//------------------------------// // -------------------- // Story: Unity: A Tale of Arcadia // by Kieva Lynn //------------------------------// "Wheels within wheels, Worlds without end; Of the distant future Do my words portend; Darkness spreads, All light to end, Emptiness, entropy, Inherit the wind; Come my daughter, You I send; Beyond the veil, To worlds forfend: Pony and human, Must together contend, And then the paths Of fate may bend..." -Faust's final prophecy. ------- "Unlike magnetic polarities, in which likes repel and unlikes attract, on the moral level likes attract and unlikes repel. Good gathers good unto itself, and evil gathers evil unto itself, and a sufficiently great evil can subjugate lesser evils unto it's service, whether they will or not. Thus lesser evils must be subdued quickly, lest some terrible darkness grow greater by incorporating their power." -Merlinus Ambrosius ------- "Tremulous skiens of destiny, Flutter so ethereally, About me, but then I feel, It's embrace, is that of steel. Is each of us a creature free, Or chained at birth by destiny? Pity those who think the latter, Without freedom, Nothing matters." -The Book of Counted Sorrows ------- "Hope Requires the contender, Who sees no virtue In surrender; From the cradle, To the bier, The heart must always Persevere." -The Book of Counted Joys ------- "One ring for the dark queen, Who reclines on her throne, In the changeling vale, Where magics fail..." -Last surviving remnant of Starswirl's 27th prophecy