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The pillars are a legendary hypothetical group of heroes. A few old files dating from before the sisters reign have been found on the group but were heavily redacted from before the separation of Equus and Equestria. Only hypothesis can be done on its role and members. From what scholars have deciphered, Starswirl the Bearded seems to have been involved in a way or another as most redacting have been registered as being of his doing. Princess Celestia has indicated her lack of knowledge about any group her old mentor could have been a part off aside from the solar mages. --------------------------- Originally I tried another style soooo, little bonus !

An AU where the Elements of Harmony as physical objects never existed. It was just a title and gift/curse given by the Deity that is the tree of harmony. An Element bearer is one chosen by the Tree to be one of the many possible heroes of their time, and the possibility of becoming a demigod to keep the universe in balance is on the table.

Celestia and Luna were chosen to bear the burden of the day and night for the rest of time, Elements and Demigods of Day and Night.

Discord is the Tree of Harmony's opposite and equal. Although he is much more mobile than the Tree. He is the God of Chaos/Disharmony and the Tree God of Harmony/Order.

Starswirl was the Element of Wisdom. Fkash Magnus the Element of Courage. Mist Mane the Element of sacrifice. Somnambula the Element of Patience. Rockhoof the Element of Persistence. Mage Meadowbrook the Element of Healing. And Stygian the Element of Guidance. No one really remembers Stygian and how he guided the others together, to threats that needed stopped, or how he discovered and guided the others to the Tree of Harmony.

Both the tree of harmony and Discord can seem rather uncaring to mortals. They are gods and hold no allegiances to anyone but themselves and to keeping the universe intact. They may seem cold and heartless and are morally grey and a neutral party. But someone has to do the not so fun job of keeping the universe in balance, and the tree and Discord were literally born into that job. They know nothing else but their duties as gods of harmony and disharmony.

Optional addition- Discord has an equivalent to the Trees Element roles it gifts/curses. Although he's not so fancy with naming, in fact he just calls them the Discorded. Let them give themselves their own fancy titles and get dramatic with it, Discord loves dramatics! Sombra and Tirek would be possible examples of a Discorded.

Made some human au of the pillars

The Pillars of Equestria x Vicious 6

I made this a long time ago, because the Pillars had 6 pony's and the Vicious 6 also had 6 people, so I made it

I also made an Elements of Harmony one but I don't know who to put on which, what did you guys think?

惊喜来临

The DEMIAROACE and DEMIBOY flags color-picked from STYGIAN [MLP]

the pillars and the divine are like the same thing to me. if i come up with theories about irene and the divine, its probably inspired by a thought from star swirl the bearded and the pillars,,,,

Stygian might be my favorite of the Pillars of Equestria and it's always made me sad that he wasn't used more in the show. So I decided to team up with my new friend Orin who's taken the time to make a bunch of amazing Pillar redesigns (same person I made this Starswirl animation rig for as a gift) that i'll be incorporating into my future animation project simply titled the "Tree of Harmony AU" at the moment until I can come up with a better name. The Pillars are very important characters to Harmony's story so I wanna do them justice. Listed below is some context for these sketches provided by my friend Orin and some written bits from myself. This is a Stygian who's been separated from the Pony of Shadows for some time, but is now dealing with the consequences of dark magic. I've had so much fun throwing ideas back and forth for this AU and I can't wait to share more in the near future.

The Pony of Shadows is not so easily purged, even with the combined strength of the past and present Elements of Harmony. A fragment of the shadow lives on in Stygian, inextricably bound to him, but small enough that it can no longer influence him. He has abilities superficially similar to King Sombra's, albeit on a much smaller scale, and definitely needs practice before he can comfortably wield this new strength.

The lingering dark magic corruption from Stygian's time with the shadow is visible on different parts of his body, mainly his eyes when using magic, some discoloration on the inside of his mouth and tongue, and his magic color.

As Stygian exerts better control of the fragment of shadow still attached to him, he eventually gains the ability to "Shadow Walk" or travel between shadows. This temporary form makes him look eerily similar to the Pony of Shadows. Pretty spooky.

Princess Luna ends up becoming Stygian's new mentor to help him gain better control of his magic corruption since she has direct experience with dark magic when she turned into Nightmare Moon.

Stygian's special talent is writing. His autobiography, Me and My Shadow, was an instant hit not just because he's a pony from a time long passed, but because he's a genuine wordsmith.  Stygian redesign by Orin331

Part 2: Saddle Tendency

more fun facts that i couldn’t fit in the post

- Skilled Hamon users know that silver horseshoes are the best conductor- Lucky is not one of those ponies

- Centaurs aren’t directly weak to sunlight, in this version of events the Hamon techniques used against them are just harmful in general and are able to counter their magic

- The Red Stone of Aja is a known artifact in Equestria (as a powerful conduit for magic), the centaurs wanted to seize it and use it together with the power of the rising sun (celestian magic again) and become ultra-powerful, taking over Equestria overnight, but their shenanigans didn’t go unnoticed and they ended up being defeated by the Pillars (Starswirl’s gang) ironically enough

- Santana, Eisidisi and Wamuu end up being sent to Tartarus. Still alive technically, just extremely weakened

- About Kars’ defeat: back when Luna was banished, the magic from the Elements and Celestia combined was so strong that it left small traces of that spell, which was conducted trough the RSoA. also something something last hamon something something friendship is magic

- stroheim does not exist

Phantom Blood / Battle Tendency / Stardust Crusaders / Diamond is Unbreakable / Golden Wind / Stone Ocean

absolute disaster

I didn't even have enough space to put everyone in the hashtags......

I really think G5 should've been a PREQUEL to G4, instead of a sequel. It could've been about the pillars, or Celestia and Luna as kids, or the founders of Equestria, etc.

That's actually a really great idea. G5 being in the same universe as G4 was most likely a last minute decision made by Hasbro in order to get G4 fans to care about G5, which would explain a few things.

But if they really wanted to do that, why not make it a prequel that doesn't completely destroy the established world, and make everything blander by having it take place in a modern society with smartphones and social media? Lol

The prequel G5 could've shown any number of things:

The founders of Equestria bringing the three pony kinds together and creating Equestria. 

The Pillars of Equestria, who were brought together by Stygian to defeat the Sirens. It could've focused on their adventures. 

Celestia and Luna as kids. It could've shown their backstory and how they became separated from the other alicorns. Starswirl finds them and takes them in, training them to be the rulers of Equestria. 

Luna's descent into Nightmare Moon over the course of the show.

The backstory behind Alicorns and where they came from. BTW, they gave away where Alicorns come from in a THROWAWAY LINE in G5.

They could've adapted some of the Fiendship is Magic issues that showed how certain villains came to be (Tirek, Chrysalis, Sombra). Some other villain backstories too, how they rose to power, and their defeats.

Princess Cadence and Spike's origins. Their parents, how they became separated from them, and them being found and brought to Equestria. 

I could go on, honestly. But you get the point.

Hasbro doesn't actually own all of the rights to G4, they share it with Discovery Family. So whenever G5 shows or talks about something from G4, Hasbro has to pay royalties to Discovery Family…

So instead of having the prequel G5 be exclusively on a streaming service, or YouTube Kids, they could've just… made the show on Discovery Family, the same as G4. That way they don't have to pay extra money for no reason…

Whatever 😅 I'll stop b**ching

New redesign of the pillars :DD And... I'm still unsure for some of them x"DD I hesitate to swap Stygian and Starswirl for example. And I also hesitate to make umbrum (making them more earth-pony like than unicorn-like) and either make Stygian or Somnanbula one. But yeah, here I will just talk about timeline in my AU :DD (I think I will do character by character drawing of them at a moment as I did with the mane 6) The timeline begins with the Unknown Era. Or the time before the sun and moon needed benders. Before the weather needed help to regulate itself. The time when the elements were working together as a well rodded machine. That Era was put to an end at the arrival of Grogar and him breaking all of the natural cycles to control them himself.

We then enter the Era of Monsters, which funnily enough is also the time where the different pony types were created by Grogar. The different earth-ponies type (zebras, donkey, earth-pony, ...), the closest to the originals inhabitant of Equus. Made more resistant and stronger to be able to survive the long hours of difficult work that were put on them day after day. Their hooves the new rythm at which the magic of the ground beats. The flying types (Pegasus and Bat-ponies) to control the weather, one from the sky by creating and manipulating clouds, one from the ground, helping all types of mist. One able of high flight, one able of impressive dashes and jumps thanks to their wings despite being grounded. Both lighter bodies that the others to be easier to control and herd with powerful flying monsters. The magic-type (unicorn, kirin) one centered on the elements of the nature their creator destroyed, one centered on emotions. Their bodies weak and fragile. Some says kirins were a mistake by Grogar, a first try for unicorn, to explain their second form, the nirik. Some says that, kirin were the first try for alicorn, to force an element inside the body of the pony so they would control it. And finally, Alicorn. The final type, the type Grogar would gave to his better followers. Traces shows that most to all tried to overthrown Grogar before they completely disapeared. The one beating him would be Clover the Clever after uniting for the first time the different pony type and stealing his magical source. The Era of Monsters would still last centuries before the Era of Unity begun (The Era still continuing to this day), before the two alicorn sisters unites below them ponykind. But before that and after Grogar, when the pony types are still separated and most thinks a unity as such as the one against Grogar couldn't happen without a world threat, a young Kirin assembles a group of heroes from all over the young Equestria, the Pillars. That group would unknowningly pave the path of unity while fighting the monsters still rooming all over Equestria, bringing chaos and destruction. Alas, they would all disapears a few years only before the sisters step up.

That legendary group let only few traces to new generations, a few tales of a group of ponies fighting to save towns and cities. Most of those tales only talks about six heroes. Fewer sometimes mentions a seventh one. The only sure fact is the presence of the still-famous Starswirl the bearded.

An AU where Discord is around the age of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, being turned into stone by the pillars of old Equestria. The pillars of old Equestria not realizing that the Terrifying god of chaos they were imprisoning was nothing more than a child. Discord being released eventually a thousand years later, both the princesses and the elements of harmony unwilling to imprison him again. Discord being "defeated" by just talking to him.

Optional additions:

The Cutie Mark Crusaders are still the ones to inadvertently release him. They are also the ones that befriend him and get through to him that some of his chaos is hurting people. He becomes a Cutie mark Crusader.

Discord is adopted by the main six. All of them. He calls Celestia granny. Celestia has conflicting feelings about this.

Discord has a hard time controlling his magic, it's called chaos magic after all. Twilight, Celestia, and Luna are trying to teach him. He causes chaos even when he's trying to help.

Hello silles

I made a Stygian gif

It's not has good but I tried

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