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** It's fairly clear that the Royal Guards are actual ponies -- Shining Armor is their leader, there were guards with brown and green coats in "Rarity Investigates", we meet a retired guard in "A Flurry of Emotions" and they react to being talked to like actual sapient beings. Their uniform appearance is probably just fur dye and standardized armor. Going by that, it becomes a bit unlikely that Luna's guards aren't also actual ponies.

The CORRECT term for a half-unicorn half-pegasus would either be called a Unisus or a Pegacorn. Dependind on which more species you are of. (kind of liked mixed races. Say, if your mother were Jewish and your farther was black. If your farther had more family memebers, you would technically be called a black-person. However, if your MOTHER had more family members than your FARTHER, you would be more Jewish than black.)
* but alicorns are all 3 pony types

Pegasi have wing claspers, and erectile tissue in the wing. Flight is achieved by shaking a magical organ, which makes it lighter. Cloud walking is achieved by taking magical made in another lobe of the flight organ. Maybe they have a 3 chambered heart.

* Cadence hasn't been an alicorn that long (according to Princess Cadence and the Crystal Heart Spell)

There’s been mention here and there of alicorns that it doesn’t make much sense for the royal sisters, or for that matter Cadance, to be the cause of. For instance, there is the alicorn princess from the "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts and Hooves Day]]" story (although, granted, there is no evidence for or against that being a real historical account as opposed to just a fable), as well as the single alicorn depicted in the temple in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E14StrangerThanFanFiction Stranger than Fan Fiction]]". Although this last one does not necessarily depict an actual individual, it does require the knowledge of the at least potential existence of alicorns, as well as their status as special or remarkable beings, in a setting clearly presented as ancient and foreign. It really doesn’t make sense for this depiction to be inspired by Luna and/or Celestia, especially since a lot of emphasis is put on the fact that the alicorn is alone (versus the unicorns, earth ponies and pegasi in the same room, which came in pairs), which clashes with the strong duality theme that follows the royal sisters everywhere.\\

[[WMG: Crystal Ponies are a new breed.]]
One that specializes in focusing and spreading magic/hope/emotion.

This, besides Twilight and Cadence, also includes Celestia and Luna, as well as any potential alicorns that may or may not have lived before them. They were all born as regular ponies and became alicorns after inventing new branches of magic, performing feats no individual ever did before, and so on, and any children they may have had were born as regular ponies. Before Flurry was born, alicorn births were thought to be impossible. There is, as such, no distinction between immortal “Greater Alicorns” that are born winged and horned versus mortal “Lesser Alicorns” that ascend later in life. This means that either a) all alicorns are immortal or b) Celestia and Luna’s immortality is something they gained separately from their alicorn status -- in essence, they're immortal ''and'' they’re alicorns, but not immortal ''because'' they’re alicorns.

There’s been mention here and there of alicorns that it doesn’t make much sense for the royal sisters, or for that matter Cadance, to be the cause of. For instance, there is the alicorn princess from the “[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts and Hooves Day]]” fable (although, granted, there is no evidence for or against that being a real historical account as opposed to a fable), as well as the single alicorn depicted in the temple in “[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E14StrangerThanFanFiction Stranger than Fan Fiction]]”. Although this last one does not necessarily depict an actual individual, it does require the knowledge of the at least potential existence of alicorns, as well as their status as special or remarkable beings, in a setting clearly presented as ancient and foreign. It really doesn’t make sense for this depiction to be inspired by Luna and/or Celestia, especially since a lot of emphasis is put on the fact that the alicorn is alone (versus the unicorns, earth ponies and pegasi in the same room, which came in pairs), which clashes with the strong duality theme that follows the royal sisters everywhere.\\

True Alicorns would be Ponies that, somehow, acquired the magic and the ''heart'' of all three kinds of Ponies, and have [[PhysicalGod godlike powers]].

[[WMG:No alicorn before Flurry Heart was born as an alicorn]]
This, besides Twilight and Cadence, also includes Celestia and Luna, as well as any potential alicorns that may or may not have lived before them. In essence, all of them were born as regular ponies and became alicorns after inventing new branches of magic, performing feats no individual ever did before, and so on, and any children they may have had were born as regular ponies. Before Flurry was born, alicorn births were thought to be impossible. There is, as such, no distinction between immortal “Greater Alicorns” that are born winged and horned versus mortal “Lesser Alicorns” that ascend later in life. This means that either a) all alicorns are immortal or b) Celestia and Luna’s immortality is something they gained separately from their alicorn status -- in essence, they're immortal ''and'' they’re alicorns, but not immortal ''because'' they’re alicorns.

[[WMG:Luna and Celestia were not the first alicorns to exist]]
There’s been mention here and there of alicorns that it doesn’t make much sense for the royal sisters, or for that matter Cadance, to be the cause of. For instance, there is the alicorn princess from the “[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts and Hooves Day]]” fable (although, granted, there is no evidence for or against that being a real historical account as opposed to a fable), as well as the single alicorn depicted in the temple in “[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E14StrangerThanFanFiction Stranger than Fan Fiction]]”. Although this last one does not necessarily depict an actual individual, it does require the knowledge of the at least potential existence of alicorns, as well as their status as special or remarkable beings, in a setting clearly presented as ancient and foreign. It really doesn’t make sense for this depiction to be inspired by Luna and/or Celestia, especially since a lot of emphasis is put on the fact that the alicorn is alone (versus the unicorns, earth ponies and pegasi in the same room, which came in pairs), which clashes with the strong duality them that follows the royal sisters everywhere.\\

In the [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uj5l0C_W9Ps/Vh9gxWnaXKI/AAAAAAAAA98/kYLCGxpkHmI/s1600/eq_map.jpg updated canon map]], there’s a body of water named Luna Bay in the Northern Luna Ocean. On it shores, sort of separate from the rest of Equestria and between the sea and the slopes of the Yaket Mountains, there’s a small cluster of buildings. Unlike other such locations on the map, it doesn’t have a town name, and the buildings have an unusual appearance, dark and indistinct with lighted windows, as if in shadow or at night. My guess is that this is where the bat ponies live, with the distance from Equestria being the reason for their rarity.

* Wait, so even cannonically [[MyLittlePonyTheMentallyAdvancedSeries Twist is the worst pony?]]

While Alicorns look like WingedUnicorns, WordOfGod ([[AllThereInTheManual as mentioned in various sources]]) is that they actually combine traits from all three pony races. ''Literature/TwilightSparkleAndTheCrystalHeartSpell'' is most blatant about it: Alicorns are "a special breed of pony, able to harness the magical powers of the Unicorns, the flight abilities of the Pegasi, and the strength of a good, true heart of an Earth Pony." As we know, Earth Ponies are officially the strongest and toughest of the three Equestrian breeds; logic, then, suggests Alicorns should be just as strong as Earth Ponies.

When most of ancient ponykind was forced to emigrate to Equestria by the Windigoes, a group of them -- mostly earth ponies and some pegasi -- stayed behind, perhaps deliberately refusing to abandon their home or perhaps having set off on an exploration of their own independently of the main characters, eventually reaching a dead end without knowing about Equestria being funded. Regardless, they eventually reach the same conclusion Pansy, Clover and Smart Cookie did -- hate is doing this, use good emotions to fight back -- and created an enchanted artifact (the Crystal Heart) to focus and harness their positive emotions to keep the cold at bay. Over time, prolonged exposure to the Heart’s magic affected their physiology, turning their coats to crystal.

They were just a one-off visual gag way back in the first half of Season 2 and they’re probably never going to show up again.

* {{Jossed}} in Magical Mitsery Cure.

While LaurenFaust said that Ponies are born via mammalian means, the platypus is a mammal as well and it lays eggs, so it's possible that My Little Ponies lay eggs. [[http://nyhacker.org/~sirtophat/egg.html This video also proves it.]]

*** [[Squick Where was she keeping it and who was supposed to eat it?]]

While Alicorns look like WingedUnicorns, WordOfGod ([[AllInTheManual as mentioned in various sources]]) is that they actually combine traits from all three pony races. ''Literature/TwilightSparkleAndTheCrystalHeartSpell'' is most blatant about it: Alicorns are "a special breed of pony, able to harness the magical powers of the Unicorns, the flight abilities of the Pegasi, and the strength of a good, true heart of an Earth Pony." As we know, Earth Ponies are officially the strongest and toughest of the three Equestrian breeds; logic, then, suggests Alicorns should be just as strong as Earth Ponies.