Just a simple lurker who decided to take the plunge into fic writing.
The manuscript was old, hidden in Maretime Bay's lighthouse for generations at the very least. At first glance, it appears to be a religious text, full of references to unknown places, unknown creatures, unknown rulers. But is there more to the manuscript than meets the eye? Can Maretime Bay's existence really be traced back to a single group of pilgrims seeking a new life? And why would these pilgrims have sought to escape from their princess, Twilight Sparkle?
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Great story. Do you have any more?
It was unexpecting and surprising. Like Christ preaching to the people and some people did not believe.
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I get less Christ and more Joseph Smith vibes from Warm Zeypher... A Con Artist who came to believe those own lies. Mostly because we know how Equestrian magic works and Twilight was no lair. Though in this universe it might explain why magic fell, first the Zyperite Cult isolated from the other races and the magic of friendship weakened, then they isolated from each other based on tribe and the magic faded away. The Crystals also only got made when Silken Veneer saw the cult for what it was and returned home, winning over Silken likely convinced a lot not ponies to join, losing her would make members ask questions, a convenient revelation would get the followers to not focus on a prominent member leaving. A new leader means new policy, if Misty lacked the leadership skill and favored Pegasi then other members might follow suit and have thier own revelations. When the founder of a cult is gone it tends to fracture, and if it's bad enough the cult dies off and never goes into become a fullblown religion.
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There may be more manuscripts yet to discover! We know of at least two sites outside Maretime Bay with Zephyrite influence; who knows what else could be buried out there?
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Joseph Smith is definitely a possibility, but I wanted to leave the true backstory open to interpretation. I think it's possible that Warm Zephyr was just a con artist who skipped town after she had milked everything she could out of her followers. It's also possible that she was completely earnest and she saw something back in that cave. Possibly even the "goddesses" if you want to get really conspiratorial. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
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The histories of relegions are complex things full of true believers, total liars, and searching for explanations of things we don't understand.
Ooh, this was marvelous. :D
I particularly like the wording choice here. ;D
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Would you believe it wasn't planned that way? It was one of those things where I looked back on it and realized, "Hang on, this actually works!"
Thanks for the compliment!
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Those are the best kind. :)
Howdy, hi!
Okay, this was an interesting read. I particularly really like the formatting of this one. It really *feels* like a transcribed manuscript. That kind of direct, faithful translation of something that has that "old speak" feel to it. The wording and prose were honestly super on point in this story, a nice jaunt through some type of religious-like scripture.
Really fun read, loved the concepts you introduced in this, thanks for the read~!
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Thank you!
I was kind of unsure about using "old speak" for a story here. It felt like it would be very easy to slip into poor writing technique. Looking back at a lot of the text, it really feels like a bunch of run-on sentences. The only thing that kept it from being a true run-on was the fact that 90% of the "Ands" in there started their own sentence. Which is its own "poor" technique.
It's truly heartening to hear people say it felt like an old manuscript. That really means a lot!
The one thing that I wanted to do, that I hadn't seen any fan theories really exploring, was put forth the idea that G5 wasn't taking place in Equestria proper. I have my own reasons for believing that we've moved beyond Equestria, but I'm interested in seeing what others might do with the concept. I'd love to see some more theorycrafting on what exactly happened between the end of Season 9 and A New Generation, and hopefully I've been able to add fuel to the fire!
Surprised that it was Celestia and Luna. I like the ambiguity - could be actually them, could be something far more insidious.
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I had some ideas myself in the run up, although they involved travel a bit further..
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I looked over the story after reading your comment, and I realized I never actually mentioned Celestia and Luna by name... I guess that fits in with their names being forgotten after four generations, huh?
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I don't think it was specified exactly how fast the ships the Zephyrites took could go. Maybe they were supersonic hydrofoils! 20 days can put you pretty far away!
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Yeah, but my version had them voyaging to a whole other world.
(Then again, given that Equestria hasn't found them in all this time and that we know there are natural portals between worlds out there...)