Diary, I’m… confused.
For the past three years there have been some seaponies and deep ponies going missing. At first, it was only some wayward younglings, runaways from home. Nothing to worry about.
However, then I received reports that an entire seapony clan, albeit, a very small one of less than twenty, has gone missing. The local authorities believed they had simply migrated, but several months later, there was no sign of them and thus they alerted me.
I ordered an investigation. My Myrmidons scoured the ocean, but they found no trace. This was when my Mages and ministers realized that the disappearances had been stretching back for about two years.
Now, there are a multitude of threats in the Eastern Ocean that may have caused this. Dragon turtles running rampant. Leviathans can crush settlements. Underwater earthquakes can bury or plunge entire fields into the abyss. Volcanoes can sprout from the sea.
That’s not even counting the more common threats. Sharks like to prey on seaponies and deep ponies alike. There are multitudes of poisonous fish and eels. Jellyfish, not the larger ones, but the miniscule ones that can’t be seen easily, can render a seapony or deep pony dead in hours.
However, we’re used to these threats and have for the most part, adapted to them. It’s unlikely that any clan or settlement will go missing in its entirety. This is especially since every seapony and deep pony has some rudimentary skills in hydromancy. Since these skills are drilled into us from a very early age, it’s unlikely that a disaster could completely wipe out an entire clan. It would have to be cataclysmic in nature.
Of course, I may be entirely misplaced in my suspicions. After all, the ocean is massive. Much of Aquestria’s domains are unsettled and the numerous trenches and abysses that mar the ocean floor could conceal a myriad of natural traps.
But still, it doesn’t explain why seaponies and deep ponies from across Aquestria have been going missing. My investigators weren’t that suspicious at first either, but as they dug deeper, and compared the statistics, they realized that the disappearances had risen in the past three years. It was a subtle rise, but it was there.
Again, it’s possible that this worrying is all for naught, but all the same, I’m going to send more of my army to patrol some of the more distant settlements. There’s no need to take any risks, and since Aquestria’s treasury remains full, why not?