From the diary of Starswirl the Bearded
Do you know how hard it is to watch your children slowly become monsters, to realize their real purpose in life ins't good? Do you know how hard that is? To see everything you tried to teach them turn out to be wrong? To see the only way to keep them healthy is to make ponies hate?
It's earth-shattering. And even more so to banish them.
Now I understand why I never could. I could never banish them.
Deep down, I know they're good! I love them! They are the closest thing I ever had to foals. To banish your children? I don't know how you could ever do it.
I still don't understand how Luna managed to banish her own student, even if Sombra had gone mad... The fall of the empire is one thing, but we can recover! We always have...
Grogar is gone and so is Tambelon, and we rebuilt and changed Equestria.
But this...now that I'm writing this out, I'm unsure...
They have put a bounty on my head.
I feel horrible for leaving Clover and our foal, but I want to keep them safe! I know that they aren't a cruel to punish dams and foals, I've seen it.
Only the rebels and stallions.
Clover will be fine. And if I am wrong, she is ever so clever, so she will be okay.
So will Stardust.
Everything will be fine as long as I keep running.
I love Stardust. I really do. She's my little sun. But, as much I hate to say this (write this) I don't think I could ever love her as much as them...
They helped me see life differently, made it easier to see how ponies worked, how they loves, how they took care of one another. I'm not saying I even now totally understand, but they made me see why life is really worth living.
Celestia and Luna have fallen...I can't believe it... I haven't heard from anypony in so long, even Scorpan...But from his last letter I heard that Clover and Stardust are well and they are actually being treated very nicely by the Empresses...
I think that writing in this diary is the only thing keeping my sane...to have some thing to confine to is comforting I guess...Empresses...Celestia and Luna, some of my brightest pupils, fallen...
I don't understand how they could do that! I know they know compassion, they openly show it, but why would they do that! Scorpan said that they aren't slain, but still!
The Empresses dethroned gods. I know that they hate that word, but Celestia and Luna ~~were~~ are gods. It's a fact. They possess~~ed~~ tremendous magic, and suddenly they are fallen deities sent to sleep hidden in the earth!I just...don't understand why they would do that...my little fillies...
They have taken over all of Equestria.
Trade has started up again.
They are actually very good at running an empire...I'm kinda proud really, even though they have a one million bit bounty over my head.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I kind of wish I had banished them, if only to save the ponies of Equestria from all the hate. But most actually seem to be leaning away from the hate, they're just more obedient for lack of a better word...complaint maybe. It seems all of Equestria ardors them. With almost the same amount as they would Celestia, though sadly not Luna...
I was extremely worried about her, but it seems that this will at least keep her from doing something rash...I wish I knew why they took over Equestria, at least to understand why they did it.
They've even started to make alliances with the changelings, deer-folk, the hippocampi(or sea-ponies, in case this diary ever gets put in a museum, which seems to happen a lot in typical stories, but I'm just being hypothetical), and they're going well.
I have to save I am proud. They were listening when I was teaching Celestia and Luna I bet.
I have to say I'm most proud of my little darling Sonna...
I have to say that I am truly beat...I can't keep running forever and that's a fact.
But I actually got a letter recently from Scorpan.
He says that Stardust has settled down with a stallion named Midnight Skies, a very highly valued astronomer and magic theorist. They have had twins named Lula Moon and Sparkling Stars. Clover is still alive and is actually part of the Empresses council. I really am proud of them. They have done an amazing job ruling Equestria.
They are doing a fabulous job, but I do miss Celestia and Luna...speaking of which I still haven't figured out how they raise and set the sun and moon and spread the stars across the sky every night yet...I suppose they could take each of them... Sonna would take the moon, Arie the sun, and Dagie the stars. But knowing her I don't think she would let Arie be the leader even though she raises the sun. More stars than one sun right? Thousands of little and big suns...
I think I will leave this as my last entry.
Maybe they will even let me see my family before they do off with me. I honestly don't think they would kill me.They sertantly could. Banishing me where I could have banished them seems more likely. Or they could drown me. This is kind of morbid, isn't it?
I wish I could have changed things, at least a little. Maybe finished that mirror...helped Meadowbrook finish all ten items of the east...finished all those spells...From one to another, another to one. A mark of one's destiny singled out alone, fulfilled...I'll never really know what that was supposed to to do, I still don't.
But Luna said it was important...or at least it was. But I couldn't banish them...I could never banish my little Adagio, Aria, and Sonata, my little sirens...
Author's Note
Partly inspired by this 
