Order
"The great wheel has four points. At its base, chaos, absolute and total. At its height, order, stillness, perfection. In times past, the wheel would turn, and chaos would rise. It would turn again, and order would emerge."
"Like a crystal growing from random interactions?"
"Somewhat."
"But if Discord is chaos and you're order—"
"Twilight, I did not say we are order. Order is... order is that same crystal. It is perfection, but it is unchanging, cold, empty perfection. It is absolute, just as chaos is absolute. I have never met order, or any being incarnating order, and I pray I never shall, for absolute order is as destructive to our existence as absolute chaos."
"Then... what are you?"
"We are harmony. We stand between order and chaos. We are order and chaos. We balance the wheel so that neither one nor the other shall become ascendant. This is what true harmony means, Twilight; to be in between, to be all things. We are each in one another, my sister and I. My light shines upon Luna's face, and the dark of her night is buried within my heart. We are order and chaos in equal amount." Celestia raised her wing and peered under it at Twilight. "Is this the answer you sought?"
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the cover artwork is the artwork you made for arrow 18 right?
5873868 Yep!
5873934 it looks very nice IMO
A very important distinction, this. Harmony is neither chaos's opposite nor its absence. It is chaos moderated by order and vice versa. Kind of right there in the name.
I'm reminded of that one arc of The Sandman, where various pantheons and concepts vie for the key to Hell. Chaos takes the form of a child. Order? An empty cardboard box.
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That shit was awesome.
Remember Thor and his amazing design?
i.imgur.com/Etdqhpz.jpg [Warning: quite lewd]
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And the art style shifts during the individual audiences. So cool.
5874049 5874371 I haven't actually read this... I feel deprived now.
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Sandman is based god tier, for sure.
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Huh. I swore that you had read it, actually. It's a very, very good comic series, anyway.
5874842 Oh I have read some Sandman, just not that particular one.
I once had an idea like this, but it was Discord explaining this to Twilight and using musical notes as the metaphor instead. Chaos was represented as a ear-grating jumble of random notes, wonderful sounding to Discord but horrible to everyone else.
Order was represented by the same note across the entire music sheet. Ridged, unchanging, and complete uniformity.
Harmony on the other hand was represented as actual music. Each note is singular and distinct, but working together to create something much more then itself.