Over ten thousand years ago before Equestria was born, there was a powerful race called War Horses. They were a warring and peaceful race known for developing god like powers that are like second abilities to them. They are also very friendly despite the fact that their ancestors ascended from the fires of hell. At first, the War Horses were once wild and animalistic.
Some individuals of the War Horses began to show signs of awareness and emotions they have never felt before. As a result, they suddenly gained strange psychic powers. Their eyes glowed with power, it was said that they had been enlightened by the gods themselves and gifted with these psychic abilities that can bend the universe to their every whim and will.
The now aware individuals saw the way their own kind lived and were disgusted, they have had enough of their animalistic ways of life and tried to talk some sense into them, but it all went down to hell. The individuals fought back and were forced to use their powers against their own kind, making all of them open their eyes to the world and to see what they had become. The War Horses were upset with themselves and begged the gods in the heavens for forgiveness and for kind and loving rulers to lead them to a bright and better future.
One day, the War Horses were suddenly graced by the presence of a powerful and loving king named Maximus and a beautiful and caring queen named Silvia. They were overjoyed and began building a large kingdom and to their surprise, Maximus and Silvia insisted to help them make their home. The War Horses loved Maximus and Silvia like parents, and they in turn loved them like children, this made the War Horses share a powerful familial bond.
Over the years as Maximus and Silvia led the War Horses, their people, they fought tyrants and demons, emerging victorious and even making friends and allies along the way.
It was just a hot summer day as Maximus and Silvia took their people out of the kingdom for a stroll around their homeland, they encountered tribes of ponies looking for somewhere to settle. After listening to their plight, the War Horses welcomed the travelers into their kingdom with open arms and helped them settle down, they learned that they are called earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns.
Maximus and Silvia became interested in the earth pony and pegasi tribe and their people began to grow closer to them. They helped the earth pony and pegasi tribes develop their very own powers over the earth and sky, this amazed them and they thanked the War Horses for this gift.
Months went by as the earth ponies and the pegasi used their new found abilities for their everyday activities like growing crops and controlling the weather. However, the unicorn tribe was disappointed and began to grow distant with the earth pony and pegasi tribes.
After these turn of events, the unicorns became envious and conspired to overthrow Maximus and Silvia so they could gain power for themselves, seeing them as weak rulers. Both Maximus and Silvia sensed the danger they are in and they were prepared. They were very furious after the unicorn tribe's failed assassination attempt and kept a watchful eye over them.
A few years later, a powerful race called Alicorns suddenly began to appear. They saw the War Horses as monsters and attacked. This made Maximus and Silvia and their people very furious, resulting in the Ten Thousand Year War also called Armageddon to begin.
The War Horses won every battle with their powers, while keeping the earth pony and pegasi tribes safe. Near the end of the war, the alicorns knew that the war was going downhill and attempted to do something to stop it, but they were too arrogant with their power and find themselves fighting against one powerful being, claiming himself to be second and closest to gods.
He is a powerful earth pony colt named Apollyon. Having god like powers, Apollyon killed the alicorn race in one second without moving a single muscle and consumed the souls of the fallen alicorns with a slight curl of his finger. This horrified Maximus, Silvia and their remaining people as they saw how powerful Apollyon is.
With great determination, the rulers and their people used the last of their strength to split the land apart before Apollyon could bring more harm to their friends and family.
As the land began to split apart, the two rulers and their people tearfully bid the surviving earth pony and pegasi tribes farewell before the land was violently torn apart by powerful tremors and giant cracks, making the lands separate and move away from each other just as Apollyon appeared. Maximus, Silvia and their people still had enough strength within them to hold Apollyon at bay as he screamed and thrashed around in anger.
The surviving earth pony and pegasi tribes watched in horror as the other half of the land drifted off into the distance, the sounds of destruction echoing in the air. The unicorn tribe had fled to another land with two surviving alicorn foals while the earth pony and pegasi tribes hesitantly parted ways, hoping to see each other again and settled in different areas of this new land now called Equestria.
This era was soon forgotten, except for some families that still remembered the kindness and sacrifice of the War Horses. The alicorns had called them evil for their nature and past sins, but in the end they were wrong, the War Horses were good ponies who sacrificed their lives for the lives of many innocent tribes who had nothing to do with the war.
Not much is known about the war or what happened to the War Horses, but the legends said that a powerful group of Saints fought Apollyon to the death as he slaughtered the surviving tribes. Some claimed that one lone Saint faced Apollyon and trapped him in the pits of hell where he truly belongs, using the last of his strength before dying.
And one legend said that one of the fallen saints will be reborn one day.
"And that Saint was... me."