I believe that for General awareness it will not be superfluous to briefly get acquainted with the political situation in Equestria today. Let's start with the Royal family. For five centuries, the power in the country belongs to Luxemore III and his wife Stellaria Vetus.
Luxemore Gladium is the heir of the great Gladium family, lords of Equestria since the beginning of the age of Harmony, who came from the West and won the trust of all ponies, giving them protection from dragons. At that time they often raided the Central areas of Equestria, or rather the few mines around which the ponies established settlements, selling ore and precious stones to itinerant traders and caravans coming from all over the world. He Luximon III, named after his grandfather, Lucimara II, opened a large number of gold mines in the Central part of the continent, greatly enriching Ponyville, as well as assisted in the development of agriculture in these parts, was quite unusual ruler for the people. Since his father, Callistratus Gladium, had formed an Alliance with the griffins, and because of his frequent visits to Gryphonstone, he himself had become imbued with their culture, which was in its heyday at the time, this was reflected in his son. Luxemore also loved luxury and pretentiousness in the interior and clothing, often arranged lavish feasts and feasts with delicious food and drinks, spending a considerable share of the state Treasury on them, and often hunted in the surrounding forests of Canterlot, which caused the indignation of many ponies. Also among the books of the Royal library, he preferred a variety of historical Chronicles with beautiful and detailed descriptions of the exploits and battles, had his own collection of weapons of different peoples of Equestria, considered it his pride and showed all the ambassadors and relatives who visited his Palace over and over again. But, despite so unusual nurture with hand his father, Luximore liked Equestria and inherited nobility, wisdom and courage, and most importantly, sense of responsibility for its people, and was a good ruler according to ordinary ponies, and decent member of pedigree tree of Gladiums according to all their loved and close.
His appearance can be described by the nickname given to him as a child by his peers among the nobles and even ordinary peasants, with whom he did not shy away from playing, despite the condemnation of court servants and some relatives – Sun Shield. And, indeed, Lucimar was quite tall, of strong build, with white hair, a mane with strands of flowers of fire, bright blue eyes that betrayed him good-natured and caring kind and kuchinarai in the form of a sword with an orange crystal in Garda on a background eight-pointed star surrounded by flames. Although he often joked and smiled, at the same time his figure inspired confidence and a sense of security from any threat, and enemies, on the contrary, felt emanating from him the energy of superiority and persistence in their actions. And such a character played no small part in the famous battle of the Southern Wastes, where he valiantly defended the pilgrims from a pack of dragons that came from the southwest. After the battle, the battle-weary travelers refused to continue and, never reaching The Mackintosh Hills, organized a small settlement near the site of the battle that nearly killed them. The king and some of the unicorns quickly found a spring of water nearby, and the settlement soon became a small town, later called Appleusa, and the battle became known as 'Battle of Appleusa.' After these events Lucimara III, and nicknamed in the people Lucimara Brave.
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Stellaria Vetus was a representative of a very ancient and mysterious family Vetus-leaders of the Thestrals and lords of Darkness. In 1172, the gathered Thestrals, led by Stellaria's father, Revercatus Vetus, marched from the Southeast and besieged Baltimare, threatening to burn It to the ground if the king did not recognize the Thestrals' legal rights throughout Equestria and allow them to be members of society like all ordinary ponies. Callistratus would have been glad to comply with the invaders' demands, but the ponies themselves disagreed. Until this not particularly beloved they "monsters" now have become instant hateful and abhorrent all sane ponies, which began to revile festralov on than light is worth and to blame their in all problems Equestria.
Despite this attitude, the Thestrals were honest with the king and did not commit atrocities in the captured city. On the contrary, throughout the five-month siege, they had not killed a single pony from Baltimare, willingly allowed canterlot ambassadors and even allowed residents to go for water and periodically distributed portions of food that they were able to grow in the vicinity of the city in a few weeks with the help of magic. All these factors helped the people of Baltimare to avoid famine and epidemic, so that the blockade became purely symbolic. The result of these events was the wedding Luxmore and Stellaria, which took place on the day of adoption of the law on the equality of pestrecov in society and sunrise Luxamore to the throne.
Thestrals rejoiced and rejoiced that the Darkness had given them such a gift, and thanked Callistratus cordially, bestowing upon him a large quantity of the magnificent Gryphon ornaments which they had obtained by searching the ancient temples. Nor did they forget Luximon, who was given as a dowry a rare weapon of the Thestrals, with strong war-charms, which made the latter indescribably delighted, and, swearing to protect the Thestrals as well as the rest of his people, gave a great feast, which ended in great loss to the state Treasury and two weeks malnutrition to the said people.
Soon Luximon and Stellaria were king and Queen. But the people, meanwhile, disliked Stellaria and began to wash her all bones. The peasants said that she ate the foals and sent her subjects to steal them, which was why they forbade the children to leave the house after sunset. Courtiers and nobles had said she was a spy, and now that Luximon ruled, She could take advantage of that and destroy Equestria to please the Thestrals with her husband's hooves. But, thanks to excellent intelligence and a good understanding of the problems of the country, Stellaria quickly won the trust of both, becoming a fully recognized Queen.
Brought up to be strict, she did not tolerate disorder and preferred restraint and refinement in everything. Never making hasty movements, through persistent training, her reality has turned into a beautiful, pre-conceived dance, where everything is calibrated to the millimeter, and the movements are accurate, like an unencumbered thought embodied in the action of the physical body with the help of an ephemeral substance called life. This was reflected in her appearance: she always wore fairly modest traditional dress of Thestrals, had long straight combed dark blue hair, white as snow, strands of hair, dark blue coat, cat's eye, like all pestrecov, and cutiemark purple crystal, which reflects the growing moon. Unlike her husband, she considered it savage to greet a lower-class pony, and often reminded Luxemore that He was extremely courteous to the servants, and it would be worth while to have a little Royal dignity.
But in spite of all his wife's reproaches, he loved Stellaria, and she loved him, which for a marriage of convenience was an incredible success. Being almost diametrically opposite personalities, they were able not only not to quarrel, but also to find a common language, and even become additions to each other. Where Luxemore was impulsive and straightforward, Stellaria found it easy to find a way out of a situation in which everyone got their way equally, without risk to both parties and others. Where, on the other hand, she did not see a peaceful way to resolve the conflict, Luxemore made decisions that left all the councillors, including Stellaria, speechless and speechless, decisions that were wise and measured and often worked as well as calm and safe negotiations, often lasting several years. Thanks to this symbiosis between Luximore and Stellaria, Equestria has long been the most authoritative, large and wealthy state on the planet, and it was the Equestrian Supreme court was Supreme not only in Equestria, but in General in any place on the continent and beyond the sea.