Letters to the Gods

by Lighttone GryphonStar


Crystal Empire Part 2: Brothers

December 20th, 109,584 YA, Tuesday, 5:30 pm Earth Pony Conglomerate Time, 5:00 pm Crystal Standard Time,

Dear Scholars of the Sevenfold under the Order of One,

It is day two and the line has yet to decrease even after the parties from yesterday have long died down. I really wanted to see the Crystal Heart, but I guess that will have to wait. Today I went to the museum and explored many things. In particular the two princes.

Golden Williams Titanium Bravery Moray Cadenza is the first prince of the Crystal Empire and was born twenty-five thousand years ago to Emerald Teal Constantinople Istanbul Cadenza and his wife Chrystal Laylis Titania Shimmering Starlight. According to the works in the museum, he is a brilliant and bold soul with a very silvery tongue that can sway both the souls of politicians and mares. His cutiemark is a crystal outlining cupid heart and it shows with his five wives and apparently many lovers. Despite his long name the Golden Williams part fits him best and is what he prefers to go by since every single picture of him shows his extravagant taste for gold colors. I dare say some of the pictures and even portraits of him are just too bright to look at for very long.

Blood Diamond Constantine Hollow Chernobyl Bloodstain is by far the more mysterious of the two brothers, for one thing, in multiple accounts his crown name can be either Bloodstain or Bloodcraft. The change is between each account is very random. I'm not sure why... maybe its to separate himself from the famous writer H. P. Bloodcraft which as far as I can tell has no connection to him at all, familial or otherwise. That is another thing I have found strange, neither of the two sons have offsprings of any kind despite their age.

But back on track, Blood Diamond was born more than five thousand years ago and is the youngest alicorn of his generation. Though his childhood was rough from what little info I could gather. According to accounts, his mother died giving birth to him. Emerald Teal was never the same after the death of Chrystal Laylis. This is just my assumptions but when comparing detail and commonalities the reason Blood Diamond is such a determined soul and the cold willed stallion is because he wishes to make up for his mother sacrifice. There are constant reports of Blood Diamond being the first into the battle and the first to claim victory. However, this is his more public life, from what little I could gather on his personal life is that apparently, he is quite the poet. He has written many short limericks, most of which around life, death, and love. Surprising, some mares have attempted to take his graces because of his poems, but each one is doom to fail.

Though as stated neither one have children of their own they have taken on lovers and marriages. Golden Williams has five wifes currently and had many wives before and several lovers currently, all mares in a verity of species, from alicorns to unicorns, earth ponies, pegasi and even outer species like griffins and sirens, there was even a small book I found containing details on his one time wild affair with a donkey and zebra. This is a bit contrast with his brother. Blood Diamond has only one marriage in his life and it was a very short-lived arranged marriage to his cousin Luna. I couldn't find many details on why the marriage was held and why it ended so abruptly, only that it happened about twenty-five hundred years ago and only lasted a few months before Luna's father broke the ties. Though there are no details on record I suspect one of the underlining reasons is Blood Diamond's others taste, this is what I refer to earlier when I said that any mare pining for his hand is seeking failure. I have found that Blood Diamond may actually prefer the other gender. Notes I uncovered show that he has taken on quite a few male lovers over the years, particular the adopted son of his aunt Topaz Silk. Now I know it not really that strange for alicorns to have relationships with the same gender as most are bisexual, it just strange when an alicorn goes exclusively for the same gender. And I feel this may have been one of the major causes of the separation. A marriage even an arranged one cannot work one-sided.

The two brothers became more and more separate in my mind the more I researched them. These two are so different from each. The best way I can describe it is the Politician and the Warrior. That is not to say Golden Williams can't fight in a warzone or that Blood Diamond is a terrible is politics, but that these two were almost breed for very different parts of the world, one could almost say they weren't brothers at all.

That is all I could find within the day. I wish I could research more but you only gave so much time in each place so I want to try one more time tomorrow to see the Crystal Heart before making my final report Thursday.

-- Dr. Pierce Halo

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