer of Love and Protecter of the Crystal Heart; and Princess Chrysalis the Resourceful, Bringer of Peace and Protector of the Library of Wisdom. All four of them have proven time and time again their worthiness of the titles of Wise, Brave, Just, and Resourceful.
But rumors exist of a fifth princess: Princess Twilight the Kind, Bringer of Friendship and Protector of Magic itself. The rumors tell that Princess Twilight had five loyal friends, who together represented the fabled Elements of Harmony, using them to heal Luna the Brave, Chrysalis the Resourceful, and fabled mage Starlight the Powerful, along with many others.
But one day, Princess Twilight’s five friends and Princess Twilight herself disappeared, never to be seen again.
Now, the only clue as to her whereabouts lay in The Frozen Empire and it’s empress, the mysterious Winter Goddess, who communicates only by messenger even in times of dire need. The four Princesses have tried time and time again to talk to the Winter Goddess directly, but have made no progress.
And then, the Winter Goddess herself appears in the Throne Room, intent to call a Council of Royalty to discuss a new movement called the Eastern Ring.
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Yee!
So is Twilight the Winter Goddess?
Also, the Princess Chrysalis thing - Is that something I need to read a previous story to understand?
How did Ponyville forget Twilight after only 300 years?
Interesting story though. I'll be watching it.
dang this is working up to be a great story!
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Chrysalis' story will be told in a prequel that I'll write after this is finished. So, no you don't need to read a previous story.
And as for Ponyville, the citizens of that town never forgot Twilight, they still believe that she's real. The rest of Equestria forgot her and teach that she was never real though because they had no personal experiences with her. On top of that, they rest of Equestria thinks Ponyville is believing what they think is only rumors.
For Twilight being the Winter Goddess:
Edit: oh I forgot to add that Miss Bloom is from Manehatten
She leaves nothing to chance.
Interesting🧐
Can’t wait to see the Empresses plan.
guess the empress ie twilight who found out something when her friends died and ran away and now want to end her old home,
that or twilight is trap there,
Great story. Let's see how it goes next.
Great story. Let's see how it goes next.
To say in the least I'm interested.
Interesting so far. Looking forward to seeing what happens next.
Tracking.
this teacher needs to research his history
any fandom member worth their own bits knows Twilight IS a bearer of Harmony.
She isn't a legend either
Is this not continuing?
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No, It is. I just am not particularly good when dealing with writer's block... or writing longer chapters.
IT'S BACK!!
Things have gotten interesting in this chapter.
Mean not.
So... How can someone thought only to be a rumor disappear?
Have to wonder how Twi could disappear from public consciousness. Though to be fair Celestia likely wouldn’t have wanted her in statue form during the early days.
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Wonderful to know! There have been so many great stories I've seen not continue.
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History says there were only five, as is says moments later.
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Fixed.
Interesting. So many questions arise now that someone of the main cast has met Winter.
One alicorn disappears, another appears
Celestia keeping her cool despite the poems insinuations is to her credit. Have to wonder about her actions that it took so very little to undermine Cadence’s faith.
End of paragraph "It seemed to Winter".
Celestia.
I know who she is well I think I do but I won't say the name till it's revealed who she is.
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Fixed.
Nice to have this update this often
Next chapter we'll find out if I guessed correctly on the Winter Goddess' identity.
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No, we've still got a while to go. There are a lot of things I have planned that have yet to play out. Winter coming to Canterlot is just the end of the first third of the story.
Empress Winter be walking into Canterlot Like:
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Oh.
I think she send all 3 of them the same letter but while sisters figured out she was talking abouth the gala, only Snow realized that Winter actually meant she is coming right now.
I’d like to imagine it’s Tilda Swinton.
Its strange. First you want her to come to you and insistently call for her for several years to the point of pissing her off and when she finaly gives in and comes, you wonder why she is here.
Make up your mind Celestia
I have to question if the archives would be the place for her to look. Usually documents from the last few years would be where ever files on current events would be stored, archives typically are repositories of information from many years back that have been stored because they don’t need to be referenced or examined with any frequency.
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See, the thing is, Celestia had been asking and asking for so long that by this point she was not expecting winter to come at all. So when Winter does, she can't help but wonder why. I will edit that into this chapter for better clarity though.
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There, done.
HOOLLYY SHIT Equestria must have shit libraries for twilight to become a legend in 300 years. That's just sad... Sad because twilight loves books and to have libraries like that... That's just sad.
First of all... Dat grammar
You don't put the number down UNLESS it's 9 or 10 and above.
And SECOND
Three centuries? Tia would have to bu dumb as plants do not make any connection to Twilight
Two things I can think of concerning Winter and Twilight. Either Twilight helped her at some point, and thus heard Twilight's slanted view of Celestia after losing her friends.
Or Twilight and Empress Winter are literally one and the same. Somehow, but they are. You're not doing a very good job of hiding the fact that they are connected in some way.