It has been over one thousand years since the alicorns went extinct. Well, not truly extinct.
The centaur known as Tirek was led to Skyros by the Alicorn of Fire, and soon, Skyros fell, and with it, all of the alicorns within.
One alicorn who escaped hid himself from the world. He believed all of his fellow alicorns save for Opaline to be dead. Only now is he visited by a stranger who will prove him wrong. One who knows far more than she should.
TW: major character death
For the New Blood contest
“From the beginning, you know the end.”
“The main character’s name and identity are never mentioned.”
There’s a concept that is somewhat important to this story that I couldn’t find a good place to insert, so I’ll just explain the concept here:
Once every few generations, a special unicorn is born. These unicorns are called “Flares” for the tendency for their magic to flare up randomly as they grow up. While other unicorn foals can have magic flares (like Pumpkin Cake for example), a true flare is marked by magical power that flares up and stays up once they get their cutie mark.
During times leading up to great strife, the gaps between the births of flares would close. In fact, if threat was great enough, the gap between the births of unicorn flares could be as little as one year. If you were to measure the gaps between flare births, you could pretty accurately predict when the next threat is to occur (although Celestia, was really the only one paying attention and already knew about the return of Nightmare Moon)
Over the course of G4, we’ve become aware of not one, not two, but six unicorn flares: Twilight Sparkle, Starswirl the Bearded, Clover the Clever, Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer, and Luster Dawn.
And there are equivalents for pegasi and earth ponies, but they are much rarer
Honestly, all of Opaline's story is very suspect. I can buy Celestia and Luna ignoring her (because those two were not known to be geniuses), among other things. But here's a major plot hole in all of this.
We don't know how true any of it actually is. All we have is Opaline's side of it, and she's a villain. Therefore she's going to make everyone else look bad to make herself look in the right.
Are you ever going to make a squeal?
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What we saw was her self-serving memory, which does contain some truth, but is otherwise far from it.
A good example of this would be Tempest's backstory. In the movie, we see Glitter Drops and Spring Rain abandoning her immediately after her horn breaks. In the comics, we see what actually happened: those two were trying to give Fizzy some space because of the dangerous magic thing, but definitely were not going to abandon her at any point, and in fact it was Fizzy who abandoned them after they went to attend school. But she still stopped being friends with them after her horn broke, the circumstances are just different than she chooses to remember.
What actually happened was the Council of Three recognized Opaline had some darkness in her heart, chose someone else to go to Equestria, and the other most eligible pony happened to be Celestia. Opaline took this to mean that they thought Celestia was more special, and over the next two-ish thousand years, tricked herself into believing that the entirety of Skyros believed the exact same thing, not just about Celestia, but Luna too (who wasn't even in consideration for the Equestria mission, she only ended up there because of the Fall of Skyros). By the time G5 rolls around, that's what she thinks happens, so that's what she tells Misty.
Of course there's still a bit left to go in G5's story and I could have just made up this lore for nothing
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There's still an interquel and a half before I actually follow up on anything introduced in this story, but yes, I do have a sequel that might come out some time in the next two-to-three hundred years