Characters / Codex Equus Thracean Dominations

Here is a list of characters from the Thracean Dominations, a brutal group of city-states that follow a darwinistic, Spartan-like lifestyle.

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Thracean Dominations

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General

• Arch-Enemy: While they hold all other non-Thraceans as contemptous enemies, they see Equestria in particular as this, not only due to historical grievances in regard to the other Three Tribes' abandoment and 'betrayal' during the Windigo Scourge, but also because Equestria's belief in friendship made them their antithesis on almost every level.
• Canon Immigrant: Like the Thracians were in MLP G4, the Thraceans are from the "Feats of Friendship" comics.
• Dystopia Justifies the Means: The Thraceans not only seek World Domination, but to remake it In Their Own Image where all other non-Thraceans are a collective Slave Race, while the Thraceans who would rule over them would remake themselves into super-beings free of remorse, mercy, and weakness who would dominate the world forever and take their domination to the wider cosmos.
  Murderous Manacles: We dominate not for glory, wealth, territory, or ideology, but for the sake of domination itself. We will do so simply because we must, because we can, and because we choose to. We will conquer every realm in every land, sea or sky, and grind everyone else into the dust. From the devastation and desolation that we wrought, we will reforge this world and its peoples as we see fit, and in doing so remake ourselves to be worthy of our new paradise. We shall be as we will remake this world: pure, and potent, strong, and hard, free of remorse, mercy, and weakness, and from it we shall stride forth to take the stars and beyond as if the gods themselves.
• The Empire: The Thracean Dominations as a whole are this, being collectively a slavocratic, militaristic, expansionistic, totalitarian civilization hell-bent on conquest and enslavement of everyone else not them.
• Expy: While based on the Thracian Tribe from "Feats of Friendship", the Thracean Dominations drew much inspiration in philosophy, portrayal and personality from the Domination of the Draka.
• Might Makes Right: Thracean philosophy revolves around the presumption that beneath the veneer of morals and values the 'truth' of sapientkind and civilization is power and the pursuit of it, and believes themselves superior in that they don't need the excuses made by 'cowards and hypocrites' to justify their pursuit of it, pursuing power, conquest and domination of all others for its own sake because it is everything. Ultimately deconstructed, as their stubborn fixation leaves them utterly unable and/or unwilling to comprehend the shortcomings of their philosophy and the strengths of Right Makes Might, ultimately leading to repeated defeats at the hands of heroic forces.
• Motive Rant: Murderous Manacles, a representative of the Thraceans, makes it VERY clear how the Thraceans saw friendship, their 'Power and Conquest for their own sake' worldview, and what they plan to do with the rest of the world if they ever manages to conquer it.
• Sadist: Cruelty is pretty ingrained in Thracean culture, partly by necessity in order to control its vast slave populations with fear. This makes reforming them difficult as even Thraceans who turned a new leaf can come off as this by instinct.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The Thraceans are infamous for their willingness to enslave literally anyone - including other Ponies - who are not themselves for their own purposes, controlling them with unimaginable cruelty and sadism. Having your limbs cut off and nailed to the door while whip wounds treated with poison are some of the more standard things Thracean slavers would do to abuse their slaves. This would eventually backfire on them.
• Slave Liberation: As the 'Thracean Conflicts' rolled on and the Thraceans started suffering defeats, the Thracean slaves seized their chances to throw off their yokes/chains and turn on their cruel slavemasters. Their efforts culminated in the 'Great Slave Revolt' erupting all across their homelands and colonies.
  Second Age Opera song: One people will we be, a band of brothers/No danger, no distress shall sunder us/We will be free as our fathers were/And sooner welcome death than live as slaves...^note Freedom Beckons
• Stupid Evil: Many of their behaviours ultimately fall into such, though they would not admit it.
  • Their reliance on fear, brutal tortures, and inhuman treatment to maintain control over their slaves not only means they require a constant influx of slaves to keep their Dominations functioning due to the sheer number of slaves that end up crippled or dead, but doesn't breed true loyalty - merely fearful compliance masking murderous hatred and rage. This not only leaves Deities able to dispel fear (such as Princess Marea Equestria) incredibly well-positioned to incite slave uprisings, but ultimately culminates in the 'Great Slave Revolt' that erupts all across the Thracean Dominations and their colonies.
  • Their dismissal of values such as friendship and cooperation as "vile lies" and "crutches" that they do not need to thrive results in internecine infighting among the various kingdoms making up the Dominations, unable to cooperate even among themselves.
• Übermensch: They see themselves as this collectively, although many doubt how much they actually live up to it.
• Uncanny Valley: Thraceans are noted to possess many habits and behaviours distinctive of Thracean psychology and culture which made them unnerving and even terrifying with those not used to Thraceans, similar to the Drakians from the Draka series.
• Virtue Is Weakness: The Thraceans glorifies in the fact they not so much disregard friendship and violate the golden rule but outright reject them both for the 'vile lies' they are, calling it a crutch used by the weak to stand up to the strong and declaring they need no such things to thrive. Deconstructed, as their total disdain for such values not only leaves them prone to Stupid Evil, but repeatedly leads to defeats at the hands of heroic (or at least less villainous) forces.
• We ARE Struggling Together: While often described as a single bloc, the Thracean Dominations is actually divided into multiple kingdoms or 'Dominations', and it's implied there are great divergences in culture and societies and even significant divisions between them.

Thracean Pantheon

General

Great King Thrace

The first leader of the 'Fourth' Tribe of Equestria, Thrace led his people on an exodus away from the other Three Tribes into the archipelagoes which would become the homelands of the Thracean Dominations, distilling upon them a Friendship-hating Social-Darwinistic philosophy which would eventually evolve into the doctrines the slavocratic, militaristic, expansionistic, totalitarian civilizations the Thraceans would follow. He would eventually ascend to become the Top God of the Thracean Pantheon watching over them, although recently he's starting to have second thoughts at his own worldview and how his people turned out...

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• Disappointed in You: It's implied he's not entirely happy with how his people turned out, either because they had fallen short or they're going beyond even what had in mind.
• Villainous BSoD: Briefly went into one when King Kōkai - someone who was once very similar to him - showed him the kingdom he once lorded over and followed his earlier similar social-darwinist philosophy... or rather what remain of it after most of the population exterminated each other to prove their own superiority, leaving only the dead and scattered bands of psychopathic bands of raiders roaming and killing each other over the overgrown wastes it had become. Thrace was reportedly horrified upon seeing it, either from the horror-show or from a realization of just how the similar beliefs he and the Thraceans have could result in this as well.

Notable Thraceans

King Diomedes

Princess Terri-Belle

Princess Blonn-Di

Princess Shining Light

Princess Swift Foot

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• Defector from Decadence: Once sent to infiltrate and sabotage Equestria from within, Swift Foot was changed by her experiences there and decided to try and reform the Thracean people from the inside without success, becoming an ally of Equestria and a leader of Thracean dissidents and rebels in exile.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: She's trying her best to change, but her Thracean upbringing and indoctrination still shows up every now and then. One incident post-defection saw her violently dislocating the claw of a Griffon waiter who served her the wrong drink on instinct due to being raised to treat slaves cruelly to ensure their continued fear and obediance, although she immediately regretted it afterwards.

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