This post contains spoilers for Chapter 3 of The Codex: A Sister's Lament, although you can probably work out for yourself which character is going to be making an appearance.

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When I began writing The Codex, back before Season 3 started, it was just a simple idea of scientifically examining what we knew about the history of Equestria and filling in the gaps. Then I realised that I wanted to actually write it down and post it online, and decided to come up with a framing story. Simple enough.

I just don't know what went wrong...

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For those who may be following my story, This blog is just a quick notice to explain that I've rewritten and restructured the first few chapters, as well as renaming it "The Codex: A Sister's Burden". This is because I felt that the purpose of the story had changed significantly since its original conception, and I wished to change what I had already wrote to reflect this. I have also been fortunate to get my hands on some much more appropriate cover art.

This post contains a few spoilers for up to chapter 4 of The Equestria Codex

Chapters two and three are now written, and I feel the story has finally got going. We have finally seen and experienced some of the events which have shaped both the nation of Equestria, and Celestia's own character. These chapters were quite exhausting to write, not least because of what Celestia ended up going through, and it was tough writing some of the painful scenes.

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Alrighty then. After a long time in planning, I have finally got round to writing up The Equestria Codex which basically draws together the various thoughts I have about the magical nature of Equestria. This story started out as a self-imposed challenge to try and find a self-consistent backstory for all of the historical events known to have occurred in the MLP:FiM universe, and has sort of snowballed since. I only hope my rusty writing skills can do the story in my head justice.

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