Rise Of A Nation: Equestria

Rise of a Nation: Equestria

Introduction.

You all know the story of how Equestria was founded.  Three ponies of distinctive races who set aside their differences to come together to live in harmony and peace forever, creating the wondrous land we know as Equestria. But that is only half the story…

Even a hundred and fifty years after the founding, not everyone agreed it was for the best.  While the governments may have reached an agreement, the ponies of the lands had not.  Harmony may have been established, but the harmony was imperfect and fleeting.

The tribes split up, only agreeing to help one another in the most minimal of fashions.  Eventually they began to hate one another.  Fights broke out between the tribes.  Everypony was in a free for all, the threat of war was looming and the balance was hanging on by less than a thread.  The dragons roaming the land were ignored, and the curious Zebras entering the new land were frightened by the way the ponies fought, and would flee.  Fights raged over land disputes, they were fought for ponies refusing to help the other, or even simply over food.

Then, a new kind of pony emerged.

They called themselves “Alicorns” having both a horn and wings.  They took control of both the weather and the rising of the sun and the moon.  They quickly were held as the highest, most prominent ponies in all of society.  People worshiped them, prayed to them, had sacrifices even. The Alicorns were goddesses, they held all the power in the land and they knew it.  Though they had one problem.

All Alicorns were females.  That is all, but one.  He called himself “Odin” and reigned over all, having had a castle to live in, built on sacred Unicorn meditating grounds.  This mountain was placed at the center of the conflict between the tribes.  Odin called this new city “Canterlot” and it was where he and the other Alicorns lived.  Few others were permitted, and Odin ruled over all in this land.

Then war broke out.

The fights that had been seen before were no more than jousts between enemies, even as crude as farm ponies used their tools as weapons, but that was not war.  The war was not fought with tools, it was fought with weapons.  The war was not fought to settle a simple land dispute over a farm, or trivial arguments, it was fought to defeat enemies.  The war was not fought until the other side stopped fighting, it was to death.  There is nothing like war.  There had never been blood spilled in such magnitude before.

The Pegasi called upon the griffons to help them in battles, gaining total control of the skies and learning from the griffons, who had power knowledge from their own battles fought.  The Earth Ponies called upon the Dogs with their advanced machinery to help them in battle, their strange ores giving them more powerful weapons.  The Unicorns called upon the Zebras to assist them, using their brews and potions for healing, and their talismans to enhance their weapons and magic.

The tribes may have hated each other, but they hated the Alicorns more. For, all the while, Odin sits on his throne watching over everyone.  Controlling the ponies to do his bidding, indeed, they are his entertainment.  He lives as a tyrant.

There is, however, a way to stop the war, the killing, and end King Odin’s tyranny.  The fate of what will become of Equestria rests in the hooves of three ponies.  A Unicorn, a Pegasus, and an Earth Pony.  They must settle their differences to try and save Equestria.

This is the untold story of how Equestria was founded.

Rise of a Nation: Equestria