#the six pillars of equestria

[friendship-is-unity]

Soon......

[mylittleponyauprompts]

An AU where those in the past are dead and those versions of them stayed dead, but they reincarnated into the future characters we know now.

Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle are reincarnations of the Celestial sisters. However a twist has occurred between the two of them. The reincarnation of Luna is the golden child instead of the reincarnation of Celestia. Shining Armor appears to be a normal guard in training while his little sister is a born natural at magic and got into the most prestigious magic school in Equestria at at the youngest age in Equestrian history.

Starlight glimmer is the reincarnation of Starswirl the bearded

Sunburst is the reincarnation of Stygian

Sunset Shimmer is the reincarnation of Sombra.

Trixie is the reincarnation of Discord

Cadence is the reincarnation of the lost crystal princess

Apple Jack is the reincarnation of rockhoof

Rainbow Dash is the reincarnation of flash magnus

Fluttershy is the reincarnation of mage meadow brook

Rarity is the reincarnation of Mist mane

Pinkie pie is the reincarnation of somnambula

[my-little-pony-theories]

I found this image on derpibooru. I didn't make this.

This is a very good and detailed chart. Personally, I would switch Stygian and Scorpan because Stygian = Starlight Glimmer and Scorpan = Spike makes more sense to me.

Also this chart reminded me of how utterly stupid the Season 10 comics are, and how they make zero sense within the canon of the show.

Yeah... pretty much. Some of the stuff in the comics and all of G5 is what I consider non-canon. And some of the stuff in Equestria Girls is a bit confusing, and makes no sense.

And the Young Six/Tree of Harmony stuff that happened in season 8/9 was stupid...

[onebadpunspoilsabunch]

Rewriting the last 2 seasons of mlp:fim, cause I'm bored and I need to get my ideas out.

I warn you: This is a collection of cluttered ideas, so don't expect it to be perfect o anything XD

Story of season 8 rewrite:

Instead of there being a School of Friendship, have the Student 6 be assigned to study under one of the Mane 6. 

Twilight Sparkle does what she did in the show and asks each of the different leaders to send a student to study, learn, and live with them. The student paired with each Mane Six member is:

Strength (Rockhoof) – Honesty (Applejack) – Yona (?)

Healing (Mage Meadowbrook) – Kindness (Fluttershy) – Sandbar (?)

Hope (Somnambula) – Laughter (Pinkie Pie) – Silverstream (Enthusiasm)

Beauty (Mistmane) – Generosity (Rarity) – Ocellus (Change)

Bravery (Flash Magnus) – Loyalty (Rainbow Dash) – Smolder (?)

Sorcery (Star Swirl the Bearded) – Magic (Twilight Sparkle) – Gallus (?)

I believe that this makes more sense than a school.

Give the two villains of the season (Cozy Glow and Chancellor Neighsay) actual reasons/backstories for the way they act and what they do.

Examples:

Give Cozy Glow a more believable motivation. In the original finale, Cozy's motivation for stealing the magic of Equestria is... I forgot honesty, lol.

A more believable motivation could be that Cozy feels neglected and overlooked by the other ponies, specifically unicorns, and she wants to screw with everyone by creating a level playing field (disregarding how it'll fuck up everyone in Equestria).

For the Chancellor, let's say that he recalls all of the times throughout the series where ponykind had been attacked or come into conflict with other creatures, etc. That's a more believable motivation.

Season 8 finale: 

I actually don't know how to write this in a way for it to make more sense, I just know that these specific plot points need to happen in the episode:

The Mane Six are put out of commission in order for the Student Six to be revealed to have a connection to the Elements of Harmony 

Cozy is revealed to have a connection to Tirek in some way. And we actually learn her backstory.

The Mane Six talk to Tirek and learn more about his past, and he mentions Scorpan of course

Chancellor Neighsay gets a realistic redemption, but after learning his backstory of course

Cozy Glow is sent away, not to Tartarus, but to stay with Shining Armor and Princess Cadence in the Crystal Empire to learn how to be good and get whatever the f*ck help she needs XD 

At the end of the story the Mane Six are praising their individual students and are happy that they have the same connection to the Elements and each other that they do. 

Story of season 9:

In order to understand what happens next, I highly recommend that you watch these videos by DrWolf001 on YouTube. These videos were the ones that inspired all of this:

ok, here we go!

Premiere:

Everything that happened in the season 9 premiere happens, the only difference being that Grogar is the REAL Grogar, not Discord in disguise.

Oh, and… a very special guest shows up at the school. 

Everyone in the room, the Mane Six, Spike, the Pillars, Celestia and Luna, the Student Six, everyone else is in utter shock at who it is: 

Scorpan, Tirek's younger brother, carrying a staff made from the Tree of Harmony! 

Following episodes:

Scorpan has made his reappearance to the characters. The Pillars and the Royal Sisters are ecstatic to see their old friend, especially Starswirl. Scorpan asks Celestia if the dragon egg he gave her hatched yet, and everyone is shocked. Scorpan meets Spike, and explains himself: 

When Starswirl and Scorpan first became friends, Scorpan was carrying Spike's egg with him. He explains that he found it by itself, and wanted to find it a home. He asked Starswirl to take care of it, but he refused, since he had more important things to do. Starswirl instead gave it to Celestia and Luna to use as a test, similar to Twilight Sparkle's test in the School for Gifted Unicorns. After the Pillars sacrificed themselves to stop the Pony of Shadows, Scorpan went back to his homeland. His brother was in Tartarus, and his friends were gone, so he had no reason to stay. 

Many years have passed, and Celestia still couldn't open the egg. She didn't know why, since she was a powerful alicorn. So when she built her school, she created the egg as the final test. (Even if a Unicorn couldn't open the egg, they wouldn't be judged on that alone.)

Scorpan explains what inspired him to come back to Equestria: His magical staff, which was made out of a branch from the Tree of Harmony, alerted him to the fact that more creatures were now connected to the Tree, so he came there to see. Scorpan meets them all, but is confused about something: There are only six elements for the Mane Six and the Student Six. 

Scorpan demands to see the Tree of Harmony, and storms off with the others following him.

—

Scorpan sees that the Tree is destroyed, but he is still trying to find something. The others are confused, but Scorpan says that it's "nothing". They leave, except for Spike.

Spike asks Scorpan where he found his egg, and Scorpan says he "doesn't remember". Spike is disappointed of course, but eventually says that he's accepted it. Scorpan starts asking Spike about his life with the ponies and all that jazz, and after hearing Spike talk, he realizes that Spike is exactly like him: 

He's the only non-pony member of his group of friends, he has a closer relationship with the main element (Twilight Sparkle) similar to how Scorpan had a closer relationship with the main element in his day (Starswirl), and even though he feels out of place sometimes, he's accepted his life and his duties to help his friends. Scorpan tells Spike that he believes he's the 7th Element. 

Tolerance (Scorpan) – Acceptance (Spike) – (?) (?)

Who is under Spike? That remains to be seen... meaning idk

Spike tells him that it's impossible, as when the ponies found the Elements, they only found 6. Scorpan tells him that only those that are connected to the Elements can find them. Scorpan and Spike search the Castle of the Two Sisters, but can't find the missing element anywhere. Scorpan asks Spike to try to remember if he's ever taken it or even seen it, and Spike remembers:

In the episode Secret of My Excess, when Spike was going through his greed-induced puberty, he was taking random things and hoarding them in the library. One was an orb that he found in the Castle of the Two Sisters. 

But after Spike had turned back to normal, he had returned all of the items he took. Spike didn't know what the orb was, so he just kept it in the basement. 

And then… the library was destroyed by Tirek. So the entrance to the basement was lost underground. So Scorpan and Spike start digging, or they find a way to teleport down there, idk

They find the orb in the basement, and Spike tries to get it to transform into a jewel. Scorpan says that it can only transform in the presence of the other Elements. 

That's all I've come up with. Feel free to add, suggest, or rewrite something, please 😅

[incorrectmlpstudentsixquotes]

the student six aren’t direct parallels of the mane six or anything, but there have been times where the elements of harmony have been applied to the students, but the two times have been contradictory (although most ppl will go with the s8 finale vers). if u were to assign them elements, which would u go with? i personally liked gallus as magic for literally no reason other than i thought twi vibes made perfect sense lmao. i’m a big fan of character parallels so i’m interested to hear ur thoughts!

So I brought up in an earlier post something about this as well. (I can’t remember if it was this blog or the previous one, but I digress…)

Basically, I had the idea that, because Twilight and her friends had different Elements than Starswirl and the other Pillars of Equestria, the Student Six would naturally gain their own unique set of Elements too. Similar to the Pillars and the Elements of Harmony, but tailored to whatever virtue the Students would embody.

I ended up calling these new elements the Elements of Unity and that each student would get the following Element…

—-

Gallus - Connection

Silverstream - Wonder

Ocellus - Discovery

Yona - Pride

Sandbar - Humility

Smolder - Acceptance

—-

Now, your question is who would get whose Element? But with this headcanon, the question becomes which Element from one set becomes which Element in the next set? In my opinion, it shakes out to something like this…

Sorcery - Magic/Friendship - Connection

Strength - Honesty - Pride

Healing - Kindness - Humility

Hope - Laughter - Wonder

Bravery - Loyalty - Acceptance

Beauty - Generosity - Discovery

—-

If you want to take it one step further, there’s a popular fan-theory that Sunset Shimmer is the wielder of a seventh Element of Harmony, which most fans refer to as the Element of Empathy.

If we’re ascribing to this fan-theory for this particular headcanon, then I would have Swift Foot inherit this seventh Element, but for her it would become the Element of Reflection.

[ponyprideful]

Here’s a bit of a rapid-fire one: say hello to the main characters of my oc Mane 6 universe!

How about that old art (circa 2023), hey?

I plan to slowly redraw their refs and post about them in more detail individually, but in order to do that, I’ll have to introduce their world! Mostly because it’s not the same as my nextgen world.

I will be including a majority of their basic lore and their names/elements below!

(SPOILERS FOR MLP S9)

They live in Equestria’s future, one thousand years past the end of Twilight Sparkle’s reign. As time went on, new alicorn rulers took the place of the old. The seven rulers represent the arts: Painting, Sculpture, Literature, Architecture, Cinema, Music, and Theatre. They are not royalty so much as they are demigods, even partially built out of the concepts they embody. They are not physically equine, but they do resemble horses, and they have personalities, feel emotion, and make mistakes. It’s just a bit uncanny to think of them as living.

But under their rule, Equestria itself has experienced a creative renaissance. With so many more voices contributing to the arts, Equestria and beyond has flourished with possibilities. Creatures live in relative harmony, and icy barriers have been all but broken down. It’s a perfect Equestria.

Almost.

What few realize after so many years is that a certain statue containing three of Equestria’s greatest adversaries wore down enough to allow their escape, and they’ve been building their forces in the shadows. A growing army of rogue changelings, a slow rekindling of magical power, and the overwhelming anger from a filly left to rot make for quite the looming threat.

The Elements are also not quite the same. Much like when they transferred from The Pillars to the Mane 6, the current ponies represent similar but different ideals to those from the past. From left to right, we have:

- Limelight (he/him), the Element of Courage, formerly Loyalty and Bravery.

- Patchwork (she/her), the Element of Compassion, formerly Kindness and Healing.

- High Voltage (they/them) (low center), the Element of Perseverance, formerly Laughter and Hope.

- Equius (he/him), the Element of Alchemy, formerly Magic and Sorcery.

- Paper Plane (she/her), the Element of Patience, formerly Generosity and Beauty.

- Wisteria (she/her), the Element of Justice, formerly Honesty and Strength.

(This is also under the pretense that each culture has their own Elements, like in the comics, and that these are just the Equestrian ones.)

What lies beneath these six chosen ponies that made them worthy of the Elements? Will these six equines be able to fight the powers that be? Will they even be able to get along with each other?

They better. Friendship is Magic, after all.

[dapper-lil-arts]

It's funny to me that a lot of the characters in g4 that share a name with a villian from g1 are drastically different from that villian.

I'll go over a few examples starting with Tirek, in g1 Tirek was an evil conqueror who forcibly turned creatures into monstrous slaves and was going to bring about enternal night meanwhile g4 Tirek was trying to absorb all the magic in equestria to earn his father's respect.

Then we have storm king in g1 the storm king innately had the power to control storms and inherently brought storms with him wherever he went which tended to scare people away so he started stealing sound so he could make his storms sound less intimidating so he could make friends, in g4 the storm king is a conqueror who needs the staff of sacanas to actually control storms in the first place.

G1 somnambula was a witch who used spells to force things to sleep and stole away their life while they were having pleasant dreams. In g4 somnambula is a hero and one of the six pillars.

G1 smooze is a big purple pile of goop that was made in a volcano by some witches and nearly consumed everything and if someone touched they'd become unreasonably angry , while g4 smooze is a friend of discord who eats magic and is like a big green slime thing.

Man there seems to be an odd recurring thing of 1- enslaving people 2- stealing magic

Interesting to have all these remakes and remixes. I like that! i figured that they should keep doing it, since *sequels sure as hell arent their thing.* Also somnambula is so dang cute. her design is adorable!!

[lianatheowl]

Behold

The young rulers of Equestria - Celestia and Luna - and their regent Starswirl the Bearded!

Starswirl in TCOD is 550 years old wise sorcerer, who is still alive thanks to some secret artifact similar to philosopher's Stone.

He is the leader of the Pillars, the group of ancient heroes(still alive by the same reason btw)

When Luna and Tia were just little girls Starswirl was the one in charge of the country.

Moreover, Starswirl the Bearded is the hierophant of Equestrua, which means he can directly contact with Fausticorn herself, looking for advice or wisdom from the Goddess

Now, about young princesses:D

You do remember that Discord is some sort of main character in TCOD univerce? Good:³

Because this noodle used to be close to them when he was a boy:³

Yeah, as you can see, he always liked Luna more😅

Translation of "Poisoned Chaos" is in progress btw:³

So

[lesbianapplejack]

MLP AU where the mane six are semi reincarnated versions of the Pillars of Old Equestria but it’s more like in warriors how Cinderheart has Cinderpelt’s soul in her too? And same thing the mane 6 release them and that’s how they come to the present

[snirtsnirkarts]

Alright, to unpack my concepts for The Six Pillars. Just rambling tbh since I didn’t have too much on them, but I did have some ideas.

So these were so,e of my concept designs on The Six Pillars and what other creatures they would be. Starswirl the Bearded isn’t here because I mean. I’m not changing him much or at least I didn’t plan to. I didn’t make it far enough to really decide, I just know he’s still a unicorn.

Flash Magus would be the first creature they find out to not be a Pony, although they can’t yet find his magical idiom. Finding out all their stories and where they came from would be the first step, they have to find out along the way that they’s also hunting after their idioms to protect them and other against the threats that are appearing along the way.

I think Mage Meadowbrook would have been next, but I’m still on the fence about her being a Zebra, as I thought about making her a Kirin, since I don’t have representation for that party. But I’d designed the Zerba version first, and it wrapped in better to allow Rarity to speak of her legend, or at least the childhood story of it. So I’m still on the fence about it and I’m willing to sway either way.

I think Mistmane may have been next. Now this one I had a few ideas for. As Dragons and Ponies will specifically have a past with one another. An alliance that was broken years back, but is really the only break they have record of. As Ponies and species don’t really like one another, but it isn’t offend that species will make sure to cut all ties, Dragons being one of those species, another being Yakyaks, and the last being Hippogriffs(although it wasn’t actually anything against ponies, just other dangers pledged them and forced them to the seas.)

As it would turn out in dragon lands, they’d completely forgotten or lost their ability to hatch dragon eggs, which was why they previously had an alliance with Ponies, as unicorns, namely Starswirl the Bearded, knew how to hatch the eggs. All dragons were alive when Starswirl was, and knew of Mistmane. But only until she disappeared, not long after the alliance was broken. Since then, no new hatchlings have come about. So Spike, would be a rather important being, making Twilight important if she’d been able to hatch a dragon egg all on her own. This was due to her studies of Starswirl the Bearded. And he did try to train others or take on an apprentice, but ponies found dragons terrifying creatures, and rather them fade into history. The Main Six would of course fix this problem, and Twilight would vow to hatch dragon eggs once more if they could make amends with Celestia and have a royal decree over it.

The order of actually fully learning the other three Pillar’s legends, Mage Meadowbrook, Somnombula, and Rockhoof hadn’t been decided. I was planning to rework the map of Equestria to better fit their travels, and I had thought about turning it into dnd formatting to help with storylines in between. But once more, I lost the motivation for this plan and storyline. Maybe I’ll pick it up another time, but for now. Enjoy my concepts!

[nox-lunarwing]

A curved horn? Isn't that a sign of evil?

Why because sombra had a curved horn? Sorry to say dear, one pony does not a sign make. Besides I have three of them due to being half dragon. Plus plenty of other creatures have curved horns such as the kirin or the abada of the zebra tribes to only name a couple.

Unless you think this only applies to ponies?

If this is the case then let me remind you that Mistmane, one of the six pillars of old equestria herself has a curved horn as well! Plus this was still a trait common among her village and still is among various other eastern ponies.

[sunburstkisser]

12 and 15 with your mlp s/i! I’m very curious about them👀

YAAAY I GET TO TALK AB MORB ❤️❤️ I love my boy Morbid Curiosity sm :3!!

12. how would the fandom view your character?

There’s a few different ways that’d go, especially depending on which season he’d debut in- If he debuted in an earlier season I feel like he’d be treated like Derpy was. Maybe even being put into the Background Six group (joke)! My ideal debut for him would be in s7e24, Uncommon Bond, where Starlight is showing Sunburst around Ponyville and he clicks better with Starlight’s friends than with her. And since he’d be showing up so late into the series, he’d probably grow a little following of fans like the later season ponies. Starlight, Cozy Glow, the Pillars of Equestria, even Sunburst has his own lil group of dedicated fans (me included :3). Maybe he’d be made into a little transmasc mlp fan mascot or something since he’d be canonically trans 😭

15. how does your self insert play a role in the plot of the story? do they help directly defeat the villain, support the heroes, etc.?

He could absolutely, unintentionally, provide the Main Six with some kind of artifact to help them bc he runs a little curio shop? But in doing so he’d be like a slightly less important Sunburst tbh 😭 I actually haven’t thought much about what he’d do to help anypony defeat anyone cause he’s more-so a glorified background pony-

[my-little-pony-theories]

Man, that theory about Scorpan/Spike being the 7th Element is so spot on, the amount of evidence pointing to it...

Even if the entire thing is just a huge coincidence, it fits so perfectly, and it makes me wish they had gone with that instead of whatever the school of friendship thing was supposed to be

I don't wanna take credit for the theory, since DRWolf001 came up with it first. I only looked for more evidence and whatnot :p

And you know what? The whole point of the School of Friendship was (besides selling toys) to show that non-pony creatures are equal to ponies and should be respected, and that they are capable of wielding pony magic. That's actually not a bad message, since for a good chunk of the show the other creatures have been portrayed as either antagonistic, or less sophisticated than the ponies.

The problem isn't the message, it's that the School of Friendship was a stupid, boring, uncreative, and ultimately poorly thought out and written idea.

They could've used the concept of Scorpan contributing to the Tree of Harmony with the Pillars and having his own Element, which is now Spike's Element, as a way to tell that same message. They didn't have to create 6 new characters in order to tell that message. They already had a main character that was a non-pony… the whole thing was so stupiiiiiiiiid.

The School of Friendship was also meant to show more of the culture of the other creatures. But, once again, it wasn't done well. There was one episode where the Young 6 talk about their winter holidays...

And another where they bring in important objects from former leaders and hang their pictures on the wall... and that's about it :p

There have been episodes from previous seasons that do a much better job of showing the culture and societies of the other creatures... by having the characters actually travel there and spend the whole episode there.

Griffon episode: The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone

Dragon episode: Gauntlet of Fire

Yak episode: Not Asking for Trouble

Changeling episode: To Where and Back Again, and To Change A Changeling

There are only two episodes from post-movie where that happens.

Hippogriff/seapony episode: Surf and/or Turf

Kirin episode: Sounds of Silence

And its not world building for the sake of looking cool and epic like it was in the season 10 comics. At least one character learns something and improves by the end of these episodes.

I've got a whole long list of issues I had with the School of Friendship (and just everything that came after the movie in general). This is just one of them.

[danganronpasurvivoraskblog]

... her rainbow what now? OK I what FiM for the first two seasons plus the first couple of episodes of season 3 so I must ask, the fuck did I miss? Like I know about twilight becoming an alicorn and Discord redeeming himself (and possibly hooking up with Fluttershy) but is their anything else that I missed after leaving the mlp Fandom?

//Ok, so to sum it up... (And I know this because I had to do extensive research on the lore of My Little Pony for this matchup)

//In My Little Pony, there's a thing called the Elements of Harmony which in Equestria are these fabled relics. They bestow great power upon those who are in tune with the Magic of Friendship, having grown from the Tree of Harmony planted by Star Swirl and the Pillars of Equestria, with Fluttershy's specifically being the Element of Kindness.

//During the Season 4 finale when the Ponies fought the Demon Centaur, Tirek, they went to the Tree of Harmony and opened up this sacred chest thing, and it gives Twilight and her friends a powerful magic that transforms them; which isn't named in the series, but it's marketed as "Rainbow Power" on toys and other products. After Tirek absorbed the magic of unicorns, Pegasi, Earth ponies, and the Alicorn princesses, the ponies used this magic to defeat him and return his stolen magic back to its rightful owners.

//As an outsider on this fandom, it's hard to understand everything that goes on, but from the way I look at it, they no longer need to use the Elements of Harmony because they've become the physical embodiment of the Elements themself.

//Consider it as similar to how Goku initially became a Super Saiyan God by combining the strength of six Saiyans with pure hearts, but he subsequently no longer required that to possess the same power since it had been "absorbed into his world" as Beerus put it. While it's not the greatest illustration, it's comparable to the Mane 6 since they have "absorbed" the elements into themselves and are thus not in need of the jewels.

//Ultimately, though, it's only ever seen once, and it was created solely to increase toy sales for the franchise, which is totally understandable.

//Hope that cleared some things up for you, but I bet it didn't, lol

-Mod

[ask-healthy-light]

The rest of the Mane six stepped into the Hall, and found the Pillars sitting around the table with their eyes closed while the Mirror showed the Royals in the Empire, they turned to Pinkie and asked her what was happening, and whether they would be alright; Pinkie tried to reassure them as best as she could, as she started rummaging through her mane, trying to find Nuntius, and ask him for help.

Luckily, the small Wisp was not far away, and before her eyes and those of Discord, who just walked into the Hall supported by Light and Spike, Nuntius appeared, twirling around elegantly, whereafter Pinkie asked him to tell the others they were ready; she waved goodbye to Nuntius who disappeared a moment later, and told her friends to wait, for they would know when they entered the Spirit Realm.

While Light and Spike helped Discord to a seat, and asked him whether there was anything they could do for him, Pinkie told her friends they would meet with the others sitting at the tables both here and in the Empire, even though they would not move from the Hall; though what she told them greatly confused the others, they listened to her, and took a seat next to the Pillars, and quietly waited.

Only the faint, humming noises made by the magical, glowing tendrils that emanated from the horn of the Bearded broke the silence that had fallen in the Hall, and for a while, nothing happened, until Nuntius reappeared before Pinkie, and told her to be ready; after she let the others know about his message, they nodded firmly, when more tendrils flowed from Starswirl's horn to bring them thither.

As the five closed their eyes and appeared to fall into a deep sleep, the trio that sat to the side of the Hall could do nothing but wait, and wish the best for them, and hope for their swift return; in the Spirit Realm, Boom had only just finished telling Grim about the Monster, when a bright glow startled him, whence the five appeared to help them to fight the Shade, whose origin they knew not.

After he had taken a moment to calm down, Boom asked them how they were so quick, to which they had no answer, as they told him they spent a great time at Rarity's boutique, waiting for her to create an outfit for Light, and more time at Fluttershy's cottage, drinking tea with her and Discord after he nearly gravely harmed Light who fell from a great height, had Rainbow not managed to catch them.

Although a thought lingered in his mind, Boom got no chance to think about what they told him, as a heavy rumble echoed throughout the aura, and shook the very ground upon which they stood; Starswirl commanded the other five of the Mane Six in a voice not his own to stand beside the Pillars, and to drive back the Shade, whose strength appeared to be growing, threatening to break through the aura.

But while Applejack and Rainbow Dash respectively ran towards Rockhoof and Flash and Pinkie bounced over to Somnambula, as neither Rarity nor Fluttershy knew whether they could be of help, they froze and moved not; when Nox noticed the two anxiously looking around, she kindly asked Boom to take her place for a moment, as she needed to comfort her friends, to which he only nodded and said nothing.

When Boom had taken her place, driving back the darkness with ease, Nox hurried over to Fluttershy, her first friend, and the first Pony she met in Equestria, and Rarity, to whom she had often spoken when she first came here, and gently embraced them before asking if they were alright; luckily, her kind words and calming presence managed to greatly ease their minds, and they warmly smiled to her.

Very sweetly, Nox took their hooves and asked them to look at their friends walking to the sides of their bound Pillars, and how swiftly and easily they now moved forward, for their connection to the Elements of Harmony gave them great power in this Realm, and she was certain, who- or whatever this Shade was, would be driven back by the power that was within them, and she asked them not to worry.

In the Waking Realm, as Discord started to thank Spike and Light, he snapped his fingers, and said:

"That reminds me, Master Kirin… I had not yet answered your question."

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Dungeons and ponies

(Disclaimer : There is a lot of reading here but there is also drawings, the drawings are lower in the post so don't hesitate to jump straight to it to avoid the blabbering) Since uni is kicking my behind (well, that and a good old bad cold), I put a hiatus on Shuffled (and have been for a while already). But that's not the subject of this post ! So, Dungeons and Dragons ! The most known system of roleplay than most fan of the genre have played at least once, right ? Not me. I have only played homemade systems since before I could read. But I am a big fan of DnD redesigns and love memes so, what did I do after watching some redesigns on youtube? Well, of course, I drew the pillars ! And since I can't do anything simply, I linked them all to two classes and made a few indications for stats and an idea for a small system to represent the elements. So a few explainations then drawings ! Each pillars are linked to 2 classes (I also have ideas for the mane 6 (7?) but I haven't drawn them yet, dunno if I will) depending of their stories (in the serie and in the comics) and what I felt like doing. Each pillars are linked to a "virtue", virtues are pretty much the equivalent of the elements but there is seven of them and are made to be "usable" for both generation. The concept of virtue is : each virtue corresponds to an ability (for example : faith would rise the critical sucess rate for difficult actions). A virtue being in a party will act on all members of it, having multiple time a virtue will reinforce its effect (two faith would lower the failure rate necessary for an action to be thought as difficult for example) and different virtues would stack on the party (if you have a faith and a diligence, both effects will act on the whole party). If you have six or more of the different virtue, once by session you could use the friendship rainbow lazer. For the stats, since I'm too lazy to try and figure out what level everypony would have, searching how exp works and all, instead there are 5 level existing : low-, low, medium, high, high+. low- is you are pretty much unable to do anything using this stat. Low is lower than the average adult pony. Medium is average. High is higher than average. High+ is "hello I'm pretty much a genius in this field". The pillars have a mean to medium where the mane 6 (and Stygian) would have a mean at low. Now drawings !

Starswirl is a wizard (pretty obvious why) and a bloodhunter ! To make a very gross summary a bloodhunter is someone who used pretty... unsavory rituals to achieve very powerful blood-related magic (generally in the goal of beating up bad guys). In this, I consider than Starswirl became one to reach stronger magics to fight against the monsters who roam during their times (that far before even meeting the alicorn sisters). I also imagine him now half regretting his choice but also being of the mind of "better me than someone else". His virtue is curiosity. (Also a thing I thought while thinking about it (I will try to keep it short) : isn't it funny than he thought than Stygian was trying to steal the power of the pillars but his last spell, when corrected, allows the caster to reach alicornhood by using the power of 5 other individuals? Imagine the twist it would have been if Starswirl had originally made the spell to become an alicorn (and so immortal) and planned to put the rest of the pillars in limbo until finding a way to make them immortal too to "protect equestria forever". Like, Stygian would have been silent and shocked cause he was in fact sent by Starswirl to make preparatory diagnostics check-up but was thrown under the bus when some of the pillars realized their missing stuff. (Funnily enough, seeing how high in society Starswirl was, even if he planned to keep Stygian, it would have been easy for him to get guards to capture him back so it would barely be annoying for him to have to let Stygian run off). Like during part of the finale, everyone thinks the problem is Stygian taking the artifacts for one thing or another and then you learn than Stygian thought he was allowed since Starswirl asked him to do it and accepted the shadows due to feeling betrayed (possibly even accepting them to escape Starswirl). And I'm beginning to spiral in possibilities soooo next character ! (also, link of the wizard reference : https://www.lolailo.co.uk/ravenloft-chapter-fourty-four-the-journey-back-to-an-illusion/ )

Rockhoof is a paladin (of the Mighty Helm) and a barbarian ! And his dexterity is low due to a certain episode and charisma has ended up low cause it was the only thing I could lower when I realized his mean was high. His virtue is diligence ! And ref of the viking palading : https://www.deviantart.com/rathnos/art/Ziggeroy-The-Viking-Paladin-or-Vikadin-563177921 .

Mistmane is a sorcerer (cause her magic is too important for her to not have a magic related class and I thought than wizard was better for Starswirl) and a druid (before thinking for this, I hadn't fully realized how much she is linked to plants). Her virtue is charity ! And old ponies are hard to draw x'DD

Somnambula is a bard and a monk ! And I tried two color palets cause I wondered how she would look with Ankha's color palet. Her virtue is Faith !

Meadowbrook is an artificer (mainly for the potion making) and ranger (partially cause Mistmane already had the bard part and also because, Meadowbrook doesn't really have the link with animals and plants I generally imagine druids having? If that makes sense?). Her virtue is Mercy !

Flash Magnus is a fighter (I originally thought to make him a paladin before thinking than Paladin of The Mighty Helm sounded too good to pass) and a rogue (originally cause I thought it funny since his "elemental descendant" is the element of loyalty) ! His virtue is Bravery (yes, I know, imagination 10/10)

Stygian is a Cleric (just thought it would be cool for him to have become it to help the pillars) and a Warlock (pretty obvious that one). Yes I imagine him having two patrons pretty much opposite. Just cause I think it would make for very funny interactions with Stygian and both patrons. His virtue is caution. I tried to make the post veeeeeeery quick and short so plz don't hesitate to send ask if interested in this xDD May do the mane 6 and/or young 6 one day. Or not. Idk yet? Will take a while either way so have a nice daaaay !