(prequel to “Escape From the Moon” and “The Mare From the Moon”): Well over a thousand years ago, before the founding of Equestria, the world was a different place. In time, a trio of ponies came together, and through the Fires of Friendship, created a nation. This story is well known.

Except some of that history has been swept under the rug. Now, the truth of what the world was like before Equestria’s founding is about to be revealed… including the role that Snöflinga the windigo played in it.

This story is a sequel to From Hero To Mother

This was it. Smart Cookie finally made up her mind. She will raise Celestia and Luna as her own. After all, she defeated Windigos, so how hard can raising two alicorn fillies be?

Oh how Smart Cookie wished she held her tongue.

Edited by Cobalt the Kitsune
And BronyDad

This story is a sequel to To Bring Light to Eternal Darkness

Feature boxed on Feb 28, 2024.

Blue Moon is a deep blue orphan earth pony foal with a crescent moon cutie mark in a splotch of blank paint. Her talent for moving the moon interferes with day and night—favoring the night, of course. Ponies in power have begun to notice. Her life working as a ward of a workhouse/orphanage is about to change. When it means meeting a scary white fire unicorn, she worries it's not for the better.

The story takes place during the Princesses Platinum area, months after the original story. It is decades before the battle between the sisters, and years before the founding of Equestria. It is marked [Teen] because of an orphanage out of Oliver Twist. I am publishing as three chapters. They will all be published within this week.

Whilst this story is a continuation of To Bring Light to Eternal Darkness, it can be read standalone. It was supposed to be the first chapter in a sequel to the original story, but that didn't happen. It's been modified to be a short novelette. It may seem like it ends on a cliffhanger, but think of it as sparking your imagination to think about a much more interesting history for the royal sisters and Equestria.

If the story gets sufficient likes and comments, I'll consider extending it.

Dragons do not share. Dragons do not give. Dragons do not care for ponies, their slayers and adversaries. Why, then, do dragons fly down to take treasure from those who can kill them?

Thanks to Tediz ze Kat for the cover art. My entry for the Equestria Daily Outside Insight Contest.

The Hearth's Warming story is timeless in Equestria. Every year, the traditions are done and reminders of what hate brings are given and taken. While the story of the first Hearth's Warming is told to every filly and colt in the bright and colorful manner of a stage-play, there is a lot more that isn't said. Before Hearth's Warming, the three tribes had hate between them, but also a reluctant tolerance as they relied on each other to survive. Once the blizzard of the Wendigos began, they blamed each other. This lead to a Great War over racist accusations. This is the story of that war, and the story of one pony in particular that tried to fight for the right thing. The story about his struggles to create peace in a desolate, frozen landscape. This is a story about a War Pony.

Brilliantly proofread & edited by: PeerImagination

The world is frozen. Clover, Smart Cookie and Private Pansy climb a mountain to try and kill the immortal causing it.

Eighth place finisher in the writeoff 'In Over Your Head.'

With her war proposal denied, Chancellor Puddinghead decides to grab her secretary and go searching for a new land.

Hark! Everypony gather 'round
To hear the bitter tale
Of times before the Princess hurled
The sun about the weary world
Upon a winded sail.

This be the volume of the lore
All spun in metered rhyme;
Of heroes in the nights before
The current track of time.

When Winidigoes would walk the world
And set to freeze it stale,
The warmth of friendship, yet unknown,
Its light upon this era shone
To halt the frozen tide alone:
This is those heroes' tale.

Candy Twinkle here be my looker - over, so thanks to her!

Commander Hurricane commissions Clover the Clever and her husband Smart Cookie to create a way to clear land so that it can be used to grow food to support the new arrivals into Equestria. Thus the First Parasprite is created. After clearing the large fields are cleared the parasprits are gathered. One is missing. It's probably not a problem.

Long ago, in a time where the ponies were not ruled by alicorns, but by each other, one unicorn was bestowed a mystical power, a power that allowed her to see into the future.

Clover the Clever, student of Star Swirl the Bearded, utilised this power of hers for the good of her peers, and of Equestria. But when she discovers her own imminent demise, Clover will see things no pony has ever seen before.

Crossover with Magic: the Gathering.