The Beginning of All

Here is where it began, it being Civilization as we know it. These six young ponies are the beginning, the founders of our world, our society, our values and morals, our customs, everything starts here. We would define them now as "skipping" an adolescent stage of life as we know it. The equine bodies of flesh and bone they created started at a point older than the CMC, but not quite as old as the Mane Seven, their physical age closer to the latter.

Now stripped of the liquid-like emotional communication through touch used by the Paragon, the first thing the Six developed was a language. First came symbols, drawn in the dirt, the water, or the air. The symbols stood for an emotion, with slight variations to indicate intensity. Eventually, the symbols stood for a phonetic sound, which could be combined with other symbols to make what we'd call words. The evolution of this language was by no means overnight. But of course, the Six were immortal, so the passage of time did not concern them.

It didn't take very much time for them to realize that their physical bodies had a couple of faults. They needed nourishment as they burnt energy, and a period of rest that was taken anytime. A vote was cast whether to try and fix this or not, but Earth and Water came up with a better solution. Thus, the next thing made was the concepts of "plants", "food", "drinking water", and "beds". They hadn't expected the earth and ocean to combine in such a way that made it unsuitable for drinking, so Earth made sure salt and other little debris was filtered out of the water they designated for sustenance. (This was later replaced by a freshwater lake close to their home.)

The distinction between the element itself and the pony who embodied it became confusing in their half-baked language of symbols and sound, so the Six created separate combinations of symbols and sound when referring to themselves. We would think of them now as "names". Light became known as "Lucena", Magic as "Astrum", Earth as "Terren", Water as "Aquari", Fire as "Pyrus", and Storm as "Galona".

This creation of new things and ideas continued until their world became something we'd recognize today. Even new life was created, from birds in the sky to squirrels in the trees to fish in the sea. Although, other equines had not come into existence yet. The Six loved their world, and would do anything to keep it this way. At this stage in "time", the Six would be around Mane-Seven-ish in apparent physical age, as much as an Alicorn can be. (That being, much thinner and taller.)

Still, perfection has never been a thing. The Six noticed that the living things they made had a limit on how much "time" they could see, in other words, things grew old and died. Perhaps it was here that the Six began to think about "time" and "life". Astrum figured out it was their immense stores of magic that made them what he called "immortal". Theoretically, if they poured enough of their magic into another animal, it would become "immortal" like them. Assuming, of course, the animal could bear such power.

A certain order in nature arose, the "circle of life", for lack of a better phrase. If you described it as a pyramid of predators and prey, the Six would be their own little orb about ten feet above the pyramid. They understood that the destruction of life was necessary for the survival of another, like a wolf that hunts down a deer to feed its young. But, the unnecessary destruction of life was not tolerable. This was noted in an incident when dragons became to be.