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Codex Equestria: Heroes and Villains (12)
Groups, Factions and Organizations (Pt 2)
Mignons, the Yellow Minions
Character: Villain/Anti-Villains/Anti-Heroes/Heroes (??)
Alignment: Neutral Evil/True Neutral/Neutral Good (??)
Type: Minions/Thrall Race/Servant Species/Reckless Dangers
Faction: Various Overlords and Villains
“Para tu, masta!” (“For you, master!”)
--- A Mignon named ‘Dave’, prior to accidentally blowing up his superior after presenting what seemed to be an exotic-looking pineapple they found as a gift, which turned out to be an primed Blastfire bomb.
The Mignons - or simply ‘Minions’ by many of their employers - are a se
Codex Equestria: Giants (Part 3)
Notable Giant Races/Civilizations: (Continued)
Giant Kangaroos
Ave. Height: 60 Meters
Species Group: Marsupial, Exotic
Geographic Distribution: Meridia
Cultural/Behavior Index: Highly/Extremely Aggressive
Social Index: Highly Social
Five minutes. They'd lasted five minutes.
None of them had seen the gigantic kangaroo until she'd leaped out from behind a giant cactus and slammed down among the squad--in other words, too late. There had been a moment of stunned silence when they stared up at the towering she-kangaroo; saw the hunter’s smirk on her face, her tail swinging behind her. Then she reached for them, licking her lips, and eve
Codex Equestria: Notable Individuals (2)
Principal Fissure Tectonic
Character: Heroic
Alignment: Neutral Good
Type: Principal/Geo Archmage/Noble/National Hero
Faction: Equestria, Manehatten, School for Gifted Earth Ponies
Principal Fissure is the respected head of Manehatten's School for Gifted Earth Ponies, and known for his aura of refinement and wisdom... though also for being far less stuffy than his external appearance would suggest.
Fissure was born in the Grittish Isles but immigrated to Equestria with his family at a young age. As he is an incredibly powerful gifted Earth Pony, this was over a hundred years ago. He was born to House Tectonic, a noble bloodline originating
Equestria: Across the Multiverse - Jaunt 105
Jaunt 105.0 - morion87 (Continued from Jaunt 104.9)
Twilight now knew for sure as she rubbed her forehead irritably. The multiverse did in fact have it out for her for some reason.
"You really wrote a story where Princess Celestia doesn't like tea, and Equestria went crazy because of it?" She asked her native self.
The local Twilight nodded. "It just wouldn't leave me alone. I was trying to write something else, but I couldn't with that hanging over my head."
"What was your other one? Fluttershy asked.
The native Twilight grinned. "My Omnibus of Other Books. I've been working on for some time now. Now I can finish it."
Rainbow Dash roll
Codex Equestria: Deities and Divines (Part 20)
Prince Written Word, the Messenger of Faith
Classification: Elemental/Ethereal/Ascendant
Portfolio: Faith, Purification, Truth
Rank: Demigod
"Blind faith is little more than willful ignorance and unquestioning obedience, zealotry that are easily misled into the service of foolish causes and corrupt characters. True faith demands conviction! It demands you understand your cause and know the righteousness of it. It demands you to take responsibility for one's action, rather than ascribe them to some higher power or others. It demands you trust your own judgement and each other, rather than the sweet honeyed lies of the conceited. It demands f
Codex Equestria: Notable Events (Part 17)
Final Ragnarok (Part 10)
Final Ragnarok: The Fall of the Muspellson (Part 3)
The Fire Jotunn thrashed, twisted and twitched in Macrodontia’s telekinetic grip, powerless to stop the colossal Changeling King from draining him of all his love (just about everything else magically-tethered to his biological form). Moments later, Macrodontia tossed the empty husk aside, leaving it to eventually expire like all the others he had drained.
‘Pitiful and paltry… like all the rest’, Macrodontia noted the taste with a sneer, regretting somewhat his decision to drain this pack that he had personally devastated. He had anticipate
Codex Equus: Notable Media Works (Part 1)
"Whatever Happened To the Mares Of Tomorrow?"
Medium: Comic-Book
Time Period: Year 986 Celestian Era, Fourth Age
Authors: Cherry Signal Earth Pony (Writer), Curtly Swan The Griffin (Artist)
Publisher: Enchanted Comics Inc
"This is an imaginary story (which may never happen, but then again may) about perfect mares who came forth and did only good. It tells of their twilight, when the great battles were over and the great achievements long since performed; of how their enemies conspired against them and of that final battle in the forlorn reaches where they made their last stand; of those they loved and the choices they made to save them; of
Codex Equestria: Deities and Divines (Part 19)
Pokhot, the Damsel of Desire
Classification: Elemental/Ethereal
Portfolio: Lust, Pride, Sex, Deception, Evil
Rank: Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)
"They say 'Pride comes before a Fall', and they always fall harder when they lust after something they want beyond restrain!"
Pokhot is the youngest daughter and child of Temnobog, the Dark One, a member of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon, and one of the Four Terrors that work to plague the Deer realms with all sorts of evils, disasters, and calamities.
Out of the hybrid children Temnobog had with Ispita the Deceiver, Pokhot embodied Ispita’s personality the most, inheriting her Draconequus mo
Codex Equestria: Notable Events (Part 16)
Final Ragnarok (Part 7)
The Battle Continues
As the divine battles waged in the heavens and hells, the mortal battles continued to be waged. With the divine combatants kept held off, the mortals did manage to keep the lesser minions at bay and begin to push back. Victories began to be won.
Rockhoof's battle with the Wendol general would see the two nearly thrown over a cliff. However, Rockhoof managed to maneuver himself as they were hanging over the sea to wrap his powerful leg around its neck and managed to finally break the savage beast's neck and kill it. Climbing back up, he would hold the slain primitive creature over head and throw
Codex Equestria: Notable Events (Part 15)
Final Ragnarok (Part 6)
The Fall of the Muspellson (Part 2)
The Muspellson’s Wrath
While Surtr held the advantage over the early part of the battle, and practically dominated nearly the first part of the battle against his divine enemies, history recorded that his advantage would ultimately slip from him, as the battle-group rallied and more reinforcements poured in to fight the self-proclaimed ‘Doom of the Gods’. Such was prophesied by the last surviving member of the previous generation of Norns that he had kept for his sadistic amusement.
The fundamental problem with engaging Surtr was not just that he was mighty, blo
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Codex Equestria: Heroes and Villains (12)
Groups, Factions and Organizations (Pt 2)
Mignons, the Yellow Minions
Character: Villain/Anti-Villains/Anti-Heroes/Heroes (??)
Alignment: Neutral Evil/True Neutral/Neutral Good (??)
Type: Minions/Thrall Race/Servant Species/Reckless Dangers
Faction: Various Overlords and Villains
“Para tu, masta!” (“For you, master!”)
--- A Mignon named ‘Dave’, prior to accidentally blowing up his superior after presenting what seemed to be an exotic-looking pineapple they found as a gift, which turned out to be an primed Blastfire bomb.
The Mignons - or simply ‘Minions’ by many of their employers - are a se
Codex Equestria: Giants (Part 3)
Notable Giant Races/Civilizations: (Continued)
Giant Kangaroos
Ave. Height: 60 Meters
Species Group: Marsupial, Exotic
Geographic Distribution: Meridia
Cultural/Behavior Index: Highly/Extremely Aggressive
Social Index: Highly Social
Five minutes. They'd lasted five minutes.
None of them had seen the gigantic kangaroo until she'd leaped out from behind a giant cactus and slammed down among the squad--in other words, too late. There had been a moment of stunned silence when they stared up at the towering she-kangaroo; saw the hunter’s smirk on her face, her tail swinging behind her. Then she reached for them, licking her lips, and eve
Codex Equestria: Notable Individuals (2)
Principal Fissure Tectonic
Character: Heroic
Alignment: Neutral Good
Type: Principal/Geo Archmage/Noble/National Hero
Faction: Equestria, Manehatten, School for Gifted Earth Ponies
Principal Fissure is the respected head of Manehatten's School for Gifted Earth Ponies, and known for his aura of refinement and wisdom... though also for being far less stuffy than his external appearance would suggest.
Fissure was born in the Grittish Isles but immigrated to Equestria with his family at a young age. As he is an incredibly powerful gifted Earth Pony, this was over a hundred years ago. He was born to House Tectonic, a noble bloodline originating
Equestria: Across the Multiverse - Jaunt 105
Jaunt 105.0 - morion87 (Continued from Jaunt 104.9)
Twilight now knew for sure as she rubbed her forehead irritably. The multiverse did in fact have it out for her for some reason.
"You really wrote a story where Princess Celestia doesn't like tea, and Equestria went crazy because of it?" She asked her native self.
The local Twilight nodded. "It just wouldn't leave me alone. I was trying to write something else, but I couldn't with that hanging over my head."
"What was your other one? Fluttershy asked.
The native Twilight grinned. "My Omnibus of Other Books. I've been working on for some time now. Now I can finish it."
Rainbow Dash roll
Codex Equestria: Deities and Divines (Part 20)
Prince Written Word, the Messenger of Faith
Classification: Elemental/Ethereal/Ascendant
Portfolio: Faith, Purification, Truth
Rank: Demigod
"Blind faith is little more than willful ignorance and unquestioning obedience, zealotry that are easily misled into the service of foolish causes and corrupt characters. True faith demands conviction! It demands you understand your cause and know the righteousness of it. It demands you to take responsibility for one's action, rather than ascribe them to some higher power or others. It demands you trust your own judgement and each other, rather than the sweet honeyed lies of the conceited. It demands f
Codex Equestria: Notable Events (Part 17)
Final Ragnarok (Part 10)
Final Ragnarok: The Fall of the Muspellson (Part 3)
The Fire Jotunn thrashed, twisted and twitched in Macrodontia’s telekinetic grip, powerless to stop the colossal Changeling King from draining him of all his love (just about everything else magically-tethered to his biological form). Moments later, Macrodontia tossed the empty husk aside, leaving it to eventually expire like all the others he had drained.
‘Pitiful and paltry… like all the rest’, Macrodontia noted the taste with a sneer, regretting somewhat his decision to drain this pack that he had personally devastated. He had anticipate
Codex Equus: Notable Media Works (Part 1)
"Whatever Happened To the Mares Of Tomorrow?"
Medium: Comic-Book
Time Period: Year 986 Celestian Era, Fourth Age
Authors: Cherry Signal Earth Pony (Writer), Curtly Swan The Griffin (Artist)
Publisher: Enchanted Comics Inc
"This is an imaginary story (which may never happen, but then again may) about perfect mares who came forth and did only good. It tells of their twilight, when the great battles were over and the great achievements long since performed; of how their enemies conspired against them and of that final battle in the forlorn reaches where they made their last stand; of those they loved and the choices they made to save them; of
Codex Equestria: Deities and Divines (Part 19)
Pokhot, the Damsel of Desire
Classification: Elemental/Ethereal
Portfolio: Lust, Pride, Sex, Deception, Evil
Rank: Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)
"They say 'Pride comes before a Fall', and they always fall harder when they lust after something they want beyond restrain!"
Pokhot is the youngest daughter and child of Temnobog, the Dark One, a member of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon, and one of the Four Terrors that work to plague the Deer realms with all sorts of evils, disasters, and calamities.
Out of the hybrid children Temnobog had with Ispita the Deceiver, Pokhot embodied Ispita’s personality the most, inheriting her Draconequus mo
Codex Equestria: Notable Events (Part 16)
Final Ragnarok (Part 7)
The Battle Continues
As the divine battles waged in the heavens and hells, the mortal battles continued to be waged. With the divine combatants kept held off, the mortals did manage to keep the lesser minions at bay and begin to push back. Victories began to be won.
Rockhoof's battle with the Wendol general would see the two nearly thrown over a cliff. However, Rockhoof managed to maneuver himself as they were hanging over the sea to wrap his powerful leg around its neck and managed to finally break the savage beast's neck and kill it. Climbing back up, he would hold the slain primitive creature over head and throw
Codex Equestria: Notable Events (Part 15)
Final Ragnarok (Part 6)
The Fall of the Muspellson (Part 2)
The Muspellson’s Wrath
While Surtr held the advantage over the early part of the battle, and practically dominated nearly the first part of the battle against his divine enemies, history recorded that his advantage would ultimately slip from him, as the battle-group rallied and more reinforcements poured in to fight the self-proclaimed ‘Doom of the Gods’. Such was prophesied by the last surviving member of the previous generation of Norns that he had kept for his sadistic amusement.
The fundamental problem with engaging Surtr was not just that he was mighty, blo
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The Value of Fictional Life
Quantity or quality?
The resounding response of contemporary fiction as far as the value of fictional life seems to be QUANTITY with a triple underline. Consider that the best way of measuring a modern hero's heroic qualities tends to be how MANY lives they've saved in the course of their career. Sometimes there can be importance placed on individual lives but this quality is determined most often by the capacity for a single person to positively effect the lives of others as a quantity so once again it becomes a question of mathematics.
This is why a contemporary hero is much more willing to do morally dubious actions than heroes of old an
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Just found a great theme for when Megan or AJ's badass moments: m.youtube.com/watch?v=3X1KVjq1…
You know, I've been thinking about one scene:
When the now seven Elements of Harmony are used to defeat the Sirens, they manifest into a giant Alicorn of light...
We never get an explanation for that in the actual show, but given in Codex the Tree of Harmony is the Genesis Sovereign's spawn...
When the now seven Elements of Harmony are used to defeat the Sirens, they manifest into a giant Alicorn of light...
We never get an explanation for that in the actual show, but given in Codex the Tree of Harmony is the Genesis Sovereign's spawn...
One thing that might contribute to Golden Scepter's dislike of religious worship is how it dehumanizes his family, in a way
Golden Scepter might embody Ponykind at its best, but he also embodies Ponykind at its WORST, which in turn makes him more "human" than most other gods on Equus. And his nineteen sons, regardless of their divinity, take after him in that they each possess their good and bad sides of what they embody, yet they have their own quirks and habits that make each of them unique individuals. It shows how gods in general are not so different than mortal sapientkind, and can make mistakes just like their short-lived peers
To have his sons be reduced to just divine "fragments" and "aspects" of himself, dedicated only to the spreading of virtue and the uplifting of mortal Ponykind based on what they each embody, not only puts them on an extremely high pedestal, it also implies that all of his nineteen sons have no personality or emotions beyond what they were born to do. And to be treated that way is abhorrent to Golden
I imagine he might've felt the same way after the death of his mortal wife, Blessed Skies. He had seen her best and worst flaws up close, and yet he still loved her deeply anyway. Then some of his subjects went and depicted, even worshiped her as a Saint whose death allowed her to "Ascend", with legends that she's still out there, traveling across the world while inspiring virtue in mortal sapients and helping those in need in the form of a goddess or angel
if that was true, why didn't Golden Scepter, or any of his sons, see her at all? Or receive visits from her? Or personally witnessed proof of her actions in any part of the world? And not to mention, Golden Scepter had been with her on her deathbed, too. Hearing that might mess up his sons emotionally and give them false hope that in some form, their beloved mother is still alive
so that's why worship of the Terran royal family is banned
Golden Scepter might embody Ponykind at its best, but he also embodies Ponykind at its WORST, which in turn makes him more "human" than most other gods on Equus. And his nineteen sons, regardless of their divinity, take after him in that they each possess their good and bad sides of what they embody, yet they have their own quirks and habits that make each of them unique individuals. It shows how gods in general are not so different than mortal sapientkind, and can make mistakes just like their short-lived peers
To have his sons be reduced to just divine "fragments" and "aspects" of himself, dedicated only to the spreading of virtue and the uplifting of mortal Ponykind based on what they each embody, not only puts them on an extremely high pedestal, it also implies that all of his nineteen sons have no personality or emotions beyond what they were born to do. And to be treated that way is abhorrent to Golden
I imagine he might've felt the same way after the death of his mortal wife, Blessed Skies. He had seen her best and worst flaws up close, and yet he still loved her deeply anyway. Then some of his subjects went and depicted, even worshiped her as a Saint whose death allowed her to "Ascend", with legends that she's still out there, traveling across the world while inspiring virtue in mortal sapients and helping those in need in the form of a goddess or angel
if that was true, why didn't Golden Scepter, or any of his sons, see her at all? Or receive visits from her? Or personally witnessed proof of her actions in any part of the world? And not to mention, Golden Scepter had been with her on her deathbed, too. Hearing that might mess up his sons emotionally and give them false hope that in some form, their beloved mother is still alive
so that's why worship of the Terran royal family is banned
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