//------------------------------// // The Beginning. // Story: The First Curses // by Knight of Crows //------------------------------// The Original Sin Nopony truly questions their origins, their past, they don't even search for information of a time before Hearthswarming. All they know is a few years before the Sisters and after, but none ask the important questions, none ask of their roots. It is... Disheartening to see how little all of our children go about their lives, ignorant of the evils WE unleashed. We are Genesis and Progenitor, and this is how with a single action we changed the world. We were Alicorns, the first actually. We were created by the unnamed Goddess who has long since abandoned this world. We never wanted for anything in our Paradise, we had everything we needed whenever we needed it. Food, warmth, companionship, a home, everything. It was what would nowadays be called the Promised Land, and we ignorantly threw it away. All it took was a Shade with a silver tongue and our foolish desire. We were told never to go into the cave with the red markings around it, to never seek what awaited inside. The Shade approached us and convinced us that what awaited us would make us Her equals, for why else would She hide it and forbid us from it? We ventured forth until we reached the end. An altar awaited us, and on that altar a book. We read it, but we never learned how to read before then, as if just looking at the pages filled you with knowledge. When we finished we saw the world, and each other in a new light. We had for the first time in our lives used magic, and after enjoying our new 'gift' we experienced a new pleasure on that very altar. After a night of bliss we were visited by our Goddess, never have we known fear, shame, and never had we seen even the smallest amount of disappointment or anger on Her face. She warned us that our Sin would be inherited by our descendants in the form of the countless evils in the book. She then took us away from our Paradise, replaced it with a land of desolation, and bound us to it as we are forced to watch the world change from our prison, forced to watch our foals fend for themselves in that corrupted world. We were made to watch as everything eventually became Sin itself, either in it's purpose or to see it become warped and twisted to suit the needs and ideals of those with power. If only we could change the past. Disobedience