HORSE LORE
The Exodus
One thousand years and then a little bit more ago, ponies were super racist. There were three pony tribe: The Unicorns, which had cool magic powers, the Pegasi which could fly, and the Earth Ponies who posses an ambiguous connection to nature that is probably made up to make them feel better about themselves. They hated each other's guts. They hated each other so much that they attracted the attention of a bunch of ice ghosts that ate hatred, freezing everything in their path. Freezing your food source is not a great idea and they should probably look at something more sustainable.
Anywho, all three tribes independently decide to book it and settle in a new land and by pure coincidence all picked the same place. Super awkward. The race war picks up again and attracts the ice ghosts. After freezing most of the ruling class the peasants get together and go "Hey why are we doing this anyway" and promptly start getting along. This produces magic fire that murders the ice ghosts, establishing a long running precedent of ponies using friendship based weaponry to vaporize all their problems.
And that's the meaning of Pony Christmas.
The Founding
Unfortunately for the ponies, they now live in what would be modern day Equestria, which is a barren hellscape where the crops don't grow, monsters are around every corner and the forces of nature are in absolute chaos. Fortunately the ponies have a cause that they can all rally behind: not starving. The Unicorns get the short end of the stick by being in charge of raising and lowering the sun and moon, which causes such intense strain on those who perform the ritual that they prematurely age and deplete their magic. Meanwhile the pegasi stabilize and regulate the weather and the earth ponies use their ambiguous earth pony powers to grow food.
Once they had the not starving thing under control, they immediately switched to more pressing issues: Who's in charge. Obviously putting one race in charge of the other two would break the fragile balance they had established, so they can't do that. In a super convenient coincidence there happens to be a tribe of Alicorns nearby which are super ponies that exhibit the traits of all three pony races at once. Perfect. So they send a contingency to ask them to rule over them and they offload two fillies on them. The ponies were less than enthused. What happened to the rest of the Alicorns? Not important.
About this time the ponies decide they need to go all Holy Crusade and start wiping out some evil. They find six ponies that each represent one of the traits they want to serve as a theological basis for their society and form the Pony Justice League. The Pony Justice League promptly sends some fish to high school as well as other heroic acts. They become big shot celebrities. Everybody loves Pony Justice League! Well except for this one guy Stygian who was actually the 7th member of Pony Justice League and the brains of the whole operation, but he never gets any credit. Tired of getting shafted by the rest of the Pony Justice League he steals all their signature items and then makes a pact with Satan, becoming the Pony of Shadow. The Pony Justice League follow the Mutually Assured Destruction protocol and seal themselves and the Pony of Shadow in limbo.
The Royal Sisters
Back at the ranch, our alicorn super fillies Celestia and Luna were trying to get the ponies to actually follow them. You see they were actually mature by inferior pony standards, but by Immortal All-Powerful Alicorn standards they were still kids. Notably they do not have their Cutie Marks yet, which are magical symbols placed on their rear ends showcasing the one thing a pony is good for. Cutie Marks are an important part of pony culture and gaining one shows that a pony has finally hit puberty. Despite being totally superior to their subjects in every other way they got no respect without their cutie marks.
They start looking around for a suitable place to build their sweet new Playset Castle and decide to check out the incredibly dangerous forest, obviously. There they find the Tree of Harmony, a tree planted by the Pony Justice League and imbued with their respective traits to protect Equestria while they were gone in limbo. Please note the tree had to be fully grown in like a month to fit into the timeline as the writers keep cramming more and more stuff into this time period. That isn't totally out of the question though because the tree does all sorts of weird stuff like subdue an entire evil forest and grow castles out the ground and predict the future and achieve sentience and subtly guides the lives of creatures all over Equestria. Good thing it's on our side though. Probably.
Anyway Celestia and Luna not only found a sweet spot for their new castle next to the tree but they acquired a set of Deus ex Machinas from said tree in the form of the Elements of Harmony, each of which very loosely based on the key attributes of the Pony Justice League. Turns out that each of the sisters is attuned to three elements each, allowing them to use their full power between just the two of them. They will go on to use magical rainbow lasers to obliterate pests up to an including the literal god of chaos.
The Rise and Fall
Anyway shenanigans ensue for while including pissing off a tribe of zebras, bullying a dragon to prevent the next ice age, and solving diplomatic problems with pastries. One night they find Star Swirl the Bearded, lead member of the Pony Justice League and totally able to be here at this time without continuity errors, has de-magiced himself by trying to be a baller and handle the moon lowering by himself. Celestia and Luna are all like "yo hold my cider" and then proceed to show all the unicorns up by effortlessly managing the celestial bodies they are conveniently named after. This earns the two their Cutie Marks and frees up the Unicorns to be self-important without having to hold up their end of the truce any more like the other tribes.
It's about this time that they run out of evils to laser and Equestria enters a golden age of peace and prosperity under the rulership of The Royal Sisters, Celestia and Luna. Well, mostly Celestia because she rules the day and Luna rules the night when everybody is asleep. Luna is not happy with the arrangement. She decides to handle this in a calm and civil manner by unleashing an eternal night upon the land and transforming into her evil alter ego Nightmare Moon. Celestia can only use half of the Elements of Harmony by herself so she can't rainbow laser her sister so she settles on banishing her to the moon for a thousand years instead.
And exactly one thousand years later to the day, the show starts. During that time Celestia moves castles, everybody forgets most of the important details of their history and Celestia starts playing chess master arranging things to friendship lasor her sister when she gets back.
And that's how Pinkie Pie got her cutie mark.
Submitted May 02, 2019 at 09:32AM by SnickyMcNibits
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