PROLOGUE
A mother horse was endowed with a large sum of power by Gods, a magic powerful enough to create a world and ponies to live in it as she grew ill in the final days of her pregnancy. Her heart weak, but tender decided she did not want her children to be lonely and knew they were destined for greatness. She created them a planet to rule, and a land called Equestria, where ponies would be their faithful servants and members of the glorious kingdom they would soon inherit. She gave birth to two lovely fillies and passed away with the birth of her younger child. Before her final breathe she decided that until the fillies grew strong enough to inherit the kingdom she had created for them, her most trusted colleague, Discord would be granted permission to run the kingdom. He took the position and at first ran the kingdom with love and compassion, treating everyone as equals. However as the two young sisters grew older, he grew lonely and fell in love with the oldest sister who was incredibly beautiful, but she snarled at his emotions because he was not an attractive creature, in fact he was quite a spawn of chaos.
His anger towards the sister leads him to become a violent tyrant, causing an economic crisis of a formerly communist republic run by the once gracious Discord. This produced the rise of a monarchy, in which the two sisters named Celestia and Luna (the youngest filly) stepped up to run the land of Equestria. This was known as the "War of Harmony" in which the elements of harmony, a powerful magical force, were used by both sisters to defeat the mighty Discord in the final battle of the 6 year war. In order to honor the 6 years in which ponies had sacrificed themselves in the mass bloodshed for the mission, to save Equestria, the sisters preformed a memorial ceremony in which they split the Elements into 6 different pieces, and gave a symbolic meaning to each year of the war, enchanting to Elements with said meaning ("Kindness" towards their colleagues, "Honesty" to where no secrets were kept from each member of the force, "Generosity" on the cold nights when they would share the little warmth and food they had, "Loyalty" towards each other and also for their republic, "Laughter" for the joy and positivity given to each other to provide happiness on the long cold nights, and "Magic" which fueled the kingdom and flowed through the sisters in the rebellion causing an almost infinite amount of power for the republic.) They built a kingdom to house themselves and the elements and named this the central city (Canterlot, in which all governmental affairs would be held and also great ceremonies)
Discord originally was in charge of rising and bringing down the sun and moon of Equestria, however with him gone, the ponies who were still fillies decided to split the heavy work load. Celestia inherited the sun, in which she would bring the morning and sunset, and Luna inherited the moon, in which she would bring the dusk and the dawn. As the ponies grew older Celestia began to take more of the glory and appraisal of the ponies. She would leave Luna at home during the day to go celebrate with the inhabitants of Canterlot from which they ruled. Luna would be put to housework or to study magic, promised that she would be allowed to play with the ponies at night when she was done with her studies. But the ponies were always asleep at night and Luna pleaded with her sister that it was unfair; however her sister refused to compromise. One night Luna stumbled upon a letter written to her from Discord tucked away in a dusty spell book, it read:
Dear Beloved Luna,
My you must have grown so much by now, you must be beautiful, is your sister still behaving? Of course she isn't, no pony can resist the power of running a government. Of course you are left at home while she goes out and plays. Luna darling, I know how much you want to be loved, and I loved you dearly I promise, more than your sister does of course. Don't you want to play with your friends, and go outside when it's bright and sunny? Feel the warmth on your back instead of your sister breathing down your neck. Well if you want to stop wasting time and start being a real princess like you were born to be, then follow these simple instructions.
On the back was a note of instructions on exactly how to overthrow Celestia. She took these to heart and began to plan her rebellion with several ponies whom she had befriended around the castle. With a powerful source of magic and spell book in hand she began her transformation into the formidable Nightmare Moon. One day, when her sister had returned from a day of leisure she confronted her. Shocked by her appearance and worried Luna would conquer her; Celestia used the Elements as a last resort to exile her and killed the ponies that followed in her footsteps. When the ponies of Equestria began spreading rumors and asking questions, she formed a yarn of Luna's malice and jealousy towards her and how she was going to kill her and make it night forever if she had not banished her from Equestria and locked her away on the moon. She assured the ponies that she would take on the responsibility of raising the sun and also the moon to keep balance amongst the kingdom.
And so she did for many years.