Introduction, Settling Equestria ,and Discovering the Elements

You know the history of how Equestria was founded, three different tribes of ponies only working with the others to get what they needed. The Pegasi controlling the weather, unicorns bringing up the sun and moon, while the earth ponies grew the food that served as payment for the others services.

You know about how food became scarce due to the furious snow storm resulting in the three tribes fighting over the dwindling food supplies leading to a gathering of the tribe leaders. But unfortunately this just worsened the situation, the leaders left in anger all coming to the conclusion they'd have to find a new home. Each leader found a new land only to discover the other tribe leaders had found the same land wanting to claim it for their own clans causing more arguing and hatred bringing the snow storm they tried to escape to the new land. And well you know the rest from all the pageants on Hearths warming eve performed in every town.

Now let's talk about another thing you may know of, The Elements of Harmony. You know that these magical objects were used by the princesses Celestia and Luna to turn Discord into stone and to imprison King Sombra in the arctic. Eventually Celestia was forced to use the elements to banish her own sister Luna to the moon breaking the connection the two princesses had to the elements.

The Elements of Harmony lay forgotten till they were needed once again. You know who the wielders of the elements are now, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, AppleJack, and Rainbow Dash. These six ponies have used the elements to save Equestria on a few occasions. As expected this is all anypony knows of the elements, after Celestia banished her sister the elements faded into memory even the history of these gems before the princesses wielded them were forgotten. Until now Nopony realizes how important the Elements of Harmony were in the building of Equestria.

After Clover the Clever cast the wendigo's hateful spirits with a surge of magic, and the leaders were thawed from their ice prisons, they all came to an agreement that in order to keep the wendigo spirits from returning with another storm, all three tribes must learn to live in peace and harmony with each other.This was easier said than done. The tribe leaders returned home to tell their tribes of the new land they'd found and what happened in the cave they had been trapped in, along with the realization of what the three tribes needed to do in order to stop the blizzard and preventing other storms in the future. As expected many of the ponies in each tribe didn't want to associate themselves with the others, after all the fighting they've done during and before the storm the three tribes never were around each other unless they were fulfilling the bargains they'd agreed on. Despite the outrage of what their leaders suggested there were a few ponies in the three tribes who were willing to give it a try trusting their leader’s judgment, wanting to see if getting the tribes to live in harmony would lift the storm and lead to a better future.

The next few months were spent searching for ponies willing to help create a settlement in the new land they had named Equestria. But the tribe leaders were busy trying to run their homeland during the crisis their people were in so they sent their assistance, Clover the Clever, Private Pansey, and Smart Cookie instead, trusting that they'd be able to handle the job since the three had banished the wendigos when they had all been sealed in the cave. The three ponies scoured their cities for ponies willing to be the first to help settle Equestria to make the land livable. They had to finish up their search fast the storm was still present in the tribe’s territories, having a new place to live and brining the three tribes together to create harmony to stop the blizzard was the only way to insure ponykinds survival. Luckily those who wanted to help sought out one of the three ponies once they knew of their arrival speeding up the search. But only so many volunteered ,and many didn’t have the skills they’d need to build a community in Equestria forcing the three ponies to go to other ponies in hopes of convincing them to assist them. Again they didn't have to search long for the few who volunteered spoke with their families, friends and neighbors that had the skills needed for this task. Many agreed to help only because somepony they knew asked for it, and sooner than expected each tribe had gathered the ponies needed to make the new land livable.

From the pegasi Private Pansy brought some soldiers to help protect the settlement from wild creatures living there, along with scouts to explore unknown areas and map them out. She also managed to get a few weather ponies to help regulate climates so food could be grown. Along with the soldiers a few combat trainers agreed to come along to make sure the pegasus soldiers stayed in shape and if other ponies wished to have combat training. From the unicorns Clover the Clever brought a few of their powerful magic users that the unicorns could spare, and miners for Princess platinum had seen the land was rich with jewels. She also brought along a few teachers for when a school house was built and if the settlers wanted their children to attend it. And from the earth ponies Smart Cookie brought blacksmiths, to repair weapons and equipment, carpenters to build housing and shops, and lastly farmers to cultivate the land. The three tribes also brought others whose skills would come in handy for regular tasks.

Within a few months a small community had begun to form in equestrian and the three different tribes had learned to work together some even sharing skills they knew with others, and to keep the peace between the three races of ponies, Clover the Clever, Smart Cookie and Private Pansy remained in the small community sending progress reports to the tribe leaders who sent news back to the settlement. One report stated that the storm back home was starting to let up, the pegasis managed to move a few clouds that allowed the unicorns to raise the sun letting a few rays shine through so the earth ponies could grow a few crops but it would be awhile till the storm was fully lifted. For the time being the blizzard hadn't returned to equestrian.

About two months after the last progress report something had been found in Equestrias gem mines. While digging a miner detected a cluster of gems digging them out from the ground. These gems were the finest to come from the mine and would be cut and used for jewelry. But when he placed them in the cutting devise it couldn't even make a scratch on them. It was said that he felt power emitting from the jewels immediately he told the owner of the mine taking them to Clover the Clever. She studied them before taking them traveling back to the unicorn kingdom for Starswirl the Bearded to look at. But once he received them the gems incased themselves in stone but they didn’t want to try and break them out in fear of damaging the jewels. While her mentor studied the mysterious gems Clover the Clever did what she could for her tribe, occasionally going to Starswirl the Bearded to help, while still keeping contact with the settlement in Equestria.

On one of her visits to check her mentors progress and as usual he hadn’t been able to find anything new about them or break them from the stone encasing them no matter what spells he tried to use. And he couldn’t find any information about them in any of the books or scrolls in the library not even in the scrolls and books from the other tribes he’d sent for. But after another uneventful night of helping her mentor it is said Clover the Clever had a dream telling her what they were called and what she needed to do with them. First she managed to perform the spell that had banished the Wendigos focusing on how she felt when trapped in the cave restoring the gems to their original form.These were then named the Elements of Harmony.

Starswirl the Bearded didn’t agree with the thought that his pupil was told this information in a dream but she still left to do what she’d been told. So Clover the Clever set out to all the tribes and the settlement in equestrian searching for the ponies the Elements chose to wield them and the chance to bring everypony together to insure everlasting peace.