47. Plans for the next few days
Matthias wasn’t sure he heard that correctly.
“You want me to do what?”
“We want you to train ponies how to become paladins.” Celestia repeated, looking amused by his reaction.
Apparently, he heard correctly.
“Luna and I have been discussing this since changeling’s invasion.” Princess Celestia went on. “We realized that the Royal Guard, while highly capable of dealing with usual enemies of Equestria, can be outmatched by creatures that they were never prepared to face. You, on the other hoof...”
“Excuse me, Princess, but I have to interrupt you.” Matthias stopped her as he regained his composure. “Training others in the ways of the Holy Light isn’t like teaching somepony magic: it takes a real conviction; a pony needs to believe in the Light, follow its philosophy...”
“And that is exactly what we want you to teach ponies.” Luna interrupted him.
“But I never thought anyone! I was a paladin for just few years before...” Matthias trailed off, saddened by the memory. He sighed and went on: “I’m not a pony that can be trusted to teach others.”
“This is going to take longer than we assumed.” Celestia sighed and turned to Brann. “From what Twilight wrote to me in her letter, I understand that you are interested in history, correct?”
“Aye, Yer Highness, history and some other things.” the dwarf replied with a bow, curious as to what she was getting at with this sudden change in conversation.
“Seeing as my sister and I will need some time to convince Matthias to our idea, perhaps you would like to study Equestria’s history, and ‘some other things’? I can grant you access to Canterlot archives.”
Brann looked to Matthias as if he was a kid during Winter Veil, and Princess Celestia was Greatfather Winter.
“Ye’r generous, Yer Highness. I will take ye up on this offer.”
Celestia nodded and called to the guards who were on the other side of the doors.
“Yes, Your Highness?” one of them asked after he opened the doors to the throne room and glanced inside.
“Show our guest the way to Canterlot Archives.” Celestia told him, after which she glanced at Brann, her horn glowing. In front of the dwarf appeared a small scroll, with royal seal on it. “Give this to the Royal Archivist.”
“Thank ye, Yer Highness.” Brann replied with even lower bow and turned back to follow the guard. “Have fun!” he called over his shoulder, and Matthias wasn’t sure if he was talking to the princesses, or him.
“This most certainly won’t be fun for me.” he thought, confused by Brann’s departure.
Matthias would have expected the dwarf to be highly against the idea of him training others. The world of Azeroth still remembered the last ones he trained - or rather, instructed, but that’s beside the point - the death knights of Acherus’ order and its successor, the Host of Suffering. Neither of them were good examples of him teaching anyone. While Brann seemed to be more and more fine with him being alive, Matthias wouldn’t have thought that the dwarf would just sit by - or walked off - and let the princesses try to convince him without warning them first, at least.
As the doors closed again, Princess Celestia looked deep into Matthias’ eyes, as if trying to see his soul.
“Matthias,” she said, choosing her words carefully, “I will not try to pretend that I understand what you have and still are going through. Even if I knew everything about your past live, I still wouldn’t; my sister maybe, but not me. In her letter, Twilight mentioned Medivh’s warning, as well as her assurance that she believes in you, even if you don’t.” a warm smile briefly crossed Celestia features, but it quickly disappeared as she asked her next question: “Tell me, and answer me - and yourself - honestly: if your worst nightmare ever repeats, what would have happen to Equestria?”
“Well...” he stumbled, trying to turn his gaze away, not wanting to... no, being afraid of answering this question, of admitting what he knew when Brann asked him similar question. Ever since Medivh gave him this warning, deep down, he knew what fate would befall Equestria if such thing were to happen.
But Celestia wouldn’t let him get away.
“Would me and Luna, or the Elements of Harmony, would be able to stop you?”
Matthias gathered his strength, and answered, forcing back tears. He would not cry; tears would not avert this dark fate.
“No.” he answered quietly. “If I become what I was before I died, nothing will be able to stop me. Not you or anypony. Your royal guards and Wonderbolts would be a laugh.”
There was no surprise, or dread in Princess Celestia eyes; only sadness.
“And the Elements?”
He pondered on that thought. The Elements of Harmony were strong enough to heal Princess Luna of Nightmare Moon’s taint then maybe...
“They need Twilight and the rest to work.” Matthias said finally. “If they would be strong enough to not be broken after my... transition, then they probably could defeat me.”
“Then there is still some hope, even if you fail. Those girls are stronger than you give them credit for.” Celestia responded, but he noticed a hint of worry in her voice.
Matthias hoped she was right.
“However,” the Princess went on, “at the present, you are, without a doubt, one of most virtuous being I’ve ever met. If you were to train others now, nothing bad could possibly become of this. Let me finish.” she said calmly, raising a hoof to stop Matthias protest. “From what I saw and have read in Twilight letters, The Light grants you power to heal others, defend them, and even bring them back to life, if propher circumstances are met. Is this correct?”
He nodded, wondering what she was getting at now.
“If you ever become evil - which privately, we both doubt, but as the rulers of Equestria we have to take certain measures for the sake of our subjects - then even if Twilight and your other friends would defeat or healed you with the Elements of Harmony, ponies would get hurt. Wouldn’t it be best if there were other paladins, who could minimize the damage you would cause?”
Matthias shifted uncomfortably, pondering the matter now that he understood her intention. Knowing the burdens of leadership from observing his father for long years, he knew that in her place, he would have done the same.
“I can see your point.” he finally nodded, although still a bit reluctant.
“So will you do it?” Princess Luna, who until now let her sister speak, asked.
“Or more importantly, is it possible for ponies to become paladins?” Celestia asked, raising a good point.
Matthias wondered for a moment, thinking back to what he knew about the Light.
“I believe it is possible.” he said thoughtfully. “I think... if we would perform the ceremony...” seeing puzzled expressions on both princesses, he explained. “Humans aren’t born with connection to the Light. For one to become connected like this, it would take special ceremony, during which the heart of that one would be opened to the Light. There are, of course, some exceptions, but this is the most common manner for paladins and priests to receive their powers. The ceremony also signifies the commitment of the new paladins, their introduction to the order and promise to uphold everything that is good and right and fight what’s evil and wicked.”
The two princesses nodded.
“Would you be able to perform such ceremony?” Luna asked.
“I... think so.” he answered, uncertain, as he recalled his introduction to the Order of the Silver Hand. Shaking his head, he recalled one important thing. “Your Highnesses, there is one problem: paladins not only protect the innocent, but also vanquish evil. I do believe that this is something you would...”
“You healed Changeling’s Queen’s horn.” Celestia interrupted him, clearly prepared for this. ”Despite all she did, you haven’t thought of her as ‘evil’. Now tell me, what kind of creature to you would be considered evil?”
Taken aback, Matthias wondered what he should answer.
“Princess, remember what I told you about the Old Gods?” he finally said. “That’s what I would call evil, for example.”
“If an Old God ever shows up in Equestria, then please by all means, ignore the law and kill it.” Celestia replied, and despite that her voice was light, the tone of her voice told him she was serious.
“Okay then...” he said, a bit shaken by the fact that he heard a pony say ‘kill it’. Thinking this all over for the last time, he finally could only say one thing. ”Very well then, I agree.”
To his surprise, both Princesses bowed their head to him.
“You honor us by agreeing to teach our subjects in the ways of the Light.” they both said.
“The honor is all mine.” Matthias replied, feeling uncomfortable.
“Now that you agreed,” Princess Luna spoke, levitating a table and three chairs for them, “we will have to discuss this from... technical side. What would be needed to start a paladin order?”
“Somepony more worthy...” Matthias thought darkly as he sat at the place offered to him, while the princesses took their places.
“Well, for starters, we would need a Cathedral.” he said, recalling everything he knew about not only about the Order of the Silver Hand, but about all paladin orders he ever heard off, and choosing the most appropriate options. “It would be a place of prayer, and where would the introduction to the order took place, making a pony a paladin and granting him his or her powers. It would also have to be a headquarters of sorts, so it would have to be able to hold a respectful number of ponies, with a training space nearby...”
“You would want it to resemble the cathedrals back on Azeroth, I presume?” Celestia asked, conjuring a small bell.
“Yes and no.” Matthias answered as he watched a brown maidservant walk in by the side doors.
“Yes, Your Highness?” she asked Celestia and Matthias realized he met her before.
“That’s that maid that Blueblood was bothering… Pixie!” he recalled and smiled to her, and Pixie bowed her head slightly in greeting.
“Bring three cups of tea, and some biscuits, please.”
“At once, Your Highness. Is there anything else?”
“No thank you Pixie that would be enough.” Celestia replied, and turned to Matthias as the maid trotted back toward the doors she used to enter. “Would you care to explain?”
“I would like it to be based on the Cathedral where I was introduced to the Order of the Silver Hand, but all together, I feel that if should be more... pony-like.” he replied. “I’m not an architect mind you, but I’m sure with Brann’s help and some of yours architects, we should manage to think of something.”
“Excellent.”
They all paused for a brief moment as Pixie came back, levitating a trace with three cups, a pot of tea, some sugar, and biscuits on it. She quickly poured the tea, added as much sugar as everypony wanted, and trotted away.
“You would like the Cathedral to be built in Ponyville.” Celestia not asked but stated.
Matthias blinked in surprise. He didn’t think he was this predictable.
“Yes, for several reason.” he quickly took a hold of himself. “The most important being that I believe that such serene place would prove much easier for new paladins to learn how to channel the power of Light.”
Celestia nodded approvingly.
“I would have suggested Ponyville as well.” she simply said, taking a sip of tea.
“There is also a matter of who you would teach, and how many of them.” Princess Luna took over the conversation. “My sister and I think it would be best that at the beginning, you would teach only three ponies.”
“An earth pony, a pegasus, and an unicorn?” Matthias smirked knowingly.
“That’s right.” Luna nodded.
“I think I know of a pegasus and an earth pony within the royal guard that would qualify to become paladins.” Princess Celestia said thoughtfully. “We will still need to find a unicorn. And of course, I will give you their records to look into. They will include their psychological profiles.”
Matthias tried not to show that he was surprised that they had something like this. It seemed a bit excessive. Then again, since they were guarding the princesses of Equestria...
“On the side note,” Princess Celestia suddenly changed subject. “I think it would take several days to plan everything. Would you like me to notify Twilight that your stay will be prolonged?”
“Yes, Princess, thank you.” he answered, completely forgetting about that.
As Celestia quickly wrote the letter, he pushed the thought away. He had more important things at the moment.
“Since we’re speaking about technical side of the matter...” Matthias told Luna. “... Why don’t we discuss the future paladins’ armor?”
Twilight sighed when they finally reached her library. She was tired from leading the royal guards to that dreadful place along with Shining Armor, and then trotting back. Twilight was grateful that at least they didn’t have to go inside or even anywhere near the entrance.
She wondered when Matt would be back. Being smart as she was, she calculated that by now he and Brann had already reached Canterlot, or even the castle, so now it was a question of how long Princess Celestia would keep them.
“Well, that was tiresome.” Shining Armor murmured.
His sister nodded in agreement as they entered her home, and were welcomed by everypony except Fluttershy and Rainbow. Twilight guessed that both pegasi were busy with their respective jobs.
“Hi everypony.” she greeted them. “What you’ve been up to?”
For a moment, Twilight could have sworn that Cadence, Rarity and Applejack have all smirked, but as she blinked, they all had normal expressions on their faces.
“Huh.” she thought, but before she could ponder on that, Pinkie Pie began to bounce around, automatically gaining her attention.
“Oh, I’ve been putting together a super-duper fun party! We will just have to wait for when Mattie and Brannie return from Canterlot, and we can get this thing going!”
Twilight rolled her eyes.
“Pinkie, it will take some time for them to get back here.” she told her pink friend.
“I know, but they will be back soon. Nopony breaks Pinkie Promise.”
At that moment, Spike burst out a green flame and a letter materialized. Twilight grabbed it and read it aloud:
Dear Twilight,
I’m writing to you to inform you and your friends that Matthias and Brann will be staying in Canterlot for few more days. It is nothing to worry about - we simply had a lot to discuss, and Luna and I were hoping to hear their opinions in regards of ‘Project Eclipse’. I hope this isn’t going to cause any problems for anypony.
Your mentor,
Princess Celestia
“Oh, that’s just great.” she thought, annoyed (with Matt, not the Princess). “How a pony is going to have a serious talk around here?”
But her reaction wasn’t as nearly bad as Pinkie’s. Twilight glanced at her friend as was startled to see her normally ridiculously happy friend burst into anger.
“Nopony breaks Pinkie Promise!”
“I almost forgot to ask:” Princess Celestia said after she sent the letter: “Do you know why that titan artifact that Brann found let him come to Equestria?”
Luna took the opportunity to take a sip of tea. She couldn’t understand why Matthias was so insistent on paladins having almost completely different armors, but she decided that not to argue too much on this matter. After all, he was the one with experience here.
“Well, Brann and I discussed it on our way here.” Matthias replied to her sister’s question, rolling his eyes. “He thought that this must be one of the first worlds that titans shaped, and that it was their masterpiece.”
“You disagree with that theory?” Luna asked, raising an eyebrow over her cup.
“While I would gladly agree that your world is a paradise compared to Azeroth, I find it hard to believe that it was shaped by titans. It doesn’t have any guardians like the ones on Azeroth; the dragons are, besides Spike, a greedy ruffians. And, as I told him repeatedly, the earth ponies aren’t made of earth, and Diamond Dogs aren’t made of diamonds, and there wasn’t any trace of the Old Gods earlier that a thousand years ago, so it can’t be ‘the Curse of Flesh’. Of course, that only convinced him that this must be a very old world, so all titans creations lost their original stone or metallic forms in the process of natural evolution.” he paused to roll his eyes again. “Now that you mentioned those ‘crystal ponies’, Brann’s going to be convinced that they were made of crystals, and that they are the missing piece of this evolution or something.”
Luna eyes went wide. “This actually made sense kind of, surprisingly.” She was about to voice her thoughts, when she noticed her sister shake her head slightly. Luna quickly understood what Celestia meant. Considering how little they knew about Crystal Empire and crystal ponies - thanks mostly to a certain insane draconequus, who changed most of the books and scrolls in the Archives into origami swans - it would be pointless to try to find if that was true or not.
“Hmm...” Celestia hummed. “It would seem, however, that our worlds are at least connected. If that is the case... I might know how it came to that that you were brought back to life here.”
Luna watched amused as it was Matthias turn to have his eyes go wide. She already knew what her sister was getting at, having discussed it few times.
“Near the border of Equestria, there is a gate called the Gate of Tartarus.” Celestia explained, not waiting for the earth pony to recover. “Nopony is certain what exactly sure to what is on the other side, but most ponies believe that Tartarus is a separate space, a sub-dimension if you will, that contains all manner of imprisoned evil creatures within. Some time before you arrived, the guardian of the gate, a huge three headed-dog called Cerberus took off from his post, for some reason, for almost a day.”
“So you think that my soul escaped from there.” Matthias said, trying to better grasp the idea.
“I think more appropriate would be to say that somepony grabbed your soul from there and then brought you back to life.” Celestia corrected him. “Although, why still remains a mystery. I could guess however, why it could be your soul that was grabbed from there. ”
“Why?”
“This is not all of your soul in front of me, isn’t it?” her sister asked, gazing closely at him. ”Part of you is within that Bolvar’s head, along with Ner’zhul’s, right?” when Matthias nodded, she continued: “It could be that taking out just a part of one soul would be easier than a whole soul, although it’s just a theory.”
Luna observed Matthias closely, curious to his reaction. For a moment, he was lost in thoughts, but he surprisingly quickly recovered.
“Even if it just the theory, it would be still the most likely possibility.” he said, shaking his head. “However, it doesn’t really matter right now. Let’s get back to discussing this new order.”
The Princess of the Night couldn’t help but admire decisiveness on the matter. If it would be her, she would be more curious as to who brought her back to life. Then again, she never died, so she couldn’t put herself in his horseshoes.
Luna shook her head and returned to the discussion.
Matthias sighed as he trotted after the guard, following him towards the Canterlot Archives. He felt tired from all the planning together with Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, and his day was far from over. He still had to visit the forge were blacksmiths prepared the armors for The Royal Guard, so that he could explain to them personally what he expected.
“This is actually kind of exciting.” he mused.
He wasn’t exactly thrilled with the thought of him creating a whole new paladin order, but that would gave him finally something to do besides hanging out with his friends. While he loved to do that, those past three months, save for few incidents, were extremely boring to him.
“It would be a nice change of pace.” he summed up as he entered the Archives, dismissing the guard and searching for Brann.
He quickly found him, surrounded by various books. Most of them were history-related, but from what Matthias saw, few were about biology, flora, fauna, and such, and some were magic books.
“So, how’did it go?” Brann asked him when he noticed him approaching.
“”I agreed.” Matthias sighed. “In about a month or so, it will be official.”
“An order of paladins made out of ponies, led by ye.” the dwarf shook his head and Matthias couldn’t tell if he was more amused, surprised, or annoyed. “What’s next? A Burnin Legion ‘runnin’ an orphanage?”
“I am deeply thankful for your constant support.” Matthias muttered.
“What the name of this new order, Order of the Silver Hoof?”
“The name hasn’t been decided yet. And that name sounds just dumb.” the earth pony glared at him, but soon gave up, knowing that the dwarf was joking. “In other news, I will be staying here for few days...”
“... and so will I.” Brann said, pointing on all the books.
“... and Princess Celestia had a theory as to how was I brought here to be revived.” Matthias finished, earning the dwarfs interest.
He was surprised at this piece of news the Princess gave him. It did sound logical, and her brief description of Tartarus matched what he remembered from his time of being dead. But who would have taken his soul out of there? The only suspect that came to his mind was Medivh, but that seemed unlikely... or maybe not.
Matthias shook his head and was about to tell Brann what he learned, but suddenly, the doors to the Archives bursted open, and before he could react, something incredibly fast and Pink run into him and pinned him to the nearby wall.
“Matthias!” a face which, as he realized with a jolt, belonged to Pinkie Pie appeared in front of him and screamed at him. ”You Pinkie Promised!”
Both Matthias and Brann were startled by the change in the ever-happy pony. She was now a big mass of rage, and Matt could swear he saw a fire in her eyes. He cursed at himself for forgetting about the Pinkie Promise earlier, although, he didn’t knew that her reaction could be so drastic.
“I can’t believe you, of all ponies, would dare to break a Pinkie Promise!” the pink pony went on. “Apologize!”
Matthias, thinking fast, said:
“But Pinkie, I didn’t break Pinkie Promise.”
Pinkie Pie draw back a bit from him, confused.
“Huh?”
“If you would be kind to recall,” Matthias explained, moving away a bit to put some more distance between them in case she wouldn’t bought his explanation, “I promised that me and Brann would be back in time for the party, but I didn’t say which party.”
As Pinkie thought on what he said, he quickly went through the protection prayer in his head, but the pink pony proved faster than him. However, instead of hurting him, she hugged him extremely tight.
“Well this does kind of still hurts.”
“This is sooo great!” Pinkie Pie screamed, excited. “Now I can throw two parties!!!” she stopped hugging him, and instead jumped around him few times, while yelling: “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” for some time, until she hugged him one last time…
…and kissed.
Matthias was too surprised by that to react to the strange taste of her tongue before the pink pony broke the kiss and practically flew through the exit, calling behind her:
“See you in Ponyville!”
The earth pony and the dwarf stared for a long at the doors she disappeared behind, trying to comprehend what the hell just happen.
“Did that really just happen?” Brann finally asked.
Matthias wondered for a moment before he answered.
“I... guess?” glancing at him, he added: “You know, this shouldn’t probably be the first question I ask, but... why did her mouth tasted exactly like a cotton-candy?”
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Hmm, I didn't think that many people were to dislike the idea of Arthas training ponies to become Paladins & Priests. As for the name of the order...I have no clue, it should have some horse puns like "Order of The Silver Hoof", because really why not?
Grand Paladin maybe, Order of the Silver Shields, meh, I'm not really good with the names but i like where this is going, keep it up!
oh btw MOAR.
Hmmm the story is proceeding pretty well as far as im concerned and as for the name ether The order of Harmony or Harmonial Light.....
pony paladins and priests hehe. Got to love alliterations.
I actually like the name order of the silver hoof... although that might be a 'sub-order' of earth ponies, with different names for pegasi (something with wings) and unicorns (something with horns).
I love it!!!
Maybe Palidin General?
Knights of Gold?
Those that don't agree with Arthas training ponies to be paladin...just ignore them, as for a name how about something about Celestia and Luna, aka, sun and moon...or would that be to druid? and that idea would also be better if there were to orders, hmm...I'm blank. (for now at least) looking forward to the next.
Well looks like Twilight isn't going to have that talk anytime soon.
For the rank I really cant think of anything other than Grand Master.
The order should be called Riders of Light
I think the idea of Arthas training new paladins sounds great, although wouldnt it be awesome if one of the Naaru, drops by and assist, since they basicly are a source for the Light? (I think M'ori or K'uri are available). Then again they would probably recruit the ponies into the "Army of the Light" against The Burning Legion. (Why i think the Naaru would be great is because they are immortal, can fly, have a magical technology surpassing all things and they can travel between dimensions).
As for the rank, what about him honoring Uther and make "The Lightbringer" the official master rank?
Also: The Order of the Radiant Shield/Sword/Horn/Virtue?
At the beginning of this, this was the best story I had ever read on this site aside from Anthropology. And then.... Once the wedding happened, it went downhill. And now Warriors? This place is Crossover Central. And then training paladins? The Light was what made Arthas different from the other ponies around him. I just can't read this anymore.
I tinker order of the radiant child sounds like a great name. And the whole "cotton candy"kiss from pine was just hilarious. I sure didn't see THAT coming.
*radiant shield
i think that if you want paladins and priests you start at the meta level with a name like "Order of the Light", then you brake it down between paladins and priests, assign one of the princesses as a patron of either the priests or the paladins, from their assignment of the three primary attributes of the princesses as an order name, like the "Order of the Endless Dream". this will give you six unique orders that have unique requirements and characteristics within battle.
this is just my thoughts of course
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eh, he never found it. I think he gave up trying to find it after three days or so.
Order of the Valiant Heart
Order of the Sun and Moon
Blades of Retribution (Retriblades!)
Ohh god this is just like coming up with names for WOW Guilds again.
Also totally calling that Pixie is the unicorn candidate.
Maybe "The silver hands' Mareitage (heritage)"? sounds kinda strange, but hey why not
arthas had cotton candy before?
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He was in Equestria for three months, and is friends with Pinkie Pie.
The Celestial Dawn, maybe?
Oh and Arthas' title should so be 'Lightbringer' or 'Dawnbringer' at least the first paladin he trains should be called that, like Uther. If the latter, then Arthas should be titled 'Highlord' or something along those lines
Order of the Frost-Bound Rose
Order of the Sacred Sky
Those are my ideas. Plus I think that you are absolutely doing a wonderful job with this story.
The order I think should be called Lunerstrial Dawn combination of both Lunar and celestial. Or Celestial crusaders. Maybe order of light for simplicity. Lets see what else do I got.
Silver crusaders, The Lightbound, Equestrian Pally's, Order of Harmony. Ooooo now I think it should be called order of Harmony and they could make the Paladin's try and be friends with enemies and settle thing peacefully like Jedi. And if they cant just show them the power of light. Who here agrees on a title with Harmony in it and have them like Be friends with people and settle disputes and stuff.
Order of the Sun Light for the Paladins, the title of their chief is Lightbringer
For the priest I don't really know, something about the Moon, maybe the Lunar Church, the title of their chief is Nightbringer.
And Arthas is the High General.
Order of the Silver Steed, maybe?
hmm the silver dawn?
The knights of the order of the protectors of Equestria?
Nah, just kiddin, but I got nothing.
For the name of the new order, I would think something that reminds its followers that they are still devoted to the Princesses as much as they will be devoted to the Light. And being that the most common thing to be referenced as a source of light is the sun (no offense to Luna (best princess btw)), it just makes sense (at least to me) that 'celestial,' 'sun,' or some way of say 'a new beginning' is in the title somewhere. In this way, it won't seem like Matthias is trying to take over Equestria by raising an army of Light wielding Paladins.
Examples:
Order of the Celestial Dawn
Order of the Golden Sun
Solar Knights
(Note: the word 'order' can be replaced with 'ponies' or 'steeds')
As for a title for Matthias, what has been suggested before my post work well. 'Grand Master' would have to be my choice for such a matter. It just fits so easily for a more nicer sounding, 'at the top' kind of position while still displaying that you are the boss and that no one should mess around with you. If it becomes a tad over used, then just add on some more description, 'Grand Master of the [Insert Name of Order Here].' It may be unimaginative in your opinion, but you can't argue with simplicity.
The order of the celestial light, and maybe dawnbringer?
hmm, well, in "Reign of Chaos", Uther was his mentor, as well their leader. so maybe Arthas could be "Lord Arthas"?
as for the name of the order, how about: The Royal Order of the Light Guardians
just a thought, though.
like the story and chapter. keep it up, hope to see more soon
10h ago I taught "hmm this looks interesting I will just read a few chapters before I go to sleep " now I an done reading and didn't notice
I forgot to go to sleep. Great story.
For the name of the new Paladin order I do not have any good advice, you could try and look in the warcraft lore and see if you can ponify
a existing name?
Ppl are mentioning priests did it slip my notice that Arthas knows how to train priest? I got the impression that hes creating a for now
Paladin only Order.
Arthas is a bit to good for my opinion but that can be explained with the fast that he has only part of his sole atm.
As for Arthas accepted training pony's, they have a working one person portal (if it can be re adjusted to someone other then B.B. ) cant a paladin
just come over and start the training or even better Prophet Velen (since he is not doing anything useful on Azeroth) or get a message to a Naaru?
And since I am still awake lets go for Project Eclipse
No
So Matt used Loophole Abuse to avoid Pinkie's wrath? Magnificent Bastard...
I like him being special and only him being able to use the light.... I think this story may have me saddened by: grammar and spelling, some stupid stuff (small things though) that the characters of mlp prolly wouldn't do, changing stuff to fast, and to many secrets. Despite how much there is and how good it is, it could be soooo much better and it urks me that its not
sorry but I feel sorta obliged to type to the maker of this storey and tell him how I feel, and you don't just have somebody join a religion (that's sorta what the beleafe in the light is!). They have to be open to it and had a yada yada I could not pick on every detail of every aspect of the story
. good story but could have been WAY better.... Sorry just my thoughts
Since the changeling's invasion.
Taught.
For just a few years.
With the royal seal.
Replied with an even lower bow.
Life.
Your royal guards and the Wonderbolts would be a laughing stock.
Proper.
It would take a special ceremony.
You healed the Changeling Queen's horn.
Discuss this from... the technical side.
That such a serene place.
Then again, since they are the guarding princesses of Equestria.
A.
Speaking about the technical side.
Nopony breaks a Pinkie Promise.
For a few more days.
Nopony breaks a Pinkie Promise.
Dragons are, besides Spike, greedy ruffians.
Than.
The Curse of the Flesh.
Thought.
Even if it is just a theory.
Couldn't help but admire the decisiveness.
Save for a few incidents.
for a few days.
I didn’t break a Pinkie Promise.
Which party ..... That was a very good answer against pinkie
What happened in episode three I have forgotten
I would've liked to see Arthas bitch-slap Trixie
Order of Twilight might have been a good name, since it honors both Celestia and Luna at the same time, but it carries unfortunate implications from Arthas' perspective and there's a certain lavender unicorn that wouldn't let him hear the end of it if they ended up calling it that
1901678 Ugh, no. Just no. My reason being because that would just glorify Celestia and leave Luna in the shadows of her sister, something that isn't in any way related to either princess would be better.
Light darkness? On account that they follow light, but as they know, will never be truly worthy of the Lights love?
Only because those "enemies" are things like manticores and timberwolves. They don't come looking for revenge and they don't plot and plan or even come back at all once defeated. You can just beat them up and it's over. Against a sapient species, your guard proved to be worse than useless. According to you, Celestia, they are well trained. Now, they need the will to kill.
Probably because the sheer scale of what you did and became finally became apparent.
Yeah, it probably would be the same as how they influenced Luna in the first episode.
Silly pony, she never did anything 'evil'. She only did what was necessary for her people. A mugger who was committing crime out of greed would be evil compared to her.
Well, what about the Twilight Hammer? Would you allow them or bad warlocks to be killed? If 'no' then figure out how to access the Light on your own. Also, from what I recall, warcraft paladins follow the laws their order and ignore the laws of the land (though, they have a legal right to ignore said laws). Though, their laws and the kingdoms' laws tend to be nearly the same (barring things like taxation and the like, obviously).
Anyway, I wonder if the paladin order will mean there will be priests (of both light and shadow).
Yeah, the burning legion running an orphanage would be a terrible idea. The succubi would be a bad influence on the kiddies.
Ooh, imagine if the Burning Legion invaded Equestria. That would totally be something worth reading about.
6803124 dear god you predicted the pre laubch event for legion
beings.
Also, nothing good has ever come from saying that nothing bad could come from it.
the dragons are, besides Spike, greedy ruffians. As I have told him repeatedly,
and there wasn’t any trace of the Old Gods earlier than a thousand years ago
so all of the Titan's creations lost their original stone or metallic forms
evolution,”
Now...... I know this is rather late, but I just feel like I have to give my $.02 on this matter. First when it comes to Matt's past I just feel like his dwarf friend has forgiven him to quickly, hell it would've been cool if he forgave him as long as he told someone what Matt did..... Hell I'd also say that he should have fought against the princesses decision of asking Matt to form a paladins order. In fact this is my..... Second problem..... Matt has admitted that he's been evil, and has done horible things. But he hasn't said exactly what he's done, or given them a scale of how bad it was. Yet he's surprised that Celestia (who only thinks he went through something similar to Luna) would ask him to form a paladins order. Now don't get me wrong he should set up a paladins order. However I just feel like this should've been something he set out to due after coming to terms with himself, or his friends or the princesses finding out what he actually did. I mean think about it if Sombra was reformed do you think they would just make him caption of the guard? No they wouldn't in fact they'd most likely have ponies watching him 24/7, and that's just for Sombra! Who's evil deed is mere child's play in comparison to what Matt has done, and is capable of doing. Now if Matt forgave himself or was at least comfortable with telling the princesses what he did, and telling them how big of a threat he actually TRULY is. Then after a few chapters maybe a couple of epic battle, HE asked the princesses if he could make an order of light (the key word here is he asked to make the order). I'd be cool with it cause as I said he would need to form an order to show that he's over his past evil deeds, or at least he's actually walking down the path of reformation. But the way you did it.... One makes the princesses dumb for not demanding that he tell them what he's done or is so afraid of doing... Especially since he's living with Celestia's most prize pupil, you would think that she'd at least be concerned. BUT NOOOO she asked him if the elements could stop him! WHICH IS JUST DUMB! BECAUSE IF HE REVERTS BACK TO EVIL HE'D JUST KILL THE ELEMENTS! I MEAN FUCK, HE KILLED HIS OWN FIANCE CAUSE SHE DIDN'T AGREE WITH HIS PLANS. WHY WOULD TWILIGHT BEING HIS GIRLFRIEND or LOVE INTEREST STOP HIM! I mean come on if you've ever truly done a malicious deed that you regret. You would know that just seeing yourself as a monster isn't enough. You'd want everyone you know and love to see you as a monster, so they could be prepared for the worst case scenario (hell if you didn't do this you would at least push and shut people out). Egh I mean yeah he's afraid of being in power. Because he's worried about being corrupt (which he should be), yet he excepted because he understands where Celestia was coming from? Are you fucking with me?! Hell if he excepted, and was worried about it for a few chapters I'd be cool (but he literally excepts it in the same chapter saying it's good that he has a distraction, because hanging with the girls can be boring). If he took a few chapters to be ok with forming a paladins order. It would still show his struggle with coming to terms not with what he did but with being in a seat of power (at least, I mean hell he won't even admit he was a king). As far as I've scene.... At least to me it doesn't seem like he regrets what he did, just that he's ashamed of it. And that takes a lot of suspens away from the story at least for me. Other then that it was a decent chapter. It just feels like this part of the story was rushed,or just that the author didn't know where he wanted to take it. However I was told by a friend that this story had a shaky start, so I should've seen this coming. But if what she said is true it should slowly get better. So this was a decent chapter to me at least. Even though this isn't the beginning but is in fact closer to the middle.
I do NOT recommend Gold. Gold is the most melleable of the metals, if I hit a Gold Shield with a sledgehammer, the shield would crumple.
Furthermore, I'd suggest an Alloy. Platinum for plating, Bronze for chainmail.
i think im jealous
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if her mouth tastes like cotton-candy.... i wonder..... what does her pussy taste like?
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She's a 'Pie'...take a guess.