Repercussions
Prince Mark Wells remained depressed for the remainder of the week but, when the weekend came around, the promise that was made to Steady Flight to be a mare for him was kept. However, the change of form brought with it an abrupt change in emotional viewpoint which hit her hard. She bawled her eyes out for an hour or more while her husband provided unstinting comfort. Nevertheless, this brought the final catharsis that Mark needed and she and Steady spent the remainder of Saturday being quietly intimate.
That evening, the herd dismantled the nest at the foot of their bed that Chrysalis preferred to sleep in. While doing so, they discovered small items of memorabilia that the changeling had incorporated into the nest that highlighted special moments between her and her husband. The mares chose to keep an item each as a keepsake of their lost herdmate.
The following morning, Trixie stood next to the bed, clearing her throat louder and louder. The emotionally exhausted Princess Mark Wells continued to sleep, drooling on Steady Flight’s back.
“Bark Parallels!”
“What? What?” Mark looked around wildly until his eyes settled on her first wife. Steady Flight jolted once then rolled off the bed.
“Ah, are you awake now? Splendid. Hold out your right foreleg, please.” She held out a gold chain with one small rectangular charm attached. Mark saw that a similar chain and charm adorned Trixie’s foreleg. Squinting, he looked closely at the charm.
Mark gasped as he recognized where and when he had seen its like before. “This is the tradition from our first shared dream!”
“Precisely. Trixie’s subconscious mind is as great and brilliant as her waking one. As you observed then, this will ensure that our herdmate will always be with us.”
Silently, Mark held out a shaking foreleg and Trixie’s magic fastened it in place. Trixie pulled Mark into a hug. “As leadmare of our herd, it is my responsibility to ensure she is always remembered, no matter how many centuries we live.”
After they broke apart, Steady Flight shuffled on his hooves. “Trixie? I… I would like one as well.”
The blue mare lifted an eyebrow. “That was not part of our dream.”
Mark poked her flank with a hoof. “Come off that high horse, dear.”
“I should have anticipated each of our herd would want to partake in Trixie’s Great and Powerful genius. Very well. I shall have more created.”
The pegasus stallion nodded his head. “Cool. Until then, let me take a look at yours, Mark. What can you tell me about it?”
As Trixie turned to leave, Mark talked animatedly about how the symbol of the Canterlot Hive came about. Mark’s voice was filled with the vigor Trixie hadn’t heard for nearly a week. Smiling, she entered the hallway and closed the door to the herd’s chambers behind her.
On Sunday, a public commemoration for Queen Chrysalis was held in the castle gardens. The non-changeling portion of the attendees turned out to be far greater than anticipated and included several of the nobles. While most had clashed with her on occasion, many nevertheless respected her. And, to be honest, it was good form to show up for the event. The turnout was a good indication of how much the perception of Chrysalis had turned around in the years that she had spent as a member of the Royal Herd.
Mark insisted that he was ready to resume his Court duties on Monday. This brought up a problem though. He needed a new advisor. Queen Diadem was quick to offer to replace her mother but her father shook his head.
“You still have a lot of work ahead of you with reorganizing the hive, and that’s on top of your mage studies. Your ambition to be one of the top magic users in Equestria should not be put on hold for this. I will find someone suitable; don’t you worry.”
“What about Sybilla?” Diadem suggested.
“Your sister will need to focus on learning hive matters. She’s now heir to the hive throne, after all. And before you suggest Esperanza, she’s too young and inexperienced for the job. However, I might ask Sybilla to head up the hive network to keep the flow of intelligence going, if you feel she’s up to it.”
“She is, Dad – she’s a bit like I was when I came looking to you for direction in life. Also, Sybilla often tagged along when Mom interrogated our agents and maintained her intelligence network. I think she would enjoy the job.”
That still left the role of Advisor open, so Celestia said she would take it up again until a suitable candidate was found. Mark was grateful but wished that Starlight Glimmer was available. He needed someone who was slightly adversarial to his opinions to keep him on the level, and Celestia was just too darn agreeable and diplomatic!
“The Equestrians have canceled further meetings between the changeling, Crisp Berry, and our researchers,” the agent informed his boss.
The Head of Operations slammed his fist on his desk. “Damn it! That cursed assassin has fucked up everything!”
As much as he hated to admit it, the research into the so-called ‘magic’ had been going well. The death of the changeling wife of the prince had changed everything. Security had been beefed up considerably all around, making their job much more difficult. And after the events of that day, it had become imperative that America learn as much as they could about their strange trading partners.
Reviewing the news footage of the events had been eye-opening. Witnessing people trying to maintain their balance after that small winged pony had slammed his hoof down was amazing. How much physical strength was needed to make a mini earthquake was incalculable. But when Prince Wells executed the assassin with a massive lightning bolt, it had left him gaping in stunned disbelief. That a living being could generate lightning at all was incredible, but the sheer magnitude of it was ridiculous! People and animals were killed by lightning all the time, but none of them were left as charred corpses as Fletcher had been. The execution had been massive overkill, but it had shown the world just how dangerously powerful these beings could be. More than ever, they had to find out what made these creatures tick, and how to counter them.
Tonight on Fox News in our series ‘Eyes On Equestria’, we take a hard look at these visitors from another world who claim to champion friendship among species, but callously kill a human without remorse. Have they inadvertently revealed the dark truth about themselves?
Smolder sighed. They were going to have to move up plans for Equestrian tourism to counter the negative press that they were getting from several quarters. Not that it would completely appease conspiracy theorists. And the added security was going to complicate efforts too. Now that one nutcase achieved their goal, others would start trying. Were they going to have to do thorough background checks on everyone who wanted to come to their world? They did that for all the Harmonic Composites employees who had been let into the secret of their link to another universe, but what was done for a mere few was not easily scaled up to hordes of visitors. Somehow, she did not think Princess Twilight would agree to that level of investigation to every new potential friend to the Equians.
Negotiations had been underway for a long time with several nations to place an interdimensional portal in their countries. While this obviously had a lot of advantages, Mark had been greatly reluctant to agree to that for the very reasons that he had decided on Outback Australia in the first place – security and control. The solitary known portal complex allowed access to Equestria only at a single point. Local international portals made it possible to ship quickly between countries. Unfortunately, the latter required mana to operate, and that was an extremely limited resource in that universe. The problem was only solved by linking the local portals to the interdimensional one to channel mana through it. On the surface, it was a good solution but several magic experts were concerned about the drain on Equestrian resources, even if just local to the Equus facility. Not enough time and studies had happened to determine if there were any risks, which made multiple interdimensional portals the safer bet in the short term. However, the assassination had changed everyone’s outlook. Security had become paramount and plans for new portal facilities were shelved for the indefinite future.
It did mean that lobbying for more international portals gained momentum. The need to draw mana from the Alice Springs portal meant that all the local connections would need to travel via there as a hub. The politicians in Canberra rubbed their hands in glee at the thought of all the income they would get from administrating international shipments, let alone the base fee for the use of the portals. Fortunately, Mark and his staff had made plans long ago with this in mind, and it was not long before work began on a huge new sprawling facility that had been designed for the efficient flow of trucks.
Then the coach industry caught on. While private vehicles were generally not permitted, a busload of tourists was an exception. Why spend most of a day flying around the world when you could be at your destination within an hour? The bus operators were practically salivating at the idea of being able to offer that service for a fraction of the price of the airlines. Of course, the latter were in an uproar. Smolder spent some time dealing with the blowback of this massive upheaval, pointing out that it would take years to set up the network, and it would only be serving major destinations. Plenty of time for the companies to pivot their services to the new paradigm.
“Your two o’clock appointment is here, Ma’am,” Smolder’s changeling assistant said over the intercom.
“Send them in, please, Ajax,” she replied. Smolder reviewed the appointment – representatives from some entity named EQCON desiring permission and facilitation of administration for guests from Equestria. Smolder blinked and raised an eye ridge. Whenever Ajax provided such sparse details, he knew that she would be intrigued immediately and ask for relevant information herself. This promised to be interesting.
Her office door opened and three people entered – one female and two males. Smolder got up from her chair and gave them her best closed-mouth smile – no need to intimidate them. She invited them to take a seat before sitting down herself. “Welcome to the Equestrian Embassy. I’m Ambassador Smolder. How may I help you?”
The woman spoke up. “My name is Florence Gatewell; you may call me Flo if you wish. These are Arthur Yee and Johanne Bauer. We are trying to organize a convention that celebrates Equestrian notables, its varied species, their art, and music. We want permission to use aspects of your world and to facilitate obtaining guest speakers and performers. There are a rapidly growing number of humans who are fascinated by your peoples and cultures and we want to bring that to them in a way that won’t step on your toes – or hooves or claws for that matter.”
Ajax had been right. This looked like an excellent opportunity to bring some much-needed positive publicity. Smolder leaned forward over her desk and smiled again, this time showing a tiny amount of fang. “You’ve got my attention – tell me more.”
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Well not as much of fan of fox nowadays they would at least discuss this fairly enough, fairer then other so call news groups.
'Clearner Wrasse' are a symbiotic aquatic species, a fish that is in symbiotic relationship with many fishes and predators. Ell, Sharks, countless fish species.
They clean teeth and wounds, devour parasites.
In return these species don't eats them.
Maybe it's time humanity gets them, to clean out the trash of humanity walking on two legs.
Careful Smolder, I am the last being to tell you your business, but this coming out of the seemingly nowhere has me concerned. Equally concerned about the unnamed agents who want to get their metaphorical claws in these "dangerous alien creatures".
On a more positive note I'm glad to see Mark beginning to heal and the positive turnout for the memorial service.
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Who would decide who is trash and who is not? Morales are subjective and cultural, and even amongst the same religion there will be differences of morals. So who decides what "trash" would mean?
This could be intresting. Smolder as a OP alpha predator verses a group that at worst could be a bunch of enKarened libertarian hippies, but at best could be lead by Lady Sybil or other Elizabeth Windsor class buisiness leader?
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Someone to use lethal force, when no threat to life or health is given.
Humanity stupidity against Equestrian reasoning and logic.
Changing the pace of something can change everything.
The difference between safe and unsafe for example.
Better safe than sorry, Mark Wells literally lost what was most precious to him.
Humans caused the mess, maybe they should try take responsibility and try fix it.
Sadly enough most problems could be solved with reasonable and well educated leadership.
Something corruption and greed don't usually allow to happen.
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Right, fair. That's a word that describes demonizing someone who killed a terrorist that had killed his loved one, after previously acting only to restrain what was an active and vocal threat to his loved ones..
For FoxNews to be questioning the immediate and justifiable homicide of an assassin who had just murdered one of the leaders of a nation on the grounds of their own embassy during full live coverage is odd. However, if Fox was to make that sort of comment, just imagine how apoplectic the other networks must be broadcasting by now:
Morning Joe on MSNBC would be screaming, "WHY is ANYONE still allowing this EMBASSY of vicious alien murderous thugs to remain on Earth!? What is WRONG with you people!? WE SHOULD NUKE IT FROM ORBIT RIGHT *censored* NOW!! IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE!!!"
Rachelle Maddow, also on MSNBC, would have chosen the most unflattering still-frame image she could possibly find of Prince Wells when the execution occurred hovering in the upper right corner of the broadcast while Maddow speaks knowingly of Wells' thoughts about doing the same to every man, woman, and child on Earth.....
Gale King, on CBS, "...it was wrong of the creatures to murder the alleged killer. Clearly the execution was excessive. Quite likely, the event was brought on by the man's alleged mental illness, but that NEVER justifies an extrajudicial murder of someone who hasn't been convicted of an alleged crime in a court of law...."
Guest speaker John Lemon, on CNN, would be railing how clearly homophobic the Equestrians must all be for Prince Wells to have been married to multiple females from their world....and how they're all probably are all abusive Mormons....
....and so on....
As an aside, I think Wells & Co. should at least notify their interdimensional colleagues of the events that happened on that version of Earth and the dimensional coordinates of that world, in case their AU friends might be venturing out with exploration teams of their own.
Could America really win in an anti-magical arms race? Maybe. But at what cost?
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Greg Gutfeld: lol chucklefuck dies
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which why i point out this wouldn\t actually be fox. makign that. sadly this is Goldfur listneing to propoganda.
I agree with Mark's actions in taking out Chrysalis' killer with an overkill bolt in full public view. I'm also very glad to see his recovery begin. Healing will be slow.
What I can hope for is that Mark's actions against Chrysalis' killer will cause future bad actors to pause and reflect on what actions they plan on taking. Not good if the two sides play from different rule books, yes? Let both sides play with the same rules.
Would say more, but my cat is trying to nose in...
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Cats... they are a adventure all on their own.
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I'm not suggesting that other "news" sources aren't worse. I am saying that the sources that I prefer verified facts and not opinions presented as news.
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and that is something fox generally tries unlike many. I would put Sky news above them.
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Eh, that's fair I think. But keep in mind this has been par for the course in the news in my country for awhile, albeit from a progressive and to our detriment I might add.
That said Fox is kind of a weird choice, who, if anything, would be sympathetic to Mark and more then likely supported his actions given their emphasis on adherence to law and order. Not saying that's right or wrong or makes them superior, just saying that's their M.O
Perhaps next time in American news:
One must wonder when the Equestrian will create more strict directives:
Perhaps humanity isn't ready for open aliens relationship yet, so dealing with just the sane under strict rules might be what they need.
Hey Goldfur, have humans and non-human exchange medical knowledge yet?
Healing magic can be insane to us, but like medical science can be to others.
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They'd probably gain more from veternarians
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I vaguely remember the episode from Enterprise, and I found Phlox's "problem" completely unrealistic.
So what if there was a developing second sapient species? BFD!
Does that justify electing to kill off the current inhabitants of the world on the hope that their potential replacements might, repeat MIGHT, have a form of government that Phlox approves of? What if, by giving the cure to save the current inhabitants, it might instead induce the current species to be more to his liking--and they might even change possible any hostile attitudes toward their unintelligent cousins as well?
Phlox's own example mentioned at ~2:00 about humanity vs Neanderthals, given how Trek history DOES have Earth as having been visited by many different aliens... who's to say that one or more such alien species DIDN'T give humans the advantage? There were Sargon's folks for one, Apollo's people for another. And a billion years before either of them, there was Johnny Applepeople going around, planting at least a dozen different species throughout the galaxy!
Archer agrees in principle that it's wrong to "play God". However, what he's forgetting it that just stopping by to help someone change a flat tire on the road is "playing God"--(who is this person? is it someone running from the cops? is it someone driving to kill someone down the road?)--but driving on by and not helping is equally "playing God"--(is it someone needing to get food for their family? is it someone trying to get away from an abusive spouse?).
The point is: this culture asked for help. It's NOT like the future Prime Directive would dictate: these people were already aware of life outside their world and were asking for help--and Archer chose to stop and do so. As a result, Phlox is obligated to help with finding and distributing the cure, regardless of whether he thought they all were Nazis, or something.
It is as the REAL Doctor said:
The big difference between Trek and this story is that the humans had no idea that the ponies exists. Despite Page originally having been from Earth, he should have worked more and longer behind the scenes to guide his former home into becoming a better place before publicly opening the door. It might have taken generations, but it would have been the correct course to set.
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I blame Goldfur and all other furries for this. Look what we've come to within this cursed land: bug boobs.
Goldfur dragging a unsuspecting me into his world:
Me now
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Ive always suspected that the Prime Directive was something that at one point started out reasonable (say an impedus against cargo cults and out right exploitation) that had morphed into the pseudo philosophical horrifically immoral clap trap it had become
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Yeah, but there's also the xenophobia angle to consider, as well as the incentive to sensationalize bad news for ratings.
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Im less worried about that then I would be about people who would exploit ponies good nature.
As for the news... again, its a one sided deal. Some family first conservative slinging one up the pool boy behind his mansions guest house shed? Ridiculed, shamed, held as a hypocrite (as he should I might add). Big Bubba mush mouthing about respectin da wammins as he's giving dictation to some intern with promises of connections and a glowing review? Crickets.
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Indeed, regrowing limbs is a Changeling invention by Twilight Sparkle refined.
Showing that technology of and than limiting its access due to humans assault on the royal family would have' a huge effect on future attackers side of the story'.
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Good points, some people say in my past hod acts through people, unfortunately only the idiots and sick justify their actions through that point of view.
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Buggy booby trap
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Every day we stray further from God and people wonder He hasn't phoned in since hoovering up junior
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Not to mention the "active shooter assassination" of a sovereign ruler that took place just seconds after the "active shooter attack" on another
countryworld's embassy had supposedly been ended.Since the attack itself had all the hallmarks of a multi-targeted coordinated al Qaida-type assault, while the response likewise had all the hallmarks of an experienced counter-insurgency strike like you'd see in Israel engaging in some home-invasion/self-defense action. I did find it odd that the mentioned news network would find any sort of objectionable material as to how Prince Wells handled it--it the sort of thing I'd expect to hear from those other networks.
Perhaps it's just due to it being an "alternate universe" after all. Probably this story's "FoxNews" is more like our world's "CNN".
After the space shuttle Challenger blew up, I remember NBC reporting on the event from the launch viewing area. The reporter was reading his teleprompter. “Some of those witnessing the launch and explosion called for the end of the Space Shuttle Program.” The reporter then paused with a look of surprise.
I think he realized that 1) not a single person there called for any such thing, 2) By God, the news execs made damn sure their channel would have the distinction of being the first to report this in the unlikely case that it came to pass.
I took the Fox News segment as news execs saying, “Let’s float this out there and see what the reaction is. Increased ratings? Lots of secondary reporting on the reporting thanks to the ‘controversy’?” At this point, Fox News is in the business of gathering eyeballs, not taking positions on intergalactic visitors.
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God, if thats their CNN, what would The Young Turks be like? Or would they have simply collapsed in the weight of their own stupid like a neutron star and created a singularity of awful like that universes Eye of Terror?
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Which was kind of my point that it was a weird choice. Going with this stories line of thought, Bill O'reilly should be on air in a mini skirt and poms poms shouting for Mark to grab it and twist
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Procreation is a fact of life. If it works, why fight it
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Men of culture learn at the feet of the master.
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A reader of class I see
several comments reminded me of a chapter of "the last centurion" by John Ringo.
the protagonist said that Sky News falsifies nearly all the news coming out of the middle east.
he distrusts it so much, he calls it "Skynet".
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that reminds me VERY strongly of a scene in "Quentyn Quinn Space Ranger" by RhJunior.
(unfortunately, his main site has been unavailable for nearly two weeks)
that story ALSO references "The Cold Equations".
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Aaaannnnddd... I just used the way back machine. And holy shit, your right
Well... fiddle sticks
I was always more of DS9 fan in any case
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oh, i just remembered a crazy old Doonesbury comic:
a reporter says, ON THE AIR, "it's amazing. i'm not paying the least bit of attention. i'll say ANYTHING that appears on the teleprompter. for all of us on ABC, i'm overpaid."
there was more, but i can't remember the rest.
It will be some time until we get:
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Apparently, he couldn't afford to pay the annual hosting fee anymore, and the hosting service took it down or blocked access to the datbase until/unless he renews.
Looks like Ralph's moved everything over here: https://globalcomix.com/a/rhjunior-productions/comics
(Be warned, though, globalcomix's UI is the very definition of "user-hostile". I don't know how you jump to specific strips, or if it's even possible to do so.)
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Just type in the page number at the end of the url
When do Japanese make contact with Equestrian?
They have a rich culture and it has parallel to dragons and Kirin among other races.
I can see them loving Equestrian, especially the anime and dating scene of the nation
What anime would Japan come up with?
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Time to pull out some equicment to prevent humans to even hope to get another strike in.
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Kill them with kindness or cuteness, but kill their sick ambition thoroughly.
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Wonder what Twilight will do, this psychopath could gone after anyone, they would destroy kind people for the entertainment alone. Going even after the most gentle of souls:
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Despite the fact that the terran governments have actively betrayed its people and acted in their own self-interests, lying to their people about who one can trust, feeding them bit by bit who to hate, they still think they represent their entire species?
They have left all for dead multiple times, only coming back to claim ownership when the danger is gone.
Yet these aliens give for once a true choice to change it all. That why the government would fear them.
Because their establishment of corruption holding its current groups in power would lose their standing.
Imagen Politicans are legally required to say the truth and only having the option not to lie by something like
"I cannot tell you honestly because of security conserns" etc etc.
After all:
- Lying, is when you know the truth and you don't tell it
- Being wrong, is not knowing it any better.
What did they breed?
Intolerance!
Fear!
Hate!
They betrayed his allies and championed tyranny be ut of a individual or a group of same minded!
They e divided people that should have been friends...
They are the same type of absolutist that created wars and conflicts and anarchy movement over the decades.
The greatest 'authority' is corrupt, anyone knows how they do it by this day and age with open loopholes in laws they bring through 'legitimate voted factions'.
Sign a peace treaty with them only because everyone is so damn used to betrayal?
Because they want time to find effective ways to start and go through a war.
It is easier to steal technology than trade for it.
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Mankind needs a real leader, one with vision, and a stomper rack!
Quad boob objectivist dom for Grand High Fuck All of Everything!
I certainly ain't gonna tell her no
What mysterious things can be found for human in the antic Crystal Empire? Or the modern Equestria?
I wonder how the Equestrian alphabet looks like, I personally imagen something alongside this in writing:
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Its probably a dual system with a similar thing to runes. Not merely an alphabet, but actual symbols representing concepts and people of import. Or possibly something like latin since they incorporate scrolls in their magic and would be long aware of the Literal Genie and dealing with fae and it would be best to do so with a closed language.
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Sounds reasonable and logical. Nice
Wonder if there is more than one magical language, there is a story in Fimfiction that uses at least 3 different languages working quite differently to one another, making it actually very plausible that seperating magic into different spelling and/or writing system help not mixing up things.
Further that they have the same result with different ways of working.
Example a teleportation spell, one magic way is to use ones own mana. The other would be to use enviromental mana with vastly different ways to get the same end result.
Reminds me of a few Harry Potter x MLP stories actually. Human wizards teleportation is faster, less restraining and have higher range I think with a chance of injury or death.
While Equestria version had safety in first second last last priority.
Better to not get there at all, if it costs you your life or limb.
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Fucks sake, never mind that. Imagine the plasticine nature of language itself. Yaks have, like, five different words for snow, where as zebra have none. Now lets look at human language, where words are switched out and adopted, like courage from the French, and ones like sisu, which has no direct translation but is a concept of resolve against seemingly insurmountable adversity.
Buts lets look at the concept of magic itself. Humans have long since held such things, at best, the realms of charlatans, and at worst, the work of foul forces in bidding for their soul. Now of course, that's not the case with ponies at all, which most Christians, I think, would note, has a natural, not supernatural, source. It is a tool, no different then fire or steel, and to associate it with anything beyond that, and all that entails, would be foolish.
That said, ponies should perhaps take pains to emphasize their disparity or tweak the nomenclature.