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Feb
20th
2019

Pony Variants: Wood Ponies · 5:20pm Feb 20th, 2019

Another idea I couldn't get out of my head...


Wood Ponies

Ages ago, after suffering a terrible betrayal, the alicorn, Gaia Everfree, retreated into her sacred forest to avoid sentient creatures altogether. For centuries, she watched over her forest and all the creatures that called it home, but in time she began to yearn for companionship despite her bitterness and stubborn view towards sentient beings.

In time, she sensed great distress and ventured forth to see a herd of ponies that had gotten lost in her forest. They had been attacked by timber wolves and two of them had already been slain. Hearing a desperate mother's cry for help and the sobbing terror of foals, Gaia's stony heart finally cracked with compassion and she came to their aid, driving off the timber wolves and leading the survivors to her Secret Garden.

The herd was grateful to Gaia for saving them and as she spent time with them, she grew to love them and invited them all to stay with her in her Garden, and they agreed, making the Secret Garden their new home, Overtime, other ponies got lost in the forest. Some Gaia offered refuge in her Garden, others she avoided, but those that came to live in her Garden gradually changed from exposure to Gaia's wild nature magic.

In time, they became her beloved subjects and children, ponies even closer to the world around them than earth ponies. They had become the Wood Ponies.


The Wood Ponies are the servants and adoptive family of Gaia Everfree. They dwell in the Secret Garden of the Everfree Forest, the most sacred and well-protected area in all the forest where none may enter without Gaia's permission, making it virtually impossible to find. The Wood Ponies are the guardians of the Everfree, only involving themselves with other sentient creatures if they are threatening the Everfree Forest or if they are innocent and in danger because of the forest.

They differ from the natural Pony Tribes by their nature in being part plant! Their exposure to Gaia's magic has transformed them in body and spirit, granting them mystical abilities. Physically, Wood Ponies closely resemble natural ponies aside from a few a things; Wood Ponies' manes and tails are made up of leafy foliage, from which they can grow vines, flowers, or even thorns, Wood Earth Ponies have hooves literally made of stone, Wood Pegasi have giant leaves for wings, and Wood Unicorns have antlers instead of horns, and they tend to have coats colored in earthy, forest-y, or flowery colors. Their abilities include:

Power over Flora and Vegetation
Wood Ponies can control plantation, whether it be flowers, grass, trees, shrubbery, branch, root, twig, and vine. This power varies in strength and capability with every individual

Floral Invigoration
The mere presence of Wood Ponies can invigorate the growth and health of the plants around them, though sometimes these plants can grow out of control, as this also affects weeds, crabgrass, and other such bothersome plantation. This ability is most potent from the Wood Earth Ponies

Intuitive Knowledge of Plants and Herbs
Just by being near it, a Wood Pony can know the properties of a plant, whether it's poisonous, edible, or medicinal

Possession of Trees
Wood Ponies can enter and possess trees, making trees move as extensions of their own bodies

Woodland-Based Transportation
Wood Ponies can transport themselves through trees to anywhere within a woodland or forested area

Hibernation
Some Wood Ponies will hibernate during the winter, like some plants do, though some will stay awake, similar to evergreens

Oxygen Breath
Like actual plants, Wood Ponies breathe carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen

Different Abilities
As they originate from the three pony tribes, Wood Ponies can have certain abilities the others don't, such as:
*Wood Earth Ponies (also called Forest Ponies) are physicaly stronger and affect their environment more so than the other two types, and can control earth matter, as well as purify the dirt and soil beneath their hooves, making the ground they walk on perfect for plants to grow

*Wood Pegasi have wings that resemble giant leaves, which they use as natural solar sails to absorb solar energy as nourishment, and as they flap they release a nourishing pollen that has a positive effect not only on plants but living creatures too

*Wood Unicorns no longer have horns but rather they have grown antlers, which they can use to control their magic as easily as a natural Unicorn, and wield nature-based magic with spells that are more powerful than what natural Unicorns can cast

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Comments ( 15 )

Are they threaten to be eaten my any herbivores that walks by, can they eat each other?

5016977
They only confront creatures that threaten the forest; they are still herbivores and no, they do not eat each other

A interesting idea tho i feel your missing some weakness that this change would do. Like are they generally weak to fire or darkness and need lots of water do to their plant parts?

5017003
Of course they are more vulnerable to fire, that's a given; and yes, they do require water, what living creature doesn't?

5017005
I mean more water. Like a camel can go much longer then a mule with out water thanks to the hump. Would wood ponies need more water then the average pony due to being part plant?

5017009
Maybe a little more, but they can also absorb water from plants that they eat

5017010
Ok and would they do photosynthesis to a leasser degree? This is a very interesting idea i would love to see really develop

5017016
The Wood Pegasi's leaf-like wings are like natural solar sails, but the other two types can absorb sunlight for nourishment simply by napping in the sunlight

I would not be surprise if Zecora know few of them and where she get her rare herbs and plants from

5017084
Very astute, and she'd also have given her word not to divulge their existence to anyone

They sound peaceful in a way. Plus I thought it would be Treant and not Gaia. Pyro Pony, Water Pony maybe even Lighting Ponies or Wind Ponies.

Are they able to talk to forest creatures? The non sentient ones like deer and what not that is.

5017322
Not so much talking, but more like an empathic understanding

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