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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.

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TTo Try For the Sun
MLP: FiM
Drama
Slice of Life
Facing starvation in an endless winter, the young filly Celestia attempts to raise the sun... and finds a wonder that her cynical mind had never conceived.
Celestia
Luna
Rune Soldier Dan · 5k words · 1,798 19 · 18k 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 · 17k views
TCelestia
MLP: FiM
There are many secrets that Celestia would prefer nopony ever know...
Alt. Universe
Celestia
OC
Other
Arad · 31k words · 1,108 29 · 12k views
TThe Last Draconequus
MLP: FiM
Romance
Drama
Tragedy
The life and times of the self-proclaimed God of Chaos.
Celestia
Luna
Discord
alarajrogers · 84k words · 278 5 · 6.7k views
TThe Tree That Blooms In Darkness
MLP: FiM
Slice of Life
The Tree of Harmony reflects on her history and her love for her many, many children.
Twilight
Celestia
Luna
Other
Main 6
Cloud Wander · 3.3k words · 190 5 · 3.1k views
TBefore the Storm: The Rise of Firefly
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Before the Wonderbolts, there were the Bolt Knights. And before Rainbow Dash, there was Firefly. The story of Rainbow Dash's ancestor, the origin of the Wonderbolts, and the coming of the Great Pony/Gryphon War.
Gore
Alt. Universe
Celestia
OC
Other
Firesight · 260k words · 407 19 · 6k 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
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 · 99 3 · 1.7k 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
TNightmare: An Equestrian Tragedy
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Tragedy
Princess Luna tells her bodyguard her life story.
Alt. Universe
Celestia
Luna
Nightmare Moon
Meep the Changeling · 21k words · 74 4 · 1.2k views
TNight Patrol
MLP: FiM
Adventure
After the defeat of Discord Princess Celestia and Luna took the throne, fifty years later Luna is tired of ponies fearing her night and praising the day. Thus she begins an epic adventure to make the night safer for her subjects
Alt. Universe
Applejack
Celestia
Luna
Other
Foxgear · 196k words · 85 6 · 3.7k 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
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
TAlicorn Genesis
MLP: FiM
Drama
Sci-Fi
Slice of Life
Fusion shows off her bright new idea to her two closest friends.
Celestia
Luna
Discord
Jordan179 · 5.3k words · 72 5 · 2.3k 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
TOf Fever Dreams and Falling Stars
MLP: FiM
Adventure
When Celestia unexpectedly falls sick in the middle of the desert, it's up to a young Luna to somehow obtain medicine for her sister.
Narcotics
Celestia
Luna
OC
Buffalo
Ice Star · 17k words · 45 2 · 2.2k 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
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 · 2.1k 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
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
EHarmony
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Sad
When Twilight asks Princess Celestia about the Tree of Harmony, the Princess starts to tell her a story from long ago ...
Alt. Universe
Twilight
Celestia
Luna
OC
Other
Luna Nightshade · 29k words · 23 0 · 967 views
TSympathy for a Nightmare
MLP: FiM
Romance
Drama
Sad
Victory was within her grasp ...
OC
Nightmare Moon
Bat Pony
nukestar · 1.4k words · 30 1 · 281 views
TSpare Him His Life
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Tragedy
After years among the three pony tribes the Two Sisters fight their first great foe by themselves: King Sombra, the tyrant King of the Crystal Empire. Nothing goes as planned, everything, and everypony are not as they seem.
Gore
Violence
Celestia
Luna
King Sombra
Ice Star · 21k words · 52 5 · 2.5k views

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