Long ago there was a world, once beautiful and full of life, now barren and desolated. The moon and sun that circled it cried out in a mournful song catching the attention of powerful beings. Taking pity on the world they restored life to it and created three great spirits with the purpose of keeping the world of balance and fill it with all kinds of creatures. Each of the Great Spirits were granted names by their creators. Discord, the Spirit of Chaos and Power. Harmonia, the Spirit of Harmony and Wisdom. Crystal, Spirit of Love and Courage. Before they left, the powerful beings granted the sun and moon a chance to give their mind and power form. Leaving the task of creature an appropriate form to the Spirits and telling them to think of something new as nothing from the old world remained. Discord was the first to create creatures. He created chaotic beings such as: Changelings, Dragons, Gryphons, and other creatures alike. Using the parts he form a physical body around himself and lived on the surface with them seeing if any pleased the sun and the moon. As nothing came from it Harmonia decided chaotic creatures would not do therefore creating creatures of order. Sphynxes, Phoenixes, Centaurs, and creatures of the same kind. Harmonia settled in among them taking form as a stag watching and waiting. When nothing came and the other Great Spirits grew impatient, Crystal unveiled its own creations. Beings that worked the earth and tilled the soil. No preference, each filled with its love and devotion to them. Crystal cared not for forming the sun and the moon deciding it was best to let them choose on their own.
One of these creatures were Ponies. When Crystal was tired and went to sleep Discord came to view the Ponies wondering why were the simple creatures a part of Crystals creations. Buffalo he understood as they were powerful, yet these creatures had no wings to remain in the sky. No fire or scales to protect them. Growing bored Discord had decided to give some of the Ponies wings to instill chaos yet when nothing came out of it he left them alone. These Ponies became the Pegasi, yet the wings could barely lift them off the ground. Then Harmonia came to give a gift to the ponies to balance what Discord did. For the ponies that seemed wise it granted the use of magic, these became Unicorns. Yet when the ponies could not use it properly Harmonia left them. When Crystal awoke and saw what happened to its creation decided to gather the other Spirits in order to grant the world a magic all of its own. Therefore allow the use of flight and magic for all the creations. These were known as Cores, centers of magic for all living things. Harmonia taught all creatures to write, read, speak, and most of all rules. Discord showed all creatures how to defend themselves with their new abilities. Crystal formed the rules for all creatures and living things of the planet on how to use their power wisely and made sure that the Cores were balanced. So no Core would be the most powerful. The Great Spirits created a maze to test the creature’s instincts and to find the hidden power within them but also giving the creatures a chance to grow into their own power. Therefore the maze was ever changing reflecting the passions and desires of all who enter to seek their Core.
Seeing this, the sun and moon took form of ponies with traits of each of the Equstrian races. The three spirits named them Celestia, one of the heavens, and Luna, moon. They were taken to a forest where dark creatures watched over them and a castle erected to protect them. Harmonia watched over the two teaching them from its vast knowledge. Discord, noticing that when ponies die their souls had no place to rest. He decided to go the other two spirits and suggest creating another alicorn to keep the dead. The Great Spirits created an alicorn that was different from the sisters. This was a grey blue alicorn with large bat wings and a horn. His eyes were gold and his mane and tail was blue fire. The spirits dubbed him Hades and used the remains of an old tunnel system transforming it into the Underworld.
Time passed and no pony showed any need to explore the world around them or their own cores. Discord wanting to see something happen, as the alicorns were too young, decided to nudge them. He told a pony that something had been seen on the edge of their territory. Then went to one of the first dragons, a large dark purple dragon named QuirinSurpMiir, that he had seen something new approaching their lands. This was how the Elder Dragons met the Equestrian race through a young Earth Pony named Seed. QuirinSurpMiir shared his knowledge with the stallion who told others of his kind of what he had found so they could learn as well. He brought two of his friends, Arcane a unicorn and Sky a Pegasus, to learn. QuirinSurpMiir introduced the ponies to his siblings: A crystal dragon named UntryrUryte, a red dragon called ThraxMaugh, and a black dragon named ZundaeIngeir. The dragons, noticing that the ponies were having a hard time pronouncing the names, thought of names they could be referred to as. Soon they came up with the names Keboath Gillspotten Heathspike for QuirinSurpMiir, or Spike for short. Aurora for UntryrUryte, for the lights her scales make when the light hits them. Flame Heart was the name that ThraxMaugh chose for himself. ZundaeIngeir chose Laughing Heart as it was the meaning of her name anyways.
As three of dragons taught the Ponies, sharing their knowledge of strength, flight, and wisdom they took no notice of the darkness growing in their sister. Laughing Heart, who had yearned for knowledge to share as well, became desperate. A dark power called out to her and she accepted wanting to prove herself. This darkness gave her the power to corrupt the heart and minds of others. The more creatures became corrupted the more powerful and twisted Laughing Heart grew. She shed her old name choosing to go by Abyssia or AuthaLothor, Darkness Mother. The ponies rose up against her, including the apprentices of Arcane. One was the only pony who earned a name amongst the dragons, LhamJjar, as he had mastered the power of the dragons. However ThraxMaugh fell to the powers of Abyssia during the long war turning him into the Shadow Dragon DurgUa. The corrupted dragons were eventually sealed away, but parts of their world had been changed severely. Leaving only few lands untouched by the war and only one of the Elder Dragons to wander the lands. Seed, Arcane, and Sky went their own ways to remove the Curse of Corruption. Sky went to find Discord, as he had created the dragons, and his chaotic magic was powerful. Arcane found Harmonia, when searching for a spell, resting in a cave near a forest as the battles had drained the Spirit. Seed sought out Crystal, but when he found the Spirit he found that it had known what happened but did nothing as it had chosen a neutral path. Arcane did not tell his friend of his find, Seed decided to follow the advice of Crystal to be patient, and Sky began to prepare defenses for any being ready to attack: This included his friends.
When the secrets were revealed the first harmony of the ponies were broken and the races began to look out for themselves. Discord, loving the chaos revelled in what was going on. Harmonia on the other hand despised Discord and the two Spirits began fighting. Crystal, not wanting anymore fighting sealed all of them into physical forms. This resulted in Harmonia getting shattered by Discord’s magic and the pieces turning into a seed waiting to be planted. The other half of Harmonia’s powers took form of a being to raise the Sun and the Moon. Crystal took the form of a Crystal Heart placing itself in the same location to watch over of the Mirror Abyssia was sealed. Arcane, Seed, and Sky, who were also fighting left after LhamJhar shattered the barrier around his core and vanishing as an attempt to stop them.
Thousands of years passed before the ponies found harmony again. In the lands of Equestria where they made their new home in hopes to find peace again. Star Swirl the Bearded planted the Seed of Harmonia with the Pillars of Old Equestria to protect the land when they could not. Spreading his knowledge and taking on a student to aid in his research in protecting Equestria from the evil prowling the borders. The corruption of AuthaLothor had remained in the old lands taking hold of the hearts who remained behind not wishing for peace. The ponies were twisted, transformed into demons and hunted those they found weak. Those who allowed friendship in their hearts. Even the founders of Equestria did their best to bring their people together against this threat. This is when he and the other Pillars vanished.
Legends say that another Star Swirl travelled the land after he vanished. Yet others said it was Star Swirl completed his journey and banishing the evil. A long time passed either way and the older unicorn took on another student. He found a curious pony, a young unicorn with a split core. A rarity among their kind. Taking up this colt Star Swirl continued his travels only to find the colt bitter and cold towards others because of his magic. Deciding that his new student needed a companion his own Star Swirl began to search schools and academies for one such pony. At one he found a rather tall unicorn filly he found potential in. He decided to test how well they could work together by sending them into a cave to retrieve an ancient spell. They found a spell to increase the power of the barrier protecting the borders of Equestria minimizing the use of unicorns keeping the barrier up to just one. Finding that the two worked well together Star Swirl took her with them on his adventures until the two were old enough to do so on their own. When they were the two did their duty to help their people until one day a rumor about an ancient artifact of great power caught their attention.