Prolog: Within The Power of A Seed

Nestled deep in the Earth's soil rested two opposing forces. The purest of these forces was the Seed of Harmony, which blossomed from only the purest of hearts. Its opposing force was the Seed of Hatred, and unlike the Seed of Harmony it grew by every creature's sour desires; greed, or vanity. This left the Seed of Harmony vastly weaker than it's counterpart,yet at the time only the darkest of soul's to use Hatred's power.In its youth the Seed of Harmony kept itself hidden, the Seed of Hatred, unintimidated by the creatures above, drilled its stalk like a needle through the dirt and grew among its passive kind.

Soon the tranquil forest the Seed of Hatred invaded gave into the seed's corruption. The ancient trees turned gnarled and grotesque, the flower's seeds mutated into magical weeds and the vines of the forest became linked within the seed's vile magic, growing sentient crab-clawed buds.

Only the brave would enter the twisted forest, and that's exactly whom the Seed of Hatred wanted to find.

It had been this way for thousands of years, before the migration of Pony tribes, before the settlement of Equestria and in this time the seeds had fully grown. For some reason or another the Ponies of Equestria resonated better with the Tree of Harmony. It must have been they're lawful nature,do not allude that all Ponies upheld justice, sure they knew right from wrong, they just chose otherwise.

Or so they thought. Equestrian law was always able to handle the neigh-doers, and so the real root of the problem was never treated. Thier land grew vast, just like the seeds beneath them had. So far that their roots had stretched even the once oppressive ocean borders, but it wasn't the ocean's fault. No, once the Equestrian Ponies landed on this new continent, they brought along with them the pollen of the seeds within themselves. throughout the lands the tree of harmony's cave became known across the earth, every creature aspired to do right by it,or reflect on their disharmony with the tree,yet no one had been able to find a fully grown plant that held within it a seething darkness that not even the sun could blot out. Every creature has a desire for more... more power, more gold, more food, more, more, more. So the Seed of Hatred festered like an invisible poison to the once balanced lands, and soon their laws could do nothing but rewrite their laws to combat the growing chaos. What was once "What is done unto you will be punished unto them." could no longer stay and the Equestrian Ponies were but too eager to lend their laws along with their treaty.

And it is within this treaty that the Seed of Hatred had split in two, now there were two Seeds of Hatred encompassing Earth. Not dirt, nor desert, nor water kept Hatred's growing influence at bay. Of course the lawful minded Ponies of Equestria rallied their might to combat what evil they could, but Hatred was no longer a simple seed. It had flourished in the Dragon's lands and with it's new power even the purest of hearts could be persuaded that not all evil was bad, and not all good was the law.

It's in this time that Discord was born.