Scaled Foal : History Lesson , Part 6 .


"Now class," Cheerlee decided to begin her lesson, "today we will talk about the origins of Equestria.

"I'm sure you've all heard about the three tribes living in conflict and the first Hearts Warming. That was nearly 10 thousand years ago, making Equestria one of the oldest civilizations in the world. However even after the three tribes came together their was still much conflict in Equestria.

"For the first 200 years the leaders of the three tribes ruled together on a Council, until the appearance of the first officially recorded Alicorn, one Queen Platinum, formerly princess of the Unicorn tribe.

"She ruled Equestria with an Iron hoof, and remained in power until she died of old age. She ascended into an Alicorn when she was around 300, so still a relatively young adult seeing with how ponies have an average lifespan of 547 years. While Alicorns have a life expectancy of near 3000 years.

"I know it is common to think of Alicorns as gods but in fact they are just ponies who have reached a form of enlightenment, a superior level of self awareness, which greatly increases their magical power and gives them the traits of all three races (The strength and connection to nature of Earth Ponies, The flight and weather magic of Pegasus, and the versatile magical abilities of Unicorns).

"Queen Platinum was the first Alicorn who had ever been officially confirmed, up until that point, although myths of them had existed throughout all recorded history. She is why so many ponies think of Alicorns as gods. She advertised herself as one and convinced the other ponies to worship her.

"After her passing a new Council was set up, representing the various city states in Equestria. They ruled as a democracy for the next 600 years until the arrival of the Alicorn Dynasty. Queen Justice Divine was just as cruel as her predecessor, and demanded ponies worship her.

"However when a second Alicorn appeared Queen Justice Divine invited her into her empire, Declaring her Queen of one of the city states, and continued the practice for each Alicorn that appeared.

"The Alicorn Dynasty had the largest population of Alicorns in recorded history. This was a result of Queen Justice Divine purposely teaching others how to become Alicorns. Her school was only accessible to nobles, which is why most noble families are descendants of Alicorns now.

"Unfortunately the Alicorn Dynasty was filled with greed and corruption, with the nobles living in luxury and all others living as peasants. The Alicorn Dynasty stood long after Justice Divine passed, and ruled cruelly for thousands of years.


"2000 years ago, marking the beginning of the end for the Alicorn Dynasty. Starswirl created the tree of Harmony. Which the cosmos, to balance the scales, created the Everfree Forest around it... along with Discord. Both of whom were created by accident, as a byproduct of such pure Harmony magics in the tree.

"Starswirl took in the Draconequus foal, and raised him like a son, until becoming aware of his power... and then he started to train him as a weapon against the Alicorns. Around this time, the living planets of Celestia and Luna, built their first Avatars, and appeared before StarSwirl. Whom took them in as well.

"These three children quickly grew in power, and with the aid of the 6 Pillars, as the first Bearers of Harmony, the Alicorn dynasty was defeated.

"Shortly there after, the 6 pillars disappeared, and Discord was driven from his home, by the fear of the others living in StarSwirl's castle.

"Little is known about where Discord went, but the Draconequus claims he met a race of gods called "The Q". Whom took him in.


"A mere few months passed, from Equus point of view, but according to Discord, he was gone for billions of trillions of years, from his own.

"When he returned, Discord thought to punish pony kind. And spent the next thousand years, warping reality, and making things very difficult for all creatures of Equus.

"However, he was overthrown by the Two Sisters, Celestia and Luna, with help of the Elements of Harmony.

"After his defeat, the two sisters assumed the role as rulers of Equestria, as per tradition with Alicorns. However instead of calling themselves 'Queens' the two sisters, as I'm sure you all know, took the title 'Princess'. Declaring anyone descended from them was to be called 'Duchess' or 'Prince' well the current nobles retained their titles.

"They wanted to assure their subjects that they would not hold themselves so above them, as their predecessors had done.

"Since then, Celestia has made many social changes, including gender equality in Equestria. She did away with poverty, and has turned Equestria into a near utopian society, and now that Princess Luna has returned to us, things are better then ever. Well Celestia looks at the whole, Luna handles the individuals. As Princess of the night, Luna visits the dreams of many of her subjects, helping them through personal crises, and... BUTTON!"


Button hurriedly tried to hide his game. Unfortunately it was too late. Cheerlee walked over to him, and held her hoof out. Button groaned, but reluctantly handed over his JoyBoy.

"See me during recess," She ordered, before walking back to the front of the class, and continuing the lecture.