Chancellor Puddinghead

Puddinghead was Chancellor of the Earth Pony tribe at the time of the Founding of Equestria.

Life
Born in the Pre-Equestrian era, Smart Cookie was likely born in the Earth Pony state and eventually was elected to the rank of chancellor. After a failed attempt at diplomacy at the Three Tribes Summit to figure out what to do about the deplenishing food during the Long Winter, Puddinghead took his assistant Smart Cookie to explore the countryside of their land to found a new settlement. They came across the land described as "paradise", roughly in the Canterlot Valley, near the Great Valley River region, where they set up their settlement of "Earth", formally Dirtville.

However, they founded the land near other settlements by the two other rulers of the Three Tribes and in-fighting broke up, causing the pristine land of paradise to freeze over once again. Puddignhead and the others took refuge in the cold and desolate cave where the rulers began to draw up borders.

As the fighting waged on, the rulers themselves froze over, but Smart Cookie and the other assistants, Private Pansy and Clover the Clever became quick friends, bonding over the incompetencies of their higher ups while also hitting it off. Together, they told stories for hours about themselves, and though they began to freeze over, they did so knowing it was with their fellow ponies. Soon, the warmth of their friendship helped melt away the icy shells and hard hearts of their rulers, and the ice that covered paradise itself. Together, the six ponies founded the land of Equestria.

Legacy
Chancellor Puddinghead was a character featured in productions of The Founding of Equestria. In the Era of Harmony production in Canterlot, he was portrayed by and treated as a mare in the context of the pageant.

Personality
Chancellor Puddinghead was far and away the most eccentric of the founders, engaging in such bizarre behavior as entering a building via the chimney rather than the door. He also "read" maps by wearing them on his face like a mask, cutting holes in them so that he could see where he was going...and quite failing to recognize that he might thus deprive himself of important information. Puddinghead also had the tendency to greatly exaggerate his own importance, demeaning Smart Cookie and claiming ownership of her ideas when they proved better than his own. His egotistical nature caused a natural clash with Commander Hurricane and Princess Platinum, with whom he bickered over various matters, going so far as to debate ownership of a rock in a cave where the founders took shelter.

Once the Fire of Friendship had been ignited for the first time, Puddinghead mellowed out considerably and established peaceable relations with the leaders of the other tribes, allowing their new nation of Equestria to thrive. He remained rather eccentric, being one of the few ponies to recognize the many secret workings of the Castle of Two Sisters.

Appearances

 * "Hearth's Warming Eve"