#star swirl the bearded

[theknucklehead]

Here are the many costumes that the ponies wear on Nightmare Night (Equestria's Halloween)

Twilight Sparkle - Star Swirl the Bearded/a gladiator

Pinkie Pie - a chicken/80s Rollerblader

Rainbow Dash - a Shafowbolt/an astronaut

Applejack - a scarecrow/a lion

Rarity - a mermaid

Fluttershy - a masquerade dress (without the mask) and then later Flutterbat

Spike - a dragon/a two-headed dragon

The Cutie Mark Crusaders - the bride of Frankenstein, a vampire, and a wolf

A platypus, a Wonderbolt, and a Victoria era ballgown

And finally a bonus:

Derpy - paper bags/Princess Twilight

[my-little-pony-theories]

MLP:FIM Theory: Green Element of Harmony

A theory created by DRWolf001, suggesting that there is a hidden 7th Element of Harmony that is Scorpan/Spike's.

Watch his videos before reading this.

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Scorpan's Past

Canon: Tirek and his younger brother Scorpan first traveled to Equestria in the hopes of conquering it. Scorpan fell in love with the ponies and they're way of life, and became friends with Star Swirl swirl the Bearded.

Speculation: Scorpan finds Spike's dragon egg by itself just on the outskirts of the pony nation, and he decides to keep it.

Reasoning: Scorpan finding Spike and bringing him to the ponies is a reference to their G1 counterparts, where a similar thing took place.

Canon: In Princess Celestia's narration, she says Scorpan went back to his homeland after Tirek's imprisonment.

Speculation: Instead of him immediately leaving after Tirek's imprisonment, in actuality he stayed in Equestria for some years.

After Stygian brought the Pillars together to defeat the Sirens, Scorpan became friends with them too.

Canon: When Stygian turned into the Pony of Shadows, the Pillars create the seed that would grow into the Tree of Harmony by fusing their magic into it.

Speculation: Scorpan was the one who inspired Star Swirl the Bearded to create the Seed. During the spell, Scorpan was in the room with the Pillars, so his magic unintentionally was added to the spell.

After the Pillars sacrifice themselves to defeat the Pony of Shadows, Scorpan decides to go back home.

Where did his element go?

Speculation: Before Celestia and Luna used the Elements to defeat Discord, Scorpan had returned to Equestria to see if the Tree had grown. He finds the Elements and removes the branch containing his Element. The branch he took is turned into the Staff of Sacanas after he removed the gem within it.

Reasoning: This is based on an unused concept for the movie, which would've shown that Scorpan was the original owner of the Staff of Sacanas before the Storm King stole it from him, and that the Staff was made from a branch of the Tree of Harmony.

Because his Element wasn't originally a part of the spell, the other 6 Elements work completely fine without it. However, with the combined power of all 7 Elements, they can do much more.

Scorpan and Spike

The Mane Six each share elements with the Pillars of Equestria. Spike and Scorpan are not only connected by the past, but share similarities with each other as well:

Scorpan was Star Swirl's first and closest friend, and Spike is Twilight's first and closest (non-blood related) friend.

Scorpan is the only non-pony member of his group of friends, and Spike is the same.

Scorpan is friendly to ponies, appreciates their way of life, and enjoys living with them, just like Spike.

Castle of Friendship

The Castle of Friendship was formed from the Chest of Harmony, which served as the seed that planted it. The Chest itself was a sprout from the Tree of Harmony.

When the Castle formed, it created a 7th chair for Spike, which it technically didn't need to do if he wasn't connected to the Tree of Harmony in the same way the Mane 6 ponies were. Spike's chair is closer to Twilight's.

Although, it's possible that since the Tree is somewhat self aware, it knew Spike was Twilight's assistant/best friend, and lived in the Castle as well, so that's why it created a 7th chair for him, closer to Twilight's.

Unknown Green Element of Harmony

Throughout the franchise, when images of the Elements of Harmony are shown both within the show or other material, sometimes a green element is shown, usually in the place of a different Element:

It could simply be an error.

However, there are some cases where the green element is shown with the other 6 Elements:

Each Element's color represents a part of the character's design that shares the same color:

Magenta: Twilight's cutie mark color

Orange: Applejack's coat color

Red: Part of Rainbow's mane and cutie mark color

Purple: Rarity's mane color

Pink: Fluttershy's mane and cutie mark color

Blue: Pinkie's eye and cutie mark color

Green: Spike's eye and spine color

Element Chart

Star Swirl the Bearded = Sorcery | Twilight Sparkle = Magic

Rockhoof = Strength | Applejack = Honesty

Flash Magnus = Bravery | Rainbow Dash = Loyalty

Mistmane = Beauty | Rarity = Generosity

Mage Meadowbrooke = Healing | Fluttershy = Kindness

Somnambula = Hope | Pinkie Pie = Laughter

Scorpan = Respect | Spike = Acceptance

BTW, Sunset Shimmer's Element is Empathy!

? = ? | Sunset Shimmer = Empathy

Stygian is meant to be Starlight Glimmer's parallel, so those two aren't Elements.

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There is a lot of glaring evidence here to suggest that this theory could be true. So much so, it makes me wonder if it's actually what they were foreshadowing and building up to... until Hasbro had them do the School of Friendship storyline instead.

The storyline for Season 8 would've been completely different, it instead being a continuation of setting up the Pillars in Season 7.

[doomsderry]

Final post of the year, Starswirl!!

Unintentionally made him look like Gandalf The Grey/White from The Lord Of The Rings, but that's okay because I love those movies!!!

I knew for sure I wanted to make his horn super curved, and give him a cutie mark resembling Twilight's. Starswirl's original cutie mark was SOOOOO BOOORRRIIIINGG so I based it off the toy character's cutie mark instead. I didn't really base his cloak off the painting Starry Night, by Van Gogh, but I did have the painting in mind while designing it.

In my au, Twilight is a distant granddaughter of Starswirl. This isn't a well known fact, however. Long ago, Starswirl had written a spell to create life. He, being a busy sorcerer, had no time on his hooves for a foal, so he made the difficult decision to give it up.

This foal was powerful, even as a young one. After Starswirl's disappearance, ponies predicted this was Starswirl's second coming. The foal's adoptive parents decided to go to the two young princesses for advice on how to control the young one's magic, but being that the sisters were still young themselves and had just lost their mentor and father figure, they weren't sure what to do either. Celestia suggested that the foal stay with them so they can keep tabs on the young one's magic, and give them books to study. Luna wasn't too fond of the idea of a foal staying in the castle, but she wasn't about to turn a worried family away. As time went on, Celestia and Luna watched this pony grow and learn, and start their own family. Generations on generations of powerful unicorns. It was this lineage that made Celestia decide to open up a School Of Magic, to teach young unicorns to excel and become powerful young sorcerers. When she met young Twilight, she couldn't help but be reminded of Starswirl, and that young unicorn foal they once took care of.

And yes, Starswirl was a father figure to Celestia and Luna. He even had cute nicknames for them. Sunny Bunny and Lulu.

[aupermittymeowmeow]

Pillars Redesign + Stygian!! Theyre canon designs are SO boring, i had to at least make em all special meow meows

Starswirl the Bearded: Kept his og design, but more magically? His right eye has no pupils and he has a wing on the left side of his body(like a half alicorn situation) Somnambula: Made her a sphinx as well! I didn't really like her outfit, so I made it more accurate to ancient egyptian wear, same with her hair

Mistmane: She is a Qilin, which is basically a Chinese dragon-horse. Her species is an ancestor of modern Kirin.

Rockhoof: Based his design on more traditional Norse attire. He is based on the Sleipnir, an eight-legged horse.

Meadowbrook: In one episode she was called a unicorn, so thats what I did lol. She is based off the Kongo creature Adaba, which is a unicorn with two horns.

Flash Magnus: Didn't change him much, but I did give him burn scars from his fight with the dragons. That's why his cutie mark is smudged. He is an ancestor of Flash Sentry.

Stygian/Pony of Shadows: After his reformation, I made his body have marks from his form as the Pony of Shadows. Also, said Pony of Shadows is an Umbrum AND smaller(Like what happened to Crona in Soul Eater)

[nextgenfoals]

Chancellor neighsay x starswirl!

Ancient History is a multicultural historian! Despite his gruff appearance and serious demeanor, he desperately wishes to rectify the mistakes his fathers and other close-minded ponies made in the past.

~ Mod Ace ♥️

[majachee]

Cooking smth up...

[mylittlestims]

aroace dark academia starswirl the bearded?

AroAce Starswirl Stimboard with dark academia for Anon

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[starswirl-the-not-yet-bearded]

Starswirl the Not Yet Bearded AU Intro

For as long as any pony can remember, Twilight Sparkle has been ruling over Equestia.

AU Overview - Twilight Sparkle

Twilight Sparkle is the only known Alicorn in all of history. History from before her arrival is scarce. She acts as a mediator between the three tribes of ponies, but not as a ruler. More, she is an unbiased party to make things like the tribes mixing together easier.

Do to not being a true ruler, she keeps a close collection of friends from all of the tribes to avoid her becoming more biased towards one tribe or region.

In her spare time, she also runs a school dedicated to teaching students from every tribe of pony.

One of her students was a young unicorn named Starswirl.

AU Overview - Starswirl

Starswirl is a very talented young unicorn who is studying magic, specifically focusing on magic outside of pony's hooves- Like the Everfree forest and Time. This interest is what first made him move to the edge of Ponyville to get closer to the Everfree.

One day, while out on a walk, he found two young ponies. Foals, no older than a week old, left out in the wild. He immediately took them to his home, deciding that after he made sure they were safe, then he could find them homes with someponies who were ready and able to be parents (Unlike himself)

This plan changed after he got a better look at the two.

AU Overview - Celestia and Luna

Starswirl's adopted daughters.

The only alicorns in existence besides Twilight. Starswirl has been keeping their existence a secret in fear that something may happen to them in case the word got out.

Despite being older than the age most ponies earn their marks, both girls are still blank flanks.

They both have a pretty good handle on their magic for their age, and have been learning glamour spells from a friend. Now, they can both look like regular ponies and actually get to interact with other fillies their age! Starswirl isn't fond of this, but he agrees they making more friends can't do any harm.

[applejewel-and-pinkamena]

Princess Celestia loved answering letters from curious ponies across the land of Equestria, and sometimes, she would get a particularly juicy question, and sometimes, she would get a letter like the one she got this very day:

"Dear Princess Celestia, what was it like to be raised by and to study under Starswirl the Bearded? Please feel free to include as many details as you want about him, his parenting, and teaching methods."

The very name brought back a world of nostalgic memories that Celestia had locked deep within herself!

Starswirl the Bearded

Now that was a colt to look up to, and his parenting had made the two sisters who they were today. And so she began writing in great detail about his methods.

Thank you for writing to me dear Barflight Clipper.

Starswirl was a marvellous mentor and father figure, he taught me everything i would ever need to know and more, with remarkable success, and imprinted upon me and my sister solid moral values that stand to this day. Your letter rekindled fond memories of his lectures, where we would have to listen very carefully as he dissected a given topic, then we would write essays on said topic, he would grade them, then he'd move on with the lecture and have us write another essay and answer a sheet of questions in a limited timeframe, and after a third delightful lecture we would get the exam for the day, just completing this exam usually took each of us around 2 hours, barely enough to slip by Starswirl's time limit! If we got a perfect grade, he'd even allow us the privilege of going outside for five whole minutes! The excitement of fresh air and grass as a filly still lives within me! All in all classroom time was around 9 hours give or take; if we got less than a perfect grade then we would have passed, if we got below a 90% then he would give us a good whacking with his trusty ruler, and if we went below 80% that'd mean no dinner for the day and triple whackings! Oh, i remember one time Luna got the worst grade either of us ever grazed, a 62%, Starswirl had her locked inside her room for 9 months after giving her the whacking of her life, i was responsible for sliding lunch under her door everyday, alongside the day's worksheets, i just had to make sure to never talk with her until the punishment ended or else i would get locked in my room too! Talk about proper discipline! Luna was never the same since.

In the middle of writing her letter, Celestia was interrupted by Luna, she was having another episode where she would pause in the middle of an activity and stare at a wall as she stood completely still, barely even blinking, she snapped out of it after an hour or so.

And speaking of punishments, you may be pleased to hear that Starswirl was the inventor of homework as we know it today! After the daily exam, we were always and without fail be given a good couple pages of homework that needed to be given back complete the next morning to be allowed breakfast, usually oatmeal with water was his go-to, but when he was feeling spicy, he would make us some delicious carrot bread with extra crust, the crunch lives within my brain to this day. And of course, any wrong answer in the homework was a good reason to deny either of us the privilege of breakfast, and if it didn't meet Starswirl's generous threshold then he could deny breakfast for two days, three, a week or two, up to a month as he did to Luna a couple of times if memory serves me well. A fair whacking could take place as well if the homework was unacceptable, a whacking was also a good answer to a sneeze outside of recess or private time, and it served as a concise review of any incorrect answer to his many random questions in the middle of lectures, and anypony entering his chambers or taking more food than allowed or otherwise sticking their nose where it doesn't belong, would mean an extended session of whacking, after the first two years of his parental duties, he graduated us from The Ruler, to The Belt, which was much more effective at whacking misbehaved fillies into shape; much later, into our teenage years, we would graduate from The Belt, into customized paddles for each one of us, he was very considerate to have individual discipline devices for each of his favorite daughters/pupils! Mine got quite a fair bit of use, but is still preserved with love, Luna's on the other hand broke eighteen times if i remember correctly, and he always replaced it within the minute.

But i know that the fillies of today may find his methods to be a tad strict, but let me tell you, he had a reward system as well! He would give each of us acts of love based on who could surpass the other in his many competitions and challenges, for example, he could decide that our afterclass chatting was too irritating, and begin a week-long competition between us two, to figure out who could keep without speaking the longest, it was me of course, Luna was not strong enough to stop herself from yelping in pain as she was whacked during a lecture for slouching, this landed her a week locked up in her room, and as a reward, i got to hug Starswirl! One of the most treasured memories of my entire life. Or this other time where he put a lollipop on display, so as to tempt us to break the rules and grab it, it worked with Luna and Starswirl convinced the police to arrest her for 3 months over it, she still had homework to do of course, with extended work sheets as punishment, and you see, back then toilets didn't exist so the officers passed her a bucket and- well, details are up to your imagination, but in any case, my reward were 10 minutes of recess with less supervision than usual, nice!

Oh, and speaking of recess!! I have this hilarious moment in mind, Luna was allowed a recess at one point, a bit of a rare ocurrence, but she ended up accidentaly looking at a colt, Starswirl immediately cancelled our recess and gave her extra homework, and made her write an essay on why romantic love is a distraction for a future ruler, and gave her a whacking session everytime it didn't pass and made her restart, took her all day but she made it, although she couldn't finish the homework in time for breakfast and had to go without it the next day, in that sense Starswirl also taught us about how when one door opens, another closes.

On that topic, his biology lessons were enlightening, we learnt from an early age that a hippogriff delivers babies to couples who love each other very, very much; Luna once found a Biology textbook in Starswirl's archives that stated something very different, and then he punished her with three hundred whackings and a visit to the corner, since we shouldn't read those until we became 23 years old and "ripe for marriage" as he would put it, i still haven't read it as a precaution ever since he vanished, but Luna has taken peeks without my permission (whackings have been delivered too).

He also successfully snapped Luna out of her edgy teenage phase, by burning all her clothes and making her wear a proper dress the rest of the year, and assigned her some extra homework, i think that sent her on the right path!

"Right Luna?" Asked Celestia as Luna slowly composed herself to talk "i remember the walls of my room, they became my only friends, i can still hear their screams" Celestia just laughed "oh Luna! You are so silly!" And she returned to writing

Luna just told me a very funny joke, i think she was referring to the time Starswirl found her sending letters to a colt in secret, or rather, when i revealed to him that she had done this, apparently they had become pen pals for quite a while, Starswirl made her send the colt a strongly worded letter where she would insult him to sever their bond irreversibly, then made her burn all the letters she kept of his alongside her own furniture, and made her sleep on the floor of her empty room for seven months give or take, she knew to never keep secrets from him after that, i am glad to say that she has not been negatively impacted by this in the slightest!

Celestia was interrupted by one of Luna's fits, she would throw herself to the floor and cry uncontrollably for no reason; but Celestia had a solution, she fetched a small pony doll and threw it towards Luna, who caught it and began taking care of it "shh, shh, you are safe now little one, nopony is going to hurt you" and Luna then returned to her dark, cluttered room.

To conclude, he had this wonderful tradition he passed down to us, where he would display a framed picture of his favorite students in the Main Hall of his castle, i could confidently tell you i never remember a picture that wasn't of me being put up! After all, the made such a display out of calling me his favorite student everytime he could. Oh how i love reminiscing of the good old days, i will consider writing a column for the Canterlot Newspaper about him, i hope ponies like you can use his wisdom to educate your own foals in the future.

Yours truly, Princess Celestia.

[scraggly-guy]

If Starswirl the Bearded was at the Crystal Empire instead of the Mane 6

[onebadpunspoilsabunch]

A younger Scorpan and Star Swirl.

Headcanons about Scorpan:

Scorpan was Star Swirl's first real friend!

Despite being bigger than them (and most ponies) Scorpan is younger than the Pillars.

After Tirek's imprisonment, Scorpan had returned home to tell his parents the news. But after that, he had returned to Equestria. By the time Scorpan came back, Stygian had already brought the Pillars together to defeat the Sirens, so Scorpan wasn't around for that. Scorpan reunited with Star Swirl and became friends with the other Pillars.

Scorpan helped the Pillars create the seed that would become the Tree of Harmony, but asked Star Swirl not to record his involvement (for unknown reasons).

After the Pillars sacrificed themselves to defeat the Pony of Shadows, Scorpan returned to his homeland once again.

Scorpan had found Spike's egg by itself in the middle of nowhere, and decided to take it with him. Scorpan decided to give it to Star Swirl, who gave it to Celestia and Luna. This is a reference to Generation 1 obviously.

The same way the Mane 6 got their elements from the Pillars, Spike got his element from Scorpan.

Scorpan's friendship with Stygian is similar to Spike's friendship with Starlight Glimmer.

Years after the Tree of Harmony grew, Scorpan returned to Equestria to take a branch from the Tree, and created the Staff of Sacanas.

[my-little-pony-theories]

Star Swirl's unfinished cutie mark spell:

From one to another, another to one. A mark of one's destiny singled out alone, fulfilled.

This switched the cutie marks of the Element holders, except for Twilight. 

Twilight's addition to his spell:

From all of us together, together we're friends. With the marks of our destinies made one, there is magic without end!

This caused the Elements to transport Twilight to that celestial realm, where she was turned into an Alicorn (either by whatever magic was within the realm, or Celestia herself, idk. Most likely the former).

Star Swirl and his friends created the Tree of Harmony, so it could be that when the spell for the seed was created, Star Swirl wanted whoever finished his cutie mark spell to be turned into an Alicorn, as he deemed them worthy of it.

What kind of cutie mark spell was Star Swirl trying to make? Switching cutie marks obviously wasn't what he was going for, since his spell was unfinished. 

What does Star Swirl's finished spell (due to Twilight's addition) do? 

Possible answers: 

Star Swirl was trying to create a spell that would instantly give a pony or other creature a cutie mark without any negative side effects.

Star Swirl's spell was meant to share (temporarily or permanently) a pony's cutie mark with another. 

[doomsderry]

Merry Christmas Eve to all those who celebrate! Thought I'd share some wips as well as the Crystal Cadence design.

The freaky little dude smiling is my OC Marshmallow, I haven't drawn him in a while but he's been on my mind recently.

Oh, I also started on those ship kids I promised! Only TwiPie for now! She's so cute, I intended to sell these but it's going to take everything in me not to keep her

[snowyllama-art]

[fr3nzicorn]

My favorite old fictional men with beards 💚 (i have gone insane)

Starswirl…

…and Discord!

These two are literally so amazing I love them so so so much okay like RAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH me when friendship is magic

[friendship-is-unity]

Soon......