History CodexEquus / TropesSToT

*** During the "Temptation Unbound" event, Crimson Star foresaw his brothers being turned against each other one by one, creating a schism so catastrophic that his father would die trying to stop it. He brought his vision to Golden Scepter's attention, ultimately saving his family, while exposing the malicious deities and their worshipers who tried engineering his family's downfall to remove a large threat to their plans.
*** When he foresaw the untold amounts of destruction and death affecting the Nine Realms, Crimson Star pleaded for Golden Scepter to let him avert this bad future. Golden Scepter would give his son his blessing, allowing Crimson Star and a few of his brothers to participate in the "Final Ragnarok" conflict while the rest of his family fought in the "Storm King Crisis". Also, whenever he [[BashBrothers teams up with Fanged Paw to kick ass]], one of the ways he helps his older brother out is predicting when and where an enemy will attack with his foresight.

*** During the "Temptation Unbound" event, Crimson Star foresaw his brothers being turned against each other one by one, creating a schism so catastrophic that his father would die trying to stop it. He brought his vision to Golden Scepter's attention, ultimately saving his family, while exposing the malicious deities and their worshipers who tried engineering his family's downfall to remove a large threat to their plans.
*** When he foresaw the untold amounts of destruction and death affecting the Nine Realms, Crimson Star pleaded for Golden Scepter to let him avert this bad future. Golden Scepter would give his son his blessing, allowing Crimson Star and a few of his brothers to participate in the "Final Ragnarok" conflict while the rest of his family fought in the "Storm King Crisis". Also, whenever he [[BashBrothers teams up with Fanged Paw to kick ass]], one of the ways he helps his older brother out is predicting when and where an enemy will attack with his foresight.

** One of Pokhot's (many) divine sons, Prince Stoltur Skjöldur, has inherited her precognitive abilities, though it's different for him. His entry notes that as the god of Potential, he can see both the good and bad potential of people, and what they could be even years ahead.

** '''[[Literature/Dune The Accumulated Text]]''': "[[BanOnAI THOU SHALT NOT]] [[AIIsACrapshoot MAKE A CONSTRUCT]] [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters IN THE LIKELINESS]] [[RobotWar OF A THINKING MIND]]."

** One of Pokhot's (many) divine sons, Prince Stoltur, has inherited her precognitive abilities, though it's different for him. His entry notes that as the god of Potential, he can see both the good and bad potential of people, and what they could be even years ahead.
* SemiDivine: Demigods are mentioned, many being heroes in various cultures, though few have gotten prominent focus.

*** One of the abilities Prince Crimson Star has is precognition, which he shares with his brother, Bright Eyes. However, after he lost his sight saving a classmate in a carriage accident, he became a BlindSeer. It's noted by his entry that while his foresight isn't as powerful as Bright Eyes', Crimson Star was still able to put it to good use, averting several crises in the process. During the "Temptation Unbound" event, Crimson Star foresaw his brothers being turned against each other one by one, creating a schism so catastrophic that his father would die trying to stop it. He brought his vision to Golden Scepter's attention, ultimately saving his family, while exposing the malicious deities and their worshipers who tried engineering his family's downfall to remove a large threat to their plans. And when he foresaw the untold amounts of destruction and death affecting the Nine Realms, Crimson Star pleaded for Golden Scepter to let him avert this bad future. Golden Scepter would give his son his blessing, allowing Crimson Star and a few of his brothers to participate in the "Final Ragnarok" conflict while the rest of his family fought in the "Storm King Crisis". Also, whenever he [[BashBrothers teams up with Fanged Paw to kick ass]], one of the ways he helps his older brother out is predicting when and where an enemy will attack with his foresight.

** An insert in Chrysalis' entry analyzing her world domination plans exemplifies this: her plan to take over Equestria, harvest its love, use the power boost to usurp her mother and sisters and then use the Spring Court to take over the world sounds simple, but in practice it does not consider facts such as her mother being a goddess whose magnitudes older and more powerful than Chrysalis is and is prepared (to the point of drastically modifying her own body in various ways) to take on ''Discord'' himself; that her sisters are generally older and more experienced, and their hives possess more resources than her hive; that the Changeling Summer Court would intervene in accordance to the agreements the Spring and Summer Courts had made (not to mention Blackthorn's [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes more personal relationship with Blackrose); and last but not least, the other Gods of Equus, like the ones in the Cosmic Council, would not sit back and watch Equestria and the Spring Court get taken over by Chrysalis, especially since many are friends with Celestia and Blackrose. All things considered, it is believed that the absolute best Chrysalis would hope for is keeping large parts of Equestria and holding the rest of the world off in a stalemate.

** The Alicorns from before Known History are extremely ancient, and have been considered to be the greatest of the god Equus's mortal/immortal Equine children. Luminiferous and Golden Scepter are examples of this, as they are the oldest members of the Church of the Stars and have been around since even before the First Age, though Golden Scepter is even older due to being an "Antecedent"-type Alicorn who lived before the Alicorn Civilization's fall. He even has three pairs of wings, with a fourth one on the way, to represent his age.

** Anarchie, Katastrofa's biological sister, used to be a sweet-hearted and heroic goddess who embodied the good aspects of anarchy, inspiring people to tear down tyrannical autocracies and regimes so they can build more benevolent ones. However, after Discord twisted and corrupted her for Ispita's plans, she became insane from the abuse and now inspires the evil aspects of anarchy, spreading total lawlessness and disorder. Even Phykti, Anarchie's half-sister who embodies Cruelty and Despair, was ''horrified'' to see what had been done to her and nearly faltered in their fight multiple times out of pity.

** Temnobog, the Bogolenya Deer god of Suffering, Darkness, and Evil, sees his domains as forces that test the heroic will and resolve of good-minded people, and never lets the villains and evildoers he "blesses" to become completely undefeatable. This would make every battle between good and evil this trope by default. In addition, many Roedinian myths spoke of deer champions and heroes seeking out Temnobog for aid, which led to them being tested by difficult trials in order to prove their worth.

** His twin brother, Temnobog, is an inversion since he has retrocognition. His entry states that such an ability is incredibly handy in looking into the past of criminals who try to hide their deeds from him. It's implied that this is one of the abilities he gives to his worshipers and champions whenever he empowers them, as King Strazha of Bitaniya earned it on the day of his coronation when he and his sister, Queen Vesna, were blessed.
** Golden Scepter, who is the CaptainErsatz [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 the Emperor of Mankind]], is described by his entry as a powerful clairvoyant who has both precognition and retrocognition, allowing him to see the futures and pasts of sapient creatures, especially Ponykind. Notably, he was able to foresee Prince Sparkling Wing's future as the beloved ruler of a great kingdom, and has started mentoring the young Alicorn on leadership.

*** One of the abilities Prince Crimson Star has is precognition, which he shares with his brother, Bright Eyes. However, after he lost his sight saving a classmate in a carriage accident, he became a BlindSeer. It's noted by his entry that while his foresight isn't as powerful as Bright Eyes', Crimson Star was still able to put it to good use, averting several crises in the process.
*** During the "Temptation Unbound" event, Crimson Star foresaw his brothers being turned against each other one by one, creating a schism so catastrophic that his father would die trying to stop it. He brought his vision to Golden Scepter's attention, ultimately saving his family, while exposing the malicious deities and their worshipers who tried engineering his family's downfall to remove a large threat to their plans.
*** When he foresaw the untold amounts of destruction and death affecting the Nine Realms, Crimson Star pleaded for Golden Scepter to let him avert this bad future. Golden Scepter would give his son his blessing, allowing Crimson Star and a few of his brothers to participate in the "Final Ragnarok" conflict while the rest of his family fought in the "Storm King Crisis".
*** In general, whenever he [[BashBrothers teams up with Fanged Paw to kick ass]], one of the ways he helps his older brother out is predicting when and where an enemy will attack with his foresight.
* ShockAndAwe: One of the things he can do with his PsychicPowers is summoning bolts of psychic lightning to strike his enemies.

** The antediluvian Alicorn goddess, Hylia the Wise, was known for being a powerful seer when she was alive. Her fellow Alicorns believed that the only "mistake" she made was falling in love with a mortal, the original Gleaming Shield.

** Every Royal Changeling is a demigod, due to [[MonsterProgenitor Blackrose and Blackthorn]] having multiple flings with mortals from different races. This makes them more powerful than the Common Changeling, being stronger, smarter, tougher, and magically more powerful as well as [[MagneticHero possessing a natural aura that attracts Common Changelings to them]]. Unfortunately, their divine heritage also gives them an strong sense of entitlement, seeing themselves (and their Parents) as the rightful rulers of Changelingkind and treating their "rebellious" subjects as ungrateful, disobedient children for leaving their Court. Luminiferous notes that ironically, ''Thorax'', a lowly drone, was the only one to break his [[HorrorHunger Curse]] and Ascend, something that Blackrose or even Blackthorn's children have done, which is a sign that their grudge against Dragonkind is really holding them back.

** Crystal Prism, once a unicorn colt named Page Wheel, is physically a teenage Alicorn after Ascending very early in his life thanks to unethical experiments and strange, traumatic circumstances. According to Twilight Sparkle, Crystal's stint as a [[MagicEater magic-absorbing]] monster gave him so much magic that after he was killed by Luminiferous and the Equestrian Princesses, the magic reacted by reviving Page Wheel's dead body in a cocoon, Ascending him in the process. So he's quite young both in mortal and divine terms, especially the latter since he's the equivalent of an infant demigod. It's revealed that his current state is because he was intended to become the Alicorn god of Rebirth and Change so he'll herald a "new age" for Ponykind, but [[ScrewDestiny he was encouraged to forge his own path instead]].
** The many sons of Golden Scepter, an antediluvian Alicorn Emperor, are demigods, having been sired with a mortal pegasus mare named "Blessed Skies". A few of them are Prince Blazing Hoof, the Imperial Sword, and Prince Crimson Star, [[HandicappedBadass a blind psychic prodigy]].

** Golden Scepter, an {{Expy}} of [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 the Emperor of Mankind]], is described by his entry as a powerful clairvoyant who has both precognition and retrocognition, allowing him to see the futures and pasts of sapient creatures, especially Ponykind. Notably, he was able to foresee Prince Sparkling Wing's future as the beloved ruler of a great kingdom, and has started mentoring the young Alicorn on leadership.

** Crystal Prism and Midnight Bell's backstories were taken from the plot of ''Anime/MaryAndTheWitchsFlower'', with a few differences - namely, there's no magical flower or artifact involved. And unlike Peter, Crystal Prism's {{Expy}}, who was turned into a monster and then turned back to normal by a spell, Crystal Prism was fought by powerful beings, killed, then revived/Ascended into an immortal Alicorn demigod.

** Celestia and Luna, as in canon. Celestia wields Sun magic and is serene and graceful, while Luna wields Moon magic and is boisterous and outspoken

** Golden Scepter, being an {{Expy}} of [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 the Emperor of Mankind]], is another example - in the WH40k 'verse, the Emperor of Mankind was reduced to a shriveled, mummified husk, kept alive by the Golden Throne and sheer willpower, after he was gravely wounded in the Horus Heresy, which was largely caused by his mistreatment of his Primarch sons. Here, Golden Scepter was put in magical stasis after the "Aurum Apostasy" conflict with the intention to heal him later after sufficient medical technology was produced, only to be gradually forgotten by his subjects and ended up sleeping well into the Second Age, where he would be found, revived, and healed by Luminiferous and Queen Dazzleglow. It's noted that Golden Scepter is eternally grateful for their help, saying that if it weren't for their kindness and patience, he would have rotted away a long time ago.

* StrongerWithAge: Deities increase in power the older they become, and given they're immortal they can get very old. Deities predating recorded history, such as Luminiferous, Golden Scepter, and Queen Mzazi, tend to be immensely strong. Amareros, the Eldest of Wood, and Choice are among the oldest known deities and all of which are incredibly powerful, with Amareros being known as the Grand Primeval and even the Summer Court are afraid of him. His siblings are every bit as powerful as he is, and likewise no one wants to mess with them. At the very top of the divine hierarchy are the Void Sovereign and his sister, the Genesis Sovereign, with the latter being revealed to be the Grand Primevals' ''grandmother''.

** Double-subverted with Golden Scepter. His mane and tail in his "true" form are made of black spatial, ethereal energy that show of scenes of twinkling stars and yellow giant-type stars. His "[[GodInHumanForm default]]" form is implied to have normal hair.

** Princess Apterus, the child of a Changeling Queen and a Dragon, had her parents sealed away due to FantasticRacism and was kidnapped and abused horribly for a thousand years by a particularly cruel Changeling King with no knowledge of her true nature. It's little wonder she completely snaps when she learns the truth and goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* Upepo, the Giraffe goddess of Wind, is described by her entry as having a constant breeze blowing through her fur.

** In the 'Second Age', the [[TheMagicGoesAway least magical and fantastical of the Known Ages]], what magic that was eventually known to the Technological Civilizations at the time is classified as 'Metamagnetism' and is treated as just another natural force/phenomena which could be studied, manipulated and utilized like the other Fundamental Forces. The in-universe authors of Codex Equus cautions the readers to not judge them too harshly for this view, because all things considered it is ''technically true''. It is not that they [[ArbitrarySkeptism disbelieved in the existence of magic]]; unlike those of the other Known Ages, they simply don't attach too much [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstition mysticism]] to it, at least on an [[ScientificallyUnderstandableSorcery academic level]].

** Belyolen of the Bogolenya pantheon is a precognitive. His twin brother, Temnobog, is an inversion since he has retrocognition.
** Golden Scepter, an {{Expy}} of [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 the Emperor of Mankind]], has both precognition and retrocognition, allowing him to see the futures and pasts of sapient creatures, especially Ponykind. Notably, he was able to foresee Prince Sparkling Wing's future as the beloved ruler of a great kingdom, and has started mentoring the young Alicorn on leadership.

** Prince Sparkling Wing's entry describes his mane and tail as resembling ethereal and wispy dark purple clouds, which is appropriate since he's the Alicorn god of Weather.

** Bellamos, the Divine Strategoes, is a deity version of this from the Pramanthan Pantheon, known for very effective and efficient strategies. This stems partly from experience travelling the world and a desire to end conflicts as quickly as possible so senseless death and destruction could be avoided.

** An insert in Chrysalis' entry analyzing her world domination plans exemplifies this: her plan to take over Equestria, harvest its love, use the power boost to usurp her mother and sisters and then use the Spring Court to take over the world sounds simple, but in practice it does not consider facts such as her mother being a goddess whose magnitudes older and more powerful than Chrysalis is and is prepared (to the point of drastically modifying her own body in various ways) to take on ''Discord'' himself; that her sisters are generally older and more experienced, and their hives possess more resources than her hive; that the Changeling Summer Court would intervene in accordance to the agreements the Spring and Summer Courts had made (Not to mention Blackthorn's more personal relationship with Blackrose); and last but not least, the other Gods of Equus, like the ones in the Cosmic Council, would not sit back and watch Equestria and the Spring Court get taken over by Chrysalis, especially since many are friends with Celestia and Blackrose. All things considered, it is believed that the absolute best Chrysalis would hope for is keeping large parts of Equestria and holding the rest of the world off in a stalemate.

** On any occasion Blastfire is applied this happens, as Blastfire is what happens when Fourth Age Equus discovers an alchemical 'high explosive' (without ever inventing a 'low explosive' like gunpowder) which due to a 'arcane resonance effect' ''increases'' in efficiency the more amounts you have. This becomes a problem when it comes to ballistic propellants since its unique properties mean the inverse phenomena happens when you scale it ''down'', resulting in a world where [[BFG huge bombards and railway cannons]] are the norm and encouraged, but [[FantasyGunControl no infantry/personal firearms as we know it]].
** Also, the Mana Bomb, courtesy of the Cloven Empire, is more or less a FantasticNuke and the Fourth Age's equivalent of nuclear weapons, [[Magitek with magic]]. Nuclear weapons had also existed on Equus at one point, during the 'Great Wars Era' of the Second Age.

** Giants races and other enormous-sized beings like Giant deities and Dragons require enormous amounts of food to sustain their bodies (And even then, only to catalyze MagicEater metabolisms, [[RealityEnsues since the square-cube law means after a certain threshold no amount of food could had sustain them]]). Since their hunger means they can't afford to be picky, and their innate domineering instincts, this results in them having little to no reservations against eating the smaller 'Tinies' races. Hungry Giants can consume whole villages, towns and cities; meanwhile their gods can swallow ''whole kingdoms and pantheons'' in an afternoon. As a rule of thumb/hoof, if they have even the slightest Giant heritage, they've more likely than not eaten people (And even enjoy it).

** [[GodOfEvil Temnobog]] Cultists, particularly those who worship the Four Terrors' god of Greed and Gluttony Bolezn the Master of Pestilence, are known for depraved cannibalistic rituals whereupon a [[HumanSacrifice sapient sacrifice]] is [[EatenAlive devoured alive]] as an offering to Temnobog and his son. The fact that they usually only target those [[PayEvilUntoEvil abhorrent enough to deserve it]] does not diminish the horror of their actions, but [[ReligionOfEvil they never claim they were saints]].

** Crystal Prism would later suggest this to his friend Katastrofa, who is also Ispita's youngest son - since he already knows what's going to happen, he has the ability to prevent the bad futures he sees from happening. Katastrofa was noted to be caught completely off-guard by this.

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** The Alicorns from before Known History are extremely ancient, and have been considered to be the greatest of the god Equus's mortal/immortal Equine children. Luminiferous and Golden Scepter are examples of this, as they are the oldest members of the Church of the Stars and have been around since even before the First Age, though Golden Scepter is even older due to being an "Antecedent"-type Alicorn who lived before the Alicorn Civilization's fall.

** Irminsul and his beloved wife, Arvan, were once the co-leaders for the entire Elternteil Deer Pantheon. However, the pantheon fractured when everyone started disagreeing over Deerkind's future and (in Belyolen's case) the mistreatment of Temnobog, leading to the birth of two other Deer Pantheons, the Bogolenya and Hoyklan Pantheons.

** The Hoyklan pantheon is ruled by Kaldr, a divine moose [[DeityOfHumanOrigin who was once Oakley the Moose from the First Age]], and his wife, Haust. Kaldr became the leader of the divine Hoyklan Deer because Haust realized she couldn't efficiently protect her relatives and peers from Irminsul, who is her uncle, and appealed to Kaldr for help.
** Empress Blackrose and Emperor Blackrose are each the TopGod of their respective courts.

** Giants races and other enormous-sized beings like Giant deities and Dragons require enormous amounts of food to sustain their bodies (And even then, only to catalyze MagicEater metabolisms, [[RealityEnsues since the square-cube law means after a certain threshold no amount of food could had sustain them]]). Since their hunger means they can't afford to be picky, and their innate domineering instincts, this results in them having little to no reservations against eating the smaller 'Tinies' races. Hungry Giants can consume whole villages, towns and cities; meanwhile their gods can swallow ''WHOLE KINGDOMS AND PANTHEONS'' in an afternoon. As a rule of thumb/hoof, if they have even the slightest Giant heritage, they've more likely than not eaten people (And even enjoy it).

--> '''Cyclops King Occulus''': “For the longest time, it had been given that [[PunyEarthlings the Great will win over the Small]], barring unique circumstances - maybe they have [[BeginnersLuck the luck]], maybe they have [[WeHaveReserves the numbers]], maybe they have [[SuperweaponSurprise the means]]. [[HopelessWar Even then, the Small have every reason to fear the Great would crush them as they always had]].

--> [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore Now they have all three]], and [[WhosLaughingNow they do not fear]]… [[YouCanPanicNow They CANNOT fear]].”

** Aniwyes are jumbo-sized ones of these. They're mostly peaceful if left alone, but their spray is ''much'' worse than normal.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Princess Laska, who was based on [[Anime/CodeGeass Princess Euphemia]]. Unlike Euphemia, who was accidentally Geassed by Lelouch into committing genocide against the Japanese and then was {{Mercy Kill}}ed by Lelouch to stop her, Laska was never Geassed. Instead, Strazha, Lelouch's {{Expy}}, would save her from being Geassed into committing genocide against Bitaniya's non-Deer population by Deer Autorists, having been tipped off by his sister Vesna's prophetic visions. The result was Laska and her knight/fiance Falling Leaves (Suzaku's {{Expy}}) ''saving'' her would-be victims.
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** Changeling King Xestobium was once a noble knight, living in a kingdom now long forgotten - because said kingdom was destroyed by a terrible dragon, killing everyone, including his own family, and even took one of his legs, before his True Nature manifested. This traumatic experience fills him with an understandable hatred for all dragons, which only worsens as he entered the Summer Court, which encouraged these sentiments with their historical enmity against Dragonkind; seeing only the worst of Dragonkind every time he and his hive goes out to slay them (And feed on the love reciprocated by those they saved); and in the process seeing his own tragedy repeated, over and over again. Adding the fact that his family are mostly monsters NotSoDifferent from the dragons in going about destroying others for their own gain, Xestobium's sanity slipped until he finally [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds snapped]], becoming an genocidal maniac who would stop at nothing to destroy Dragonkind (And the Summer Court, his own family) - even if it meant [[OmnicidalManiac wiping out the whole world]] in the process.

** The 'Battle of Moroz Valley' for the entirety of Giantkind. In ages past, it was considered a given that in any confrontation, Giants will win most conflicts against Tinies by virtue of their great sizes and power. While the Tinies could win, it is often difficult and costly. Then the Cloven Empire inflicted a decisive CurbstompBattle against a Rampage of 50+ Giants ''without a single loss'' on their side through cunning tactics and superior firepower. On that day, to Giantkind's horror, they discover that despite their small size, not only [[HumansAdvanceSwiftly could Tinies advance quickly]] and sufficiently enough to become their equals, [[WhosLaughingNow they could even SURPASS them]].

--> [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore Now they have all three]], and [[OhCrap they do not fear]]… [[YouCanPanicNow They CANNOT fear]].”

** The Storm King Crisis was this to Equestria. From what we know so far, given how most of their country got occupied by the Storm Empire during the conflict and that the Royal Guard got decimated so badly they are in process of being replaced by a new Equestrian military force.
** The Battle of Moroz Valley for the entirety of Giantkind. In ages past, it was considered a given that in any confrontation, Giants will win most conflicts against Tinies by virtue of their great sizes and power. While the Tinies could win, it is often difficult and costly. Then the Cloven Empire inflicted a decisive CurbstompBattle against a Rampage of 50+ Giants ''without a single loss'' on their side through cunning tactics and superior firepower. On that day, to Giantkind's horror, they discover that despite their small size, not only [[HumansAdvanceSwiftly could Tinies advance quickly]] and sufficiently enough to become their equals, they could even ''surpass'' them.

** The Battle of Moroz Valley for the entirety of Giantkind. In ages past, it was considered a given that in any confrontation, Giants will win most conflicts against Tinies by virtue of their great sizes and power. While the Tinies could win, it is often difficult and costly. Then the Cloven Empire inflicted a decisive CurbstompBattle against a Rampage of 50+ Giants ''without a single loss'' on their side through cunning tactics and superior firepower. On that day, to Giantkind's horror, they discover that not only [[HumansAdvanceSwiftly could Tinies advance quickly]] and sufficiently enough to become their equals in power, they could ''surpass'' them.

--> [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore Now they have all three]], and [[TheDogBitesBack they do not fear]]… [[OhCrap They CANNOT fear]].”

* SapientEatSapient: As noted under EatenAlive, this is a depressingly common occurrence on Equus, with many monstrous or monstrous-sized sapient beings having no problems with eating other sapient beings, from [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalistic cultists ritualistically devouring their victims]], to [[MostDangerousGame predatory sapients targeting prey sapients]], to [[BigEater gigantic beings eating whole lands]] and even [[GodEating Gods eating each other]] (And [[UpToEleven anyone else less powerful]]). Partly explained in that their very natures often mean they can't afford to be picky, and where they ''could'' choose to eat non-sapient sustenance they would often choose not to eat sapients, downplaying this aspect.

* ShockingDefeatLegacy: The Storm King Crisis was this to Equestria. From what we know so far, given how most of their country got occupied by the Storm Empire during the conflict and that the Royal Guard got decimated so badly they are in process of being replaced by a new Equestrian military force.

** Blackheart the Accursed was imprisoned by Blackrose for her crimes. This was in part because she became immortal and couldn't be killed.

** Discord sealed his 'little brother' Pakak in a locket during his reign. One story in the verse depicts Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie being sent by the Cutie Map to help Discord free him and make amends.
** Queen Dazzleglow has been dormant for 20,000 years and only awakened recently. Apparently, she did this to herself [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture for a very specific reason.]]

** Hylia's mortal reincarnations, Radiant Primrose, would inherit her power. This is what allowed her to make the best decisions and aid Gleaming Shield's various incarnations in winning their battles through many lifetimes.

** Crystal Prism has an incredibly rare type of [[TheEmpath empathy]] that allows him to receive prophetic visions by displaying strong emotions/thoughts for someone before going to sleep. The Church of the Stars called this "emotional foresight". This came in handy a couple of times, such as getting

** Golden Scepter, an {{Expy}} of [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 the Emperor of Mankind]], has both precognition and retrocognition, allowing him to see the futures and pasts of sapient creatures. Notably, he was able to foresee Prince Sparkling Wing's future as the beloved ruler of a great kingdom, and has started mentoring the young Alicorn on leadership.

** Every Royal Changeling is a demigod, due to [[PhysicalGod Blackrose and Blackthorn]] having multiple flings with mortals from different races. This makes them more powerful than the Common Changeling, being stronger, smarter, tougher, and magically more powerful as well as [[MagneticHero possessing a natural aura that attracts Common Changelings to them]]. Unfortunately, their divine heritage also gives them an strong sense of entitlement, seeing themselves (and their Parents) as the rightful rulers of Changelingkind and treating their "rebellious" subjects as ungrateful, disobedient children for leaving their Court.

** Crystal Prism, once a unicorn colt named Page Wheel, is physically a teenage Alicorn after Ascending very early in his life thanks to unethical experiments and strange, traumatic circumstances. According to Twilight Sparkle, Crystal's stint as a [[MagicEater magic-absorbing]] monster gave him so much magic that after he was killed by Luminiferous and the Equestrian Princesses, the magic reacted by reviving Page Wheel's dead body in a cocoon, Ascending him in the process. So he's quite young both in mortal and divine terms, especially the latter since he's the equivalent of an infant demigod.
** The many sons of Golden Scepter, an antediluvian Alicorn Emperor, are demigods, having been sired through a mortal pegasus mare named "Blessed Skies".

** Changelings, as in canon, with the Changeling Progenitors being considered indisputably the best.

** Crystal Prism and Midnight Bell's backstories were taken from the plot of ''Anime/MaryAndTheWitchsFlower'', with a few differences - namely, there's no magical flower or artifact involved. [[spoiler:And unlike Peter, who was turned into a monster and then turned back to normal by a spell]], Crystal Prism was fought by powerful beings, killed, then revived/Ascended into an immortal Alicorn demigod.

** Arlequin and Katharsis are the twin daughters and G1 Shady and Pakak, and have a similar yin-yang to Pinkie Pie and Maud Pie. Fitting, given one of them is likely the Pie Family's ancestor.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Princess Laska, who was based on [[Anime/CodeGeass Princess Euphemia]]. [[spoiler:Unlike Euphemia, who was accidentally Geassed by Lelouch into committing genocide against the Japanese and then was {{Mercy Kill}}ed by Lelouch to stop her, Laska was never Geassed. Instead, Strazha, Lelouch's {{Expy}}, would save her from being Geassed into committing genocide against Bitaniya's non-Deer population by Deer Autorists, having been tipped off by his sister Vesna's prophetic visions. The result was Laska and her knight/fiance Falling Leaves (Suzaku's {{Expy}}) ''saving'' her would-be victims]].

* StrongerWithAge: Deities increase in power the older they become, and given they're immortal they can get very old. Deities predating recorded history, such as Luminiferous, tend to be immensely strong. Amareros, the Eldest of Wood, and Choice are among the oldest known deities and all of which are incredibly powerful, with Amareros being known as the Grand Primeval and even the Summer Court are afraid of him. His siblings are every bit as powerful as he is, and likewise no one wants to mess with them.

** The kingdom of Hyrule is often the target of conquests of this nature, usually made by Blood Fang, the Dark Conqueror. Of course, just like in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', renowned heroes such as local master swordspony Gleaming Shield and Hylian Queen Radiant Primrose will always succeed in defeating Blood Fang before he could make his dreams of conquering Hyrule a reality, and their clashes has been the stuff of legends through Known History.
*** That being said, other evil overlords and villains have attempted to conquer Hyrule, but they always ended up being used as pawns by Blood Fang until they fall to either Gleaming Shield's sword, and/or Radiant Primrose's magic. Blood Fang doesn't tolerate anyone trying to conquer Hyrule first when he already "called dibs" on it, and will not hesitate to get rid of them at first opportunity... which is a good thing since Blood Fang's victims are usually ''worse'' - prominent examples are Malus Tenebris, who planned to plunge both Hyrule and Equus in "twilight", and one of the Storm King's generals who would've turned Hyrule and its surrounding lands into a WretchedHive. It has been implied and later confirmed that Blood Fang's behavior and "losses" to his Eternal Foes aren't what they seem - according to the Erobreseg Deer herds, he's actually an agent of Temnobog, who hired him to keep testing Gleaming Shield and Radiant Primrose's moral integrity because [[VillainRespect he has acknowledged their good deeds and wants them to always be strong enough to fight Evil]].

* TemptingFate: Xestobium's brothers laughed and mocked him when he stated his intention to [[FinalSolution wipe out the dragon race]], as they'd tried collectively to do so and failed despite coming close, so how could he do it alone? Cue the completely insane Xestobium launching a plan that if successful wouldn't just wipe out the entire continent of Draconia and everyone in it, but [[OmnicidalManiac possibly everyone else]], [[OhCrap the Summer Court included.]]

** Narren of the Eltentil deer pantheon, the God of Songs and Celebrations, is well known as this, and often plays pranks on his fellow gods. He also managed to outsmart Temnobog and rescue the TopGod of the pantheon from him (while accounts have been exaggerated, that part actually ''did'' happen).

** Temnobog the Dark One, co-ruler of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon, comes to mind. He's very literally a GodOfEvil who revels in causing suffering of those he believes 'deserves it', and for the longest time was the enemy of his older twin brother, Belyolen the Radiant Stag. This trope was deconstructed in that, having been born "evil", he was emotionally abused by his own family and peers, who thought that his corrupted nature would taint the benevolence of the Elternteil pantheon. Despite not having done anything evil at the time, Temnobog's mistreatment eventually turned him into the GodOfEvil that he was feared and expected to be out of misery and resentment. This caused Belyolen himself to rebel and leave home to start his own pantheon, as he was so compassionate that he felt understandably disgusted and upset with his fellow gods' petty hypocrisy. The reason why Temnobog took so long to let go of his grudge was because he thought that Belyolen, too, looked down on him for being "evil", but then he learned that his brother really ''did'' love him despite everything. After their reconciliation, this trope was reconstructed - he had become his brother's equal and his greatest supporter, directing his innate evil nature to a better purpose, embodying evil and suffering as a testing force, driving the good and noble among mortals to rise up and oppose evil while weeding out the evil and wicked to be punished for their moral failure.
** Temnobog's hellish hybrid children, the Four Terrors, are also this for the Bogolenya pantheon. While they are devoted to using their evil for constructive purposes like their father, they are rightly feared for their horrific actions, and as such, "Calling the Terrors" is treated as an ''absolute last resort'' for dealing with sin in the Deer realms. On the plus side, they are tolerated and even respected, with their cousins, the three children of Mier and Válka, Medik, Zmluva, and Mentálne understanding their roles and holding no ill will for it.
** Chrysalis ''was'' this for the Spring Court, until her two attempted attacks on Equestria that resulted in Thorax usurping the throne from her got her banished to the Winter Court. And the Winter Court entry reveals she wasn't the only Changeling Queen who had gone evil in the past.
** The Summer Court Changelings are this to Changelingkind in general. While a few steps above the Winter Court [[EvenEvilHasStandards which even they see as abhorrent]], they are essentially a DeadlyDecadentCourt that is rife with treacherous scheming and chronic backstabbing. Emperor Blackthorn himself is amoral and selfish than outright evil, but his motives are so ambiguous that more heroic-minded people like to think of him as evil.

** Irminsul was once the leader for the entire Elternteil Deer Pantheon. However, the pantheon fractured when everyone started disagreeing over Deerkind's future and (in Belyolen's case) the mistreatment of Temnobog, leading to the birth of two other Deer Pantheons, the Bogolenya and Hoyklan Pantheons.
** The Bogolenya pantheon is co-ruled by Irminsul's twin sons, Belyolen and Temnobog, founded by Belyolen who desired to get Temnobog away from their family's emotional abuse and give him the love and respect he deserved. Ironically, Temnobog initially ''sought'' to become this by usurping his brother, but he was given equal leadership power once both of them discovered they had a unique magical light/dark bond that would become incomplete if one of them tried killing the other.

** Indostruus, the God of Industry and Modernization, is the leader of the Novellus Pantheon. Unusually, Munditia is older than him, but sees him as the better leader and thus follows him, though he's still the strongest.

** On any occasion Blastfire is applied this happens, as Blastfire is what happens when Fourth Age Equus discovers an alchemical 'high explosive' (without ever inventing a 'low explosive' like gunpowder) which due to a 'arcane resonance effect' ''increases'' in efficiency the more amounts you have. This becomes a problem when it comes to ballistic propellants since its unique properties mean the inverse phenomena happens when you ''scale'' it down, meaning huge bombards and cannons but [[FantasyGunControl no firearms as we know it]].

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