Twilight, age twelve, has been studying under Princess Celestia for five years. She has learned a lot of things, not just about magic. She spends a lot of time reading books. The subjects range from the history of magic to the history of Equestria. Every topic has a book, sometimes two, and she’s able to get enough details about all of them.
All of them except one, that is.
When it comes to the Griffins, they cease to be mentioned somewhere along the line. From what Twilight is able to piece together, they disappear from history shortly after the formation of Equestria. That doesn’t make much sense to her, so she goes to ask about it from her mentor. If anypony knows about what happened, it would be Celestia.
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Interesting! Though I would have picked Diamond Dogs as the polity Celestia wiped out.
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In my head canon, the Diamond Dogs were never able to come up with an empire, if only because of the lack of anyone who could unify them. I always saw them as smaller groups, like we saw when they kidnapped Rarity.
Choppy, but enjoyable. What stuck out to me was how Celestia was not as innocent as she would like Twilight to think. I hadn't thought of Celestia as that type of character. The final reveal was my favorite part of the whole story. It comes out of the blue and it resolves it all in a clever way. 'Equestria would have needed those lands anyway.' Was a nice note to end on. Short and sweet.
What bothers me is the pacing and the tone. The writing is plain and the story seems condensed. Show, don't tell. We have these recurring thoughts that hammer in how the characters feel, but I'd more like to see how they feel. That's something I saw in snippets of this chapter, but not in compared to what we're told about what they feel. That's not always a bad thing, but it would feel far more organic if you were able to pull that off.
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I'm glad it was enjoyable.
I'll keep looking at the story, see if I can think of more. This was a quick type-up, though. Less than an hour for the hole thing.
Nice to see someone else with headcannon about the unicorns not really moving the sun and moon.
Interesting ... at first I was all like, "oh, come on! another evil bloodthirsty griffon fic?" But you manged to show the griffon's in a different light. A better one, and I thank you for that.
Man that ending was really messed up!