Starswirl's personal journal is found along with several of his possessions in a small cave. Discord finds out he owns all of them and after a bit of poking and prodding decides to tell Fluttershy and Spike the truth of what happened during his thousand-year reign over Equestria.

Just after the SV Alicorn exibition Princess Twilight Sparkle noticed Princess Luna acting very strange recently.

Princess Celestia can't say much only something about the old Unicorn Royal Family, Twilight decides to investigate, and finds a book written by Clover the Clever, all about a young Star Swirl and an even younger pony named Bullion.

Recommended reading to help make this story more understanable.

The EK
Secret of the Alicorn

Secrets hidden under countless decades and lies. Laying just bellow the surface. One such secret is held within the past of Starswirl the bearded. Twilight convinces Starswirl to tell her the story of "The True Hero of the Crystal Empire" which starts her down a rabbit hole of cover-ups and forgotten history.

A collection of interconnected stories and one-shots following the life, aftermath, and consequences caused by a curious piece of darkness created by Starswirl The Bearded. This is the story of a little shadow that dared to explore the light so many ohters called home. That is what these stories are about, of a soul stuck in the dark wanting to understand Equestria, and the consequences of reaching for the light.

This is not a happy tale.

All stories/chapters take place in chronological order.

Warning, contains various one-shots under the same universe/worldline. The final chapter has already been posted. Chapters will be posted as they are completed. Rereading encouraged!

This collection of lore is now complete. If there are any continuations done by me, I will organize them under here.

Betrayal is a horrible thing. You take the trust of somebody that cares about you, and you crush it. But what if you betray someone for a good cause? That's the story of these two brothers and how their destinies were separated.

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Tirek? Discord? Nightmare Moon? King Sombra? So many agents of darkness wreaking havoc across the land a thousand years ago, and so soon after the Pony tribes had stopped warring. This story follows the tutelage of Celestia and Luna under Starswirl the Bearded as they learn to harness their extraordinary magical talents and bring order to these seemingly lawless times.

The first human to appear out of the blue was Claudia. Princess Twilight Sparkle and Starswirl the bearded aren't expecting for a human with tannish skin to appear out of nowhere and this lady don't appear to be magic at all. Claudia never seen mythical creatures exists but just in stories and movies, she pleaded to be sent home, but it took them three months to finally able to find a spell to bring back to where she came.

Alogn that three months, she grew fond with ponies, and other creatures she gotten to know. she decided to stay with the permission of both Twilight and Starswirl. She became the first human resident of Equestria.

But now, 4 years past, there were rumours of another sightings of humans not far from Ponyville.

Simon was desperate, whatever Betty wished for kept him alive and young no matter what and he turned to the only thing that could help him: magic. but when a spell goes wrong and spreads chaos to Ooo he will have to learn to live with the consequences.
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being a tree sucked, Fern could confirm that. nothing ever happened. Peppermint Butler only ever stopped by once to ask him something. but with big changes in Ooo will he be able to have friends again?

Other villain stories can be found here.

This is a story that takes place before and after the findings of Equestria. Chrysalis was not always the evil Changeling Queen, she used to have a much happier life before Equestria was founded.

Note: This story does not take anything relating to the IDW Comics. While there may be some things that were originally from there, they aren’t treated the same way.

It’s Christmas Eve, and the resident school bully and queen bee had planned to just stay at her house and spend the holiday alone. However, fate has different ideas, as on that Christmas Day sunset accidentally stumbled upon an old antique shop where she bought two objects that caught her interest: a nutcracker and a necklace.

As she bought the two objects, the old man who owned the shop told her the story of the nutcracker. Of how it was once a handsome soldier engaged to a princess of a magical land but was cursed by an evil king called the king of shadows. Sunset didn’t believe it at first. However, that night the shadow king himself arrived at sunset home, and in the battle that followed, sunset was shrunken down.

Now the only way for her to return to normal is to venture into the land of dreams, the nutcracker home world, to defeat the evil king and end his reign of terror.