Bridlewood: the Cost of Lies

What is the cost of lies?

There are many reasons that an individual may choose to bend the truth, or outright disregard it. It may be because they believe that lying presents the best chance of getting what they want. It may be because they want to hurt others with their words, or avoid hurting the feelings of others (as we Earth Ponies call them, white lies).

Or, it may be to save face in a situation of embarrassment, where a failure so massive occurs that to acknowledge it would be to accept that your very society is rotten to the core.

For those who refuse to accept the lie, it becames the beginning of truly understanding what is really going on. They see the apparently disconnected threads between thoughts and understand how they fit together, and come to understand the powers and ponies who shape our world.

The pieces are always there. It's just establishing how they fit together.

But if all you have ever been taught is lies, how can you see the truth? The system feeds lies into the minds of our foals from the very start. Ponies find comfort in the lies. Even when they become so used to the lies, they can no longer recognise the truth.

But if the truth threatened to completely overturn your world and topple the powers that be, would you accept it?

Even when it's more dangerous to remain ignorant, when it's too dangerous to keep the truth covered up, those in positions of power will try to cover the truth up, never truly understanding the price they, and the people they deceive, are paying.

I write this, and compile this information, in the hope that the struggle and sacrifice of those brave souls will not go down in vain. Ponykind deserves to know the truth about what happened in those critical months 30 years ago.

My name is Argyle Starshine.

And this is the true story of the Bridlewood disaster.