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The history of Equestria, according to "Horse Play"

In "Horse Play," Twilight's little play says "every morning" six sorcerers raise the sun, and all but Starswirl permanently lose their powers. Celestia took over sun raising, and put a stop to this.

This contradicts the account in the book Journal of the Two Sisters, which says twelve unicorns were involved in sun and moon raising. One morning, the sun raisers suddenly and unexpectedly lost their powers. Celestia took over raising the sun that very morning.

The arrangement in Horse Play seems unsustainable. They're burning through five sorcerers every single morning. But I've come up with an explanation that mostly harmonizes the book with the episode, and explains how society survived this "magic drain".

After the eleven sun-raisers lost their powers, Celestia didn't take over immediately. Instead, Starswirl quickly rounded up five sorcerers, raised the sun together, and all but Starswirl lost their powers. From then on, Starswirl had ponies conscripting five sufficiently powerful sorcerers every single day, and draining their powers to keep the sun moving for one more day. This was not the normal way of things, but a desperate response to a recent crisis. After an unknown number of days or moons of this, Celestia decided to attempt a sunrise solo. When she succeeded, the unicorns celebrated. They would no longer need to sacrifice their magic powers to move the sun. In gratitude, they named Celestia and Luna the rulers of Equestria.

Submitted May 17, 2018 at 06:16PM by Glinth
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