Lady Sky is the Alicorn of the heavens, able to track the patterns of history in the stars to predict the future. In conversation she is both blunt and difficult to understand, having no patience for pleasantries and is often inscrutable or distracted. If you can get her attention, she can tell you much of your possible fates. Spending all her time checking data and observing the weaves of time has left her quite lonely, she has no real friends. Time waits for no pony, not even her, and the destiny of the world is at stake.
“The fate of nations might hinge on the smallest of actions, such as having mango for lunch instead of salad.”
The pony who would become the Alicorn, Lady Sky, was born as a simple Pegasus. From a young age she was obsessed with flying and the high clouds. She kept trying to fly higher and farther, pushing herself to her limits, but she was never able to reach as high as she wanted. After years of studying wind currents and weather patterns and with the aid of an enchanted belt said to grant limitless endurance, she flew higher than she ever thought possible. For days she flew, higher and higher, until she was able to reach out and touch what she thought was a star, known as the Unblinking Eye.
In that moment her mind opened to the infinite powers of the Heavens Nexus, and she saw the entirety of the indescribable patterns of the motions of the stars and the history they foretold. It nearly broke her, but in the endless circles and constellations shifting on cosmic scales she saw a convergence in the flow time. The indescribable threads of history converged on that point, but very few would survive to begin anew.
Surviving her encounter with the star, she was transformed into an Alicorn, and knew she would have to use the knowledge of the stellar pattens of possible futures to guide the races away from that fated end. Using her newfound powers she constructed an immense observatory made of crystallized snow and starlight, filled with large glass lenses, intricate planetaria, complex calculation machines, and cloudformed starcharts, and began endlessly searching the heavens for the patterns of fate that would turn history away from that cataclysmic end.
Ever since, she and her observatory have been seen from time to time passing over the world so far below. To those on the surface her purpose is unknown. Every now and then she would descend and direct some individual on a course of action. Sometimes an inscrutable design to guide them for the rest of their lives, and sometimes as seemingly insignificant as instructing them to stand a few strides to the side.
So great is her challenge that she she rarely sleeps or eats, devoting almost her entire being to tracking comets and moons and nearly imperceptible stars in her quest to prevent the end of history. Few ever meet her, as only the strongest of Pegasus can ever hope to reach her observatory before it moves away under the astral winds so close to the top of the sky. The lives and desires and petty squabbles of the individuals on the surface do not concern her, only the greater pattern matters.
With the great nations of the world about to head into war, fate is fluctuating. More so than ever before, Lady Sky must descend to the surface to nudge history along the correct path. At any given conflict, she might aid one side or another, but none should expect her aid to last forever.