Long ago, far before the deepest memory of my little humans, in the land of Little-Equestria, the earth was trod by nameless ponies. Even Discord knew them not. They are older than he. It was then Hwyn Whinniath awoke beside the shores of Cartoonien, upon the Inland Sea of Hona Lee, and her people flourished there, until the Lord of the Earth came, and the Hunter, and the Great Gallop, and the sundering of the pony race. First born were the Unicorns, eldest and wisest, upon a silver bough, and their mothers the Alicorns, who alone have seen the light of the Undying Lands. Then the Pegasi, born upon a pale mist, daring and fleet of hoof; and the Sea Ponies, born upon a dark tide, who frolicked in the waters. Last of all were born the Earth Ponies, born upon a white stone, who are now lost, for the Lord of the Earth came, and darkness fell upon the Everfree Forest for the first time.