A History of Equestria, Before the Rule of the Royal Sisters
A History Book,
Written by the Educational Foundation in the Crystal Empire (EFCE)
If found, please return to the Crystal Empire Library
Chapter I: The First
The first official document regarding Equestrian history, dated back possibly 3000 or more years before the rising of Nightmare Moon. It is believed to be written by a pony by the name of Amus, the ambassador of the Crystal Empire at that time, but that is uncertain. It is a brief description of the human uprising. The original title was possibly “Duo crus bellum” or “Two Leg War” but it is possible that title was added to it by a translator and not the original author. Another possible title was “Poena dearum” which is “Punishment of the Goddesses”. It is also believed that the author did not write the passage as something to be read to others, it seems as if it is in a format for repetition, as in, one reader would read a passage and masses would repeat it, this was a common way to spread knowledge in earlier times, given that not all species could read or write.
A time ago there was a land. A beautiful land that had great plains and monstrous mountains. There were majestic lakes and beautiful islands, and empires made of crystal.
Within this land lived many species, such as manticores and griffons and bison and sheep. These creatures of this land communicated and lived in harmony with each other.
This land’s celestial bodies were controlled by two goddesses. The goddess of the day, and the goddess of the night.
All of the beings of this land worshiped the goddesses and lived in peace.
Despite the love and kindness throughout the land, there was one area that had hatred growing in its heart.
On one of the larger islands lived the race of the humans. They were greedy, and wanted nothing more than to be the rulers of all the land.
They stopped worshiping the goddesses and formed an army.
They welcomed all to join their army, and many did.
All races had at least 34% of their population fighting on the side of the humans.
The major contributors were the dragons and the gryphons, with more than 80% of their population supporting the humans.
But there was one race that had no contributors to the humans.
Ponies.
The ponies of the land opposed the humans’ views completely.
Once they had caught wind of the upcoming conquest, the three pony races joined together to fight against the humans.
Unicorns practiced battle spells, pegasi rehearsed airborne attacks, and the earth ponies began building fortresses.
When the human army met with the land that was inhabited by the ponies, they were greatly surprised.
Most other regions either forfeited or didn’t have any formal form of attack planned.
The ponies, on the other hoof, were prepared to defend their land.
The battle caused great losses on each side.
After three days of battle, there was a miracle.
The goddesses of night and day descended onto the land.
They took on a form of equine decent, bearing both wings, and unicorn horns, respectively.
The goddess of the day’s coat was a beautiful pure white, and her mane a flowing pink, like a sunset.
The goddess of the night had a coat of regal black, and her mane was in the likeness of the nighttime sky. With twinkling specks like stars and the soothing blue aurora that surrounded the strands of her mane.
They were the example of utter beauty.
All beings alike stared upon them, basking in the glow of their eternity.
Then the ponies began to bow, one by one, kneeling to the ground, showing their respect to their goddesses.
In a matter of moments, the entire army of ponies had kneeled to the goddesses, and the human army stood with their mouths agape.
The sun goddess looked around at the two crowds gathered.
One loyal.
One hateful.
She walked over to the crowd of the human army.
She stared at them with a cold, emotionless stare.
Some of the soldiers began to shift in their place, uncomfortable with the fact that a goddess was staring at them.
And then, the goddess spoke.
“Thou, the race of the humans, have brought great despair upon our beautiful land.”
Her voice was as loud as a thousand trumpets, and it had the strength of a thousand bison.
“For bringing such pain and disharmony upon our land, you will be punished.”
The human army became uneasy at this statement, not in any way comfortable with the idea of “punishment from a goddess”
Then, the goddess of the night spoke.
“You are to be banished from this land, for the eternity of your race. Your children, and their children, and their children and so on, shall not be returned by the works of us. You shall be sent across the stars, to a world far away from here, so our land shall not be tainted by you and your lust.”
The goddesses touched their horns together and charged their magic.
A great light emitted from the goddesses, that became brighter and brighter. It became so bright that it was unbearable to look upon.
Then there was a sound,
a sound of angels singing,
the most heavenly noise that could’ve ever been made.
And then there was a great wind that swirled among the crowds.
A pulse of energy pushed from where the goddesses stood, and then…
Silence…
When those gathered built up the will to open their eyes they discovered something that brought joy to some and fear to others.
All the humans were gone.
The goddess of the day spoke to the crowds.
“It would be wise to take what thee have seen as forewarning. Do not bring war and disharmony upon our land.”
She walked close to the crowd of ponies.
“Due to the bravery and dedication to the land of our little ponies, I entitle the land they reside in as Equestria.”
The ponies cheered and celebrated in the praise they received from their sun goddess. She, in return, smiled and basked in their happiness.
She then turned to what was left of the human army.
“Thou should count thy blessings”
Her voice was cold, and harsh.
“We are going to let thee live on our land, despite the actions thee have done.”
The remainder of the army dispersed quickly, as if staying any longer would result in punishment.
The goddesses turned back to the ponies and said in unison.
“We must now return to the cosmos, for it is not yet our time to live in your presence.”
After they made their statement a beam of light shot down from the heavens and the goddesses were gone.
This concludes the first documented event of Equestria, for further information, please refer to “The Breakdown of Equestrian History”
Twilight Sparkle gently shut the book and picked up her quill and ink with her magic. She slowly brought the quill to the paper, making sure that she was extremely precise with her placement, this was going to be a very important letter.
She cleared her throat, gazed at the paper and tried to clear her mind, trying to stay as calm as possible, she couldn’t tell why, but something about what she had just read gave her chills.
She took a deep breath and began her letter
“Dear Princess Celestia …”
Barrow? That's all I have to say about the description.
Well let's see where this goes, you've caught my interest
Although the formatting could use some work, but that's about it
Interesting.
Someone call Lyra! she'll like to read this book here
Oh, great, another misanthropic HiE. I'm out.
"Then there was a sound,
a sound of angles singing,"
Also, what Guardian said. But I will stick around and see where this goes.
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oops, fixed it.
Finished typing this at about 12:00 Am, sorry bout that.
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Sorry to see you go, but here's some love
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Are you expressing a dislike towards that part, or simply quoting It?
Please let me know, as I wish to make this fic enjoyable for everyone
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The formatting looked much better when I typed it up in Word, but I had to practically redo most of the formatting when I pasted it into fimfiction's text editor thingy.
Thank you all for the feedback!!
Looks interesting, keep it up.
I suppose it is possible, but I doubt even Celestia has the power to move an army of thousands over the distance of a few thousand light years, maybe to another place on the planet. I dislike the setup but am hoping for some technologically advanced humans to come back and take back what is rightfully theirs. Or is this not that kind of story?
Yeh I am wiht romaniamiam on this one about humans thake back what's theres. I mean when Celestia and Luna arrived they treated every one race as there own but they are complely full on douchebag mod when they judged the humans this war whas like when the troubled child in the family start to treate the other childrens in the family and then the "parrent's" come in and if they are responsive parent's they give a punishment on him/her to learn it's lesson and hope thet the troubled children woud open up and become like the other childern loving trustable etc and they make it sure thet they will be there for him/her. What happend here? For me in a nut shell: the troubled children do something bad (humans go in war becouse they are full on greed mod agan I think Celestia and Luna coud prevent this if they cared at all about the human race) the parrents shove up (agan they only shove up when the ponies are treatend wiht war they didn't give a flying pegasus feather about the dragons griffons etc) and go fully punishment wiht out a realy lesson which only cause pain and more negative feeling from the troubled children to it's parrents and his/her siblings. (yeh becouse trowing out the troubled children out from the family house on the first problem to the big nasty word alone is the profe of perfect parenting
...lol no). And then they revard the ponies becouse they did so much good on there part (no they didn't do anithing but get a lot of things for nothing.....I so hate it when a parent favour one if it's child to the suffering/neglet to the other ). And not forget thet the griffon and dragon mayority yoined to the humans in this war yet they didn't get banished from there home and left alone. Also later Luna trying to kill every living thing on the planet by ethernal night meanwhile the humans only whanted to rule the word not kill it (which in my opinion is a hell of a less sin) and what she get? 1000 year of banishment on the moon and efter thet she get hit wiht a rainbow and it's all sun shine and butterflyes for her and Celestia is completly happy thet her sister is back and not chare at all thet meanwhiel her sister spended 1000 year in the moon for a atempt to overtrowe her and kill EVERITHING ON THE PLANET COMPLETLY her children the human race spended thousad of thousand of years fighting suffering dying hardship and banishment from there home millions of light year becouse they started a war which coudn't realy happen becouse of the two stoped it befour it woud happen. (yeh I kinda raged a little whiel reading this even if I didn't judged this by the view of a human I woud say thet this is waaaaaaaaay to unfair what happend to the human race meanwhiel Celestia and Luna problably didn't chared why the humans become so greed filled you know nobody and I say NOBODY born as evil.)
tl;dr: Celestia and Luna is worst parent every in this fic and the humans shoud come back and after all the unneaded suffering they got for a realy small sin (Luna whanted to kill everithing wiht here eternal night whiel she whas NMM humans only whanted to be the dominant race) they shoud get back whats theirs.
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Stay thirsty, my friend.
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Thanks for your input!
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Oh, now you're just being cruel. Is this a story leaning in the favor of humans or ponies? Or is that considered a spoiler?
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Only time will tell.
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Oh yes please don't keep us hanging I woudn't like thet humans woud get more punished in this story or anthing (but it's not my fan fic so eh you do what you think is best in your story) but I woud realy like to see them get justice and peace maybe open up Celestia and Luna eyes on there fail parenting methods and maybe become the loving responsible parrent's for humanity it's nead (I don't know what you think but in my opinion the trouble kid's only nead is realy love and charing from it's parents to become good agan becouse if you favourite one of your children to the harmy of a other and completly neglet the other then don't except thet kid thet it's love you and behave to you). Or humans get there justice by coming back and forecfully rip out there share from the word. Maybe since Celestia and Luna there parent's whas completly douches to them they try to seek out a new parent which love them maybe Discord is the caring father which the human race realy neaded? Or the human greed and hatred origin whas nothing more then the careful planing and manipulation of the chaos god to pull chaos on Equestria? Come to think about it if corupting the humans whas Discord idea then I say it is a master plane first if the humans win then the land will be consumed by chaos what he whanted. And if it woudn't worked which happend then they woud be kicked to a unending suffering and hatred by being abadonded by there parent's which didn't see the corruption in there children and asume thet they are evil and then completly cut off any simpatetic feeling for them (agan realy worst parent's every a charing good parent if caught it's children doing drugs first priority woud be to make sure thet it's children woud be safe and monitored and helped and punished reasonably and be there for him/her to help get throught the addiction and second woud be too seek out the sorce of it ,the dealer and beat the every loving sh*t out from him/her to make sure it's children woudn't be treatened by the dealer corruption agan) portraying them in the human eyes as a evil noncharing enemy instead of loving parents. I mean what coud be more evily ,chaotic then turning a children or parent agans't each other and whatching them tearing each other apart? Which make me sad
misanthropic HiE fic? Great, just great. you pretty stomped on all of the good things that Humanity has done.
This Is kindly why I believe We have so many haters for this group.
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It better be humans.
Few wise words from me, a crtitic that would be considered a serial killer if handed a tool of death:
DON'T.HAVE.SUNSHINE.ENDING.
RAWR.
Also have humanity kick ass. Cuz that's we do (death glare at TCB)
1637598 Okay, so mabye I will stick around to see where it's going, as long as it doesn't go full out misanthropic. Sorry if I sound like a jerk, I'm just sick and tired of all the misanthropy on this site. Especially from the HiE fics.
Well I hope you all realize the history book was written by a pony, so it is indeed biased against humans...
Just wait guys, just wait.
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Please view 1640030
1637598 I was quoting an error. I think you meant to say Angel, not angle.
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Oh celestia, that is rich. I'll be sure to fix that, ha ha.
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God damn ponies.
Also I bet your last name is Disson
Is this gonna be one of those fics about how evil humanity is? Because if that's so, I'd like to tell you precisely how, why, and what sharp objects you can go fuck yourself with. Because seriously, misanthropes suck and should go read some goddamn Ayn Rand rather than subjecting us to their idiocy.
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Dude, calm down, its just the first chapter.
Also you're implying my writing reflects my views on humanity.
Which it does not.
Just pour yourself a cup o tea and just wait.
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will there be humans in this fict or just talk about them
Well, its a book written by a pony. Doesnt really mean its true.
So best thing is, to wait for the next chapters.
Too many people taking as fact a passage in a book written over 3000 years ago, by an unknown author, during a time that most couldn't write, and written by the victors.
One that also sounds horribly biased - "Punish ALL the humans, but not the griffins and dragons that nearly completely supported and helped."
Before the misanthropic title can be thrown around, we need to hear what actually happened in the story canon.
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There definitely will be
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Thank you
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Thank you even more, you are a gentleman and a scholar
I think it would be cool for humanity to have felt neglected and that's why they waged war, the whole evil human thing is bringing me down but I'm interested I wont lie
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Glad I aroused your interest
and their motives for "war" will be revealed in time
Also, I doubt 100% of humanity fought on the human side, it just doesn't seem likely to me. Seriously, it's about as likely as two races meeting and NOT fucking. there would be at least some defectors on the pony side as well. remember this, and i'm glad they have a reason (even Nazi Germany had a reason, they were a very downtrodden people post WW1)
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I'm finding a lot of intrest and potential in this story and I would love to continue reading more so please update!!
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Sorry, been slacking, due to [a)finals b)holiday season c)laziness ] But I'll work on chapter 2 just for you right now!
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I feel special Thanks you
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Due to your comment, as of the time of this comment being posted, I have written 366 words more to chapter 2.
You banish us to a different planet we build spaceships come find you and fuck you up
-Humanity
"dated back possibly 3000 or more years before the rising of nightmare moon."
Nightmare Moon
"It is believed to be written by a Pony by the name of Amus,"
pony
"The goddess of the day’s coat was a beautiful, pure, white,"
beautiful pure white,
“I would be wise to take what thee have seen as forewarning."
It
"but something about what she had just read have given her chills."
That sounds really awkward. I would put "but something about what she had just read gave her chills."
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Lmao