History Fanfic / TheTearsOfGaia

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Dushtala, one of the Blightling officers from Burzkala who came to watch over the Blightling army in Maudhul. Every Blightling is afraid of him, since he has a record of being brutally efficient in his work.

* BigBad: Maugoth and the Blightlings.
* BlackSpeech: The Blight's language.
* BlessedWithSuck: Tharos, the dragon guarding the way to the Tears, had a spell placed on him that granted him ResurrectiveImmortality -- he can't die, but sees this as a curse, as he's forced to live with the shame of all the times he's been defeated.
** The curse is eventually broken when [[spoiler: Tharos is defeated, but Fluttershy chooses to spare his life. He dies, permanently, by sacrificing himself to save the ponies from a Blight ambush.]]

* CultureClash: While staying in the griffon city, Twilight, Starswirl, Rarity and Pinkie Pie indulge in a delicious dinner from a nearby foodstall. Turns out the griffons are omnivores, and the food was chicken and mushroom soup. As the fic puts it:
--> "Simultaneous spit-takes in 3... 2...1..."
** Also providing a bit of a culture clash between the ponies an the griffon town is their more modern technology. For example, while they have no magic of their own, the griffons have devised muskets that shoot lightning, powered by magically-imbued gemstones in place of cartridges.
* DugTooDeep: How The Blight was originally released into the world.

* EnthrallingSiren: The swamp kelpie that nearly gets Rainbow Dash is a non-musical version of this trope. But its true face is revealed once it gets its claws on her.

* MacGuffinGuardian: Tharos the dragon is the only one other than the Princesses who knows how to open the way to the Tears of Gaia's resting place, and he'll only open it if defeated in battle, but spared by the victor.
** Said resting place is apparently guarded by some... ''thing''. (See EldritchAbomination)
* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: Downplayed: [[spoiler:The destruction of the Tears frees the energy within, which the diffuses over the planet and slightly boosts the magic of all magical beings]].
** [[spoiler: Of course, this being the MLP universe, where every creature has at least some sort of passive connection to magic (Pegasi using it to fly and control clouds, earth-ponies using it to tend their crops, etc), it makes sense that the energy would be so thinly distributed.]]

--> "Let's just say," Twilight replied, "that it involved a flight spell, a pumpkin, and the fiercest flamingo you've ever seen."
--> "And marmalade," added Pinkie Pie with a shudder. "So... much... marmalade."

* PhysicalGods: According to the CreationMyth, the Alicorns and the Draconequii are all this. But by the time the Blight had been imprisoned, the Draconequi had been turned into [[EldritchAbomination insane twisted monsters]], and all the Alicorns except Celestia and Luna left the world forever (And Gaia, though she was essentially dead, having become one with the earth itself).
* PowerCrystal: The Tears of Gaia. According to the CreationMyth, it is a gem created by Gaia with her own shed tears and the powers of the six Alicorns are stored inside the Tears. The power found inside can be enough to ''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt wipe out most of the world]]''. Most nations and [[EldritchAbomination the Blight]] want it in their possession, the other nations for defence and the Blight to expand its influence faster.
** [[spoiler: So much power, in fact, that Twilight's ultimate solution to who should get all that power, is to destroy it, releasing its energy so that everyone in the world gets a bit of it.]]

--> [[spoiler: "GORDON'S ALIVE?!"]]

---> [[spoiler: "Sure am glad to see she's doin' alright after all this time," she said to you. "She and her friends went through quite a bit, and come out stronger and wiser than ever. Well, that about does it, wraps the whole thing up. Things seemed to work out pretty good fer Twilight an' her friends. Not to mention it made for a pretty decent tale, eh? Now I'm not sure she's aware of y'all out there, hearin' this story. But if she did, I'm sure she'd appreciate ye stickin' around as long as ye have. Takes alot of dedication to wanna stick by her, find out where she'd go next, what adventure she'd run into..." Rowanoak paused a moment and chuckled. "Oh look at me, ramblin' on like the old coot I am. Heh, s'funny, when ye've bin goin' as long as I have, once ye got an attentive audience ye don't wanna stop talking. But I'll let y'all be on yer way now. I hope you've enjoyed yerselves. See you out on the trail." Rowanoak then turned to Mrs Cake as she passed. "Say miss, be a dear and get me some more o' that good sarsaparilla..."]]

This is a WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfiction written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Redback+Spino Redback Spino]]. It can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/44105/the-tears-of-gaia here]]. It has a audio book [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRGKGf8sClk here]]

--> [[spoiler: "Sure am glad to see she's doin' alright after all this time," she said to you. "She and her friends went through quite a bit, and come out stronger and wiser than ever. Well, that about does it, wraps the whole thing up. Things seemed to work out pretty good fer Twilight an' her friends. Not to mention it made for a pretty decent tale, eh? Now I'm not sure she's aware of y'all out there, hearin' this story. But if she did, I'm sure she'd appreciate ye stickin' around as long as ye have. Takes alot of dedication to wanna stick by her, find out where she'd go next, what adventure she'd run into..." Rowanoak paused a moment and chuckled. "Oh look at me, ramblin' on like the old coot I am. Heh, s'funny, when ye've bin goin' as long as I have, once ye got an attentive audience ye don't wanna stop talking. But I'll let y'all be on yer way now. I hope you've enjoyed yerselves. See you out on the trail." Rowanoak then turned to Mrs Cake as she passed. "Say miss, be a dear and get me some more o' that good sarsaparilla..."]]

“Don’t look to me for explanations, dear reader. Ye best get after those ponies, see what happens… They got plenty of troubles ahead… If’n only they knew.”

--> “Let’s just say,” Twilight replied, “that it involved a flight spell, a pumpkin, and the fiercest flamingo you've ever seen.”
--> “And marmalade,” added Pinkie Pie with a shudder. “So... much... marmalade.”

** Feast [[CaptainObvious involves feasting]]. The combatants have to eat without stopping until one stops.

** BiggerBad: [[TheCorruption The]] [[EldritchAbomination host of the Blight]], sometimes referred to as 'Allfather'.

* PowerCrystal: The Tears of Gaia. According to the CreationMyth, it is a gem created by Gaia with her own shed tears and the powers of the six Alicorns are stored inside the Tears. The power found inside can be enough to ''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt wipe out most of the world]]''. Most nations and [[EldritchAbomination the Blight]] want it in their possession, the other nations for defence and [[BiggerBad the Blight]] to expand its influence faster.