History Characters / CodexEquusThirteenEmpyreans

* BreakingTheFellowship: While the Empyreans were plagued with numerous problems and tensions beforehand, the fateful family brawl was the last straw because it led to Plasmatio Equus being murdered when she tried intervening, and the banishment of [REDACTED], the Fallen Empyrean, for his crime. Mana Equus [[WhatTheHellHero chewing them all out for their bad behaviors]] afflicted them with so much shame over their actions that they eventually separated and scattered across the corners of the earth.

* AbstractApotheosis: Under the tutelage of Tuzu, the Magic Primeval and their various children, she would eventualy Ascend to godhood after many years of training and become the Alicorn goddess of Magic, Friendship, and Mana. According to her, learning how King Equus created all thirteen Empyreans [[IJustWantToHaveFriends out of desire for companionship]] factored hugely into her Ascension.

* AnimalisticAbomination: Due to having originated in the dawn of Equinekind (which makes her [[TimeAbyss 10 million to 100 million years old]]), she is one of the most eldritch Alicorn deities after her father and creator, King Equus. in her case, she has a mane and tail composed of Magic energy, a magical wing gradient going from heather-purple to dark blue, ten wings with feathers made of Friendship energy, and a magnificent, multi-layered halo of Mana energy. Her mane and tail shows every single friend creatures have made even since the dawn of time, whether divine or mortal. She also has traits like toed hooves, body stripes, and a Zebra-like tail due to being an Eohippus, the first racial ancestors of modern Equinekind. Her reincarnations/successors become this themselves to a degree, as reincarnating as her means they take on some of her traits.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: As a young mortal filly, she had quite the adventurous streak and frequently wandered off to satisfy her own curiosity, which naturally prompted her family to go save her from danger numerous times. When she gained the ability to use magic, she became ThePrankster who pulled pranks on her older siblings. She matured quite a lot by the time she became a goddess and treats her siblings a lot better, though she still maintains these fillyhood traits to a degree.

* TheArchmage: She is widely considered the greatest and most powerful spellcaster in Equinekind's history, and for good reason. As Equinekind's first goddess of Magic,, she not only possesses a vast, eidetic memory regarding all branches of magic known to Equinekind, but also created them herself. Her skill is such that she can combine multiple branches in complex ways that go beyond the scope of what they're normally capable of, and has personally created various spells, artifacts, and weapons that she and others had used over the Ages. Furthering her magical prowess are her domains of Friendship, which makes her spells even stronger when she is with friends, and Mana, which allows her to use and control primal energies found within Equus' atmosphere. Fittingly, she taught countless students in her lifetime, including her older siblings, and it is believed InUniverse that had she survived to the present Age, she could have easily defeated even other divine spellcasters like Vicearch Iniquitous, Archwizard Manamagus, Overlord Vondur, and Lady Thauma.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Her Cutie Mark depicts a white cresent moon and a six-pointed magenta star with six smaller white points in-between. The moon is generally associated with magic, femininity, and anything supernatural, while the magenta star is used to symbolize her talent in magic. Notably, certain magically talented Ponies possess the same star as their Cutie Mark to denote their magical talents, like Starlight Glimmer, Twilight Sparkle, and Shining Armor.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: She is the thirteenth Empyrean to be born, and thus is the youngest of her siblings. Her family siblings adored her for being such an adorable, cheerful baby, and even after growing up and Ascending to godhood, she served as TheHeart who kept them together as a family. Unfortunately, this ends up being played for tragedy, as her age, idealism, and compassion led to her being taken for granted by her more experienced and worldly siblings, who fell deeper into corruption until it was ''far'' too late to fix things.
* BadassTeacher: She has taught countless students when she was alive, and presently serves as a mentor for her various {{Reincarnation}} "aspects" like Twilight/Amicitia, Blue Suede, Bossa Nova, Shining Armor, and Glory. She was also Equinekind's first goddess of Magic and the first and most powerful [[TheArchmage Archmage]] to have ever lived, with all her power, memories, and experience transferred over to her reincarnations. It's believed that she would have easily defeated even modern-day spellcasters like Vicearch Iniquitous, Overlord Vondur, and Lady Thauma if she had survived.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: As a goddess of Magic and Mana, she can not only strip people of their ability to wield magic, but also outright [[ManaDrain drain people of their mana reserves]], notably sharing the latter power with Lord Tirek. However, being a kind, benevolent goddess, she normally reserves such abilities for wicked spellcasters who she genuinely found wanting. Being Equinekind's first goddess of magic, she was also responsible for creating "evil" branches of magic like dark magic, and accepts the use of spells from such branches as long as they are used constructively and responsibly.

* BlueIsHeroic: She is heavily associated with blue, whether in her appearance or her outfits, and she's a friendly, compassionate goddess who is the first and most powerful [[TheArchmage Archmage]] to have ever lived. While her deeds in life were numerous, she is most remembered for pulling a HeroicSacrifice to save the world from certain doom. She was also responsible for giving all of Equinekind the ability to use magic, shaping history for generations of divine and mortal Equids that came after. Many of her present-day {{Reincarnation}}s are associated with blue, with one of them being named ''Blue'' Suede Heartstrings.
* CheerfulChild: In her infancy, she was a rather adorable and cheerful baby who felt happiest when she was among family.
* CompositeCharacter: While Mana Equus is based on [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime the fabled Thirteenth Prime]], part of her character also takes inspiration from [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Mystra, goddess of Magic]]. Like the Thirteenth Prime, Mana Equus was a character that was previously shrouded in mystery, with not much information about her being available even InUniverse due to the passage of time. Like Mystra, she was originally a mortal being who later became the living embodiment of Magic itself, guiding people in the art of spellcraft while protecting the Weave from those who sought to abuse it for malicious ends. And like both characters, Mana herself would reincarnate into a different person after she died... or rather, different ''people'', as many Ascendant spellcasters like Twilight Sparkle, Blue Suede Heartstrings, Bossa Nova Heartstrings, Glory, and Shining Armor end up reincarnating as her and becoming her hosts. One legend regarding her mysterious death is also based on how Mystra's predecessor, Mystryl, died -- by sacrificing herself to save the Weave after a mortal Archwizard [[GodhoodSeeker arrogantly tried stealing her divinity to become a god of Magic]].

* ForWantOfANail:
** Mana's entry emphasizes how mortal (and divine) Equinekind could have ''vastly'' benefited from her teachings had she not died so early in their existence. On the flipside, had Twilight/Amicitia not been the one to become Mana's reincarnation first, then any other Equine could have done so instead due to all of them bearing a portion of Mana's divine essence inside them, such as Sunset Shimmer, Starfall Dusk, and Blue Suede Heartstrings.
** In her "[[CurbStompBattle fight]]" with Starfall Dusk, while manifesting herself through Twilight/Amicitia, Mana admits that Starfall would have become her divine reincarnation if she made all the right choices and learned all the right lessons, while she could have become an amoral MadScientist like Starfall if she made all the wrong choices. Instead, because Starfall tortured and sacrificed her own friends for the sake of godhood and [[NeverMyFault refusing to own up to her crimes]], she condemned herself to suffer in Nekelmu's Hell-Realms for breaking Primeval Laws.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: As a goddess of Scribes, her powers mostly consist of writing at super-fast speeds and conjuring numerous copies of herself, books, and writing tools. However, they are incredibly useful given the enormity of her task, which involves recording not only every single book in her library, but all of Equus' past, present, and future. Her domain also comes with the ability to trap others in books or [[WindsOfDestiny "write" fate]], the latter allowing her to perform feats of selective [[RealityWarper reality-warping]].

* OurTitansAreDifferent: Like her fellow Empyreans, she is a "Preeminent"-ranked Alicorn, putting her between 10 million and 100 million years. Because deities in the Codexverse only grow "older" by getting StrongerWithAge, this makes her extremely huge and powerful by divine standards, capable of beating even younger deities.

* AnimalisticAbomination: Due to having originated in the dawn of Equinekind (which makes her [[TimeAbyss 10 million to 100 million years]]), she is one of the most eldritch Alicorn deities after her father and creator, King Equus. in her case, she has a mane and tail composed of Magic energy, a magical wing gradient going from heather-purple to dark blue, ten wings with feathers made of Friendship energy, and a magnificent, multi-layered halo of Mana energy. Her mane and tail shows every single friend creatures have made even since the dawn of time, whether divine or mortal. She also has traits like toed hooves, body stripes, and a Zebra-like tail due to being an Eohippus, the first racial ancestors of modern Equinekind. Her reincarnations/successors become this themselves to a degree, as reincarnating as her means they take on some of her traits.

* MesACrowd: Her role in recording everything in her library is ''far'' too massive of a job for only one of her, even as powerful as she is, so she has countless duplicates working on it all the time.

* GiveAManAFish: Being Equidkind's first and primary teacher in magic, she encouraged her students to keep on learning even when it seemed like there was nothing to learn, but didn't hold their hooves all the way. Instead, she gave them as much wisdom, knowledge, and power as deemed necessary to resolve matters on her own, much like what her teacher, Tuzu, did with her.

** One legend spoke of how a mortal Archwizard tried to steal Mana's divinity to become a god of Magic, hoping his Ascension would unite his fracturing empire. Appareintly, his attempt damaged the Weave to such an extent that Mana was forced to sacrifice herself to preserve it, therefore saving all magic.

* GiveAManAFish: Being Equidkind's first and primary teacher in magic,


she refrains from intervening personally whenever possible and only giving as much wisdom, knowledge and power as necessary to her students or hosts to resolve matters at hoof, as like her teachers the Tuzu she believes the importance of her charges learning and growing in magical skill and power on their own rather than coddling them.

* HurtingHero: Despite witnessing and experiencing various tragedies -- among them, being taken for granted by corrupt family members and losing a sister to a brutal family brawl -- she kept trying to cling to her values, merely abandoning her surviving siblings and people to teach friendship to the rest of the world when they refused to listen to her. Sadly, she herself died shortly after she left, with the details being lost to time. The trauma from those events affected her to the point where she felt reluctant to forgive her siblings for countless Ages, having been deeply hurt by their actions and their role in Plasmatio Equus' death. It's not until the Fourth Age, when she reincarnated as several people, that she finally forgives her surviving siblings, who reemerged in the public eye and apologized to her for their mistaes.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: As a young mortal filly, she had quite the adventurous streak and frequently wandered off to satisfy her own curiosity, which naturally prompted her family to go save her from danger numerous times. When she gained the ability to use magic, she became ThePrankster who pulled pranks on her older siblings. She matured quite a lot by the time she was a goddes and treats her siblings a lot better, though she still maintains these fillyhood traits to a degree.

* TheArchmage: As Equinekind's first goddess of Magic, she is widely considered the greatest and most powerful spellcaster in Equinekind's history, and for good reason. She not only possesses a vast, eidetic memory regarding all branches of magic known to Equinekind, but she also created them herself. Her skill is such that she can combine multiple branches in complex ways that go beyond the scope of what they're normally capable of, and has personally created various spells, artifacts, and weapons that she and others had used over the Ages. Furthering her magical prowess are her domains of Friendship, which makes her spells even stronger when she is with friends, and Mana, which allows her to use and control primal energies found within Equus' atmosphere. Fittingly, she taught countless students in her lifetime, including her older siblings, and it is believed InUniverse that had she survived to the present Age, she could have easily defeated even other divine spellcasters like Vicearch Iniquitous, Archwizard Manamagus, Overlord Vondur, and Lady Thauma.

* CompositeCharacter: While Mana Equus is based on [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime the fabled Thirteenth Prime]], part of her character also takes inspiration from [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Mystra, goddess of Magic]]. Like the Thirteenth Prime, Mana Equus was a character that was previously shrouded in mystery, with not much information about her being available even InUniverse due to the passage of time. Like Mystra, she was originally a mortal being who later became the living embodiment of Magic itself, guiding people in the art of spellcraft while protecting the Weave from those who sought to abuse it for malicious ends. And like both characters, Mana herself would reincarnate into a different person after she died... or rather, different ''people'', as many Ascendant spellcasters like Twilight Sparkle, Blue Suede Heartstrings, Bossa Nova Heartstrings, Glory, and Shining Armor end up reincarnating as her and becoming her hosts. One legend regarding her mysterious death is also based on how Mystra's predecessor, Mystryl, died -- by sacrificing herself to save the Weave after a mortal Archwizard arrogantly tried stealing her divinity to become a god of Magic.

* CurbStompBattle: Due to being a powerful, experienced, and ancient goddess, she was able to easily overpower Starfall Dusk, who was empowered by the Elements of Harmony and the bound souls of the friends she betrayed and tortured, by manifesting herself through Twilight/Amicitia as a SuperMode.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Prior to her debut, entries mentioning her implied that she was a [[WomenAreWiser wise]], ancient goddess who served as the "[[TheHeart glue]]" keeping the Thirteen Empyreans together. When she's finally introduced in a ''Tales of Equestria'' story, she is revealed to be a wise yet motherly teacher with a surprisingly dorky side that comes out when Twilight Sparkle answers her questions correctly. This pegs her as a kind, benevolent goddess who staunchly believes in ThePowerOfFriendship and wants to teach magic to others... and ultimately someone who is not much different from Twilight herself despite the sheer age and power gap between them.

** Mana's entry emphasizes how mortal (and divine) Equinekind would have ''vastly'' benefited from her teachings had she not died so early in their existence. On the flipside, had Twilight/Amicitia not been the one to become Mana's reincarnation first, then any other Equine could have done so instead due to all of them bearing a portion of Mana's divine essence inside them, such as Sunset Shimmer, Starfall Dusk, and Blue Suede Heartstrings.

* GenderRestrictedAbility: Averted. Despite being Equinekind's first goddess of Magic, her views on it are rather egalitarian, believing that all creatures should be allowed to wield magic regardless of their gender or sex, unless they prove otherwise. Not only did her father and older brothers wield magic themselves, but she also helped give both male and female Equines the ability to use magic at the dawn of their creation. Naturally, she is enraged by sexism in magic, such as people trying to prevent others from learning magic based on their gender, or interpreting her as a misandrist goddess who lets females learn magic but forbids males from doing the same. She was also deeply unhappy with those who treated her male {{Reincarnation}}s as inferior compared to Twilight because she saw all of them as part of her, even if they lacked her soul.
* GiveAManAFish: Being Equidkind's first and primary teacher in magic, she refrains from intervening personally whenever possible and only giving as much wisdom, knowledge and power as necessary to her students or hosts to resolve matters at hoof, as like her teachers the Tuzu she believes the importance of her charges learning and growing in magical skill and power on their own rather than coddling them.

* AnimalisticAbomination: Like her fellow Empyreans, she's a Hyracotherium/Eohippus Alicorn and thus has traits unique to the race she was born to, like toed hooves, a Zebra-like tail, and a spotted pelt. Due to being among the first sapient Equids to be born, she's a huge Alicorn goddess with ten wings with a wing gradiant going from white to maroon and feathers made of Time energy. Her mane and tail shows events occurring throughout time, and looking into her eyes will grant images of the past. However, one trait specific to her is that she's [[PerpetuallyProtean constantly shifting between a filly, an adult mare, and an elderly mare in a repeating cycle]], which befits her nature as a goddess of Time.

* NoNameGiven: The Codex entries only call her the Thirteenth Empyrean, her name having been lost to history. It turns out her actual name is Mana Equus. [[WhamEpisode She's now known as Twilight Sparkle.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Subverted: at first this seems the case, with her having little role in the present story, but having been responsible for granting all of equidkind magic. However, it turns out that after ascending to proper godhood defeating the Legion of Domination, Twilight Sparkle became her {{Reincarnation}} and thus she has far more influence on the story than would appear.