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// Prologue: The Princess of Saddle Arabia 
// Story: A Knight in Saddle Arabia 
// by Nocturn Dreamwrite 
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A Knight in Saddle Arabia

By: Nocturn Dreamwrite

Prologue: The Princess of Saddle Arabia


South of Equestria, there is a small, but proud kingdom surrounded by a great desert called Saddle Arabia. The kingdom was populated mostly by Arabian ponies, but there were a number of Equestrian ponies that lived there as well. The realm was ruled by the Maharaja Sphinx. Although a just ruler, kind and good to his ponies, he lacked one thing: an heir. His loyal and loving wife, the Maharani Oasis, was unfortunately barren and could not bear a foal for her husband. They longed for a foal terribly. Then, one day, a miracle. A small, Equestrian, unicorn, filly was found by one of the servants in a basket among the palace’s weekly vegetable delivery, and brought to Sphinx and Oasis. In the basked was a note: “To whoever finds my filly, please take care of her, love her, and keep her safe. To my little filly, I’ll always love you. I’m sorry.” A search was conducted, but the identity of the filly’s mother was never discovered. Sphinx and Oasis however accepted the mother’s wish and were overjoyed to adopt the filly, whom they named Felicity, Princess Felicity of Saddle Arabia, into their home as their daughter. At last the kingdom had an heiress, and when it was proclaimed, the ponies of Saddle Arabia rejoiced. No pony every questioned the fact that the new princess was Equestian while her adoptive parents were Arabian. The Maharaja had spoken, she was their daughter, and no pony would challenge the Maharaja. It was without a doubt that Felicity was Sphinx and Oasis’ pride and joy, and they couldn’t have loved her more even if she had been born to them. As the years passed, Felicity grew into a beautiful, graceful, young mare, loved by every pony around her for she was very kind, polite, and loving to all she met. She was educated, (a unicorn tutor was called on to teach her basic magic for her horn), and was accepted into the upper crust of Saddle Arabia. Felicity, however was curious, and liked to learn new things, but she was hardly ever let out of the palace gates, and when she was, she wasn’t allowed to explore on her own. Still, although happy, and grateful to have the position she had, she longed to see what was truly out there in the world beyond of which she was innocent of. She was a princess, but a princess of what exactly?