History Fanfic / TheTearsOfGaia

** BiggerBad: [[TheCorruption The]] [[EldritchAbomination host of the Blight]]. Sometimes referred to as 'Allfather'.

** Fight, it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. No claws, no wings, no magic, just a down-and-dirty brawl.

This is a WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfiction written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Redback+Spino Redback Spino]]. It can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/44105/the-tears-of-gaia here]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Gellert the griffin.

** Fight, it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

* PowerCrystal: The Tears of Gaia. According to the CreationMyth, it is a gem created by Gaia with her own shed tears and the powers of the six Alicorns are stored inside the Tears. The power found inside can be enough to ''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt wipe out most of the world''. Most nations and [[EldritchAbomination the Blight]] want it in their possession, the other nations for defence and [[BiggerBad the Blight]] to expand its influence faster.

* PowerCrystal: The Tears of Gaia. According to the CreationMyth, it is a gem created by Gaia with her own shed tears and the powers of the six Alicorns are stored inside the Tears. The power found inside can be enough to wipe out most of the world! Most nations and [[EldritchAbomination the Blight]] want it in their possession, the other nations for defence and [[BiggerBad the Blight]] to expand its influence faster.

* PowerCrystal: The Tears of Gaia. According to the CreationMyth, it is a gem created by Gaia with her own shed tears and the powers of the dead Alicorns are stored inside the Tears. The power found inside can be enough to wipe out most of the world! Most nations and [[EldritchAbomination the Blight]] want it in their possession, the other nations for defence and [[BiggerBad the Blight]] to expand its influence faster.

** In the epilogue, [[spooiler: Rowanoak visits Ponyville, and in a moment when she is on her own, she delivers a final monologue to the readers that is very similar to The Stranger's final monologue in The Big Lebowski:]]

--> [[spoiler: "Sure am glad to see she's doin' alright after all this time," she said to you. "She and her friends went through quite a bit, and come out stronger and wiser than ever. Well, that about does it, wraps the whole thing up. Things seemed to work out pretty good fer Twilight an' her friends. Not to mention it made for a pretty decent tale, eh? Now I'm not sure she's aware of y'all out there, hearin' this story. But if she did, I'm sure she'd appreciate ye stickin' around as long as ye have. Takes alot of dedication to wanna stick by her, find out where she'd go next, what adventure she'd run into..."
Rowanoak paused a moment and chuckled. "Oh look at me, ramblin' on like the old coot I am. Heh, s'funny, when ye've bin goin' as long as I have, once ye got an attentive audience ye don't wanna stop talking. But I'll let y'all be on yer way now. I hope you've enjoyed yerselves. See you out on the trail."
Rowanoak then turned to Mrs Cake as she passed. "Say miss, be a dear and get me some more o' that good sarsaparilla..."]]

** The Diamond Dogs that Rarity encounters in the woods have a similar conversation to the three trolls in The Hobbit.

** When [[spoiler: King Gideon discovers that his son Gordon is alive and in the midst of the battle between the Deerfolk and the Blight, there is only one thing he could possibly say:
--> "GORDON'S ALIVE?!"]]

* ProudWarriorRaceGuys: The griffins. They are also better equipped for warfare than the more peaceful ponies of Equestria.

** There was one after our heroes took the Tears of Gaia coming out of the rip from the sky in a parallel dimension. All we find out is that it has a booming voice, tentacles, and the ponies mistook [[ThatsNoMoon one of its eyes for a planet in the sky above them]]. Yikes.

** [[spoiler]]: She then does it again in the epilogue, addressing the readers and thanking them for reading.]]

** BiggerBad: [[TheCorruption The]] [[EldritchAbomination Blight]]. Sometimes referred to as 'Allfather'.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:The Mane SIx manage to destroy the Blight, find a solution for the problem of the Tears, and save the world. Fluttershy also manages to get Yarrow to move in with her]].
* EldritchAbomination: The Draconequii in the CreationMyth in the first chapter have them as having mixed body parts from all races because they have no preferences to any race. [[TheCorruption The Blight made them more so, as well as driving them insane.]]

* FantasticRacism: Gellert the griffin to the ponies.

* GoingToGiveItMoreEnergy: [[spoiler:This is how Twilight defeats the Blight, she throws the Tears at it, causing it to explode and release the energy it had absorbed]].
--> '''Applejack:''' C'mon, best leave her to it. She's kinda gone native, Fluttershy has
* HumanoidAbomination: No humans, but the Blightlings (mortals corrupted by the Blight) are horribly rotted and disfigured versions of their former selves.

--> “Let’s just say,” Twilight replied, “that it involved a flight spell, a pumpkin, and the fiercest flamingo you’ve ever seen.”

* Mordor: Burzkala. It is a blackened extinct volcano, heavily fortified and inhabited by the Blightlings devoid of any plant-life.

* CombatByChampion: The 3 F's, created by Gellert to determine who's worthy for his respect. They are Flyt, Feast and Fight. Only the griffin king managed to beat him yet.

* PhysicalGods: According to the CreationMyth, the Alicorns and the Draconequii are all this. But by the time the Blight had been imprisoned, the Draconequi had been turned into [[EldritchAbomination insane twisted monsters]], and all the Alicorns except Celestia and Luna left the world forever (And Gaia, though she was essentially dead, having become one with the earth itself)

--->...But not before she paused briefly to turn back again and look at you:
--->“Don’t look to me for explanations, dear reader. Ye best get after those ponies, see what happens… They got plenty of troubles ahead… If’n only they knew.”

--> "Simultaneous spit-takes in 3...2...1..."

* {{Expy}}: The author admits that the fanfic contains expies of many old high fantasy stories such as The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and Redwall.

“Don’t look to me for explanations, dear reader. Ye best get after those ponies, see what happens… They got plenty of troubles ahead… If’n only they knew.”

* CultureClash: While staying in the griffon city, Twilight, Starswirl, Rarity and Pinkie Pie indulge in a delicious dinner from a nearby foodstall. Turns out the griffons are omnivorous, and the food was chicken and mushroom soup. As the fic puts it:

** The Blight.