#unlike other alicorns she was made young while others are created as adults

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dippin a lil bit into my fake bullshit ‘my little honse lore’ stuff

iv talked a bit about the houses and the alicorns here

https://goatpaste.tumblr.com/post/621595079803584512/why-do-you-draw-unicorns-with-like-round-horns-i

and also vaguely in those talks mentioned ‘the first’ so i wanna dip into that stuff

The First, the first pony to ever exist (and by ponies, is said to be the first thing to have existed) No one knows where she came from, what her life was before equestria. They said she was made from a child wish and dreams. she was an alicorn, the first of her kind. She was made with the great gift of creation and life. 

through her powers she made all equestrian life, she created the earth ponies, pegasus and unicorns. As well as mothered all alicorns.

The first watched over all equestria and was a being of mercy and good grace, bringing love and friendship wherever she went.

however as time progressed the three races of ponies began to separate and fight over land and rights. Watching her own creations fight against each other instead of using the gifts she gave them to work together filled the first with sorrow, but even more so when many of her own alicorn daughters didn’t feel the same way she did. Some letting their houses of ponies fight, even favoring and supporting one pony race (often the one who brought the most offerings). Some alicorns feeling their place  too important to bother themselves in mortal pony affairs.

As The First watched on with sorrow as things got worse she made the ultimate sacrifice and broke the bonds of her very being and made herself into a ‘pure’ essence. separated into six gifts she was given to alicorns and ponies who she trusted. she became the elements of harmony and the power of friendship continued to mend all that was broken by hatred into many generations.

Then there is ‘Darkness’ 

Darkness plays an important part of The First’s story. 

Originally Darkness was another alicorn of her creation, for when the First originally came into being she was all alone. so she made herself a friend, the first creation’s true name changes from story to story. Popularly named Equnity.

Equnity cherished her friendship with The First, by her side as she watched her build equestria from the ground up. Loyal to the creature she saw as a mother. 

however as houses were established, the ponies building up societies and so on. Equnity was expected to find herself in this developing world, she was given her own house ‘the house of Migration’ and herself being known as the Alicorn of change and balance. the idea that to keep balance change must be made, nothing stays the same. something something about seasons changing and migration or whatever. it wasn't important to her, it never really was. (her lack of interest in actually helping and controlling and fixing migration and seasons also plays into the fact that ponies themselves have to do it themselves)

Despite her own teachings, she longed to go back to when it was just her and the first. she didn’t want to spend her days accepting these blessings, protecting ponies, changing seasons and giving out advice. She just wanted to be by her side. 

As a divide between the ponies and alicorns began Equnity took the lack of ponies in her house to take things into her own hooves. she starts visiting the house of magic, speaking with Princess Bluebelle. she learned magic from the kind hearted pony that The First was friends with. 

Equnity learned magic, powerful magic. not as strong as Bluebelle’s magic or the first but strong enough to strand out and ‘make a change’. she was going to get The First attention.

Equnity used her magic, but she couldn’t have expected what would have happened to her. as she used these new skills out of hatred and insecurity she turned into that of a monster. A being of pure darkness that infected anything it touched, finding these cracks and slivers in them of fear, sadness and anger and twisting it until it shattered. 

Equnity transformation was the final breaking point into The First, this was when the First turned herself into the elements and attempted to banish Darkness from equestria. 

Little too late as darkness was spreading fast in this world of anger.

in a way both The First and Equnity live on, the first in the spirit of the elements and Equnity in all that is evil, all the bad thoughts in ponies minds.