
The Meaning of Life
Twilight is instructed by the princess to learn about friendship. Even as she makes her first friend, a strange mare named Lyra, an ancient secret and a mad obsession threatens to claim her sanity.
*Takes place before Season One*
After a chance encounter with Lyra Heartstrings, Twilight Sparkle finds the lost journal of Starswirl the Bearded. Princess Celestia warns her not to read it, for it was a work that drove him mad. However, it promises to reveal to her a secret that she had obsessed over for years that has powerful magical and philosophical implications, the Meaning of Life.
Even as she starts to learn about friendship, Twilight delves deeper into the secrets of the tome. An ancient being begins showing her visions in her sleep—visions of the secrets of the world.
Can her friendship and her sanity survive discovering the Meaning of Life?



45556 words: Estimated about 4 hours to read
8 Chapters:
- Prologue 2015-07-07 18:53:18 UTC1804
- Chapter One 2015-07-07 18:53:24 UTC5507
- Chapter Two 2015-07-18 20:24:12 UTC3727
- Chapter Three 2015-07-29 19:53:33 UTC6485
- Chapter Four 2015-08-08 21:20:54 UTC5358
- Chapter Five 2015-08-24 23:20:07 UTC6254
- Chapter Six 2015-09-01 21:55:22 UTC7052
- Chapter Seven 2015-09-19 00:33:00 UTC9369