Dark Sun Celestia

Everything ever made has an opposite. This of course a fundamental truth to the existence of all ponykind, and indeed all of existence. Where there is light, there is dark. Heat and cold. Fire and ice. The disparity is the key to making the world work.

When the world began there was nothing. Nothing at all. An endless expanse of nothingness. Then, somewhere in that endless expanse, emerged a being called Chaos. And Chaos was, at all times, everything that would ever exist, and nothing. The very concept of Chaos is incomprehensible, and to think of the personification of chaos causes normal ponies to be sick. Chaos spread forth, creating a chaotic, misshapen, barren land out of the darkness. This was a land of brimstone and fire, fiery meteors falling from the sky, Gigantic supevolcanoes constantly erupting. And this was the birthplace, and territory of the great chaos daemons, the firstborn of which was Discord. This was the land of Chaos, and time did not work here, for logic did not exist here, and Harmony did not reside here.

Harmony emerged in the skies above the land of Chaos and blossomed forth. From harmony came time and space, governed by the king of all existence, Chronos. From Chronos came the Sun and the moon, governed by the Princess of the Sun and the Moon, Princess Celestia and Luna. These celestial beings created a small piece of paradise for themselves, up in the void, exempt from the chaos of the lower world. Hidden in the clouds, a floating piece of land called Eden. And here was born life, harmonious life, different to the immortal daemons of Chaos. First were the ponies, formed in the image of the two princesses. It is said that the unicorns burst from the King's head, the earth ponies sprung directly from the earth, like a plant, and the unicorns fell from the sky, in order to become the watchful protectors of the land. Angels, of a sort. And all the flora and fauna were created in this week, and it was good.

But, as with all things, it all came to a head. For Chaos and Harmony were two sides of the same coin. They were brothers. They were the same. The floating paradise of Eden and the land of chaos were on a collision course with each other. It was their destiny, chaos and harmony colliding in order to create life.

What happened after that? The daemons were defeated, but not vanquished. They were driven deep into the hell they had created. Over the entrance a forest was made, the Everfree Forest. Discord was defeated and imprisoned in the Garden of Eden, as a statue, frozen in time, with the power of Harmony. Chaos was lost, disappearing, as a dark spirit, into the world. It is said that it reincarnates as a normal pony every millenia, free to cause chaos in the guise of a normal pony.

The land was transformed. The barren land became the Equestria we see today. King Chronos ascended the heavens, leaving the fate of Equestria with his daughters Celestia and Luna.

And that is the story of how Equestria was made.

Maybe. This is the history of the world as written by the Order of the Sun, an ancient religion dedicated to the Princess Celestia. Several other religions give differing, and varied histories of Equestria. The order of the Locust for example posits that Princess Celestia was born from a flower. Shortof asking Princess Celestia about the history of Equestria, a subject she never divulges on, we can only speculate on how Equestria was created.

Perhaps we are all just specks, on a canvas in someone's room. Maybe everything was random. There was nothing and then there was. Or perhaps everything that ever is always was, and always will be. Nothing changes.

It is far easier for ponykind to believe in the tangible. Princess Celestia. And as long as we are here, alive, is there anything else needed?