Author's Notes:

Flair: Hello everyone. Today we will be giving a little backstory to this alternate version of the MLP world.

Since we have the information about this world with us and know how to look at it, we decided to give you these chapters so you can understand it all. Note: this was added as an afterthought so it might look like a different set of writing then what you might see.

Flair: To start us off, here is the map we are going by. Please note, we found this online and don’t know who drew this. It also includes the names of the provinces. Like how the Romans divided up their territory and colonies. Also, most of the small names in white, don’t mind them as we don’t know how to take those off. We’re not that good at editing.

Flair: As you can see the territory is big and we can’t explain everything in one sitting unless we want to make maybe a different story. Also, if anyone wants to use this as the basis for their own story, please just inform us as we may be interested in reading it. Also, this isn’t the same Equestria so places like Neighgrafalls doesn’t exist.

On top of the fact that this is only the start. As this story goes along, we will give out more and more info. Things like how many cities and areas there are in each province. But that will only happen when it becomes important. Along with a whole list of names or descriptions as even us needed to make a mile long info page that is constantly getting longer. So you will get them when they come up.

Flair: So like any story, let’s start at the beginning. How did this all start? How did Equestria or in this case what will be Equestria get like this? The answer lies at the founding.

After the Windigos were defeated, the tribes had a sit-down, but things didn’t do so well in this and they ended up fighting again. Insults were flung and fights nearly broke out. In the end, the founders, against the wishes of Smart Cookie, Clover the Clever, and Private Pansy, decided to go their own ways and live in separate areas. The pegasi settled under Commander Hurricane settled in Libya. The unicorns settled under Princess Platinum settled in Gual. And the earth ponies under Chancellor Puddinghead settled in Celtica.

The land started to form around them, becoming a land of territories and many borderlines. But strife started to form heavily and soon an understand was reached between all of them for a long time without meeting each other. Mutually assured destruction. The leaders all understood that they can’t attack each other without the other coming into play into the battle with them or against them. Generations came and went as the ponies made out a life of their own. Soon they stopped looking like the original tribes and had fixed communities everywhere. So a silent battle was placed where only small skirmishes were done with across many borders and cities.

But then the archmages arrived. Two powerful alicorns were born and, growing up seeing the land in such a disheveled, decided to form their own schools. Archmage Celestia formed the school of light. Archmage Luna formed the school of darkness. Making a connection between everyone in the lands as anyone who wanted to use the magic of the lands, which anyone can use, came to them to learn. They thought they could get them to coexist peacefully, but their old anger held fast, now allowing any leverage of any kind. So the archmages formed a plan. Once a year, meetings will be held between all the rulers of the provinces. But this plan had a problem. No provinces had a single ruler. They had many houses vying for control. So when they asked for the leaders, it, in the end, resulted in big open conflicts. Many provinces rulers strove to assert their dominance over them.

The archmages, fed up with the fighting, silently came up with a plan together. Inviting all those vying for power at a neutral position. To that end, Celestia moves her school to the weakest of all the provinces, Wales, and took it over for herself and made it the neutral ground that welcomed all students. Needless to say, Luna didn’t like this bold move as it went against what they were trying to do and despite Celestia’s urging her to take over the providence of Aria or York, Luna remained in Celtica.

Soon an uneasy unspoken truce was placed between all of the lands. One where if one attacks the lands of another, then the whole entire lands shall go to war. This, of course, didn’t hold up for more than a generation as many either started to bribe others or sat back and watched as their rivals were destroyed.

The archmages, still not liking the results of these agreements and rulers, decided to do something behind everyone’s back as well. But this information was never released in any way. The only thing that is sure is that some of the higher ranking students or some of them that showed promised disappeared. Not much is told from what they went through and only a large magical trace was left over on them. As much as the leaders of the provinces were fighting each other behind the scene instead of straight up bloodshed, the archmages inevitably followed the pattern and made their own as a failsafe. But one thing was sure between the two of them. If an all out war breaks out and the land will truly be lost, an ultimatum will be reached. But only if the land is sure to be lost to time itself.

But this itself is another fabrication by Celestia. The truth is what she was trying to accomplish failed and the project was abandoned when the students died from it. Celestia now waits with a quiet fear in her breast of the day someone will challenge them, albeit an internal or an external threat.