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Beginnings of a Young Scholar
Prologue

You know, it takes some getting used to, being so understanding that is. I learned to be understanding at a very young age, but that did not mean I had mastered the art. Nay, it took me literally losing everything time and time again to learn what it means to be truly understanding. It does take a lot of effort at first to pull off, but eventually, it becomes so automatic that not only do you become something of a pushover, but you also tend to lose yourself at times as well. That is, unless you also have a strong sense of self.

I am not going to say I am perfect—saying that would be a bold-faced and easily discernible lie—but at least I can say I am not closed-minded on many subjects and like to understand another's position before judging them. In some circumstances, it is unbelievably difficult to be as forgiving though. These ponies that cause me to be so unforgiving are ponies I can understand but choose to be corrupt, and I have even less patience for those that choose to be purposefully deceitful.

—From the desk of Omniscient Chronicle, Head Royal Scholar of the Divine Thrones of Equestria

His name was Omniscient Chronicle to the few that knew him from birth. Everypony else knew him as merely Omnicron, the son of the famous unicorn surgeon Chronoheart. He was a unicorn pony himself with a plain, brown coat and messy, dark sepia mane and tail, while still a blank-flank at the age of fourteen. He was also just as well known in the medical community for not only his eighty-eight percent success rate—the only pony that had beaten him was his own father with a near flawless ninety percent success rate—but the fact he did not have a cutie mark and was a prodigy in the field medical science, but his true passion lay in small number of inventions for aiding recovery of the patients as well as the evermore inciting field of alchemy.

He had even invented a couple of mechanizations to make operations easier for non-unicorn and even non-ponies alike. He was the first to rediscover the art of consciously controlling the art of transmutation through a pony's hooves—abet completely by accident at first when trying to save a friend's pet—allowing non-pegasi to use their hooves as a defibrillator.

All of this by the age of fourteen, and this made his mother—a pegasus pony named Feather Flight—and father very proud. His sister Bellatrix—also a unicorn—was also relatively well known for being the first foal to complete the magical aptitude exam for the illusionist arts at the age of seven.

The family as a whole was known as the Chrono herd and was surprisingly low on the unicorn pony genetic prominence scale. Usually, the higher up a herd was on the nobility scale, the more powerful that herd was with the top usually being the descendants of the old unicorn royal family such as Princess Platinum or, more recently, Prince Blueblood. However, on a genetic aspect, the Chrono herd were a series of commoners for as far back as anypony had been able to document, but they were also often shown to be dangerously prideful of their talents to the point of vanity.

That never stopped Omnicron or the rest of his family from making their mark in their hometown of Hoofington and beyond. In olden times, his family were part of the Hoofington Guard of the Royal Equestrian Army. Being such, they lived in a guard tower that was outmoded as the city continued to grow which became their inherited place of residence instead. They had been well respected in the community, and the Army as a whole, until a traitor among them sold out Hoofington's defenses during the Grif-Equine Conflict. The entire city—save the tower—had been burnt to the ground with only a hoof-full of the Chrono herd still alive. The traitor herself dying by having a burning timber fall on her.

Since then, no member of the Chrono herd was to be allowed to enter any of Equestria's defense forces—as decreed by Her Divine Majesty Princess Celestia. It would have been any official capacity at all if not for Her Divine Majesty Princess Luna's intervention in the matter. The sisters had always been at ends over the family—mostly over one of the earliest prominent members—but this had given the Solar Goddess the excuse she needed to put a stopper on the potentially dangerous family. Sixty years later when the Lunar Goddess revolted as Nightmare Moon, the Chrono herd happily aided her as a show of appreciation of their debt to her.

When the rebellion was over and the Nightmare was banished to the moon, Princess Celestia stripped the family of ever holding a government office again as punishment, and they could gain no titles—no matter what noble herd the Chronos married into—that was until Omnicron came along. He was the exception, and he intrigued the Solar Goddess in his potential. She could not take him as a protégé as it would be against her own decree and there were still bitter feelings over his families wrongdoings in the past, but she could do something to aid him and his promise.

It was this letter that changed a young Omnicron's life forever:

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38th of Spring, 980 LSE

Dear Omniscient Chronicle of Hoofington,

I invite you to join me in a personal meeting during the dinner of the third day of the week after next. You may bring two guests, be that family or friends, and I shall be expecting you at 17:30 on the mark. This request is entirely optional, and you need not attend or even reply to this correspondence. However, I believe you will be thoroughly joyed if you do attend.

This is a casual meeting. So, no proper attire is required and remember to simply be yourself. I will not discuss the details of the meeting any further, but be sure to present the enclosed slip of paper to the guards at the entrance of Canterlot Castle upon arrival.

I do hope you decide to attend, and I will be forthcoming in saying this will be a life changing experience for you.

Sincerely,

Princess Celestia

P.S. Happy birthday, my little pony!

Author's Note:

As many of you no doubt noticed, I have not updated Far is the Star Called Sol in awhile. There is a reason for that, and I am using this story to fill the gap whilst I rehash the beginning of Sol and make some overall improvements. I apologize as I know many of you have been waiting eagerly for the next chapter to come about, but between rewriting the beginning and writer's block for it, I decided working on something else for the time being would be more productive.

As always, please comment and enjoy! Oh! And if you have any questions about Sol, I suggest you PM them to me instead.