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Stories from Long Ago

This folder holds stories that tell of how things came to be, when it happened, and why.

Order: Date Added

TPri(n)celess
MLP: FiM
Romance
Tragedy
Princess Platinum is in mourning after the death of Clover, her faithful companion. Unable to tell others just how deep their bond really was, the noble mare contemplates how the ways she got her hooves dirty to defend that bond.
Suicide / Self Harm
Violence
Death
OC
Other
Clover the Clever
Princess Platinum
Starswirl
Ice Star · 17k words · 20 4 · 426 views
TThe Fall of Opaline
MLP: FiM
MLP Gen 5
Drama
Sad
Tragedy
Following the events of “The Last Problem,” Twilight takes on a new apprentice in Luster Dawn’s absence. But when a heartbreaking betrayal leads to her student’s tragic fall to darkness, Twilight must make the ultimate sacrifice to save her home….
Gore
Violence
Death
Profanity
Alt. Universe
Twilight
Other
Sunny Starscout
Opaline
Misty
Admiral Producer · 47k words · 46 4 · 1.9k views
EIsland Of the Lost
MLP: FiM
MLP: Movie
Adventure
Slice of Life
A deserted island holds many mysteries. But these ponies live for that kind of thing.
Alt. Universe
Celestia
Luna
OC
Mystic Sunrise · 3.7k words · 23 20 · 481 views
TNopony's Sister
MLP: FiM
Dark
Drama
Sad
The fledgling nation of Equestria has dealt with great monsters. Yet, something is rotten in the Everfree Forest. The fear of one more woe is at hoof.
Suicide / Self Harm
Celestia
Luna
Ice Star · 7.3k words · 54 13 · 1.5k views
TInterruption and Intervention
MLP: FiM
Romance
Drama
Slice of Life
During his downtime, Royal Scribe to Princess Luna, Astral Ink, receives some timely advice. Sometimes the right words from the right pony makes all the difference in the world.
Profanity
Luna
OC
Raven Inkwell
Scribe of the Nightwings · 7k words · 98 3 · 1.7k views
EDeep Blue
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
When some of the stained glass windows at Canterlot Castle are destroyed, Princess Celestia must find an artist to replace what was lost.
Celestia
OC
Ice Star · 2.2k words · 59 5 · 1.2k views
EThe Legend of Alicorns
MLP: FiM
Zelda
Adventure
Twilight goes back in time to find a 'Legend of Zelda' theme like world that follows a few months after the first Hearth's Warmth. History is not what it seems to be as the tribes still despise each other.
Crossover
Twilight
Other
Amereep · 37k words · 43 2 · 1.6k views
ELost Cities
MLP: FiM
Anthology
North of Canterlot, in the far marches of the Equestrian lands near the Griffon tribes, there is a mountain that flies.
Celestia
OC
Cold in Gardez · 11k words · 1,223 19 · 16k views
TThe Wanderer of the North
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Before Nightmare Moon, before Discord, and before the Crown, there was a white pony. An epic work retelling the life of Celestia.
Violence
Celestia
Luna
Alaxsxaq · 304k words · 154 6 · 4.3k views
TDry Bowser's Displacement
MLP: FiM
Mario
Adventure
Mystery
Thriller
A man gets displaced as Dry Bowser after buying an item from the wrong merchant.
Crossover
Human
Alt. Universe
Twilight
OC
Other
Cipher800 · 5.5k words · 83 13 · 3.3k views
ECollection of Heart Warming Hearth's Warmings
MLP: FiM
Slice of Life
Over a thousand years of tradition is built in the customs of Equestria's Hearth's Warming tales. Whoever we are or where we come from, these stories all reach into a part of us, changing us as the seasons turn and a new year begins.
Other
Chancellor Puddinghead
Clover the Clever
Somnambula
SwordTune · 7.6k words · 10 3 · 604 views
EThe Founding
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Random
Twilight Sparkle learns more about the founding of Equestria from a diary of Clover the Clever.
Twilight
Celestia
Clover the Clever
Princess Platinum
Book_Wyrm · 3.5k words · 406 views
TThe Virgin Company (currently editing)
MLP: FiM
Romance
Dark
Drama
The story of a Pegasus lieutenant, his beloved platoon, and their piece of the Centauri-Equestrian War, decades ago.
Violence
Sex
Death
OC
Pone_Heap · 177k words · 67 19 · 1.7k views
TPrincess Essenta
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Long, long before Equestria, ponies in that land lived in a number of smaller kingdoms. Princess Essenta, the first daughter of the Dale, sets out to prove herself when her father, the king, sends her on a poorly conceived "suicide mission".
Narcotics
Sex
Violence
Death
OC
Pone_Heap · 282k words · 75 28 · 1.9k views
TDaughter of Godzilla
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Mystery
Sad
Well apparently, Twilight's life was a lie. In reality, she is the daughter of Godzilla.
Gore
Crossover
Alt. Universe
Twilight
Spike
Other
Main 6
Cipher800 · 9k words · 84 16 · 4.4k views
EFriendship Existed: The Previous Generation
MLP: FiM
Comedy
Random
Slice of Life
Before Twilight Sparkle and the Mane 6, there was another group of friends; Their parents
Other
Windy Whistles
Bow Hothoof
Pear Butter
Bright Mac
MrAquino · 13k words · 49 1 · 2.4k views
TForever Mare
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sad
There are ponies that even the gods cannot help.
Violence
Suicide / Self Harm
Celestia
Luna
OC
Royal Guard
Ice Star · 12k words · 206 28 · 6k views
TThe Age of Hunting
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Before the formation of the Pillars, who brought ponykind into safety with their virtues and power, Equestria was a fractured land. The apex hunters of this world, full of creatures desperately clinging to life, were the Changelings.
OC
Chrysalis
Changelings
Dragons
SwordTune · 154k words · 68 6 · 1.9k views
TThe Death of Tiamat
MLP: FiM
Romance
Drama
Sad
Sci-Fi
The star Tiamat is dying, and four Friends attend her final hours.
Sex
Rarity
Spike
Celestia
Luna
Discord
Jordan179 · 6.2k words · 54 4 · 2k views
TTear the Sky Asunder
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sad
Thriller
[Poetry] In a land with no heroes, two goddesses seek to defeat the tyrant known as Tirek who has been stealing the magic of ponykind. Only there is no glory as their broken sorority hangs in the balance of a war-ravaged land.
Violence
Gore
Death
Celestia
Luna
Other
Tirek
Starswirl
Ice Star · 8.1k words · 32 4 · 1.1k views
TThe Storm Dancer
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Sad
[Poetry] A young Luna flies far above the trees...
Celestia
Luna
Ice Star · 1.3k words · 38 3 · 1k views
EThe Dark Side of the Sun
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Sad
Thousands of years ago, three youngsters roamed the wilds together. Many things happened. Some were good, but others are better off forgotten. There are plenty of those. One has just resurfaced, one that Celestia would rather forget.
Celestia
Luna
Discord
Ice Star · 4.3k words · 58 3 · 2k views
EHow to Be Brave
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Drama
Thriller
Luna is a mischievous filly loosely raised by her sister in a vast world that doubles as the home she barely remembers. Neptune is a humorless king who refuses to leave his home, both of them share a distant past although their paths have split.
Celestia
Luna
Philomena
OC
Dragons
Ice Star · 3.9k words · 40 2 · 1.2k views
EAshes
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Drama
In the ruins of a world they were never truly a part of two fillies travel with only each other as company, yet the elder starts to have doubts about their destination and wonders if everypony she loves is doomed to leave her. (EFNW '16 Finalist)
Celestia
Luna
Philomena
Discord
Ice Star · 6.4k words · 43 1 · 1.4k views

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