Author's Note

Sorry for the large amount of expository information. Just needed to be done, and everyone knows Twilight would just keep asking for more information. I can at least gloss over some of the pony information.

3- Interview with Twilight

--Ponyville, Twilight's Castle: Cutie Map Room--

As Twilight readies her notes and writing materials, Aidan prepares himself mentally.

"Alright, let's start with the most obvious question. What are your people called?" Twilight asks, bringing quill up to parchment.

"My people are called the Zinner, and are nomadic in nature. But I believe the answer you really want is our race, which is human. Humans are an extremely diverse people, with many different cultures and alteration on appearance based on the environment their ancestors grew up in." Aidan shifts in his chair, getting more comfortable before continuing. "It is rendered more complicated by the fact that some humans are also born with the souls of ancient magical races." He quickly adds, "Which I will explain later." Getting a disappointed look from Twilight, but she continues taking notes. "The humans born with these ancient souls are called Nephilim by those aware of the occurrence and trained in the occult."

"Fascinating!" Twilight interjects excitedly.

"Now Nephilim used to be the closest encounter with the ancient races one could get, but over the past few decades in my world, that has changed. Only way to explain this is with a very short history lesson." he clears his throat before continuing. "My world used to be split into three separate ones. What was believed to be all of Gaia, the realm of mankind, and the other two realm referred to by those who caused it as Hell. Hell, was in actually two realms, Khalis and Lunaris. Khalis was the realm of elves and other fairy races. Lunaris was the realm of the Duk'zarist."

"Why was your world split!? Who would do such a thing? How would they do such a thing!?" Twilight asks, completely enraptured by all the new information she was gaining.

"The why was fear of magic from a secret organization of humans, and to separate it from our world. Which is also answers the who. As for the how, that is hard to know, as it was quite far in the past. Those that caused it also tried to erase all knowledge of it, and mostly succeeded." Aidan answers, with some pride. Being one of the handful of people in his world to even know this much, outside of the Imperium of Man, or the Technocracy.

"Wait, if they separated magic from the world, how did you learn to cast spells!?" Twilight nearly screams out the question.

"Let me continue, and you'll get your answer." he replies quickly. "Now, where was I?" He scratches his chin for a mere moment. "Ah yes. The world was divided in three. Now the barrier was affected, like so many things, by time. Within the last few hundred year or so, the barriers began to weaken and magic slowly started to return. And the Imperium of Man, Which is the secret organization that caused the split by the way, created a religion in order to suppress magic and keep control on all of humanity."

"Created a religion? Is that the church you mentioned earlier when you asked how we felt about magic?" Twilight asks, once more interrupting.

"Yes, the one and the same. Now this was my world before, my world now is different. During my adventures with friends and working for a guild, we had learned much. Eventually we managed to gain proof of the existence of the Imperium, the creation of the false religion and spread the knowledge to all." He continues, before once more being interrupted by Twilight.

"And then fully returned magic to your world and peace restored!" Twilight exclaims hopefully.

"The opposite actually." Aidan quickly interjects, causing Twilight to look crestfallen. "Belief is not an easy thing to change, and those in power do not always willingly give up power. The reveal of truth has caused the world to be divided and on the precipice of war. The major factions that emerged are the remnants of the church combined with the Imperium of man. The technocracy, which is the equivalent version of the Imperium for Khalis. The illuminati, which is the one for Lunaris." he gives Twilight time to write this all down. "The former Holy empire of Abel and some of their territories that remained aligned, which my adventuring group formally aligned with. And finally multiple independent factions that merely wished for freedom, or to try and gain more power for themselves."

"But, but, but... Friendship, peace. Why would people fight? It only causes pain and hardships!" Twilight tries to grasp this terrible knowledge, but it is hard for one that has lived in a world of peace.

"Power, knowledge. There are unfortunately many reasons, most not worth the price. The reason I fight is to protect, and help. Heck, I even formed my own island nation to teach and protect the mages that used to hide in my world. Of course we are aligned with those that seek peace and freedom for everyone." Aidan tries to explain and console Twilight.

"Wait, you're a prince!?" Twilight suddenly exclaims. "But why did you leave your people and even travel to another world, if it's on the verge of war!?"

"I prefer the title Archmage." Aidan answers mid chuckle. "And it's a small island, though it has been recognized as it's own nation by many of the... for lack of a better word, good aligned nations. As for why I left, it's simple. It is in good hands in my absence, and I am one of the few that could potentially hunt down the dark mages that escaped my world. I just couldn't let them be and potentially endanger an unprepared world"

"I guess that makes sense." Twilight replies before asking yet another question. "What's your island nation called?"

"I named it the Academia Esoterica, or Academy of specialize knowledge. Mainly cause teach mostly magic. We also try to push forward knowledge that magic is neither evil, nor good, and it all depends on use." Before he adds, "I'm not really good at naming things. I think some nations call us the Isle of magi"

Twilight can't help but smile at the idea of an entire island dedicated to learning and teaching magic. She then exclaims "I still have so many questions! Even more than when we started."

"Yes, but so far I've been the only one to answer questions." Aidan interjects, then quickly adds in. "Now, tell me about your people, race and world."

"You're right! My people are ponies, and they are generally separated into three races. The earth ponies, who are in tune with the land. They are generally physically hardy and great at working the land. Next is the pegasi, they are the ones with the wings. They work with the weather and clouds. Third are the unicorns, they're the ones with a horn on their forehead. The are the ones who use magic, and even the weakest of unicorns can at least move objects with their magic. Last are my species, the Alicorn. They combine the aspects of the three others, and through great deed one of the others could potentially become an Alicorn. Though it is very rare." Twilight explains with queue cards and diagrams. "Our kingdom is called Equestria, and we are a matriarchal society due to the gender disparity compared to the other races on Esquis."

Twilight's explanation is suddenly interrupted by loud snoring. When Aidan and her look to the source, they notice that Spike has fallen asleep. This gets Twilight to think they've done enough for now, and says "Maybe we should continue this another time, we have been going a while and Pinkie likely has the party ready."

Twilight moves over to Spike and gently nudges him. "Five more minutes..." is the only response from the young man.

"Oh, one last piece of information." Twilight says as she continues trying to wake Spike. "His kind is called dragon-kin, the have scales, claws, tails and wings. Though not all have wings, and they can also breathe fire."

"Alright! I'm up, I'm up!" Spike exclaims groggily as he slowly gets up and stretches. "Are we done now?"

"Yes, can you please send this scroll to Princess Celestia?" she asks him as she hands him a rolled up and sealed scroll.

Spike takes the scroll and breathes fire on it, which leaves nothing but smoke which floats off into the air. "Done." he says and starts walking to the door. "I'm going to see if Pinkie Pie is ready."