Founding of Equestria
The founding of Equestria refers to a series of events that resulted in the unification and consolidation of the three tribes, the Earth Pony, the Pegasus and the Unicorn tribe, into a single state, the Kingdom of Equestria, which resulted in the end of the Three tribes period as they were unified and the start of the Age of Heroes.
History
Background
Long after the reign of Grogar, the species of ponies have formed three tribes corresponding to their kind, including the Earth Pony, the Pegasus and the Unicorns, which started the period under the same name. Despite their hatred, each of the tribes all depended on survival.
Sequence of events
The blizzard begins
One fateful day, snow began to fall which then turned into a blizzard, a type of snowstorm, and the tribes entered into decline. The Earth ponies could no longer continue agriculture to make food because of the extreme temperature. The Pegasus couldn't control the weather because of the extreme wind and the Unicorns could not bring the sun and the moon to the sky for that moment. As a result, famine was in mass. This period would be known as the Long Winter.
Grand Summit
A grand summit was held during the blizzard to find who was responsible as the culprit. Each tribe sent their leaders: Commander Hurricane for the Pegasus, Chancellor Puddinghead for the Earth ponies, and Princess Platinum for the Unicorns. However because of their long hatred, the three leaders accused for each other for causing the snowstorm. Because of the chaos, they left the place, with a difficult time to know which pony was leaving first. Little did they know, that their hatred was being fed.
Search for a "Paradise"
At the same place
Fire of Friendship
As the ice froze their leaders, the assistant trio were afraid of what was coming, with them realizing that they were Windigoes. Clover knew what they were as his mentor, Starswirl the Bearded, taught him about these creatures, feeding hatred and fight. That was their last straw.
With the ice getting closer and the cold getting stronger, a friendship started to form, with Private Pansy revealing that she hated what Commander Hurricane was acting like, and the others agree that they didn't hate them anymore. No matter what their differences were, they were, indeed, ponies. Immediately after being frozen, Clover the Clever's horn began to break the ice and freed the others, with incinerating the windigoes as the magic grew, forming the Fire of Friendship.
Aftermath
Upon leaving the cave, the group saw how the Long Winter finally ended, with the Sun finally being seen by the ponies, revealing it was a morning. Once they left, they went into the hill and planted a flag, which they proclaimed that the land was named Equestria, and also starting the Age of Heroes.[1]
According to one source, the founding was not a happy occasion for all ponies involved. King Thrace, who claimed to his descendants to have been present in the aftermath of the friendship formed between the three tribes, was supposedly rejected by them when he sought to join in. Enraged, Thrace eventually established his own isolated realm of Thrace, and condemned friendship in favor of supposed self-reliance.
Legacy
The founding of Equestria was remembered as the start of the ancient kingdom. A play with the Mane Six playing the group of founders was made several moons later during the Era of Harmony. The Fire of Friendship possibly is still active to this day.
Weirdly, after the dissolution of Equestria a millennia after the founding, the Windigoes were not present.[2]
Participants
- Earth Pony tribe/Earth (proposed country)
- Unicorn tribe/Unicornia
- Pegasus tribe/Pegasopolis
- Founders of Equestria
- Windigoes
Behind the scenes
A major source for the founding event was the episode "Hearth's Warming Eve" from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's season 2, where it is mostly seen by the play.