//------------------------------// // Appendix: Cast profiles // Story: Primordial Crimes: Side story - Glimmer of Potential // by Brony Mithos //------------------------------// Mars Ariesnastable/Cometlight Gleam Mars Ariesnastable(Real name Cometlight Gleam) the legendary Red Wizard. Mars going by his true name Cometlight was a dear friend of Princess Luna and assisted in the defeat and banishment of Daybreaker Sun, Luna fearing her beloved friends would die granted them immortality via the power of the elements. Since then he became Mars Ariesnastable in order for his family in Sire's Hollow to live in peace without fear of his enemies learning of them and to help them be separated from his legacy so they would not feel constrained. Eventually in this new timeline he heard of monsters being controlled by an evil wizard rumored to be near Sire's Hollow and while there met the lonely filly Starlight who he knew was his blood and did his best to help. Starlight eventually got her Cutiemark when she followed Mars, his team, her father Firelight and Sunburst's dad the village headmen worried about her dad after she said some cruel things to him. While pursuing them she saw her father in peril from a falling boulder and used her new cutiemark magic to switch her fathers cutiemark with a strong earthpony's allowing her dad to survive, and outright taking the evil wizards cutiemark allowing Mars the upper hand needed to beat him. Mars decided to take Starlight under his wing and bring her to Canterlot to audition for Luna's Institute of Unicorn Magic, using her unorthadox Cutiemark magic she proved powerful, yet Luna already had a prized pupil so it fell to the teachers and magic elite there to decide if she would be apprenticed or just another student until the next audition. Nopony raised a hoof almost breaking Starlight's heart until Mars raised his and said from now she would be his prized apprentice. After several years passed he decided her isolationist behavior was not going well and told her to travel Equestria as a showmare preaching Equality and peace, bestowing upon her a focusing item he crafted from sacred wood he found in a desert called the Staff of Sameness telling her to write him after every town she visited to tell him of the friendship lesson she learned. However he seems to have some sort of plan for Starlight that even Luna is unclear of, but only time shall tell. ~~~ Starlight Glimmer/Amazing & Wonderful Glim-Glam! Central character of this tale, a small filly born in the frontier hamlet of Sire's Hollow a town so small it houses only a dozen or so citizens. Her mother died during childbirth and as a result she was raised by her overprotective father who was head librarian and head of he cultural society of the hamlet. Due to this she spent most of her time alone usually only seeing her dad when he would tutor her. One day she met the son of the wealthiest family, Sunburst and the two became inseparable making a game of everything and just loving one another's company; However one day Sunburst got his cutiemark and was sent away to Luna's Institute of Magic, this broke her heart as now she was alone. She then wen through a HUGE emo phase pushing her father away and learning to play the guitar intent on becoming a huge grunge music sensation. Everything changed when a team of knights led by Mars Ariesnasable came seeking assistance from Firelight(Starlight's father) and Sunbeam(Sunburst's father) in tracking a rogue band of mages who destroyed the SMILE HQ, Starlight seeing this tagged along and learned much on their journey including how much she truly loved her father and what true sorrow was as she watched the death of Sunburst's father who gave his life for her. She was rewarded with her Cutie-mark and an impressed Mars offering her a chance to take the LIOM entrance exam to try and be with her friend again, Firelight of course was opposed to this but took her anyway where she passed and was taken by Mars to be his apprentice. Fast forward years later and Starlight a reclusive experimental mage is tasked by her master to travel all across Equestria under the guise of an entertainer and given the Staff of Sameness a powerful focusing wand gifted by her master and a flashy stage persona who preach's equality. Starlight now going by the Amazing & Wonderful Glim-Glam delight's ponies all over while learning lessons in each town more or less and eventually comes to Ponyville where she becomes rival to the element of magic: Sunset Shimmer. Starlight fails in her attempts to outshine Sunset and is humiliated, choosing to leave and study up so that when they next meet Starlight intends to show she is the superior mage and that she should be the element of magic, all to prove o Equestria and to herself she truly matters and that Mars was not wrong for choosing her. ~~~~ Tiger-Eye Tamer The main villain of the tale, he is a former researcher and creature specialist for SMILE and was known for going all over the world conducting said research. His unique ability to tame animals and care for them made him very effective as even powerful monsters were no match for his taming skills. However when in the country of Abyssenia a war broke out and Equestria pulled all researchers and diplomats out, Tiger-Eye however stayed and was badly wounded losing an eye. He was then given a transplant from a dear ally of his, a brave cat who died saving him and requested his eye be given. After returning from the conflict he approached Luna and asked why they abandoned the nation, to which the princess refused to answer just sadly looking at him and dismissing the stallion. Disillusioned with everything he once believed he decided that Equestria is selfish, they ignore the plight of other race's and that he would fix that. He then staged an insurrection and destroyed SMILE HQ with several other agents and researchers he pulled to his side, he then headed east to Sire's Hollow so that he could initiate he grand scheme of awakening Windego's to which he would control and use them to freeze Canterlot and kill Luna all so that he could open Equestria up to all the race's who lost their nations and then go and wage a war to fix the worlds problems.