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    In General 

  • Arch-Enemy: The Autorists have made many bitter enemies because of their hateful and bigoted actions, especially Prince/King Vultus IV, who lost his oldest brother because of them, and Emperor Golden Scepter, who once acted like them in the Imperium era and has weathered both attacks on the Terran Empire and assassination attempts by the Autorists themselves. However, despite his hatred of the Autorists, Golden Scepter believes that some of them may have been genuinely misled and tries to save/redeem these people whenever he can.
  • Birds of a Feather: The reason why Griffon Autorists, as well as the Tribalists and other villainous and malignant nations and factions supported the Talon Bais' side during the Talon Bais War: Despite the Talon-Baisian 'Gaelist' regime which came to power not exactly Autorist, both they and the Talon Bais are or became racist/genocidal warmongers out to oppress, subjugate if not out right exterminate those they deem inferior and a threat to their dominance, the Talon-Baisians the Dragons in particular and the Autorists everyone else in general who are not their kinds/races.
  • Blasphemous Boast: In one incident, a group of Griffon Autorists boasted that, "There will be no 'King in Heaven' but us once we're done with all inferior races on this planet!" in response to Blue Suede Heartstrings saying that he sees no "master" save for the King in Heaven. This partially explains why Blue got so angry with them shortly after, as he is a devoutly religious stallion.
  • Evil Versus Evil: Autorists in general believe that their species is superior over all, which means that they constantly war with Autorists of other species as well as other supremacist factions, such as Tribalists. In one incident, a group of Griffon Autorists got in a fight with members from all three tribalist factions which simultaneously led to everyone's downfall without anyone having to lift a hoof. Fluttercruel found that absolutely hilarious.
    • To elaborate: While it may appear that both groups are a case of 'Distinction without a difference', the main difference between Autorists and Tribalists usually comes with the fact that, especially in races which are divided into different sub-species or 'Tribes', the Autorists lean towards supremacy of the entire species or race as a whole and/or their culture, whereas the Tribalists promotes the supremacy of their species sub-species or 'Tribe' at the expense of all other Tribes (and every other sapient species). This works against both the Tribalists and Autorists as this results in them unable to get along at best, and openly fighting each other at worst, despite similar beliefs. This is best exemplified by the Iron Wolves' enmity for Tribalists in both Equestria and elsewhere, seeing them 'False Wolves' who weakens and threatens Ponykind as a whole, and spends as much time hammering them down as they oppose Friendship and Harmony with other races.
  • Evil Will Fail: Each Autorist group strives to become the Master Race in Equus, but the fact that they are too prideful and racist to accept any competition - including other Autorist groups from different races, tribalists, and other supremacy factions - ensures that they'll fall in the end, whether thanks to benevolent heroes or their own doing. One notable incident involved a group of Griffon Autorists get in a fight with members from all three Pony tribalist factions, and ended up knocking each other out without anyone else lifting a hoof, which Fluttercruel found absolutely hilarious.
  • Fantastic Racism: The Autorists believe that their race is superior to all other races, though which race depends on where they came from. So far, there were Pony, Griffon, and Deer Autorists that have been confirmed in various entries. It's for this reason that Emperor Golden Scepter hates them, since he once acted like them in the Imperium era, though he believes that they can be redeemed and made to see the error of their ways, just as he had been.
  • Feathered Fiend: Griffon Autorists, who are featured in various Codex entries and are thus the most prominent of the Autorist factions.
    • Skotádi's entry features an incident where they nearly succeed in killing a young Pony colt by shooting arrows at him, only to prove Skotádi's wrath and be subjected to a Fate Worse than Death.
    • In another incident, a group of Griffon Autorists tried attacking an Abyssinian settlement. Blue Suede Heartstrings confronted them and tried to make them leave the Abyssinians alone, but the Griffon Autorists refused to listen and kept spouting their racist beliefs, causing Blue to gradually lose his patience. It's when they decide to make Blue their first victim for defying them that he snaps and heralds his true Alicorn form by unleashing a powerful sonic scream on the Autorists.
    • However, it's subverted with the case of Gilded Stove, a Terran Griffon. While he did fall in with the Autorists, the bullying he received for being a Griffon influenced him to seek out those who accepted him, and he actually almost didn't go through with his failed assassination attempt on Golden Scepter because he feared the Radiant Emperor's power. He also never really bought into the racial bigotry that his Autorist friends/backers had. Ultimately, it's averted when, after Gilded Stove is caught and imprisoned, Golden Scepter goes to have a heart-to-heart with him and encourages Gilded Stove to break free of the Autorist movement and make amends with his loved ones, which Gilded Stove does following his release from prison.
  • Hypocrite: Lampshaded. Some Autorists were somewhat unnerved by the sheer obsessive hatred and contempt the Talon-Baisians who remain devoted to Gael (Or 'Gaelists') have for dragons and the lengths they went to wipe them out, to which the Talon-Baisians themselves pointed to the Autorists' general racial supremacism and oppressive/genocidal contempt for many other races besides dragons, noting that it's ultimately not so different from their own.
  • Laser-Guided Karma:
    • A group of Pony Autorists attacked the Terran Empire so they could get rid of its non-Pony inhabitants. Its Emperor, Golden Scepter, proceeded to psychically make them experience the pain and suffering they've inflicted on their victims with their hateful, self-serving bigotry, causing all but their leader to regret their actions and try to atone for them. When his oldest son, Prince Blazing Hoof, confronted him on the assumption that he gave them a very light punishment, Golden Scepter would explain that living with their own guilt was enough; the only one who actually received a harsh punishment was their leader, who was a "repulsive and unrepentant" bigot who continued to indulge in her hatred, unlike her lackeys.
    • A group of Deer Autorists tried Geassing Princess Laska Svetilo into massacring Bitaniya's non-Deer population as protest for letting foreigners into their lands. Their plans would fail when Laska's half-sister, Queen Vesna, foresaw the event and warned her older brother, King Strazha, causing him to go on the warpath. It's mentioned in Strazha's entry that the fate of the Deer Autorists wasn't pretty, as he had overseen their trials himself.
    • A Pony Autorist became a priestess and preached to people of Ponykind's racial supremacy, disguising her teachings as righteous causes so her followers would commit horrible crimes for the "greater good". She would eventually be caught and publicly exposed by Prince Written Word, who saw her as the bigoted charlatan she really is and gave her a vicious "The Reason You Suck" Speech in front of her followers. While Written Word did protect her from a now enraged and bloodthirsty mob, it was only so that proper authorities could come arrest her, and it's implied that his actions were done of Cruel Mercy, since the Pony priestess suffered a Villainous Breakdown from being exposed, being nearly torn apart by her own followers, and being made to live long enough to be brought to justice for her crimes.
      Prince Written Word: The sheer humiliation she received for her actions would end up hurting her more than whatever her once-adoring crowds had in mind for her.
    • A group of Griffon Autorists went after a young Pony colt and nearly killed him by shooting arrows at him. This attracted the ire of Skotádi, the Primeval goddess of Primordial Darkness, who punished the Griffon Autorists for their cruelty by dragging them into a dark pocket dimension full of monstrous horrors, while she healed the dying Pony colt and brought him into her realm of Sacred Darkness.
    • One Autorist tried threatening the life of Prince Léon. Principle Fissure Tectonic would save the Alicorn toddler by putting the Autorist through nine walls. Apparently, the incident was highly publicized due to Fissure Tectonic's connection/friendship with Léon's father, Prince Blueblood.
    • A group of Autorists tried killing Friede for being a Griffon. They instead ended up provoking the wrath of her adoptive Pony father, Silver Bane the Dark Hunter.
    • A group of Griffon Autorists tried attacking an Abyssinian settlement, only to be confronted by Blue Suede Heartstrings, who tried convincing them to leave the Abyssinians alone and depart in peace. The Griffon Autorists not only refused to listen, but they kept spouting their racist beliefs and even tried making Blue their first kill for defying them. Naturally, Blue gradually lost patience until he snapped and heralded the reveal of his true Alicorn form with a powerful sonic scream, presumably leading to a righteous beatdown for the Griffon Autorists.
      Blue Suede Heartstrings: (screaming) I said GET OUT!!!
    • A group of Autorists tried killing Star Flower and thus rendering the entire Flutter Pony tribe extinct because they saw her as a "mistake" and "abomination" that must be corrected to ensure racial purity for all Pony races. They would be foiled by Prince Crimson Star, who proceeded to throw their own words back into their faces before swiftly and harshly punishing them in the ensuing fight.
  • Master Race: Every Autorist group believes their own race to be this, and everyone else to be inferior beings who at best should be cowed and at worst exterminated. Of course, this is considered laughable to many since the races with Autorist groups include Griffons, Ponies, Deers and the like, each believing themselves to be solely superior and everyone else not, and to everyone else, the entire concept is really self-destructive hubris and idiocy at its core. Skotádi's entry shows the Autorists are so convinced in their own racial superiority that they're even willing to kill children from different races as a way to dominate their "inferiors". A group of Griffon Autorists who attacked an Abyssinian settlement and was subsequently confronted by Blue Suede Heartstrings sums up the Autorist philosophy perfectly:
    Griffon Autorists: We are the master race of Equus! And we bow to NO ONE!
  • Mystical Plague: In one incident, a Griffon Autorist tried assassinating Emperor Golden Scepter by sending him a magical plague bomb. Fortunately, Golden Scepter's twelfth son, Prince Death Shroud, was able to contain the plague bomb before it could detonate, though it was noted to have smelled so foul that it made Death Shroud unleash a string of inflammatory curses, and Golden Scepter's response was a rather nonchalant, "This smells slightly better than the poison one of my chefs tried lacing my spaghetti with a few weeks ago." Even his eighth son, Prince Crimson Star, was largely indifferent to it.
    Prince Crimson Star: Just refrain from breathing through your noses, and we should be fine.
  • A Nazi by Any Other Name: According to the writers of the Codexverse, the Autorists are essentially the Fourth Age version of Nazis, being racial supremacy groups that promote hate and violence against all sapient species save for their own. Most Autorists featured in the Codexverse have been Griffons, though there are also Pony and Deer members.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: Golden Scepter believes that while there are some Autorists who are genuinely bigoted, hateful, and cruel, there are also those who became Autorists because they were genuinely misled. This is justified; as the living embodiment of Ponykind's best and worst traits, Golden Scepter knows of the things people can do if they were influenced and motivated by certain circumstances, so he tries to make it everyone's responsibility to be aware of the moral situation and save as many as they can from falling into Evil. He also once believed in Ponykind's superiority not unlike the modern-day Pony Autorists, and seeks to prevent anyone from repeating his mistakes.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: A Pony Autorist priestess would receive one from Prince Written Word, himself a former priest, who was furious with her for misleading her followers into committing crimes for the Autorist movement instead of teaching genuinely noble and righteous causes. This is what partially caused the Pony priestess to have a Villainous Breakdown.
    Prince Written Word: You LIAR. Preaching racial supremacy to your people in the guise of righteousness, misleading them to believe that what horrific crimes they would do were for the greater good, while YOU ALONE revel in the cruelty you perpetuate... You are a DISGRACE to your position and title.
  • The Right of a Superior Species: Autorists in general believe that they each have the right to exercise their full privileges as a "superior, more honourable culture" over their "inferior and honourless" victims, which is why they often try to excuse their peers' horrific actions. Unsurprisingly, this earned them the anger and hostility of many heroic individuals, such as King/Prince Vultus IV, who lost his oldest brother because of them, and Emperor Golden Scepter, who hates them because he once acted like them in the Imperium era.
    Griffon Autorists: (to an increasingly angry Blue Suede Heartstrings) It is our sacred duty to spread our honorable culture over the uncivilized curs!
  • Too Dumb to Live: Several Griffon Autorist nations and factions had the wonderful idea to pick on an ascendant evil empire who has a history of responding to those who disturb their peace by annihilating the entire nations responsible. It ends as well as it could be expected for them.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Various malevolent forces are manipulating them to their own ends without them realizing it:
    • The Tyrannos Pantheon have made a habit of manipulating them, convincing all factions they're on their side when they're only on their own.
    • Xenophobia is likewise covertly manipulating them in her goal to start a mass race war that will separate the races, species, and tribes. This one is particularly ironic, as they contributed to creating Xenophobia in the first place without realizing it and she's only acting on their hatred and intolarance.
  • Would Hurt a Child: It's implied that the Autorists, as well as their predecessors, have frequently gone after and killed children from different races to prove their racial superiority. Naturally, this has invited the wrath of benevolent mortal and divine factions/individuals.
    • One Autorist tried threatening the life of Prince Léon. Principle Fissure Tectonic would save the Alicorn toddler by putting the Autorist through nine walls. Apparently, the incident was highly publicized due to Fissure Tectonic's connection/friendship with Léon's father, Prince Blueblood.
    • A group of Griffon Autorists went after a young Pony colt and nearly killed him by shooting arrows at him. This attracted the ire of Skotádi, the Primeval goddess of Primordial Darkness, who punished the Griffon Autorists for their cruelty by dragging them into a dark pocket dimension full of monstrous horrors, while she healed the dying Pony colt and brought him into her realm of Sacred Darkness.
    • Silver Bane's entry mentions that some Autorists tried killing his young adoptive daughter, Friede, for being a Griffon. They ended up provoking Silver Bane's wrath instead.

    Ferocious Archer, the Glamorous General 
"Spare me the details about the costs: As long as it brings victory and glory, I can hardly care less."

General Ferocious Archer (first introduced here) is a ruthless, narcissistic, and self-indulgent glory seeker who revels in fighting wars for the glory, respect, and recognition they give him, and will callously sacrifice his soldiers just to achieve this.
  • Glory Hound: He doesn't care who dies, so long as he gets famous.

Notable Autorist Leaders/Factions/Nations

Griffon Autorists

    General 
  • Cool Plane: One of the mainstay propeller aerofighters of the Griffon Autorist nations is the Skycondor, which in the Drabble/Tales they were depicted are shown to be very dangerous and effective when skillfully piloted. While not as durable as their counterparts, they made up for it with incredible speed and maneuverability via their light enchanted alloy frames, while packing enough firepower to wear down even the heaviest armour mounted on aeroflyers. To note, during the Talon Bais War, when the Terran Empire and Autorist nations both sent expeditionary, volunteer and mercenary forces from their military to participate in the conflict supporting either sides and turning it into a Proxy War, an engagement saw one almost giving a Terran Empire Thunderbird - a twin vortex engine multirole aerofighter - a run for its money, outflying it and even nearly shoot it down were it not for its heavy armour and daring maneuvers on the Terran pilot's part.

    Kingdom of Talonia 
First featured in "Daring Do and the Goldenclaw Legacy", a 'Tales of Equestria' arc set in the Codexverse, Gunther and Talonia are one of the major respective leaders/countries of the Griffonian Autorist movement, in Northern Griffonnia. Even among the Griffon Autorists, the Griffon King and his 'Guntherist' tendency of Autorism is rather extreme, and many non-Griffons within the borders of Griffonnia are already being subjected to pogroms and wide-scale persecution.

King Gunther

  • Ax-Crazy: As shown in his story, Gunther appears to be a violently unstable maniac beneath his outer appearance.
  • Believing Their Own Lies: While it is not confirmed whether or not his claim of descent from Goldenclaw was real or not, he certainly believe in this and his legitimacy as the rightful inheritor of his legacy because of it. Anyone who speaks otherwise don't last very long.
  • Curbstomp Battle: On the receiving end of one from a 'Visitor', when a group of Talonian soldiers were about to commit a massacre on a remote Pony town with Sparkle Pony inhabitants. Also a case of Pay Evil unto Evil given the Visitor is a more heroic Expy of the Yautja, who picked off and ultimately killed every Griffon Autorist soldier in brutal fashions.
  • Cloak and Dagger: While their ideology is quite overtly and openly supremacist even by Autorist standards, they also attempt to be subtle and secretive in pursue to those open supremacist aims. It is established that all things considered, they are actually quite bad at this, but they still try and still poses a threat even in the shadows.
    • Talonian agents were involved in the struggle for the Garald Goldenclaw's regalia in the story "Daring Do and the Goldenclaw Legacy", as one of several groups and factions racing against each other to get them for one reason or another. In their case, it is at King Gunther's desire to establish his 'legitimacy' as Garald Goldenclaw's descendant and therefore his 'right to rule' over Griffonkind.
    • More recently, agents of the Talonian Autorist regime's 'Paranormal Branch' is heavily implied to be operating in secret (for a value of secret) in Equestria, allying themselves with the villainous 'The Legion of Gloom' faction for some ulterior motive, holing up in some old, abandoned castle with some Gloom forces. Luckily, their plot is discovered by Prince-Regent Shining Armour with his Crystal Guard troops, who look set to root them out with aid of Terran Empire allies' Chapterknight liaison forces in Equestria.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He tries to appear as some grand and noble king with his strong and impeccable appearance, but even without considering his casual remarks of his and Griffonkind's superiority and his hatred for Ponies, he already comes off as a pretty malignant bastard. The narration also describes his true character as a sociopathic individual beneath his public mask, making him even more monstrous.
  • Feathered Fiend: A prominent Griffon Autorist King, and a completely sociopathic and cruel individual.
  • The Purge: Talonia's Autorist regime is already starting one towards non-Griffons and those they consider 'False Griffons' (Such as the wingless, feline-pawed Eastern Griffons), segregating those they consider inferior in ghettos as well as destroying isolated non-/False Griffon settlements and massacring their inhabitants. It is likely to escalate to full-blown genocide before long, considering Gunther's and his Autorists' characters.

    King Johann Schwartzetalon's kingdom 

King Johann Schwartzetalon

    Kingdom of Rotkrallea 
A Griffon Autorist kingdom which thought it was a good idea to pick a fight with the Empire of Malrègnar, and paid a horrible, horrible price for their avarice and arrogance. Its desolated ruins and traumatized survivors now stand as reminders that no matter how superior one thinks they are or how evil one is in thought and action, there is always something out there which is far, far worse, the trifling of which guarantees certain death, if not worse.
  • Asshole Victim: Rotkrallea is an entire kingdom of Griffin Autorists who thought picking on one of the most powerful and dreaded empires in the world is somehow a good idea.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Their ruling class sponsored raids on the borders of the Empire of Malrègnar along with its various neighboring tributaries. Not surprisingly, the latter quickly found out about their sponsorship not long after and launched a punitive expedition which destroyed the kingdom in its entirety.
  • Decapitation Presentation: On the receiving end of this. Their crown prince, the mastermind of the raids on Malrègnar and its vassals had his head cut off, mutilated and presented to the Convocation of Creatures by Vicelord Heraut, along with documents showing his endorsement of raids against the Malrègnar Empire as irrefutable proof of their culpability.
  • Depopulation Bomb: On the receiving end of one via a Malrègnar punitive expedition. Because the Malrègnarians went after everyone remotely supportive or associated with the regime, by the time they were done, around half the country was slaughtered or enslaved, the souls of the former harvested to be devoured, condemned or utilized for the Malrègnarians' purposes and as their punishment. The only ones spared were those who did not support or even opposed the regime, minorities who were victims of the Autorist monarchy's persecutions, and anyone who being too pure or noble-hearted were off-limits.
  • Evil Versus Evil: Rotkrallea's conflict with Malrègnar. On one hoof, we have an Autorist kingdom who are racists, warmongerers, imperialists and tyrants whose rulers and regime happened to be quite decadent and greedy as well. On the other hoof, we have an ascendant evil empire built and governed by a conquering Evil Overlord turned victorious God of Evil which had reigned and grown in power for thousands of years. In the end, Malrègnar proved to be both better (they are retaliating for raids the Rotkralleans had been conducting on their own tributary vassals) and far, far worse (said retaliation involve annihilating the entire country and subjecting every single adult Griffon remotely supportive or related to the regime to slavery, death and a Fate Worse than Death) than the Rotkrallean Autorists are and could ever hope to be.
  • Eviler than Thou: On the receiving end of this trope courtesy of the Empire of Malrègnar, who were not amused at their provocations and retaliated overwhelmingly after catching them supporting raids into their empire and tributary states red-clawed. Malrègnar ultimately did things to Rotkrallea which horrified even the Griffon Autorists.
  • Forced to Watch:
    • The ruling class watched their entire kingdom and legacy get destroyed by the Malrègnar Empire's forces before being tortured to death.
    • After the Decapitation Presentation, the whole world could only stand by and watch as the Empire of Malrègnar wiped Rotkrallea off the map due the former's overwhelming power. Justified in that the Malrègnarians had a watertight cause-belli and the Autorists were already becoming quite unpopular.
    • Even Rotkraellea's Griffon Autorist allies can't do much to stop Malrègnar from wiping the kingdom off the map. They did sent some reinforcements, but they were incapacitated by kingdom-spanning curses which were cast over the land as soon as they enter the borders and were intercepted by Malrègnarian forces ravaging the country. Despite some being allied with the Autorist kingdom, the Griffon Autorist nations and factions became so terrified of being next on Malrègnar's hit-list only a very few of them, like Garudia did anything to retaliate against Malrègnar after they had all but completely obliterated Rotkraellea as a nation. And even they didn't last very long either.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Whatever silly and insane reasons the kingdom had for sponsoring privateering into Malrègnar, in the end it was destroyed by the dark and dreaded power it chose to provoke in their greed and hubris.
  • Shocking Defeat Legacy: The entire land which encompassed the kingdom was so devastated after the Malrègnar invasion, the kingdom effectively ceased to exist. It's noted it would take decades, if not generations to rebuild due to the sheer scale of its ruination and the need to purify the extensive diabolical taint.
  • Soiled City on a Hill: The kingdom was noted to be the most decadent and corrupt among the Griffon Autorist nations even before their desolation by Malrègnar. The fact that they were so full of vice and sin only made them a more attractive target to the Malrègnarians when they launched their punitive campaign.
  • Too Dumb to Live: The entire regime, when they decide to raid the tributaries of Malrègnar for a piece of their immense wealth through privateers. They and literally every Griffon who supported them (which is slightly more than half the country) would pay the price for their arrogance and avarice when Malrègnar caught them red-clawed and launched a punitive campaign in retaliation which wiped the entire kingdom off the map.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Their debut in Codex Equus is a report on how they were exterminated by the Empire of Malrègnar, although there are plans for an entry about them down the line.

    Kingdom of Garudia 
Following the 'Devastation of Rotkrallea', Garudia was one of the few Griffon Autorist factions/nations who mustered enough resolve to try and retaliate against Malregnar over it, with predictable results as Malrègnar launched a punitive campaign against them as well. Though they very briefly managed to put up a fight, a spectacular display of Malrègnar's Dark Magical capabilities crushed any hope of resistance, and the kingdom fell like Rotkraellea.
  • Asshole Victim: It bears to remember before you start pitying them for the number the Malrègnarians did that they're Autorists, and at minimum their regime and their supporters consist of a bunch of racist, warmongering, dictatorial and imperialistic Griffons.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Invoked by Infernal Edict, the Sin's Mandate from Malrègnar upon Garudia. The Garudian Autorists managed to fight the Malrègnarian punitive forces off at their famed Golden Aeries. Then Infernal Edict sent one of her Destiny Binders to read one of her Edicts, summoning fire and magma that utterly obliterated the Golden Aeries and everyone and everything within them. Witnessing this, Garudia's morale collapsed, and the kingdom fell to Malregnarian forces soon afterwards.
  • Evil Genius: Among the Griffon Autorist factions, they were more scholarly and technologically inclined, thanks in part to the ancient lore stored in the Golden Aeries.
  • Hold the Line: Almost miraculously, the Garudian Autorists managed to hold the Malrègnarians at the Golden Aeries, a network of fortresses, military schools and grand library which served as the kingdom's greatest defences, using the magical lore stored within to stall the punitive campaign... for a while, at least.
  • Hope Spot: The Garudian Autorists had managed to hold the Malrègnarians at the Golden Aeries, and for a moment it looks like the Malrègnarian forces could be defeated and Garudia could avert the same fate as Rotkraellea... then Infernal Edict, the Sins' Mandate stepped in and utterly crushed that hope.
  • Horrifying the Horror: Like the rest of the Griffon Autorists, the Garudian Autorists eventually discovered how much more evil and powerful the Malrègnarians are compared to them. Quite a number was apparently driven mad when they saw how one of Malrègnarian's Destiny-Binders read an 'Edict' of Infernal Edict, the Sins' Mandate and invoked Dark Magic which utterly destroyed the Golden Aeries - and with it any hope of resisting the Malrègnarians - in a fiery cataclysm.
    Griffon Autorist: [Half-mad] The world broke, the skies raining fire as reality itself buckled under the weight of her demands.
  • Noodle Incident: Garudia once had diplomatic and trading relations with Equestria in the past, and the Golden Aeries contained lore from the Order of the Weathersmiths which they used to briefly Hold the Line against the Malrègnarians.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Garudia thought it was a good idea to try and retaliate against Malrègnar for destroying Rotkraellea, even when the other Griffon Autorists were too terrified to try it. It ends as well as it could be expected.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Like Rotkraellea, we only know of it in how they were wiped out by Malrègnar.

    Kingdom of Hawktalon 

Queen Gossamar, the Blood Hawk

First mentioned in a Drabble, Queen Gossamar sinks very low even among her fellow Griffon Autorist despots in her tyranny and atrocities.
  • Abusive Parents: She never showed any sort of maternal love for her daughter, Gossamer II, at all, only grooming her to be a Pony-hating psychopath just like her. Her abuse was so much that when she died, Gossamer II was left psychologically broken. During her Battle in the Center of the Mind with Monarch Wing, she reveals she only sees Gossamer II as a "disappointment" and planned to use her daughter as a host body for her own soul after using Monarch Wing's as a temporary host. Fortunately, she is rendered Deader than Dead by Monarch Wing before it could happen, and after Ascending as a Hippogriff demigoddess, Monarch Wing reincarnates Gossamer II as a baby chick so she can be raised with genuine love the next time around.
  • Back from the Dead: She planned to do this by convincing her disappointing daughter, Gossamer II, to become a willing host for her soul after using Monarch Wing's body as a temporary host.
  • Deader than Dead: Monarch Wing, her Reincarnation destroyed her persona and sense of self, effectively rendering her nothing but bad memories.
  • Demonic Possession: She was so disgusted by how she was reincarnated as a Pony that she planned to convince her daughter, Gossamer II, into becoming a "willing host" for her soul, reasoning that Gossamer II was already a disapointment to her. Fortunately, Monarch Wing manages to defeat and render her Deader than Dead, indirectly saving Gossamer II's life.
  • The Dreaded: The reason she was still in power: she was a very powerful magic user and necromancer on top of her monstrous evil, with a zombie army on top of it.
  • Eats Babies: Played for Horror. One of the few things that made her so despicable include her willingness to indulge in practices which Griffons had done in the past but is now considered taboo, such as eating sapient Ponies. She had Pony foals served up to her as meals and glorified in it.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Even fellow Griffon Autorist despots were horrified by many of her atrocities and refused to associate with her. Outside the Griffon Autorists, other forces of villainy were similarly digusted by her evil.
    Queen Eclaira: [Reading about her] THAT ROTTEN MONSTER!!! note 
  • Fantastic Racism: Like many Autorists, she despises those who are not Griffons as inferior and even persecuted Griffons who fell below her and her regime's standards of being 'True Griffons', like the wingless Eastern Griffon kinds. She indulged in ethnic cleansing and other tyrannical cruelties of Ponies in her kingdom (up to and including eating their children)
  • God Save Us from the Queen!: She was a horrifically vile, monstrous Autorist queen who was depraved even by their standards.
  • Hated by All: She was such a monstrous tyrant that by the end of her reign, her only remaining loyal followers were either those as psychopathic as herself or undead thralls, with the others only siding with her out of sheer terror. Even other villains, including fellow Autorists, hated her for just how much of a monster she was.
  • Karmic Death:
    • Gossamer was a horrible Griffoness who treated Ponies as livestock and abused her daughter, Gossamer II, by indoctrinating her to be as monstrous as herself. She was later caught and executed by the Grand Primevals for attempting to bind the soul of an innocent Pony mare to her in eternal slavery. The only reason why she was reincarnated as Monarch Wing instead of languishing in Nekelmu's Hell-Realms is because said Pony mare requested for clemency on her behalf, influencing the Grand Primevals to sentence her to eternal reincarnation until she learned compassion.
    • Bolezn, the second-youngest member of the Four Terrors, intended to have her executed by being devoured alive by his cultists, not being allowed to die until every scrap of her, then having her soul be cooked and consumed by his demons in an eternal cycle of torment as punishment for her crimes. He proceeded to grumble that he "wanted dibs" when he learned the Grand Primevals already beat him to the punch.
    • Instead of realizing the error of her racism and repenting as the Grand Primevals intended, Gossamer treated her time as Monarch Wing as a "nightmare", and planned to usurp Monarch Wing's body as the dominant personalty until she found a way to make Gossamer II act as a "willing host" for her soul. She gets her wish when Monarch Wing, realizing Gossamer's greatest weakness, kills her by overriding her persona and sense of self, reducing the Autorist Queen to nothing but horrible memories.
  • Necromancy: She is a powerful necromancer capable of summoning zombies and undead to serve her. This is what got her in trouble with the Grand Primevals, as she broke Primeval Law by attempting to bind a Pony mare's soul to herself in eternal slavery.
  • Reincarnation: At the pleads of the mare who she harmed breaking the Primeval Laws, rather than being sent to a Hellrealm, Gossamer was reincarnated into a pegasus named Monarch Wing in hopes she'd be a better person the second time around. It failed, as she refused to repent, and as a result her very existence and persona was overridden and absorbed by Monarch Wing.
  • The Social Darwinist: Has the full package, from practicing eugenics to ethnic cleansing upon even her own fellow Griffons who failed to live up to standards of the strong 'True Griffon'.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: Her undoing was breaking a Primeval Law and bringing down the wrath of the Grand Primevals on herself. However, her victim in said violation requested the Grand Primevals spare her being Dragged Off to Hell. Instead, she was Reincarnated as Monarch Wings in hopes her soul could be a good person the second time around.

Pony Autorists

    Iron Wolves 
First featured in the historical Commander Gale entry, there are two iterations of the Iron Wolves: the first one was the order/army that Commander Gale originally founded, and the second is a Pony Autorist movement that is growing in power in modern day Equestria and in Pony nations across Equus. Both groups shares a similar set of beliefs: Ponykind is the true Master Race of Equus, but this position is threatened on all sides by a hostile world filled with hostile non-Pony races. In order to survive and reign, they must put aside all differences and meaningless ideals that are 'holding them back', and unite in strength and merit in order to fight the Forever War needed to fight for, rise towards and maintain their supremacy over the world and all other competitors.
  • Animal Motifs: Both incarnations of the Iron Wolves under Gale and Wind Storm are modeled after wolves of the savage kind, echoing their vicious, darwinistic mindset and their belief that Ponykind is the Master Race and apex predator in a world they see as a "dark forest". Ironically, their desire to transform all of Ponykind into "wolves" ends up doing them in when Prince Night Shade punished a group of Iron Wolves by magically transforming them into rabid, non-sapient wolves for attacking the Terran Empire out of racial hatred.
  • Blood Knight: Both iterations of the Iron Wolves are highly militant and belligerent, wishing to bring war against all other non-Pony races (and 'spineless fools' among their kind who would weaken Ponykind) in order to achieve and maintain the supremacy of Ponykind.
  • Divided We Fall: Defied. The modern Iron Wolves is notable for its unusual levels unity and consensus among its leadership and ranks, and significant emphasis is placed in all their members' speeches and ideology the importance of setting aside all differences and find common ground in cooperation so they could better face the world and its myriad threats and rivals - a twisted reflection of the harmonic ideals of Equestria which would allow Ponykind as a whole to come out on top as the 'apex predators' of the 'Dark Forest'. This is implied to be one of the reasons why they are particularly dangerous among the Autorists and Tribalists, as they have significantly less infighting among themselves and with other groups, making them much more united in purpose/focus, less likely to screw themselves over and much more difficult to crack.
  • Entitled Bastard: Subverted. Given their darwinistic views, it is implied that they believe that Ponykind's racial supremacy is not something entitled or inherent, but must be struggled towards and earned in order for it to be achieved and maintained. And they are more than happy to fight for it.
  • Equal-Opportunity Evil: Zigzagged. They hold this view between the Three Tribes only, seeing Tribalistic differences as meaningless and an internal threat to Pony supremacy. All other non-Pony races are excluded and expendable, however.
  • Evil Counterpart: Of the Thunder Wolves legion led by Prince Fanged Paw, who ironically holds the title of "the Savage Wolf". A Codexverse quote notes that the Iron Wolves seek to throw off the "wool" covering Ponykind and turn them into beasts that preyed on non-Pony "sheep", while the Thunder Wolves legion is willing to work with "sheep" to protect their loved ones from harm.
  • Evil Versus Evil: They will readily hammer down Tribalists as they intend to hammer down other non-Pony races, believing that the Tribalists and their desire to have their respective Tribes separate from (and dominate) other Tribes as dangerous fools with dangerous beliefs who threatens to weaken Ponykind with division before other more dangerous non-Pony 'enemies'.
  • Fantastic Racism: Like the other Autorists, they hold this view towards other races not their own, seeing them all as threats, competitors or fodder towards Pony supremacy and would gladly wage war to dominate/exterminate them if given the chance. On the other hoof, they are firmly against discrimination between the different Tribes of Ponykind, seeing such foolish, petty divisions as a weakness and an internal threat to Ponykind as a whole, and would just as readily fight the Tribalists as they would non-Pony races.
  • Forced Transformation: A group of Iron Wolves captured by the Terran Empire were subjected to this - after seeing that they held no remorse for attacking the Terran Empire out of racial hatred despite all attempts to show them the true scope of their actions, Prince Night Shade decided to punish the captured Iron Wolves by magically transforming the them into rabid, non-sapient wolves to reflect their vicious mindset. Many, including Prince Fanged Paw, approved of the punishment, with the scions/children of Dikaiosýni, the Judgement Primeval, noting that this doesn't violate the Primeval Laws as Night Shade's removal of the Iron Wolves' sapience was done as a proportional punishment for their crimes.
    Prince Fanged Paw: They tried to act like animals, so they'll be treated like one.
  • Hobbes Was Right: Hold this view of Equus in order to justify their beliefs, as elaborated by 'Alpha' Storm Wind, leader of the Equestrian 'Gales' Wolves' chapter that belongs to the modern international 'Iron Wolves' Autorist movement. The Iron Wolves believe that the world is by nature a 'dark forest', where there are only 'predators' and 'prey that fears them'. All of them, they reason, would seek to dominate the environment and shape it in their image, because it is the only way they could ever truly thrive, getting what they need to prosper and be safe from competition and predation. The incompatibility of interests between races and factions, because of the inter-group differences between them, meant that conflict would almost certainly be inevitable. Ideals of peaceful coexistence, like the 'Magic of Friendship', would belong to the category of 'meaningless virtues' - not when all of existence is a war of all-against-all, to which only victory over all others and supremacy over the world are the only things that matter.
  • Karmic Transformation: After a group of Iron Wolves was captured by Imperial Terran forces and showed no remorse for attacking the Terran Empire out of racial hatred, Prince Night Shade punished them by magically transforming them into rabid, non-sapient wolves to reflect their vicious mindset. Even Prince Fanged Paw, who helped subdue the attack, approved of the judgment.
    Prince Night Shade: I see that you have refused to change your minds on the matter, or show any guilt towards your horrific actions at all. Very well! For your crimes against the Terran Empire, you are hereby reduced to the level of mere animals, treated like rabid monsters that will be put down for the protection of your victims!
  • Master Race: Unlike many tribalist and Autorist groups, they see all of mortal Ponykind to be this - as a whole, not just any individual Tribe of Pegasi, Earthponies and Unicorns, and seeks to make it a reality. Some like 'Alpha' Wind Storm even include lesser Tribes of Ponykind such as Giants and the Flutterponies into their definition of Ponykind.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: Implied. Up until the 'Second Equestrian Civil War' and the 'Terra Equus Continental War' the Equestrian Iron Wolves chapters and their political party was electorally viable enough that just before those events they have a serious shot at legally becoming the dominant party in the Equestrian Assembly within the by-then constitutional monarchy, although they were out-done by Starlight Glimmer and her political party managing to stalemate them and preventing them from achieving a majority. The Iron Wolves themselves do invest a lot of effort to promote their cause and maintain their PR.
  • War Is Glorious: Just like Gale, the Iron Wolves believe conflict is the crucible of civilization upon which the strong will rise and the weak would perish, and pursues it in furor to enable Pony supremacy.
  • You Have Failed Me: As part of their Pragmatic Villainy, the Iron Wolves does everything possible to preserve their public image and unity in purpose for the sake of maintaining public support, and excommunicates/denies involvement of any Iron Wolves who steps out of line and does things which draw unwanted attention or condemnation of the Movement, seeing their insubordination (and failure) as prove of their 'unworthiness' as Wolves. This allows them to keep the cohesion and publicity of the movement.

'Alpha' Wind Storm (Iron Wolves, Gale's Wolves Chapter)

The current leader of the Iron Wolves' biggest chapter in Equestria, the Gales' Wolves, Wind Storm is a rising star among the modern Iron Wolves, coming into prominence overnight with a Rousing Speech calling for unity of purpose among the other chapters worldwide. A disillusioned Royal Guard turned militant demagogue, the Pegasi demonstrates both passion and pragmatism that may make him and with him the movement more effective than it already is, and there are hints that a dark legacy and destiny that even he is not aware of might only make him and his future course even more dangerous and portentous...

  • Blood Knight: Like his fellow Iron Wolves, 'Alpha' Wind Storm subscribes to War Is Glorious and relishes in fighting to assure Ponykind's supremacy in Equestria and the world.
    Wind Storm: Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who does not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Implied, but he has a quite personal grudge against Tribalists of any of the major or minor Pony Tribes, as one nearly got him killed betraying him and his trust during the 'Storm King Crisis' on account of him being a Pegasi. Like other members of the past and present Iron Wolves, he sees such petty grudges and internecine animosity between the Pony Tribes the Tribalists embodies as foolishness which threatens unity between Ponykind and weaken them as a whole before other non-Pony races and nations.
  • Expy: While differing from the RL German dictator in many ways (whose Codexverse counterpart never seized power), Wind Storm shares many similarities with Adolf Hitler in that he is a disillusioned and vindictive soldier who turned to radical racialist politics who sought to seize power as a racial supremacist warmonger. He even shares some of Hitler's quotes.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Was a disillusioned Royal Guard who turned to radical racialist politics after trauma from various crises and conflicts Equestria went through due to hostile non-Pony forces. Now he is one of the most prominent leaders of the Iron Wolves movement and can look forward to become ever more influential and prominent.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Like the Iron Wolves as a whole, 'Alpha' Wind Storm demonstrates if nothing else he was a practical leader among the movement. When Princess Sweetheart made comments about the Iron Wolves' distant ideological foremother Commander Gale which infuriated many Iron Wolves at a rally, Wind Storm deescalated the confrontation and 'thanked' her for her 'opinions' rather than letting his Iron Wolves start a fight, both because they can't win if they do on account of her presently being a divine, and more importantly attacking a beloved figure as the Loving/Legendary Peacemaker would be very damaging to their PR, which they took pains to maintain. He also excommunicated another group of Iron Wolves who overheard and did attack her afterwards (and got curbstomped for their trouble).
  • Rousing Speech: Made one at the first international Iron Wolves conference that instantly turned him into an iconic figure of the movement, besides the prestige that's implied to come from being leader of a chapter founded in where the Iron Wolves originally arose.
    'Alpha' Wind Storm: The Age of Wolves is upon us! And at last, WE. SHALL. RISE!
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: By his own words, his past experiences fighting desperately with other Royal Guards against repeated attacks on Equestria by hostile outside forces jaded him to its peaceful, harmonious ideals of 'Friendship' and turned him into a bitter, militant racialist demagogue dedicated to make sure Equestria and Ponykind as a whole would stand supreme and never be threatened by any other non-Pony rival or enemy again.
  • Start of Darkness: Little is known apart from what was mentioned in his speech, but he was once a Pegasi Royal Guard who was dedicated to the ideals of Equestria, but became increasingly disillusioned with Equestria as it came under increasing, almost constant attack by various hostile outside forces, with the Equestrian Princesses and government seemingly ineffective in dealing with them, culminating in the disastrous 'Storm King Crisis'. During the conflict, he was betrayed and put at death's door by a comrade whom he trusted with his life, but in reality was a Tribalist who hated and turned on him because of his Tribe, but he in turn was rescued by other Royal Guards from all Three Tribes, while once again the heroes were nowhere to be seen and the Royal Government outright incapacitated. All this served to turn him into a bitter and resentful stallion who turned to radical politics in the years following the conflict and his discharge from the Royal Guards, becoming a xenophobic, militant, racialist demagogue leading one of the Equestrian chapters of the international Iron Wolves movement determined to unite all Pony Tribes and Equestria under a militarized, authoritarian, racial supremacist regime that would never again be threatened by hostile outsiders and help lead Ponykind to supremacy over the world and all other races.

Persuasive Persona

First quoted here, Persuasive Persona is a 'PR' expert among the Iron Wolves movement and is also rumoured to be an Arch-Acolyte of a Propagare Cult.

    True Terran Front 
An Autorist faction based in the Terran Empire.

    Order of the Axes 
An Autorist faction with an apparent occultic or chivalric motif.
  • The Order: Presumably this, from the sound of their title.
  • Motifs: Axes, from the looks of things.

    Percheron Restorationist Party 
  • Evil Reactionary: Implied from their name. They felt that their country had fallen from greatness and wishes to restore it to its 'good old days'. Presumably starting by getting rid of those 'inferior' non-Ponies they felt were one of the biggest cause of the problems.
  • Fictional Political Party: Is a political party from a nation called Percheron, from the looks of things.

Deer Autorists

    Golden Antlers 

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