The Lorekeeper’s Tome

by Bravery

Alicorns

Ah yes! The five alicorns of Equestria: Celestia, Luna, Twilight, Cadence, and Flurry Heart. Powerful being on their own, but together can be unstoppable. Two are powerful enough to move the heavenly bodies, two made when they created new magic, and the last being the firstborn in Equestria. What a quintet! However, I would like to ask a very good question: What about Cozy Glow? In my records, Cozy was just a little filly pegasus, but when she absorbed the magic from Grogar’s bell, she became an alicorn. Another important bookmark I have is the fact that she was turned back, stripped of her horn. How can a normal filly become an alicorn and then be stripped from it? The same goes for how our lovely Princess Twilight Sparkle became an alicorn: Absorbing magic.

A wise Changeling once said, “There’s nothing special about being an alicorn.” Yes they do have powerful magic but so do Starlight and Starswirl the Bearded and they aren’t alicorns, they are just powerful unicorns. There’s no divinity to it, no right of passage, anypony can be an alicorn. But don’t hold your breath for too long, as that wise Changeling did point out that you need magic from all the tribes: Earth, Pegasi, and Unicorn. With all three tribes, the Alicorn is the master of them all. Twilight absorbed the magic given from her friends, which has at least one member of each tribe, pumping her with magic, and Cozy Glow did something similar, but far sinister. She took the magic from the bell, which had the magic from ponies back in the day, and I don’t think Grogar would have spared any magic that was in those ponies of old.

Now, since you know the tale of how Twilight and Cozy became alicorns, but allow me to tell you a tale about another up and coming princess. One who is far more devilish than Cozy, and one who might actually overthrow our lovely princess of friendship. And there’s no amount of friendship lasers that can fix what she has done.

“Once upon a time, an earth pony and a Pegasus had a daughter. A unicorn. This is of no surprise to the parents, as both of them came from families that had unicorns in them, so there were perfectly fine with their lovely ball of powder-white snow. They watched as their daughter showed her skills in magic, doing feats they could only dream of doing. They were amazed and sent her to Chanterlot to go to the School for Gifted Unicorns.

“However, behind closed doors, the young unicorn wasn’t happy with herself. She wanted to feel powerful but was never satisfied with any of the lessons the school system would teach her. She read every magic book, learned many spells, even skipping a few grades, her abilities amazed everyone. But behind that goofy smile, was a mastermind at work, trying to figure out how to satisfy her thirst for power, and it didn’t help a bully of the school set her eyes on her.

“This bully wasn’t as magical inept as the young unicorn, and they wanted to stop her before the young unicorn got any ideas. The bully cornered the young unicorn, ready to give her a verbal beat down, but then something strange happened.

“The bully started to feel light-headed and the young unicorn felt like she blacked out, and once it was over, the bully felt very weak, and when they looked over and saw their cutie mark was gone. Meanwhile, the young unicorn felt stronger and looked over and there, the former blank flank had a cutie mark, one of ill omen: a crown with two bleeding swords behind it. This young filly knew exactly what it meant: She was meant to be a conqueror, and she knew iron and blood was the order of the day.

“The bully retreated away from the public eye, becoming a full-grown unicorn without a mark. As for the young unicorn, who knows where she went. Her family hasn’t heard from her after she graduated from the magic school and is too afraid to look for her due to the string of disappearances across Equestria. No one knows where she is now, but I’m sure she is out making the world a better place.”

That’s all for this chapter. I hope you enjoyed my tale. Would you like to listen to another?

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