"While Canterlot is the best known and the largest - qualifying as an actual city - dwelling on the Canterhorn, it is by no means the only one. Also known to the discerning traveler are Canter Junction, a small town supporting the railyard where the various railway lines across Equestria meet before ascending the mountain; Canterbury, a former mining village and now Nocturne town in the shallow caves below Canterlot; Canterhigh, an airship port and village located on, or in

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So, naturally, for this particular universe I've redrawn the map more than a little. (Both for conventional worldbuilding reasons and because, well, as you may remember from the Prologue, I'm setting the entire habitable area of Equus inside a giant astrobleme on a superterrestrial world.)

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I've been conlanging some more, and since some of the words this time are of Advancedverse relevance, thought I'd drop a pointer here.

So, I have a preliminary partial timeline of history, as it played out in the Advancedverse.

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You asked for it, and I provide!

(After I clean them up a bit, and probably after the next chapter, I'm going to add the Advancedverse geography notes as Appendix C, too, just so everything's in one place and it doesn't get lost in the blog.)

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...was exactly what it says on the tin.

It turns out that there are some... issues... when the Alicorn of Love goes through puberty and the associated hormone-driven magic surges in the middle of a major city. My, that was fun to keep under wraps.

(There's now a special "In Case of Princess House" on a suitable remote island in the Great Celestial Ocean, because it would be even more fun to keep under wraps if, say, the Alicorn of Lust should turn up one day.)

So. Spurred on by conversations elsewhere, I have taken a moment or two to hammer out a first draft version of my concept of an Equestrian calendar for the Advancedverse - not that you shouldn't feel free to help yourself if you like it or any part of it - one that isn't what you might call strictly canon-compliant, but which does save me from having to cobble together an explanation for where all the Latin and Roman emperors fit in to Equestrian history, in re month names. (It also necessarily

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(Canon to the Advancedverse, although it's deep background unlikely ever to be relevant.)

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Some quick notes on two things that are different in the Advancedverse, AU-wise, even before an alien fell out of the sky:

1. Since I'm effectively replacing Earth with Equus in this AU, for one reason, and since it saves time and confusion to not have more than one species of hominin running around, the Advancedverse does not contain Star Swirl's universe-crossing mirror. It contains an awful lot of Star Swirl's mirrors, just not that one.

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Possibly the strangest of the various solar cults on Equus is the cult of Celestia Clementia, i.e., "the Merciful".

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(Canon to the Advancedverse)

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