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** Corvids
** Pyrefalcons
** Phoenixes
** Pegasai
** Griffons
** Windigos
** Corvids
** Pyrefalcons
** Phoenixes
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* LastOfHisKind: The [[spoiler:windigo]] in ''Winterheart'':
--> ''I, the last. The least. The one born in starvation after that time, hearing only the songs, sustained by what my kin could spare. Nursed and sung to even as they withered and went, one by one.''
--> ''I, the last. The least. The one born in starvation after that time, hearing only the songs, sustained by what my kin could spare. Nursed and sung to even as they withered and went, one by one.''
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** ''Winterheart'': About friendship and caring, in winter.
* {{Portmantitle}}: ''Winter'' + ''heart''.
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* FictionalCounterpart: From Treasures's [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/331376/1/treasures/wherein-our-heroine-acquires-appropriate-headwear first chapter]]: Equid Brayton books, a ponified version of Creator/EnidBlyton's books, specially naming the "Superb Six", a ponification of ''Literture/TheFamousFive''.
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* FictionalCounterpart: From Treasures's ''Treasures''[='=] [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/331376/1/treasures/wherein-our-heroine-acquires-appropriate-headwear first chapter]]: Equid Brayton books, a ponified version of Creator/EnidBlyton's books, specially naming the "Superb Six", a ponification of ''Literture/TheFamousFive''.
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* TheEmpire: The cruel and slave-driving Capric Empire of the past. The Capricious Crown is seeking to turn modern Capra back into this trope, and is having some measure of success.
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* TheEmpire: The cruel and slave-driving Capric Empire of the past.past, which conquered and ruled many of Ungula's species before the rise of Equestria. The Capricious Crown is seeking to turn modern Capra back into this trope, and is having some measure of success.
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* TheHorde: The great and savage Corvid armies that overran much of Ungula at numerous points in the past, driven from their homelands by overpopulation and lack of food in much the same way as real life hordes often were.
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* TheHorde: The great and savage Corvid armies that overran much of Ungula at numerous various points in the past, driven from their homelands by overpopulation and lack of food in much the same way as real life hordes often were.
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* PhotographicMemory: True to classic stereotype, elephants are all born with near-perfect eidetic memory.
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* FictionalCounterpart: From Treasures's [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/331376/1/treasures/wherein-our-heroine-acquires-appropriate-headwear first chapter]]: Equid Brayton books, a ponified version of Creator/EnidBlyton's books.books, specially naming the "Superb Six", a ponification of ''Literture/TheFamousFive''.
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** ''Treasures'': About adventurous archeology.
** ''Nobelesse'': About Princess Platinum.
** ''Treasures'': About adventurous archeology.
** ''Nobelesse'': About Princess Platinum.
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* LineOfSightAlias: When Thorax, in disguise as a member of the Royal Guard, is confronted by the CMC, Spike and Sailears and asked his name, he panics and names himself after the first thing he sees, thus introducing himself as Sir Wall of the Royal Guard. Given the nature of pony names in canon, this provides him with a much more suitable alias than it would have in other settings.
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* LineOfSightAlias: LineOfSightName: When Thorax, in disguise as a member of the Royal Guard, is confronted by the CMC, Spike and Sailears and asked his name, he panics and names himself after the first thing he sees, thus introducing himself as Sir Wall of the Royal Guard. Given the nature of pony names in canon, this provides him with a much more suitable alias than it would have in other settings.
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*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/1 Deciding What You'll Give to the Bride and Groom is Always Important, of Course]]
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*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/3 Make a Good First Impression, and Endeavour Not to Cause a Ruckus]]
*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/4 No Matter What Arises, Just Try to Have a Good Day]]
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*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/4 net/story/299424/4/wedding-march/no-matter-what-arises-just-try-to-have-a-good-day No Matter What Arises, Just Try to Have a Good Day]]Day]]
*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/5/wedding-march/if-in-doubt-improvise If in Doubt, Improvise]]
*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/6/wedding-march/and-in-extremis-just-plunge-in-flailing-and-hope-for-the-best And in Extremis, Just Plunge in Flailing and Hope For the Best]]
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* AbductionIsLove: It is custom among the mammoth tribes for brides to kidnap their husbands. This has over time developed into a very formalized process, where after proper approval and vetting by the clan chieftains of the bride- and groom-to-be alike, as well as consulting with the groom-to-be and his family, the mammoth cow in questions beans the subject of her affections upside the head with a suitably decorated sap, throws him over her withers and rushes back home. This is usually followed by an equally scripted counter-raid, and is generally treated in the same manner as more sedate wedding customs are among other societies. This leads to some... confusion... when Lyuba tries to give relationship advice to Tundra based on her own romantic experiences.
* BadassBoast:
** Lyuba gives a long and impressive one to Goldtorc when the latter implies that she can look after herself better than the former, describing the monsters she's faced, the battles she fought in, the countless duels she won and how she amply earned her status as the greatest warrior in Pachydermia.
** Goldtorc answers with a boast of her own, describing in great detail how she entered the tourney to select the consort for the new monarch of Bovaland as the daughter of nobodies, facing off against scores well-armed and well-trained noblecows in tilted charges and a chaotic melee alike, with nothing more than "a rusty blade, a twisted old bow, and ill-fitting barding", all while fighting immense exhaustion, strain and injury, and won anyway.
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** Lyuba gives a long and impressive one to Goldtorc when the latter implies that she can look after herself better than the former, describing the monsters she's faced, the battles she fought in, the countless duels she won and how she amply earned her status as the greatest warrior in Pachydermia.
** Goldtorc answers with a boast of her own, describing in great detail how she entered the tourney to select the consort for the new monarch of Bovaland as the daughter of nobodies, facing off against scores well-armed and well-trained noblecows in tilted charges and a chaotic melee alike, with nothing more than "a rusty blade, a twisted old bow, and ill-fitting barding", all while fighting immense exhaustion, strain and injury, and won anyway.
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* InterspeciesFriendship: Over the later half of the story, one develops between the aurochs cow Goldtorc and the mammoth Lyuba.
* InterspeciesRomance: Throughout the story, a mutual attraction develops between the mule Alloy and the ibex doe Tundra. At the end, [[spoiler:Tundra musters the courage to ask Alloy on a date, and he accepts]].
* OddFriendship: Between Goldtorc, the queen of the cattle, and the mammoth BarbarianHero Lyuba. The two initially come to respect each other after an initial clash of personalities and {{Badass Boast}}s on first meeting, and further bond during their attempt to fight their way through a changeling-occupied Canterlot Castle and over sharing some of their own private troubles with each other.
* InterspeciesRomance: Throughout the story, a mutual attraction develops between the mule Alloy and the ibex doe Tundra. At the end, [[spoiler:Tundra musters the courage to ask Alloy on a date, and he accepts]].
* OddFriendship: Between Goldtorc, the queen of the cattle, and the mammoth BarbarianHero Lyuba. The two initially come to respect each other after an initial clash of personalities and {{Badass Boast}}s on first meeting, and further bond during their attempt to fight their way through a changeling-occupied Canterlot Castle and over sharing some of their own private troubles with each other.
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* TheCavalry: Towards the end, a rather ragtag group of the international guests to the wedding -- Burro Delver and his aides, Chieftain Gellert and his nephew, Bullwalda Greenhorn, his wife Goldtorc and their guard, and a collection of Black Company sheep -- manages to fight off the changelings in the castle grounds and mounts a unified charge towards the throne room, bent on taking down Chrysalis or die trying. As per canon, though, they don't get the chance, as Shining Armor and Cadance's love explosion takes care of the changelings before they can do it.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Besides those already present in the show, Asinia is Spain at the height of the colonial age, Capra shares quite a bit with the various Persian empires, Ovarn is a more united version of the Greek city-states, Bovaland is feudal Europe, the Corvids are the Scottish highland clans, Zebrica is Pharaonic Egypt, the continent of Dactylia in general stands in for Africa, the mammoth clans of the southern Dactylian steppes have a distinctly Mongolian flavor, and Ceratos is imperial China.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Besides those already present in the show, Asinia is Spain at the height of the colonial age, Capra shares quite a bit with the various Persian empires, Ovarn is a more united version of the Greek city-states, Bovaland is feudal Europe, the Corvids are the Scottish highland clans, Zebrica is Pharaonic Egypt, the continent of Dactylia in general stands in for Africa, the mammoth clans of the southern Dactylian steppes have a distinctly Mongolian flavor, and Ceratos is a cross between imperial China.China and Japan.
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* FantasyWorldMap: There’s [[http://i.imgbox.com/PeWTyLjq.png one]] in the Changeling post showing the two main continents of Ungula (where Equestria and most of the plot-central nations are) and Dactylia, the island-continents of Ceratos and Saddle Arabia and the archipelagos of the Burning Mountains and the Asinial Main.
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* FantasyWorldMap: There’s There's [[http://i.imgbox.com/PeWTyLjq.png one]] in the Changeling post showing the two main continents of Ungula (where Equestria and most of the plot-central nations are) and Dactylia, the island-continents of Ceratos and Saddle Arabia and the archipelagos of the Burning Mountains and the Asinial Main.
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* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Parodied in ''Thunderstorm and the Four Winds'', where Rainbow Dash tries to use old-fashioned language while narrating Thunderstorm's story despite not having a good grasp of it.
-->'''Rainbow Dash (narrating)''': "Prithee, O Wind of the North," Thunderstorm, um, declaimed. "I do beseech thee for thine most ... something-or-other aid, on behalf of ... wait, should that have been 'thy'? I can never remember the —”[[note]]It should indeed have been "thy".[[/note]]\\
...Y’know, maybe making it all Shakelancy doesn’t add that much to the experience.\\
"Yo, North Wind," said Thunderstorm.
-->'''Rainbow Dash (narrating)''': "Prithee, O Wind of the North," Thunderstorm, um, declaimed. "I do beseech thee for thine most ... something-or-other aid, on behalf of ... wait, should that have been 'thy'? I can never remember the —”[[note]]It should indeed have been "thy".[[/note]]\\
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* SpaceIsMagic: Theia lies in a geocentric system, orbited by a life-bearing moon and a moon-sized sun and surrounded by a shell of stars composed in good part of pure magic. Beyond that, there are vast gulfs of space home to enormous star-beasts, other systems both geocentric and heliocentric, vast clouds of primal cosmic matter and {{eldritch abomination}}s.
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* SpaceIsMagic: Theia lies in a classical geocentric system, system: it is orbited by a life-bearing moon with literal lunar seas and a moon-sized sun home to phoenixes that periodically emigrate from its depths in massive solar flares, and is surrounded by a shell of stars composed in good part of pure magic. Beyond that, there are vast rather than any sort of actual galaxy, pony astronomers can barely glimpse vast, dark gulfs of space home to enormous star-beasts, other beasts that swim through it like whales in a sea, distant systems both geocentric and heliocentric, vast clouds of primal cosmic matter and {{eldritch abomination}}s.
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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: From [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/2/wedding-march/be-sure-to-arrive-in-good-time-so-you-miss-none-of-the-excitement Chapter 2]], when Burro's asking Asinara to leave him be, and explore Canterlot:
--> Appreciate some culture. Appreciate some drinks. Appreciate some cultured drinks.
--> Appreciate some culture. Appreciate some drinks. Appreciate some cultured drinks.
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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/286938/the-end-of-the-day The End of the Day]]''
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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/364185/the-strangest-of-these The Strangest of These]]''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/365885/winterheart Winterheart]]''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/367308/noblesse Noblesse]]''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/368301/the-commanders-shilling The Commanders' Shilling]]''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/376127/mr-stripes-versus-a-cthonic-horror Mr Stripes Versus A Cthonic Horror]]''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/365885/winterheart Winterheart]]''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/367308/noblesse Noblesse]]''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/368301/the-commanders-shilling The Commanders' Shilling]]''
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* ALoadOfBull: Minotaurs are one of the subraces of cattle alongside shorthorns, longhorns, bison and yaks. They are thought to have first arisen due to the chaotic magic that filled the word after the Fall of Antlertis, which would explain their great degree of physical divergence from other cattle. They don’t have any magic active or latent, but their hands and bipedalism (and more specifically the resulting advantages in tool usage) have historically more than made up for this.
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* ALoadOfBull: Minotaurs are one of the subraces of cattle alongside shorthorns, Aurochs, longhorns, bison and yaks. They are thought to have first arisen due to the chaotic magic that filled the word after the Fall of Antlertis, which would explain their great degree of physical divergence from other cattle. They don’t have any magic active or latent, but their hands and bipedalism (and more specifically the resulting advantages in tool usage) have historically more than made up for this.
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** From [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/207616/1/moonlight-palaver/the-suns-one-of-these-vital-things-you-know Moonlight Palaver]]:
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** From [[https://www.''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/207616/1/moonlight-palaver/the-suns-one-of-these-vital-things-you-know Moonlight Palaver]]:Palaver]]'':
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*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/207616/1/moonlight-palaver/the-suns-one-of-these-vital-things-you-know The Sun's One of These Vital Things, You Know.]]
** Wedding March, which are all things to do at a wedding:
*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/1 Deciding What You'll Give to the Bride and Groom is Always Important, of Course]]
*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/2 Be Sure to Arrive in Good Time, so You Miss None of the Excitement]]
*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/3 Make a Good First Impression, and Endeavour Not to Cause a Ruckus]]
*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/4 No Matter What Arises, Just Try to Have a Good Day]]
** Moonlight Palaver:
*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/207616/1/moonlight-palaver/the-suns-one-of-these-vital-things-you-know The Sun's One of These Vital Things, You Know.]]
** Wedding March, which are all things to do at a wedding:
*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/1 Deciding What You'll Give to the Bride and Groom is Always Important, of Course]]
*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/2 Be Sure to Arrive in Good Time, so You Miss None of the Excitement]]
*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/3 Make a Good First Impression, and Endeavour Not to Cause a Ruckus]]
*** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/4 No Matter What Arises, Just Try to Have a Good Day]]
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* {{Teleportation}}:
** From ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/207616/1 Moonlight Palaver]]'', there's repeated mentions of the "long teleports" it takes to get to the Circle Chamber.
** From the [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/1/the-tempest/you-never-appreciate-the-laws-of-physics-till-theyre-gone first chapter]] of ''The Tempest'':
---> The alicorn was already gathering the magic for teleportation about her horn
* {{Teleportation}}:
** From ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/207616/1 Moonlight Palaver]]'', there's repeated mentions of the "long teleports" it takes to get to the Circle Chamber.
** From the [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/1/the-tempest/you-never-appreciate-the-laws-of-physics-till-theyre-gone first chapter]] of ''The Tempest'':
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** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/2/the-tempest/at-least-their-absence-can-sometimes-bring-others-closer-together
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** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/3/the-tempest/or-maybe-all-it-does-is-forment-all-manner-of-fankles Or Maybe All it Does is Forment All Manner of Fankles]]
** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/4/the-tempest/really-youre-just-better-off-waiting-for-it-all-to-blow-over Really, You're Just Better Off Waiting For It All To Blow Over.]]
** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/5/the-tempest/just-be-sure-to-steady-yourself-afterwards Just Be Sure To Steady Yourself Afterwards.]]
** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/1/the-tempest/you-never-appreciate-the-laws-of-physics-till-theyre-gone You Never Appreciate the Laws of Physics Till They're Gone]]
** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/2/the-tempest/at-least-their-absence-can-sometimes-bring-others-closer-together
At Least Their Absence Can Sometimes Bring Others Closer Together]]
** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/3/the-tempest/or-maybe-all-it-does-is-forment-all-manner-of-fankles Or Maybe All it Does is Forment All Manner of Fankles]]
** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/4/the-tempest/really-youre-just-better-off-waiting-for-it-all-to-blow-over Really, You're Just Better Off Waiting For It All To Blow Over.]]
** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/5/the-tempest/just-be-sure-to-steady-yourself-afterwards Just Be Sure To Steady Yourself Afterwards.]]
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--> Sections of the hull near the water’s surface split then, and long lengths curved off to splay from the Fear Nowt’s side. They rose into the air, and Burro saw sailors on the ship’s deck pointing and yelling.\\
“...Combat tentacles? Clever donkeys, our shipwrights,” said Amiatina.
--> Sections of the hull near the water’s surface split then, and long lengths curved off to splay from the Fear Nowt’s side. They rose into the air, and Burro saw sailors on the ship’s deck pointing and yelling.\\
“...Combat tentacles? Clever donkeys, our shipwrights,” said Amiatina.
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-->'''Bullwalda Greenhorn:'''“Democracy.“Republicanism. A barbarous debacle.” (To the democratically elected PM Burro) “No offense.”\\
-->'''Bullwalda Greenhorn:'''
* DemocracyIsFlawed: Bullwalda (read: “King”) Greenhorn of Bovaland is very much of this opinion. It doesn’t win him much popularity with Prime Minister Burro of Asinia:
--> '''Bullwalda Greenhorn:''' “Republicanism. A barbarous debacle.” (To the democratically elected PM Burro) “No offense.”\\
'''Burro Delver:''' “Some taken.”
* {{Teleportation}}: There's repeated mentions of the "long teleports" it takes to get to the Circle Chamber.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Tyrant Fairy Floss of Ovarn is a diminutive, elderly ewe that fits every outward sign of the GrannyClassic down to the serene expression and pince-nez glasses. She’s also survived a lifetime of Ovarn’s cutthroat politics, can make hardened Archons quake in fear, and, as she says:
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--> '''Bullwalda Greenhorn:''' “Republicanism. A barbarous debacle.” (To the democratically elected PM Burro) “No offense.”\\
'''Burro Delver:''' “Some taken.”
* {{Teleportation}}: There's repeated mentions of the "long teleports" it takes to get to the Circle Chamber.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Tyrant Fairy Floss of Ovarn is a diminutive, elderly ewe that fits every outward sign of the GrannyClassic down to the serene expression and pince-nez glasses. She’s also survived a lifetime of Ovarn’s cutthroat politics, can make hardened Archons quake in fear, and, as she says:
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“AND NONE OF THIS WINTER RESIDENCE OR SUMMER RESIDENCE NONSENSE! WE HELD PONIES ALL THROUGH THE YEAR! AND IT MADE ''FORTRESSES'' OF US!”\\
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* WhatTheHellHero: Delivered by Celestia to the other world leaders in ''The Tempest'' when they keep pursuing their petty rivalries and squabbles above anything else, even when powerless in a Discord-constructed cage high in the sky. For Burro Delver and the Zebrican Pharoahs, at least, it seems to stick.
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The currently released core stories are the titular ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/207616/moonlight-palaver Moonlight Palaver]]'', set during [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon the show's pilot]]; ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/the-tempest The Tempest]]'', set during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return of Harmony]]"; and ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/wedding-march Wedding March]]'', set during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]".
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# ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/wedding-march Wedding March]]'', set during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]".
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* OhMyGods: Throughout the stories, Gellert swears by the Simurgh (a mythical bird from east and central Asian folklore, and a griffon folk heroine in-universe), Fire Queen Talon by Stygia and Alpha Rex of the diamond dogs by V´nagandr (an alternate name for Fenris).
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** The griffons live in a large number of scattered and proudly independent tribes and clans scattered in the Greycairns and Hyperborean Mountains throughout most of the Ungulan continent, with many living in Equestria. Historically, they have never answered to any single ruler, although in the past a chieftain named Grover managed to unite many tribes around his home in Griffonstone and make himself king, giving the griffons unity until Griffonstone fell into ruin. In the modern day, another chieftain named Gellert has managed to unite the majority of the griffon tribes, becoming their de facto ruler.
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* {{Atlantis}}: Antlertis, a civilization of deer based on an island on the other side of the world from the main continents, whose Mage-Lords used to rule the world with great power and cruelty in ancient times. It was destroyed when the Mage-Lords tried to summon… [EldritchAbomination something]]... from deep space that utterly destroyed their homeland, sinking it and causing perpetual magical storms over it, although numerous creatures and artifacts of Antlertean origin are still around.
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* {{Atlantis}}: Antlertis, a civilization of deer based on an island on the other side of the world from the main continents, whose Mage-Lords used to rule the world with great power and cruelty in ancient times. It was destroyed when the Mage-Lords tried to summon… [EldritchAbomination [[EldritchAbomination something]]... from deep space that utterly destroyed their homeland, sinking it and causing perpetual magical storms over it, although numerous creatures and artifacts of Antlertean origin are still around.
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The Palaververse is a series of comedy/fantasy ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics written by [[https://www.fimfiction.net/user/Carabas Carabas]], centering around a core of stories depicting how the leaders of the major powers of the world react to the events of the show’s season openers and finales, a process that involves less guarded politics than one might expect and more in the way of verbal snipes, back-and-forth insults, disorganized arguments and similar goings-on.
The currently released core stories are the titular ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/207616/moonlight-palaver Moonlight Palaver]]'', set during [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon the show's pilot]]; ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/the-tempest The Tempest]]'', set during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return of Harmony]]"; and ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/wedding-march Wedding March]]'', set during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]".
Numerous side stories exist in the setting, at various points in the timeline and levels of canonicity. In addition, a great deal of worldbuilding takes place in blog posts on the author’s account.
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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/240152/the-motion-of-the-stars The Motion of the Stars]] ''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/314627/thunderstorm-and-the-four-winds Thunderstorm and the Four Winds]]''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/325779/terra-incognita Terra Incognita]]''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/331376/treasures Treasures]]''
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* CoolCrown: The Capricious Crown of Capra, an ornate, enchanted crown that just so happens to also be alive and the supreme ruler of the nation of Capra. It speaks in a metallic voice and shows emotion by flashing its gems in different colours.
* CoolSword: The Sun Blade, a golden sword without a hilt meant to be wielded with magic alone. It was originally an Antlertean artifact used by the Mage-Lords to control the Sun’s motion, and is currently in Celestia’s possession.
* DeadpanSnarker: Burro Delver has his moments.
-->'''Bullvalda Greenhorn:''' “Democracy. A barbarous debacle.” (To the democratically elected PM Burro) “No offense.”
-->'''Burro Delver:''' “Some taken.”
* DemocracyIsFlawed: Bullvalda (read: “King”) Greenhorn of Bovaland is very much of this opinion. It doesn’t win him much popularity with Prime Minister Burro of Asinia.
* GrumpyOldMan: Canterlot Castle is turned into an architectural version of this by Discord, constantly going on about how things were better back in his day when castles were proper fortresses, and yelling at kids to get off his lawns.
* KingInTheMountain: The Bullwaldas of Bovaland and their most trusted housecarls are interred after death in an enchanted cairn, so that on Bovaland’s hour of greatest need the current monarch could awaken their remains to defend the nation.
* MixAndMatchCritters: A literal example: when Discord brought the parliament of the multi-species nation of Gazellen to the cage where he’s keeping the other sovereigns, he swapped around the various members’ body parts, with results like a hornless antelope with the legs of a warthog and the wings of a griffon, or a giraffe finding her head and neck swaying atop the body of a diamond jackal.
* NaiveNewcomer: Bullwalda Greenhorn, having just recently ascended to the throne, has very little experience in the way the council works or in dealing with any sort of government outside of a traditional monarchy, and it shows. Viceroy Simoom of Saddle Arabia brings the naiveté to a whole new level. Finally, there’s Shahanshah Sailears of Pachydermia, who’s still a child and doesn’t yet fully grasp the finer points of politics and national rivalry.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Tyrant Fairy Floss of Ovarn is a diminutive, elderly ewe that fits every outward sign of the GrannyClassic down to the serene expression and pince-nez glasses. She’s also survived a lifetime of Ovarn’s cutthroat politics, can make hardened Archons quake in fear, and can have someone who annoys her assassinated seven different ways inside of a week.
* OhMyGods: Throughout the stories, Gellert swears by the Simurgh (a mythical bird from east and central Asian folklore, and a griffon folk heroine in-universe), Fire Queen Talon by Stygia and Alpha Rex of the diamond dogs by V´nagandr (an alternate name for Fenris).
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** In ''The Tempest'', when faced with Discord’s return, Burro Delver only realizes how serious the matter is when he realizes that ''Celestia'' is worried.
--> Celestia was worried.\\
They were all going to die.\\
Probably while screaming and on fire.
** Later in the same story, Celestia snaps and angrily chews out the other world leaders for their pettiness and power hunger, stating that she seriously considered taking over the world on past occasions when it seemed like the only way to get everyone to act civilly to each other. Everyone is rightly freaked out.
* RentAZilla: The Fire Queen of the dragons is enormous, the largest dragon alive, to the point that she can’t physically leave her cave without breaking its mountain open.
* ShoulderSizedDragon: The normally titanic Fire Queen is turned into this by Discord in order to fit in the magical cage along with all the other world leaders.
* WhatTheHellHero: Delivered by Celestia to the other world leaders in ''The Tempest'' when they keep pursuing their petty rivalries and squabbles above anything else, even when powerless in a Discord-constructed cage high in the sky. For Burro Delver and the Zebrican Pharoahs, at least, it seems to stick.
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* AdultFear: In ''Treasures'', Gallivant is on a routine exploration of a new Antlertean ruin, navigating the various deadly traps and guardians found there... and then discovers that his eight-year-old daughter snuck in before him, and is now likely deep in the ruin alongside who knows what deadly traps the ruin’s old master filled his home with.
* AfterTheEnd: ''The Motion of the Stars'' is set after a war between Equestria and Capra devastated the world, blasting the landscape with destructive magic and killing the Sisters, freezing the sun and moon in place.
* AmusingInjuries: Apparently, Starswirl’s apprentice Meadowbrook came upon these quite often as a result of following Starswirl around, enough so that his mentor adopted “onwards, Meadbrook, and stop bleeding so much!” as a sort of battlecry.
* BittersweetEnding: In ''The Motion of the Stars'', [[spoiler: the day-night cycle is restarted and the world is on its way to healing]], but millions are still dead, the ecosystem’s devastated, and [[spoiler: Rarity sacrificed herself to restart the Sun’s motion]].
* BreakTheCutie: In ''Treasures'', young Daring Do sets out on to explore an Antlertean ruin with childlike enthusiasm and naiveté to prove to everyone that she’s grown-up and responsible. This leads to her [[spoiler:seeing her father (apparently) get killed in front of her, losing her hat (her last memento of her deceased mother) and ending up stuck at the bottom of a deep pit, curled up in despair]]. She gets better.
* ElementalEmbodiment: The Four Winds and the High King in ''Thunderstorm and the Four Winds'', enormous, powerful air elementals that ruled the winds and sky before the pegasi did.
* TheFairFolk: What the Mage-Lords were perceived as by the ancient inhabitants of the Equestria Girls universe when they crossed worlds -- otherworldly beings who seemed to wear human appearance like ill-fitting clothing, striking from deep forests to steal people away, never to be seen again.
* FantasticNuke: The megaspells used in the Equestria-Capra war in ''The Motion of the Stars'', which included fire, ice, razor wind, chocking darkness and storms of crystals.
* GadgeteerGenius: Meadowbrook, Starswirl’s apprentice, whose special talent laid in magical engineering and crafting complex enchanted objects.
* HeroicBastard: Celestia herself, having been born as the result of an extramarital relationship between a pegasus noble and an earth pony farmer mare. Luna, technically Celestia’s half-sister, was born later after said pegasus noble returned home and married.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** In ''The Motion of the Stars'', [[spoiler:Rarity sacrifices herself and binds her soul to the Sun to restart and guide its motion, like the ancient unicorn monarchs did before the time of the Sisters]].
** In ''Thunderstorm and the Four Winds'', [[spoiler:Thunderstorm sacrifices herself to destroy the High King and free the pegasi from the scourge of wild, uncontrolled weather]].
* JustSoStory: The InUniverse legend of ''Thunderstorm and the Four Winds'' explains how pegasi came to control the weather.
* MissingMom: Daring Do’s mother died exploring a ruin when Daring was still young.
* PetTheDog: In ''Second Sun'', Celestia is split into two personas: [[RedOniBlueOni the in-control face she presents to the world, and her repressed desires and drives]]. The second persona has no reservations on acting with absolute candidness on the drives and opinions that Celestia normally has to hide, which mostly boils down to insulting insufferable nobles and foreign dignitaries and getting drunk -- until she comes across Twilight, and her face breaks into a radiant smile of genuine pleasure at the sight of her beloved student.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: Soulforging, a process where an Antlertean mage would wipe the mind and soul of another being clean and completely rewrite their identity, turning them into an undying, loyal servant, sometimes transferring their soul into another vessel or turning them into a spectral being. In ''Treasures'', the Antlertean Lord Fallow’s fortress is home to a great number of reforged minions, ranging from criminals to a fraud to a servant that was going senile.
* ShoutOut: [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Skaven]] are listed as one of the (fictional) possible dangers of underground exploration in ''Treasures''.
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* AbusivePrecursors: The Antlertean Mage-Lords were tyrants who saw the rest of the world’s sapient species as nothing more than thralls or test subjects. They’re also responsible, directly or indirectly, for a great deal of the horrors that plagued the world over the ages, including Tirek, Discord, the Sirens, Ahuizotl and the horror in the Pachidermian south.
* TheAgeless: Seems to be the case for alicorns -- they are quite immune to aging, although they’re not completely invulnerable. {{Emotion Eater}}s such as Windigos do not seem to age as long as they get enough food, and neither do Phoenixes with access to the Sun’s energies.
* TheArchmage: Starswirl, of course, and also the Mage-Lords of ancient Antlertis, who were a decidedly more villainous take on this trope.
* {{Atlantis}}: Antlertis, a civilization of deer based on an island on the other side of the world from the main continents, whose Mage-Lords used to rule the world with great power and cruelty in ancient times. It was destroyed when the Mage-Lords tried to summon… [EldritchAbomination something]]... from deep space that utterly destroyed their homeland, sinking it and causing perpetual magical storms over it, although numerous creatures and artifacts of Antlertean origin are still around.
* AtlantisIsBoring: Downplayed. While the seas are far from lacking in wild magic or strange monsters, there are very few sapient marine species, and none with true nations. The oceans were summed up in one blog post, which normally suffices for ''one'' surface nation.
* BarbarianTribe: The Corvids, based on the real life Scottish highland clans.
* BeneathTheEarth: An extensive underworld of caverns exists beneath Theia’s surface, permeating its entire volume supposedly going all the way to a sea of lava at the planet’s core. The Diamond Dogs live in the uppermost layers, while the deeps are home to a great variety of horrors.
* CompleteImmortality: Discord. He simply can’t be killed, only forced into dormancy.
* DeathWorld: The island-nation of Saddle Arabia. It’s a barren desert wasteland battered by horrifying magical storms that regularly sow the land with chaotic magic, with the sun burning away any moisture they leave behind. The chaos magic and harsh climate have worked together to populate it with a parade of horrors -- packs of mobile vampiric cacti, mountain-sized roc birds made of stone, enormous wind scorpions that surprise prey and evade pursuit by turning into wind, parasitic life-eating flecks [[EyeScream that inhabit eyeballs and spread by eye contact]]...
* EldritchAbomination: A number. There’s the Dwellers Below, chtonic, Lovecraftian beings spawned from the world’s primal, chaotic magics, and their possible relative the Night Serpent of Zebrica. There are also numerous entities of Antlertean origin, including the nameless horror to the south of Pachydermia. Finally, there are the unknown entities that stir in the deepest reaches of space, brief glimpses of which tend to drive astronomers insane.
* TheEmpire: The cruel and slave-driving Capric Empire of the past. The Capricious Crown is seeking to turn modern Capra back into this trope, and is having some measure of success.
* EnemyWithin: All alicorns carry within them a Nightmare that constantly tempts, harangues and harasses them to try to get them to give in to their basest urges and impulses. Luna’s was purged by the Elements of Harmony, and Cadence and Twilight are too young for theirs to have fully developed yet, but Celestia has been constantly withstanding the influence of hers for the past one thousand years.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Besides those already present in the show, Asinia is Spain at the height of the colonial age, Capra shares quite a bit with the various Persian empires, Ovarn is a more united version of the Greek city-states, Bovaland is feudal Europe, the Corvids are the Scottish highland clans, Zebrica is Pharaonic Egypt, the continent of Dactylia in general stands in for Africa, the mammoth clans of the southern Dactylian steppes have a distinctly Mongolian flavor, and Ceratos is imperial China.
* FantasyWorldMap: There’s [[http://i.imgbox.com/PeWTyLjq.png one]] in the Changeling post showing the two main continents of Ungula (where Equestria and most of the plot-central nations are) and Dactylia, the island-continents of Ceratos and Saddle Arabia and the archipelagos of the Burning Mountains and the Asinial Main.
* GiantFlyer: Rocs, enormous birds made of stone. Some tribes of Diamond Jackals hollow them out into living, flying fortresses.
* GrimUpNorth: The Utmost North beyond the Greycairn mountains. It’s horrendously cold, there’s no civilization, and few expeditions that go there ever return.
* TheHorde: The great and savage Corvid armies that overran much of Ungula at numerous points in the past, driven from their homelands by overpopulation and lack of food in much the same way as real life hordes often were.
* KingIncognito: It’s implied that [[spoiler:Zecora]] is the younger sister of the rival Pharoahs Punda and Milia, who fled her country to avoid getting sucked into her brothers’ war of succession.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: Theia’s oceans are home to numerous colossal sea monsters, including actual krakens, larger and sedentary relatives of the same living in the deepest abysses, and [[Literature/BasLagCycle island-sized avancs]].
* ALoadOfBull: Minotaurs are one of the subraces of cattle alongside shorthorns, longhorns, bison and yaks. They are thought to have first arisen due to the chaotic magic that filled the word after the Fall of Antlertis, which would explain their great degree of physical divergence from other cattle. They don’t have any magic active or latent, but their hands and bipedalism (and more specifically the resulting advantages in tool usage) have historically more than made up for this.
* LongLived:
** Dragons are not truly immortal, but even the shortest-lived breeds will still see centuries go by before old age claims them, and some have lifespans extending well into the millennia.
** The Capricious Crown of Capra is this as well, since as a living piece of metal it’s fairly resistant to aging, and although entropy will eventually claim it, it won’t be for centuries yet.
* TheMigration: A number have taken place in the setting’s history, including the pony migration from “Heart’s Warming Eve”, which here took them from one end of the continent of Ungula to the other, the migration of the diamond dogs (and of the diamond jackals and fennecs) from the ruin of the deep empires through an underworld full of horrors and towards the surface of the world, the exodus of the dragons to the Burning Mountains, and the migration of the yaks and the buffalo from the bovine homelands in Bovaland to their current homes.
* NothingIsScarier: It’s never actually revealed just what horror lurks south of Pachydermia, just that it’s absolutely horrifying and that every elephant that ever learned of it was left traumatized to some degree, as well as glimpses of images of skulls crowned in writhing antlers, thunder from beneath black glaciers and walking, frozen corpses...
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They used to rule most of the world in the past, but their power began to slip as civilization grew, and was lost in a series of disastrous wars against the Diamond Dogs, the Capric Empire and Equestria, forcing most of them out of Ungula and to the archipelago of the Burning Mountains. They also have their own unique but poorly understood form of magic, hoard treasure as both a way to store food and as a mating display of sorts, and though mostly loners they have a loose society, ruled by the Fire Queen through Dragon Lords acting as intermediaries and viceroys.
** An interesting note is that, although most dragons dismiss religion as something for more mortal beings to bother with, particularly old and powerful dragons almost invariably develop beliefs centering on the size of one’s hoard determining the value and “brightness” of one’s soul, and of a “Last Dark” to be met with as bright a soul as possible, refusing to elaborate on this even to their younger kin.
** The caverns of the underworld are known to be home to blind, flightless dragons that breathe mind-clouding fumes and poison instead of fire.
* OurGriffonsAreDifferent:
** The griffons live in a large number of scattered and proudly independent tribes and clans scattered in the Greycairns and Hyperborean Mountains throughout most of the Ungulan continent, with many living in Equestria. Historically, they have never answered to any single ruler, although in the past a chieftain named Grover managed to unite many tribes around his home in Griffonstone and make himself king, giving the griffons unity until Griffonstone fell into ruin. In the modern day, another chieftain named Gellert has managed to unite the majority of the griffon tribes, becoming their de facto ruler.
** There are also the axex, a subspecies of sorts, who are part of the federation of Gazellen.
* PhotographicMemory: True to classic stereotype, elephants are all born with near-perfect eidetic memory.
* SapientCetaceans: Both whales and dolphins are sapient beings with their own nomadic civilizations, although they generally avoid contact with land-dwellers.
* TheSavageSouth: The Dactylian Interior, separated from the Dactylian nations by a mountain range and left exposed to wyld storms from the Black Ocean, is covered in thick jungles full of exotic beasts and terrors (and barely sapient hairless apes obsessed with advanced mathematics), visited only by explorers looking for Antlertean ruins and artifacts.
* SeaMonster: Numerous sea monsters are known to lurk in Theia’s oceans, including carnivorous whale sharks, angel sharks capable of temporary flight, and schools of skeletal bonefish. The deepest, most chaotic abysses beneath the Burning Mountains and the Black Ocean host even stranger things, from colonies of literal spider crabs that spin webs across ocean trenches to Lovecraftian horrors to wild metal-eating Smoozes.
* ScaryScorpions: The aggressively predatory wind scorpions of Saddle Arabia, which have the added bonus of being able to turn into wind to elude both prey and pursuit.
* ShoutOut: Some of the creatures stated to live in Theia’s oceans are titanic avancs and packs of grindylow straight out of the Literature/BasLagCycle.
* SpaceIsMagic: Theia lies in a geocentric system, orbited by a life-bearing moon and a moon-sized sun and surrounded by a shell of stars composed in good part of pure magic. Beyond that, there are vast gulfs of space home to enormous star-beasts, other systems both geocentric and heliocentric, vast clouds of primal cosmic matter and {{eldritch abomination}}s.
* SpaceWhale: Among the things half-seen in outer space are colossal beasts shaped like world-sized whales or turtles.
* UnwantedFalseFaith: Downplayed. Celestia has no real issues with being held as an example to look up to or as a source of inspiration, but she has made efforts to discourage actual worship of herself.
* WasOnceAMan: Tirek and Scorpan used to be a pair of pony brothers, warped beyond recognition by Antlertean magic.
* WeatherManipulation: In the same vein as the ponies, most of the Palaververse’s sapient species are divided into a number of subspecies with particular magical gifts, with the ability to craft clouds and control the weather manifesting in pegasi, markhors (who seem to specialize in storms) and magpies.
* WitchSpecies: Most, although not all, of the intelligent races have a subspecies capable of harnessing magic in a more direct, spellcasting fashion than the rest of their kin -- the ponies have unicorns, the caprids ibexes, the sheep black sheep, the cattle longhorns, the corvids ravens and the elephants forest elephants. There are also subspecies that can use less “flashy” forms of magic: takin goats can use runic magic and enchant objects, while rooks posses oracular abilities.
* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Corvids eat their dead, something they see as very honorable and respectful treatment of the deceased and as good use of resources (their homeland has persistent food shortage issues). The other (mostly herbivorous) species don’t exactly share this view.
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The currently released core stories are the titular ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/207616/moonlight-palaver Moonlight Palaver]]'', set during [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon the show's pilot]]; ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/256414/the-tempest The Tempest]]'', set during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return of Harmony]]"; and ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299424/wedding-march Wedding March]]'', set during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]".
Numerous side stories exist in the setting, at various points in the timeline and levels of canonicity. In addition, a great deal of worldbuilding takes place in blog posts on the author’s account.
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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/240152/the-motion-of-the-stars The Motion of the Stars]] ''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/314627/thunderstorm-and-the-four-winds Thunderstorm and the Four Winds]]''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/325779/terra-incognita Terra Incognita]]''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/331376/treasures Treasures]]''
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!! The Palaververse contains examples of:
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* CoolCrown: The Capricious Crown of Capra, an ornate, enchanted crown that just so happens to also be alive and the supreme ruler of the nation of Capra. It speaks in a metallic voice and shows emotion by flashing its gems in different colours.
* CoolSword: The Sun Blade, a golden sword without a hilt meant to be wielded with magic alone. It was originally an Antlertean artifact used by the Mage-Lords to control the Sun’s motion, and is currently in Celestia’s possession.
* DeadpanSnarker: Burro Delver has his moments.
-->'''Bullvalda Greenhorn:''' “Democracy. A barbarous debacle.” (To the democratically elected PM Burro) “No offense.”
-->'''Burro Delver:''' “Some taken.”
* DemocracyIsFlawed: Bullvalda (read: “King”) Greenhorn of Bovaland is very much of this opinion. It doesn’t win him much popularity with Prime Minister Burro of Asinia.
* GrumpyOldMan: Canterlot Castle is turned into an architectural version of this by Discord, constantly going on about how things were better back in his day when castles were proper fortresses, and yelling at kids to get off his lawns.
* KingInTheMountain: The Bullwaldas of Bovaland and their most trusted housecarls are interred after death in an enchanted cairn, so that on Bovaland’s hour of greatest need the current monarch could awaken their remains to defend the nation.
* MixAndMatchCritters: A literal example: when Discord brought the parliament of the multi-species nation of Gazellen to the cage where he’s keeping the other sovereigns, he swapped around the various members’ body parts, with results like a hornless antelope with the legs of a warthog and the wings of a griffon, or a giraffe finding her head and neck swaying atop the body of a diamond jackal.
* NaiveNewcomer: Bullwalda Greenhorn, having just recently ascended to the throne, has very little experience in the way the council works or in dealing with any sort of government outside of a traditional monarchy, and it shows. Viceroy Simoom of Saddle Arabia brings the naiveté to a whole new level. Finally, there’s Shahanshah Sailears of Pachydermia, who’s still a child and doesn’t yet fully grasp the finer points of politics and national rivalry.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Tyrant Fairy Floss of Ovarn is a diminutive, elderly ewe that fits every outward sign of the GrannyClassic down to the serene expression and pince-nez glasses. She’s also survived a lifetime of Ovarn’s cutthroat politics, can make hardened Archons quake in fear, and can have someone who annoys her assassinated seven different ways inside of a week.
* OhMyGods: Throughout the stories, Gellert swears by the Simurgh (a mythical bird from east and central Asian folklore, and a griffon folk heroine in-universe), Fire Queen Talon by Stygia and Alpha Rex of the diamond dogs by V´nagandr (an alternate name for Fenris).
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** In ''The Tempest'', when faced with Discord’s return, Burro Delver only realizes how serious the matter is when he realizes that ''Celestia'' is worried.
--> Celestia was worried.\\
They were all going to die.\\
Probably while screaming and on fire.
** Later in the same story, Celestia snaps and angrily chews out the other world leaders for their pettiness and power hunger, stating that she seriously considered taking over the world on past occasions when it seemed like the only way to get everyone to act civilly to each other. Everyone is rightly freaked out.
* RentAZilla: The Fire Queen of the dragons is enormous, the largest dragon alive, to the point that she can’t physically leave her cave without breaking its mountain open.
* ShoulderSizedDragon: The normally titanic Fire Queen is turned into this by Discord in order to fit in the magical cage along with all the other world leaders.
* WhatTheHellHero: Delivered by Celestia to the other world leaders in ''The Tempest'' when they keep pursuing their petty rivalries and squabbles above anything else, even when powerless in a Discord-constructed cage high in the sky. For Burro Delver and the Zebrican Pharoahs, at least, it seems to stick.
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* AdultFear: In ''Treasures'', Gallivant is on a routine exploration of a new Antlertean ruin, navigating the various deadly traps and guardians found there... and then discovers that his eight-year-old daughter snuck in before him, and is now likely deep in the ruin alongside who knows what deadly traps the ruin’s old master filled his home with.
* AfterTheEnd: ''The Motion of the Stars'' is set after a war between Equestria and Capra devastated the world, blasting the landscape with destructive magic and killing the Sisters, freezing the sun and moon in place.
* AmusingInjuries: Apparently, Starswirl’s apprentice Meadowbrook came upon these quite often as a result of following Starswirl around, enough so that his mentor adopted “onwards, Meadbrook, and stop bleeding so much!” as a sort of battlecry.
* BittersweetEnding: In ''The Motion of the Stars'', [[spoiler: the day-night cycle is restarted and the world is on its way to healing]], but millions are still dead, the ecosystem’s devastated, and [[spoiler: Rarity sacrificed herself to restart the Sun’s motion]].
* BreakTheCutie: In ''Treasures'', young Daring Do sets out on to explore an Antlertean ruin with childlike enthusiasm and naiveté to prove to everyone that she’s grown-up and responsible. This leads to her [[spoiler:seeing her father (apparently) get killed in front of her, losing her hat (her last memento of her deceased mother) and ending up stuck at the bottom of a deep pit, curled up in despair]]. She gets better.
* ElementalEmbodiment: The Four Winds and the High King in ''Thunderstorm and the Four Winds'', enormous, powerful air elementals that ruled the winds and sky before the pegasi did.
* TheFairFolk: What the Mage-Lords were perceived as by the ancient inhabitants of the Equestria Girls universe when they crossed worlds -- otherworldly beings who seemed to wear human appearance like ill-fitting clothing, striking from deep forests to steal people away, never to be seen again.
* FantasticNuke: The megaspells used in the Equestria-Capra war in ''The Motion of the Stars'', which included fire, ice, razor wind, chocking darkness and storms of crystals.
* GadgeteerGenius: Meadowbrook, Starswirl’s apprentice, whose special talent laid in magical engineering and crafting complex enchanted objects.
* HeroicBastard: Celestia herself, having been born as the result of an extramarital relationship between a pegasus noble and an earth pony farmer mare. Luna, technically Celestia’s half-sister, was born later after said pegasus noble returned home and married.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** In ''The Motion of the Stars'', [[spoiler:Rarity sacrifices herself and binds her soul to the Sun to restart and guide its motion, like the ancient unicorn monarchs did before the time of the Sisters]].
** In ''Thunderstorm and the Four Winds'', [[spoiler:Thunderstorm sacrifices herself to destroy the High King and free the pegasi from the scourge of wild, uncontrolled weather]].
* JustSoStory: The InUniverse legend of ''Thunderstorm and the Four Winds'' explains how pegasi came to control the weather.
* MissingMom: Daring Do’s mother died exploring a ruin when Daring was still young.
* PetTheDog: In ''Second Sun'', Celestia is split into two personas: [[RedOniBlueOni the in-control face she presents to the world, and her repressed desires and drives]]. The second persona has no reservations on acting with absolute candidness on the drives and opinions that Celestia normally has to hide, which mostly boils down to insulting insufferable nobles and foreign dignitaries and getting drunk -- until she comes across Twilight, and her face breaks into a radiant smile of genuine pleasure at the sight of her beloved student.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: Soulforging, a process where an Antlertean mage would wipe the mind and soul of another being clean and completely rewrite their identity, turning them into an undying, loyal servant, sometimes transferring their soul into another vessel or turning them into a spectral being. In ''Treasures'', the Antlertean Lord Fallow’s fortress is home to a great number of reforged minions, ranging from criminals to a fraud to a servant that was going senile.
* ShoutOut: [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Skaven]] are listed as one of the (fictional) possible dangers of underground exploration in ''Treasures''.
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* AbusivePrecursors: The Antlertean Mage-Lords were tyrants who saw the rest of the world’s sapient species as nothing more than thralls or test subjects. They’re also responsible, directly or indirectly, for a great deal of the horrors that plagued the world over the ages, including Tirek, Discord, the Sirens, Ahuizotl and the horror in the Pachidermian south.
* TheAgeless: Seems to be the case for alicorns -- they are quite immune to aging, although they’re not completely invulnerable. {{Emotion Eater}}s such as Windigos do not seem to age as long as they get enough food, and neither do Phoenixes with access to the Sun’s energies.
* TheArchmage: Starswirl, of course, and also the Mage-Lords of ancient Antlertis, who were a decidedly more villainous take on this trope.
* {{Atlantis}}: Antlertis, a civilization of deer based on an island on the other side of the world from the main continents, whose Mage-Lords used to rule the world with great power and cruelty in ancient times. It was destroyed when the Mage-Lords tried to summon… [EldritchAbomination something]]... from deep space that utterly destroyed their homeland, sinking it and causing perpetual magical storms over it, although numerous creatures and artifacts of Antlertean origin are still around.
* AtlantisIsBoring: Downplayed. While the seas are far from lacking in wild magic or strange monsters, there are very few sapient marine species, and none with true nations. The oceans were summed up in one blog post, which normally suffices for ''one'' surface nation.
* BarbarianTribe: The Corvids, based on the real life Scottish highland clans.
* BeneathTheEarth: An extensive underworld of caverns exists beneath Theia’s surface, permeating its entire volume supposedly going all the way to a sea of lava at the planet’s core. The Diamond Dogs live in the uppermost layers, while the deeps are home to a great variety of horrors.
* CompleteImmortality: Discord. He simply can’t be killed, only forced into dormancy.
* DeathWorld: The island-nation of Saddle Arabia. It’s a barren desert wasteland battered by horrifying magical storms that regularly sow the land with chaotic magic, with the sun burning away any moisture they leave behind. The chaos magic and harsh climate have worked together to populate it with a parade of horrors -- packs of mobile vampiric cacti, mountain-sized roc birds made of stone, enormous wind scorpions that surprise prey and evade pursuit by turning into wind, parasitic life-eating flecks [[EyeScream that inhabit eyeballs and spread by eye contact]]...
* EldritchAbomination: A number. There’s the Dwellers Below, chtonic, Lovecraftian beings spawned from the world’s primal, chaotic magics, and their possible relative the Night Serpent of Zebrica. There are also numerous entities of Antlertean origin, including the nameless horror to the south of Pachydermia. Finally, there are the unknown entities that stir in the deepest reaches of space, brief glimpses of which tend to drive astronomers insane.
* TheEmpire: The cruel and slave-driving Capric Empire of the past. The Capricious Crown is seeking to turn modern Capra back into this trope, and is having some measure of success.
* EnemyWithin: All alicorns carry within them a Nightmare that constantly tempts, harangues and harasses them to try to get them to give in to their basest urges and impulses. Luna’s was purged by the Elements of Harmony, and Cadence and Twilight are too young for theirs to have fully developed yet, but Celestia has been constantly withstanding the influence of hers for the past one thousand years.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Besides those already present in the show, Asinia is Spain at the height of the colonial age, Capra shares quite a bit with the various Persian empires, Ovarn is a more united version of the Greek city-states, Bovaland is feudal Europe, the Corvids are the Scottish highland clans, Zebrica is Pharaonic Egypt, the continent of Dactylia in general stands in for Africa, the mammoth clans of the southern Dactylian steppes have a distinctly Mongolian flavor, and Ceratos is imperial China.
* FantasyWorldMap: There’s [[http://i.imgbox.com/PeWTyLjq.png one]] in the Changeling post showing the two main continents of Ungula (where Equestria and most of the plot-central nations are) and Dactylia, the island-continents of Ceratos and Saddle Arabia and the archipelagos of the Burning Mountains and the Asinial Main.
* GiantFlyer: Rocs, enormous birds made of stone. Some tribes of Diamond Jackals hollow them out into living, flying fortresses.
* GrimUpNorth: The Utmost North beyond the Greycairn mountains. It’s horrendously cold, there’s no civilization, and few expeditions that go there ever return.
* TheHorde: The great and savage Corvid armies that overran much of Ungula at numerous points in the past, driven from their homelands by overpopulation and lack of food in much the same way as real life hordes often were.
* KingIncognito: It’s implied that [[spoiler:Zecora]] is the younger sister of the rival Pharoahs Punda and Milia, who fled her country to avoid getting sucked into her brothers’ war of succession.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: Theia’s oceans are home to numerous colossal sea monsters, including actual krakens, larger and sedentary relatives of the same living in the deepest abysses, and [[Literature/BasLagCycle island-sized avancs]].
* ALoadOfBull: Minotaurs are one of the subraces of cattle alongside shorthorns, longhorns, bison and yaks. They are thought to have first arisen due to the chaotic magic that filled the word after the Fall of Antlertis, which would explain their great degree of physical divergence from other cattle. They don’t have any magic active or latent, but their hands and bipedalism (and more specifically the resulting advantages in tool usage) have historically more than made up for this.
* LongLived:
** Dragons are not truly immortal, but even the shortest-lived breeds will still see centuries go by before old age claims them, and some have lifespans extending well into the millennia.
** The Capricious Crown of Capra is this as well, since as a living piece of metal it’s fairly resistant to aging, and although entropy will eventually claim it, it won’t be for centuries yet.
* TheMigration: A number have taken place in the setting’s history, including the pony migration from “Heart’s Warming Eve”, which here took them from one end of the continent of Ungula to the other, the migration of the diamond dogs (and of the diamond jackals and fennecs) from the ruin of the deep empires through an underworld full of horrors and towards the surface of the world, the exodus of the dragons to the Burning Mountains, and the migration of the yaks and the buffalo from the bovine homelands in Bovaland to their current homes.
* NothingIsScarier: It’s never actually revealed just what horror lurks south of Pachydermia, just that it’s absolutely horrifying and that every elephant that ever learned of it was left traumatized to some degree, as well as glimpses of images of skulls crowned in writhing antlers, thunder from beneath black glaciers and walking, frozen corpses...
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They used to rule most of the world in the past, but their power began to slip as civilization grew, and was lost in a series of disastrous wars against the Diamond Dogs, the Capric Empire and Equestria, forcing most of them out of Ungula and to the archipelago of the Burning Mountains. They also have their own unique but poorly understood form of magic, hoard treasure as both a way to store food and as a mating display of sorts, and though mostly loners they have a loose society, ruled by the Fire Queen through Dragon Lords acting as intermediaries and viceroys.
** An interesting note is that, although most dragons dismiss religion as something for more mortal beings to bother with, particularly old and powerful dragons almost invariably develop beliefs centering on the size of one’s hoard determining the value and “brightness” of one’s soul, and of a “Last Dark” to be met with as bright a soul as possible, refusing to elaborate on this even to their younger kin.
** The caverns of the underworld are known to be home to blind, flightless dragons that breathe mind-clouding fumes and poison instead of fire.
* OurGriffonsAreDifferent:
** The griffons live in a large number of scattered and proudly independent tribes and clans scattered in the Greycairns and Hyperborean Mountains throughout most of the Ungulan continent, with many living in Equestria. Historically, they have never answered to any single ruler, although in the past a chieftain named Grover managed to unite many tribes around his home in Griffonstone and make himself king, giving the griffons unity until Griffonstone fell into ruin. In the modern day, another chieftain named Gellert has managed to unite the majority of the griffon tribes, becoming their de facto ruler.
** There are also the axex, a subspecies of sorts, who are part of the federation of Gazellen.
* PhotographicMemory: True to classic stereotype, elephants are all born with near-perfect eidetic memory.
* SapientCetaceans: Both whales and dolphins are sapient beings with their own nomadic civilizations, although they generally avoid contact with land-dwellers.
* TheSavageSouth: The Dactylian Interior, separated from the Dactylian nations by a mountain range and left exposed to wyld storms from the Black Ocean, is covered in thick jungles full of exotic beasts and terrors (and barely sapient hairless apes obsessed with advanced mathematics), visited only by explorers looking for Antlertean ruins and artifacts.
* SeaMonster: Numerous sea monsters are known to lurk in Theia’s oceans, including carnivorous whale sharks, angel sharks capable of temporary flight, and schools of skeletal bonefish. The deepest, most chaotic abysses beneath the Burning Mountains and the Black Ocean host even stranger things, from colonies of literal spider crabs that spin webs across ocean trenches to Lovecraftian horrors to wild metal-eating Smoozes.
* ScaryScorpions: The aggressively predatory wind scorpions of Saddle Arabia, which have the added bonus of being able to turn into wind to elude both prey and pursuit.
* ShoutOut: Some of the creatures stated to live in Theia’s oceans are titanic avancs and packs of grindylow straight out of the Literature/BasLagCycle.
* SpaceIsMagic: Theia lies in a geocentric system, orbited by a life-bearing moon and a moon-sized sun and surrounded by a shell of stars composed in good part of pure magic. Beyond that, there are vast gulfs of space home to enormous star-beasts, other systems both geocentric and heliocentric, vast clouds of primal cosmic matter and {{eldritch abomination}}s.
* SpaceWhale: Among the things half-seen in outer space are colossal beasts shaped like world-sized whales or turtles.
* UnwantedFalseFaith: Downplayed. Celestia has no real issues with being held as an example to look up to or as a source of inspiration, but she has made efforts to discourage actual worship of herself.
* WasOnceAMan: Tirek and Scorpan used to be a pair of pony brothers, warped beyond recognition by Antlertean magic.
* WeatherManipulation: In the same vein as the ponies, most of the Palaververse’s sapient species are divided into a number of subspecies with particular magical gifts, with the ability to craft clouds and control the weather manifesting in pegasi, markhors (who seem to specialize in storms) and magpies.
* WitchSpecies: Most, although not all, of the intelligent races have a subspecies capable of harnessing magic in a more direct, spellcasting fashion than the rest of their kin -- the ponies have unicorns, the caprids ibexes, the sheep black sheep, the cattle longhorns, the corvids ravens and the elephants forest elephants. There are also subspecies that can use less “flashy” forms of magic: takin goats can use runic magic and enchant objects, while rooks posses oracular abilities.
* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Corvids eat their dead, something they see as very honorable and respectful treatment of the deceased and as good use of resources (their homeland has persistent food shortage issues). The other (mostly herbivorous) species don’t exactly share this view.
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