Prince Blueblood and Princess Cadence have both been identified as related to Celestia - that she was an aunt to both of them.

This intrigues me because it means Celestia has a brother or sister who has had children. Since we only know of one sister - Luna - it gives me pause. Luna is not likely to be either Cadence's nor Blueblood's mother. Her thousand years as the Mare in the Moon saw to that. So what we likely have is that she is most logically their some number of 'great' grandmother.

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So.

He's got a lot of interesting depth to him. Nothing new in this opening bit, but I want to lay a bit of groundwork for my own benefit as much as anyone reading this.

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So.

I tend to be a strange sort of thinker. I love to use my imagination and daydream about any old thing that takes my fancy, but I have this nearly insatiable urge for those flights of fancy to make sense - at least within the world in which they inhabit.

Given that, here's my thoughts on how the world of FiM came into being:

It's earth.

Yeah, thought up by plenty before me, but here's where that whole "needs to make sense" bit comes into play.

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