And in that time, before the gates of paradise were closed to them, mares and stallions were as foals, and so bountiful were the treasures and fruits of paradise that they lived four-score years, and some lived yet longer.

And Equestria was warm and blue, and many were its provinces.

So it was that the Pre-Equines came together and built Canterlot, so that they might transcend the mortal plain and become one with the Divine. Up and up they built, until so vast was the spire, so majestic in its grandness, that it pierced the heavens themselves. Drawing her attention, Faust herself did turn her eyes to the Godscraper, and sent her alicorn's to watch over it.

For none who are mortal may possess the key to becoming immortal.

But the Pre-Equines of that day knew no honour, no loyalty, only greed. And it was in their greed that they rebelled against the alicorn's, and waged war on one another for control of the Godscraper. Unknowing, even as brother fought brother, that the Divine lay watching.

Seeing the failure of the Pre-equines with her own eyes, Faust knew that such creatures were not fit to be permitted the bounties of paradise, and in her fury did turn on Equestria, reaping a bloody harvest in recompense for the mortals sins.

The shattering came to Equestria, and so it was that the Eye of Faust burnt through the world, and the gates of paradise were sealed.

They have not opened since.

The Testament: Chapter 20, verses 17 through 28

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