Princess Eris

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Princess Eris
Friendship is Magic character
Biographical information
Species	"Lord"  • Lord of Chaos
Gender	Female
Occupation	Lord of Chaos
Residence	Eris' dimension
Relationships
Family	Discord (cousin)
Real world
First Nightmare Knights #1 Last —

"Chaos wasn't meant to play pranks and turn rain to chocolate milk. It was meant to cause destruction." — Eris

Princess Eris was the Lord of Chaos of her dimension and the cousin of Discord. A powerful and foe most wicked, Eris doesn't view chaos in the same jovial way her cousin does, but instead embraces the more practical effects of chaos; one where the strong may do whatever they want to the weak. Eris had no moral code to speak of, not caring that her antics could destroy entire worlds and dooming all within.

History

Like Discord, Eris is most likely millions of years old. Being his cousin, Eris is directly related to him by "blood", or whatever genealogical system members of her race belong to.

The world in which Eris resided eventually came under the dominion of the Pony of Shadows, formerly the Stygian of that world. Seeking to harness the powers of one version or another of the sisters Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, he asked Eris for her assistance. When she refused, he overpowered her and extracted her Chaos Magic for his own use. Eventually, he succeeded in capturing a Celestia and a Luna whom he corrupted into Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon.

Nightmare Moon eventually rebelled against her master and was destroyed by him and Daybreaker. Fearing another such incident, the Pony of Shadows turned to Eris. At his bidding, she created a collar that would enforce Daybreaker’s obedience. However, Eris ensured that the collar forced Daybreaker to do her bidding, and promptly turned on and defeated her captor.

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Eris, or else an alternate version of her, later entered the service of either the Pony of Shadows who had once captured her or an identical alternate version. At his bidding, she and Well-to-Do engaged Team Honesty while others of his minions battled the many Elements of Harmony affiliated heroes of Equestria. Ultimately they were defeated and presumably sent back to their respective realities. Later, Eris-or yet another of her counterparts-appeared in Edgy Equestria in the company of an alternate King Sombra. The pair engaged a visiting Spike and his Edgy allies, but Sombra at least viewed the contest as an amusement rather than an actual confrontation.

Personality

Eris is a haughty and unbelievably cruel Lord of Chaos without the jovial sense of fun Discord possesed. While Discord would be content with making simply having fun at others expense, Eris instead sought utter destruction. She didn't just dispose or annoy the monarchs of her world, she turned them into mindless, bestial slaves loyal only to her and created a world where the wicked do whatever they wish while the good are locked away, never to be seen again.

It's unclear whether or not Eris's appearance is what she truly looks like or not, given that she's supposedly related to Discord yet appears as a completely species. Nontheless, she appears as a tall, multi-colored anthropomorphic parrot, resembling those found in the Mysterious South. She sports a pink base with purple, pink and yellow "hair" and pale green eyes. She wears a long, skirt-like piece of attire with an even longer cloak. Her skirt resembles peacock feathers. Despite this, while her cousin despised any form of royalty or rulership, she openly refers to herself with titles of authority, such as "Princess".

Like her cousin, Eris is an amalgamation of several different animal parts, though is much less obvious than her cousin. She has ram-like goat horns, bat-like wings and human-looking arms and hands.

Relationships

Discord

Eris is the cousin of Discord and appears to be loathe her cousin for his jovial and well-humored personality. She instead desired him to use his power for what it was truly meant to be used for, to cause pain and destruction upon the world.

Daybreaker

Eris considers Daybreaker to be her "pet" and treats her like her possession. She trained Daybreaker to be a like an attack dog, using her to attack would-be introduces and scolds her whenever she fails.

Powers and abilities

• Chaos manipulation: Eris has the ability to manipulate chaos itself, which allowed her to warp her world in her twisted image.

Possessions

• Staff of Sacanas

Behind the scenes

Eris first appeared in the the Nightmare Knights #1, but her existence was teased at in the first promotions of the comic, granted under vague names such as a "great evil". Eris's name is derived from "Eris", the Greek goddess of chaos and like her cousin, her design was based off numerous animal parts to give her an inherently chaotic look.

Appearances

• Nightmare Knights #1
• Nightmare Knights #2 (mentioned)
• Nightmare Knights #3
• Nightmare Knights #4
• Nightmare Knights #5
• My Little Pony: Magic Princess

Sources

• My Little Pony: Nightmare Knights

References

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