The mane 6 aren't who they appear to be. All 6 appeared as very young foals and were adopted by thier respective families (whether they know or not is up to the writer). Before the legend of Hearths warming eve, everyone was an Alicorn, Discord is who divided the tribes and war broke out. Celestia and Luna escaped (how up to the author), and sent the rest of the royal children (now with their alicorn powers stripped) away with a spell from Starswirl, Discord finds them mid spell and disrupts it

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