I often had this fan theory floating along in my head, and needless to say I'd like to share it: Before the six delegates of ancient Equestria, founded Equestria, it was controlled by a group of creatures, each one was from a different section of the young country, whose leader used some powerful magic to form the Tree of Harmony, and made seven Elements, six of them, were kept on the Tree, but the last one he kept close to himself, but the Alicorns, young and arrogant as most young races are tried to steal the seven power sources, resulting in a war that destroyed many of the Alicorns and the group of creatures, fast forward to now and the new group of creatures is now secretly pulling the strings of the Equestrian government.