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Samudra's Journal - vren55



On the fall of a Seapony Empress. Pre-equel to Equestria's Changeling Queen and the Abyssal Empress

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Entry 2: Aquestria and the Surface World

During these past few weeks diary, I learnt why surface worlders should not be underestimated.

Before then, I thought the ponies, the griffons, and all their ilk weak.

I mean, they can barely keep one of their puny settlements from being overwhelmed by monsters on the land. Who cares if they have four legs, four legs and wings, four legs and a horn or if they have beaks and two claws instead?

We, deep ponies and sea ponies have farms that stretch along their coast for leagues, right underneath their noses, farming seaweed and shellfish of all kinds. Mussells, clams, you name it. They feed an empire so large we have no boundaries but for what is not under the ocean. We surrounded the surface worlder’s homes to their east and west, and still they did not know about this.

The surface worlders squabble among themselves too. Spill each other’s blood, fighting over every scrap of land, completely oblivious to the fact that they court the attention of the Windigoes in the north.

Aquamaris alone is so large it takes hours to swim from one end to the other. We have so much territory, the clans of deep ponies and sea ponies that roam the open oceans can spend a month before seeing each other. And when they do, they share food and talk, like reasonable seafolk.

At least, this was what I thought about the ponies, pegasi, unicorns and griffons, until Empress Panthalusa showed me Vale Auras. She was showing me the surface world along with her retinue and for the most part, all we saw were those desperate souls. Then… I saw it.

I could not believe it. It wasn’t that large. Aquamaris dwarfed it, but as we came closer to the sea shore, I could see this amplifier, a massive white ball of magic, constantly emanating light. I soon learned that with it, the unicorns in the city could move the sun and the moon.

The bloody sun, and if that wasn’t enough, the moon! The ponies living there seemed to want for nothing, unlike the scavenging desperate folk I saw before.

If that wasn’t enough, Empress Panthalussa managed to show me a very dangerous surface species. The changelings.

She wasn’t sure if we’d get to see them. The changelings are particularly dangerous. They also can shapeshift. But… there appears to be some kind of war that’s going on and we witnessed an engagement on the shore.

Nearly three hundred changelings fought in the engagement we witnessed. They were organized, tested each other’s formations. They used magic to try to shape the terrain throwing up temporary sand castles to cover against arrows. The two queens leading the two groups gave commands clearly, and manipulated their troops with ease.

And just when we thought it was over, when one side had outwitted and outflanked the other force and were pushing them into the ocean, a thousand more changelings led by another queen swarmed in.

It had been a trap all along. Perhaps their numbers were lacking when compared to the legions Aquestria could field, but their tactical acumen was impressive nonetheless.

I’m very glad the Empress showed me this. I… I tend to rush things and form opinions very easily. She has taught me so much since I have become her student.

Lately though, she’s been rather wistful, and more… worried than usual. Which is strange. I’ve been helping her a lot with the administration of Aquestria. She should be feeling less stressed and from the reports I’ve been reading and signing in her name, there isn’t really anything to worry about.

That does make me wonder though, what could possibly worry the Empress? I… I don’t think there is such a thing. I probably am misreading her.

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