Here is a list of characters from the Church of the Stars, a sub-pantheon devoted to bringing out the best in divine/mortal sapientkind.

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Church of the Stars

"Through unity, we seek the stars. Through seeking the stars, we break our boundaries. Through breaking boundries, we become greater. Through becoming greater, we will break the Cycle."

— Church of the Stars holy text

While the kingdom of Kerajaan Cahaya promotes religious freedom for all of its inhabitants by royal decree, there is one religion that many practice: The Church of the Stars.

A peaceful religion, the Church of the Stars (its entry here

) promotes the voice of Unity, as it is believed through Unity that the "Cycle" can be broken. According to Queen Dazzleglow, the Cycle is an endless loop of the rise and fall of great nations, kingdoms, cities, and even races, with their ultimate demise being brought on by their own failings and/or circumstances beyond their control. The Church of the Stars seeks to put an end to the Cycle and reject its inevitability by letting go of grudges, biases, and pride while looking for ways to look past barriers so people could cooperate with one another. Because of this, a main requirement for joining the Church is having the willingness and ability to teach, so people can learn from the mistakes of the past and improve on them, eventually rising to the level of gods.

The Church of the Stars, appropriate to its name, also encourages worshipers to seek "the voice of the stars". As shown with Queen Dazzleglow and several other Sparkle Ponies involved with the Church, this is revealed to be a spatial version of telepathy where the user(s) can commune with celestial bodies such as stars, planets, and meteors, and look to them for guidance. In hostile situations, the celestial bodies can be called upon to descend from the skies and smite an intended foe. It is believed that the stars hold the answer to breaking the Cycle.

However, it is also advised never to go looking into the Cosmic Void on the day the Cycle breaks, for something sinister with hungry eyes lurks within. Queen Dazzleglow has refused to elaborate on this, merely stating it was part of the religion her father followed and that she trusted him on the matter.

The Church's pantheon welcomes anyone who seeks to join it, as long as they are willing to teach and be taught by others in turn. As a result, its members come from all walks of life, regardless of things like gender, age, species, power, and social status. While some potential candidates have refused to join for various reasons, the Church is understanding and has left open spots for them should they reconsider. True to their predictions, one such deity, Blue Suede Heartstrings, changed his mind after suffering a mental breakdown and making a full psychological recovery afterwards, and joined as a joint-member of the Church and Equestrian Pantheon while he was still a Prince.

Originally, Princesses Happyglow and Starglow were part of the Church and Kerajaan Cahaya's government, but they have since left, leaving their respective positions as the Head of Equintarian Concerns and the Church's Head Priest occupied by other ponies. According to Dazzleglow and Brightglow, their two sisters have "returned to their father" instead of sleeping in stasis on Equus like they did, though it has been debated on what that means.

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General

The Ace: Some members are "prodigy deities", such as Golden Scepter, Luminiferous, Kúzelník, Moon Ray Vaughoof/Tunglið, Twilight/Amicitia Sparkle, Blue Suede Heartstrings/Caerulus Melodia, Winter Opera/Nivis, and Healing Song/Medela. These individuals are incredibly powerful compared to "normal" deities, and their physical and magical growth rates are accelerated to abnormal degrees.
Animalistic Abomination: Because deities age differently in the Codexverse, many Church members are eldritch-looking to varying degrees, with the oldest of them being incredibly eldritch. Moon Ray/Tunglið is a special case in that he's chronologically "young", but a series of events turned him into a cyclic, Empyrean-level Alicorn whose three forms drive even young deities insane in their true capacity. That being said, they're still benevolent deities who seek to help mortals break free of Vicious Cycles.
The Atoner: Some Church members have done truly horrible things in the past before realizing the error of their ways and repenting, with the most prominent being Stitching Time, Golden Scepter, and Kúzelník. These individuals now help others redeem themselves for past mistakes.
Awful Truth: Part of the Church's plan to break "The Cycle" involves knowledge about the Cosmic Void and its prisoner, a malevolent deity called the Void Sovereign. The members of the Church keep this a secret from everyone save for those they trust, because they want Equus's population at large to become strong enough to properly fight the Void Sovereign when the day comes. Releasing the truth too early would make the public panic knowing that something is out there, sealed somewhere in the universe, and will cause the death of the planet once it gets out. Eventually, the Church reached a collective decision to release information of the Void Sovereign to the public. While it did cause some panic as was feared, it ultimately helped Equusian sapientkind prepare for the Void Sovereign's arrival.
Benevolent Conspiracy: The Church of the Stars originated as an ancient plan by Luminiferous to recruit a group of gods to one day break the Cycle, and to gradually guide things to do so.
Benevolent Precursors: Many of the Church's members were former residents of precursor civilizations, and many of them willingly sealed themselves away to aid the future and finally end the Cycle once and for all as well as eventually stop the Void Sovereign.
Beware the Nice Ones: All members of the Church's inner circle are compassionate and diplomatic people dedicated to breaking "The Cycle", and are also powerful and ancient deities who shouldn't be trifled with. Even Princess Twilight/Amicitia and Princess Nete, who are the youngest members of the Church (though technically Nete is much older due to being from the Third Age despite being a demigoddess), fought some of Equus' biggest threats in their time.
Big Good: The Church serves as this for the entire setting, being focused on reintroducing ancient concepts to the Fourth Age, teaching mortal sapientkind how to reach for the stars and thus reach their level, and make sure that everyone on Equus is strong enough to fight the Void Sovereign on the day he breaks out of his prison and tries assimilating Equus into the Cosmic Void again. Some of the Church's members also serve as one within their own country/kingdom/realm/empire if they have one, typically as a divine sovereign themselves.
The Chooser of the One: The Church of the Stars sees everyone as having potential to become deities of various types and actively encourages them to seek Ascension, but they only choose people who want to do so for benevolent or even constructively evil purposes. Those who want to Ascend for selfish, immoral purposes are rejected.
Deity of Human Origin: Many members of the Church were mortals who Ascended to godhood, nurtured by older deities like Luminiferous, Blue Suede Heartstrings, or Golden Scepter. The Church itself actively invokes this by encouraging mortals to seek Ascension so they can be the best they can possibly be; the only requirement is to be genuinely selfless in seeking Ascension and willing to help others better themselves. Anyone who wants to Ascend for selfish reasons are rejected.
Fantastic Racism: Defied and averted. A core belief maintained by this pantheon is that racism and pride would perpetuate a Vicious Cycle of great civilizations rising and falling, so they try to break the Cycle by preaching friendship and unity. As such, many members are either diplomatic deities, and/or embody positive concepts such as Nobility, Potential, and Leadership. Some members like Golden Scepter and Kúzelník engaged in this in the past (with the former reaching Absolute Xenophobe levels) until they realized the error of their ways and changed. Queen Dazzleglow made the Church's stance on racism quite clear when Kúzelník confessed his fears of being found by his family, the Elternteil Deer Pantheon.
Queen Dazzleglow: (to Kúzelník) Do not worry, Kúzelník. In this Church and my kingdom, pride is not tolerated. Racism is not tolerated. And so are those other unsavory behaviors you spoke of. If your parents, or any of your siblings and relatives from that pantheon, ever decide to come here and try take you away, we will do everything we can to prevent it from happening... Or we can just have Golden scare them away. I heard he was QUITE successful in one confrontation...
Fling a Light into the Future: Some Church members, like Grizelda II, Arcaniss, and Jiniri, have done this by sealing themselves away so they can wake up and and use their preserved memories of past Ages to help the people of later Ages avert the disasters that befell their times.
Gentle Giant: The older deities of the Church are huge due to how deities in general get Stronger with Age — the biggest of them is Prince Arcaniss, Moon Ray/Tunglið post-Eldritch Transformation, and Emperor Golden Scepter. All of the aforementioned individuals are benevolent authority figures and gods who seek to bring out the best in sapientkind so everyone can break the 'Cycle'.
Godhood Seeker: Invoked. Unlike most examples, the Church of the Stars sees godhood as a way for mortals to become the best they can possibly be, and has made Ascension training available for anyone who wants to become a deity. The only requirement for this is that all potential Ascendants have to be selfless in their desire for godhood and genuinely willing to help others better themselves. Anyone who seeks to Ascend for evil, selfish reasons are rejected.
God Is Good: All members of the Church are benevolent deities who are dedicated to bringing out the best in sapientkind, both divine and mortal. This eventually made Prince Stoltur Skjöldur so concerned that he suggested having a Token Evil Teammate to prevent the others from becoming haughty and self-righteous. Queen Dazzleglow agreed to it, leading to one of Stoltur's cousins, Tanár, joining the Church.
God of Good: Many deities of the Church have benevolent domains like Teaching, Miracles, Self-Determination, etc.
Good Is Not Soft: All of the Church's deities are benevolent, nurturing people who have mentored many heroes and Ascendant deities over the course of history. They're also willing to use even lethal force if necessary, with a few deities like Blue Suede/Caerulus and Golden Scepter being genuine war veterans.
Good Needs Evil: The Church accepts that good needs constructive evil to counter/test it so good can thrive and be more prepared to defeat even worse evils such as the Void Sovereign, who is the sole reason why the Church of the Stars was revived in the Fourth Age. This is the main reason why they let one of Phykti's children join them on Prince Stoltur and Blue Suede/Caerulus' suggestion.
Immortal Ruler: Some members are divine rulers of their own kingdoms and empires, including Kerajaan Cahaya (Dazzleglow and Brightglow), Mousikós (Nete), the Terran Empire (Golden Scepter), and Equestria (Twilight/Amicitia).
Large and in Charge: A few of the Church deities are quite large-sized, and the highest authority figures in both the Church itself and the kingdoms/civilizations they rule over. Considering that deities grow larger and stronger the older they get, this is kind of an inevitability.
Long Game: The plan that led to its formation took 20,000 years to finally lead to its creation, and isn't nearly done.
Mentor Archetype: One requirement to joining the Church is the willingness to use one's power and knowledge of past Ages to teach future generations, whether mortal or divine. Because of this, most members of the Church are either ancient mentors who've been at it for eons, and/or deities who embody things like Teaching, Knowledge, Mastery, and/or Potential.
Physical God: Almost all members of the Church are incredibly ancient and powerful corporeal deities, with the oldest of them being more so. Moon Ray/Tunglið is a massive eldritch deity roughly equal to the Thirteen Empyreans in appearance and raw power post-Eldritch Transformation, but is chronologically "younger" and significantly weaker in comparison. The youngest member is currently Princess Nete, a royal Alicorn demigoddess from the island of Mousikós, though many benevolent deities are invested in helping her Ascend to true godhood. The second-youngest member of the Church would be Princess Twilight/Amicitia Sparkle, who is an Alicorn Godling^note.
Pretty Princess Powerhouse: Most female Church members are beautiful Princesses and very powerful goddesses who can hold their own in a fight.
Reasonable Authority Figure: All members of the Church are benevolent authority figures, whether in Kerajaan Cahaya or their own kingdoms and nations (if they have one). Because of this, they are beloved by their mortal subjects.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: Most Church members are either members of a ruling pantheon, rulers of their own kingdoms, or at least came from a royal background. All of them are Ascendant gods and goddesses who are capable of leading and kicking ass.
Screw Destiny: The Church's goal to break 'The Cycle' essentially amounts to this, since they want everyone to break free of the self-destructive behaviors that contribute to said cycle. On a wider scale, this also applies to their opposition of the Void Sovereign, since they want to protect all life in the universe — including the planet Equus itself — from a meaningless death by his hands.
Sealed Good in a Can: Some Church deities willingly sealed themselves away, whether to Fling a Light into the Future or some other reason. Golden Scepter was the only exception where he entered divine stasis in order to recover from wounds gained during the Aurum Apostacy, but ended up being forgotten by his own subjects and sleeping through countless Ages.
Secret-Keeper: The Church of the Stars keeps various secrets from the public, each of them holding so much weight that it could have potentially devastating consequences if revealed. Anyone who joins the Church is granted full access to these secrets, but they must be mentally prepared for it and willing to swear an oath of secrecy. However, their enforced secrecy does lead to misunderstandings as people start to make assumptions about Dazzleglow's true goals out of distrust and suspicion.
- The first secret is Queen Dazzleglow's plan to break 'The Cycle'. While that is common knowledge, the real secret is Dazzleglow's reasons for it: Living through the 'Void Aeon' event, where the Void Sovereign suddenly arrived and attempted to destroy Equus/Tellus utterly. While Dazzleglow, her allies, and many other powerful heroes/deities managed to defeat and imprison the Void Sovereign in the Cosmic Void, it is not without heavy casualties and the Second Age was effectively ended. Dazzleglow wants everyone to become stronger so sapientkind can confront the Void Sovereign on the day he breaks out, so no one would have to pay such a heavy price.
- The second secret is Princess Amicitia Sparkle becoming the official reincarnation of Mana Equus, the Thirteenth Empyrean and the last of her group to be 'made' by King Equus. This secrecy would later extend to the twins Blue Suede Heartstrings and Bossa Nova Heartstrings, Shining Armor, Winter Opera, and others after they Ascended or re-Ascended as reincarnations of Mana Equus. According to BrutalityInc, the Church is keeping Mana Equus' Reincarnations (and her existence in general) a secret so they'll be protected from those who might resent them for being 'born' special or having some kind of pre-existing divine favor]].
Supernatural Elite: All members of the Church's inner circle are gods and goddesses, and the highest authorities of Kerajaan Cahaya. Some of them are actual royalty, with a few either ruling a kingdom/empire of their own or coming from royal families.
Supernatural Floating Hair: The Alicorn members of the Church have perpetually rippling hair as the result of their age and huge magic reserves.
These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: One of the Church decrees advises people never to go looking in the "Cosmic Void", as... something lurks within, given how a pony ended up in there and came out as the Void Traveler in the Second Age. It's eventually revealed to be the prison of the Void Sovereign, a Mad God that nearly consumed the planet Equus in the past, who Void Traveler was the herald of. It's mentioned in both Codexverse entries and supplementary drabbles/quotes that anyone who enters the Church as a member has to swear an oath of secrecy to keep the knowledge from getting out and causing global panic.
Time Abyss: Those deities who were born before Known history, like Golden Scepter and Luminiferous, are pretty ancient, with Golden Scepter being a son of an Empyrean Alicorn. Moon Ray/Canticum, however, is a subversion — following his re-Ascension, he became a massive, eldritch Alicorn who is roughly equal to the Thirteen Empyreans in appearance and raw power. But he is also very inexperienced, and is chronologically much younger than the Empyreans themselves. His entry even notes because his transformation was recent, he is essentially an 'infant' eldritch god by divine standards.
Token Minority: Most of the Church's members are Alicorns, both male and female. The non-Alicorn members are a divine Dragon, a Celestial Griffon, a Zebralicorn, a Deer god, and a Crustacea demigoddess, though Luminiferous muddles things due to being a Nightmareified Alicorn and a clone of his "father" Morning Star. Upon joining the Church, Prince Healing Song became the only blind Alicorn member of the Church, and the only Church deity with a handicap in general.
Two Girls to a Team: Zigzagged. The Church's pantheon initially had female members outnumber its male members, but as more deities joined, the numbers of deities from both genders flipflopped continuously, preventing it from becoming a Gender-Equal Ensemble.
True Companions: While Dazzleglow is the leader of the Church, she and the rest of the pantheon treat each other as equals and best friends. When Prince Healing Song faced great pressure from older and/or traditionalist deities to make himself appear respectable, to the point where he nearly quit the Church, his peers leaped to his defense, with Dazzleglow making it clear that anyone caught harassing the Church deities or their mortal subjects/followers will be dealt with accordingly.
Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: The more ancient members of the Church, such as Luminiferous, Dazzleglow, and Golden Scepter, have multiple wings and/or are in the process of growing extra pairs — Luminiferous and Dazzleglow are growing out a second pair of wings which Luminiferous eventually finishes, while Golden Scepter has six wings with a fourth pair on the way and has already started by the time he visited Queen Mzazi in her kingdom. Upon becoming an eldritch deity, Moon Ray/Canticum Lunae ends up with a whopping ten wings, which is notable since the only Alicorns to have that many wings are the Thirteen Empyreans.
Vicious Cycle: Defied. All members of the Church are dedicated to freeing Equus from "The Cycle", which is a rise-fall cycle that has reduced great civilizations, species, and kingdoms to ruins due to their own flaws and pride. Two members, Dazzleglow and Golden Scepter, have had personal experiences with particular cycles, which made them even more determined to break "The Cycle".
Warrior Prince: Those who bear the title of "Prince" are ancient, powerful deities with combat experience, though Healing Song and Sparkling Wing are Martial Pacifists who mostly stick to defense/support roles unless warranted. It's subverted with Kúzelník who, while a Prince and The Archmage who embodies Sorcery, is a Squishy Wizard heavily reliant on his magic, though he's trying to remedy this by learning how to fight from combat-oriented deities.
Winged Unicorn: Many of the Church members are Alicorns. Prince Arcaniss, Princess Grizelda II, and Kúzelník are the only exceptions, since they're a Dragon god, a Celestial Griffon, and Deer god, respectively, unless Luminiferous isn't counted as a "true" Alicorn due to actually being a Nightmarified one and a clone of Morning Star (though in appearance only).

Aldhika Moufette

See her folder entry here.

Blue Suede Heartstrings, the King of Music/King Caerulus Melodia Equestria-Corporatum, the Sovereign of Music

See his page here.

Golden Scepter, the Radiant Emperor

See his page here.

Headmistress Tanár, the Cruel Taskmaster

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Teaching, Nepotism, Punishment

Rank: Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)

Headmistress Tanár is the goddess of Teaching, Nepotism, and Punishment, and is an infernal member of the Church of the Stars.

Anthropomorphic Personification: She's a goddess who embodies Teaching, Nepotism, and Punishment.
God of Evil: She's an infernal goddess who specifically embodies Nepotism, as well as Teaching and Punishment when used to torture students and teach harmful beliefs like Autorism. It's subverted as she follows 'Constructive Evil' and uses her domains to punish Sadist Teachers and others like them.
Token Evil Teammate: She's the only Church member who is a God of Evil.

King Sparkling Wing Metamorpha, the Royal Unifier

Classification: Elemental/Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Peace, Unity, Leadership, Weather

Rank: Divine (Tier II/Lesser)

Afiliation: Church of the Stars, Metamorphan Pantheon

"There is strength in unity."

King Sparkling Wing Metamorpha (his old entry here

; his new entry here

) is the Alicorn god of Peace, Unity, Leadership, and Weather, and is a divine member of the Church of the Stars.

Abdicate the Throne: Sparkling Wing was Queen Silver Clock's original heir to the throne, but because Papilion was a matriarchy, his claim of succession was superseded as soon as his younger sister, Rising Sun, was born. While he didn't blame his mother or his sister, he was still rather hurt by the rejection and abuse he received as a male. Ironically, Sparkling Wing ultimately became King anyway by destroying Papilion when it got too corrupt and founding his own kingdom, Metamorpha.
Abstract Apotheosis: After many years of training, Sparkling Wing would Ascend and become the Alicorn god of Peace, Unity, Leadership, and Weather by discovering his talent in diplomacy and uniting two incorrigibly hostile kingdoms together. Ironically, he wasn't supposed to Ascend because only female Papilion royals were allowed to do so.
Actually Pretty Funny: During a Clovenist invasion of Kerajaan Cahaya, Sparkling Wing reportedly laughed at the Church of the Stars being called a "club of cruel, manpulative, scheming divine tyrants", having once helped destroy a corrupt pantheon of that description in the past.
Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Jushtin Butterfly loved the perks of being a Prince, and he was saddened over his mother, Queen Skywynne, using public masks to hide her sorrow over giving in to her subjects' demands for a girl and dashing her son's potential as future King. Here, his feelings were expanded on — he was deeply affected by his subjects' rejection of him simply because he was born a royal colt in a Matriarchy, and was found crying by a traveling Luminiferous. He became Brilliant, but Lazy afterward out of fear of failing people's expectations of him, no matter how ridiculous they might be.
Adaptational Backstory Change: While Sparkling Wing's backstory is heavily similar to Jushtin's, one major difference is that after his claim to the throne was superseded, he was emotionally abused by bigoted divine relatives for being an upstart male who threatened the status quo. He tried to be a good son and big brother, but the abuse got to him and he was later found crying by a disguised Luminiferous. And from there, things went straight out the window.
Adaptational Badass: Jushtin Butterfly had diplomatic skills that gave the Butterfly queendom important allies like the Pony Heads and the Lucitors, and had brief access to magic during his time as Crown-Prince. But he was superseded following the birth of his younger sister because his subjects didn't want to be ruled by a King in a matriarchy, and he quickly faded into obscurity. Here, thanks to people giving him a chance, Sparkling Wing became a powerful mage and Ascend to godhood, the latter which is normally barred to male Papilion royals. He also played a larger role compared to his canon counterpart, helping uncover an insidious Government Conspiracy and leading his forces during the resulting Civil War and other events that followed. After the dust settled, he would become the ruling King of his own kingdom.
Adaptation Name Change: Jushtin Butterfly is changed to King Sparkling Wing Metamorpha here.
Adaptation Species Change: Jushtin Butterfly was a Mewman, a Human Alien with Bizarre Alien Biology related to butterflies as well as a descendant of human settlers. Sparkling Wing is a Flutter Pony/Pegasus hybrid, the result of secret experiments conducted by the Changelings to bring out his Flutter Pony heritage more.
Agent Peacock: Sparkling Wing is The Dandy who likes wearing fancy outfits and attending parties even as King. He's also an incredibly charismatic leader who made allies with races that were deeply discriminated against by Papilion in his time, and a powerful mage who specializes in Weather Manipulation.
All Your Powers Combined: As an Alicorn god, he has the combined magics of all mortal Pony tribes, including Flutter Ponies and Pegasi.
Ambadassador: As in canon, Sparkling Wing served as Rising Sun's chief diplomat during her time as Queen, and by then he had already Ascended to godhood.
Anthropomorphic Personification: He's an Alicorn god who embodies Peace, Unity, Leadership, and Weather.
Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Sparkling Wing's Cutie Mark depicts two creatures embracing each other under a sunny sky, representing his talent for diplomacy and peacemaking. Post-Ascension, his mane and tail became composed of cloud-like energy, which fits him as a god of Weather.
Benevolent Mage Ruler: Double-subverted. Sparkling Wing had makings of a great King and even showed promise as a Weather mage, which motivated his mother, Queen Silver Clock, to make him her heir. However, because Papilion was a matriarchy, no one wanted a stallion on the throne. Silver Clock's divine relatives cowed her into having a daughter while Sparkling Wing was abused by said relatives for threatening the status quo. Despite this, Luminiferous' intervention kicked off a series of events that led to Sparkling Wing Ascending to godhood (which male Papilion royals were barred from) and becoming a confident, powerful sorcerer-King. Presently, he rules his own kingdom, Metamorpha, and by all accounts is a good King who cares greatly for his subjects.
Beware the Nice Ones: While a bit spoiled, he's a very tolerant, nice, friendly, and diplomatic individual who would rather solve conflicts peacefully than use force to do it. He is also a Martial wouldn't hesitate to defend himself and/or his allies should the need arises.
Big Brother Instinct: While Sparkling Wing was absent for much of Rising Sun's life, he tried to support her as much as he could despite the circumstances involved and blamed himself for his sister's Sanity Slippage and death. When he learned the Papilion Pantheon frequently sabotaged Rising Sun's diplomacy efforts, Sparkling Wing participated in the "Twilight of the Papilion Pantheon" event and killed off the corrupt pantheon members, including his abusive divine relatives, avenging his sister in the process.
Blow You Away: As a god of Weather, Sparkling Wing can summon winds and create tornados. He also had this power as a Flutter Pony/Pegasus hybrid, as both tribes have wind magic.
Break the Cutie: Sparkling Wing not only lost his claim to the throne to his younger sister by virtue of his gender, he was also emotionally abused by bigoted divine relatives who believed his only lot in life is to be a glorified Baby Factory. While he never blamed his mother or sister, Sparkling Wing was nonetheless deeply affected by his family's misandry and would later be found crying by a disguised Luminiferous. It's rather telling that even after becoming a god and King, some elements of his emotional abuse still lingers.
Brilliant, but Lazy: In his mortal youth, Sparkling Wing was magically talented and had the makings of a great King, but he couldn't handle stress very well and coped with it by partying with his friends. It got worse after his claim ot the throne was superseded, as he was abused by misandrist subjects and divine relatives who believed he would never amount to anything as a male. Thanks to Luminiferous, Golden Scepter, and others, Sparkling Wing broke free of his family's prejudices and became the Benevolent Mage Ruler his mother believed he could be.
Close to Home: Sparkling Wing is enraged by all forms of sexism, especially misandry, as he grew up in a corrupt Flutter Pony queendom that treated its male population as little more than glorified sperm banks.
Cool Big Bro: Despite Rising Sun superseding his claim to the throne by virtue of her sex, Sparkling Wing never hated her for it and tried to be a good big brother for her. While he was gone for much of her life due to training for godhood under Luminiferous, the first thing he did after Ascending was go back to Papilion to check on his sister, becoming Rising Sun's chief advisor, diplomat, and confidant during her reign as Queen. Sadly, he couldn't protect his sister from their racist family members' toxic influence, and revealing his true identity to her as her missing older brother during an emotionally tense situation only made things worse. Sparkling Wing did avenge Rising Sun by destroying the corrupt Papilion Pantheon who played a role in her death, but his failure would haunt him and contribute to his Guilt Complex.
Cool Crown: As King, Sparkling Wing wears a golden, butterfly-themed crown. His red feathered hat also technically counts as one as it has a golden crown pattern.
The Dandy: Sparkling Wing loved wearing flashy, fancy outfits, with his Iconic Outfit being a red, wide-brimmed hat with numerous feathers and a golden crown pattern, a red sorcerer’s cloak with a furry collar, and golden barding. Even as King, he wore butterfly-themed regalia and even fancier coats or cloaks. When he decided to seal himself away out of immense guilt, his choice of container was... one of his own hats, which was found and unknowingly bought by a then-mortal Rarity.
Deity of Human Origin: Sparkling Wing was originally a mortal Flutter Pony/Pegasus hybrid and the oldest son of a Queen. Despite his abusive, sexist divine relatives' attempts to suppress his potential, he still Ascended to godhood anyway thanks to the support and tutelage of those who had faith in him, like Luminiferous and Golden Scepter. What made his accomplishment even more notable is that male Papilion royals were traditionally barred from Ascension — Sparkling Wing became the first male in his family to do so.
Elemental Embodiment: One of Sparkling Wing's domains is Weather, which gives him Weather Manipulation powers. This lends to his mane and tail being composed of cloud-like energy.
Elemental Hair Composition: Post-Ascension, as a god of Weather, Sparkling Wing's mane and tail became composed of wispy, cloud-like energy.
Emotion Bomb: As a god of Peace, Sparkling Wing can project an aura of peace that calms people down.
The Empath: As a god of Peace, Unity, and Leadership, Sparkling Wing has empathic abilities that let him sense what is preventing people from achieving peace and unity, as well as counter mistrust and bitterness among his subordinates.
Exact Words: Despite his fun-loving demeanor, Sparkling Wing is actually very politically savvy and his skill in twisting words has rivaled many Changeling Kings.
Expressive Hair: His butterfly wings serve as an example as they reflect his emotional state — generally they resemble clear, sunny skies, but when Sparkling Wing is upset, his wings turn stormy or rainy.
Expy: Of Jushtin Butterfly. Like Jushtin, Sparkling Wing was the oldest son and child of a Queen, who loved him enough to try make him her successor. However, because he lived in a matriarchy, Sparkling Wing was deemed "unworthy" of ruling by virtue of his sex and forced to give up his claim to the throne. And like Jushtin, he's also a fop who dresses primarily in red. Unlike his character inspiration, Sparkling Wing overcame his people's bigotry with help from people who believed in him, and not only became a powerful mage, but also Ascended to godhood and founded his own kingdom.
The Fair Folk: Sparkling Wing is part Flutter Pony, making him a surviving descendant of the original Flutter Ponies who inexplicably died off in the Second Age. However, [[spolier:thanks to suspected Changeling interference and experimentation,]] he was born a "true" Pony hybrid with visible Flutter Pony traits, rather than being born a member of one tribe as Ponies normally are. This not only gives him access to the Flutter Ponies' racial wind and Utter Flutter abilities, but also various other Fae spells like illusions, charms, and shapeshifting. Ascending to godhood as an Alicorn enhanced his Flutter Pony powers drastically. However, he can be affected by cold iron as many of his spells don't work around it. His Fae heritage also influenced his personality, being a fun-loving, mischievous, yet benevolent stallion who can be cunning when the situation calls for it.
Flying on a Cloud: As a god of Weather, Sparkling Wing can create clouds and use them as transport.
Follow in My Footsteps: Sparkling Wing's mother, Queen Silver Clock, wanted him to succeed her as a Benevolent Mage Ruler like herself because she saw that he had potential for it. Unfortunately, because Papilion was matriarchal, Silver Clock ended up having a daughter instead because her divine relatives threatened to harm Sparkling Wing if she continued bucking tradition. Sparkling Wing was then subjected to emotional abuse by said relatives for being an upstart male who dared to break the status quo. Fortunately, with Luminiferous' support, Sparkling Wing does succeed in Ascending and becoming the King of his own kingdom, fulfilling his mother's hopes anyway.
Freudian Excuse: He was Brilliant, but Lazy because when he was younger, his (short) time as Queen Silver Clock's heir and Crown-Prince actually stressed him out because the thought of disappointing Silver Clock terrified him. And while he doesn't blame his mother or his sister for superseding his claim to the throne, he was rather heartbroken to learn that regardless if he wanted to rule or not, his subjects were quick to reject him as both a royal and a person because of his sex. It's deconstructed as his fear of failure and responsibility made him eschew hard work in favor of making his own life easier, which both frustrated and disappointed his mentors and friends. Fortunately, both Luminiferous and the Church of the Stars would help him grow out of this behavior.
Good with Numbers: Like his canon counterpart, Sparkling Wing is good at physics and mathematics, being capable of writing complex equations even at a young age.
Holy Halo: Post-Ascension, Sparkling Wing gained a halo made of Peace energy.
Iconic Outfit: While he admits to wearing various other outfits, Sparkling Wing generally wears a red, wide-brimmed hat with numerous feathers and a golden crown pattern, a red sorcerer’s cloak with a furry collar, and golden barding.
Inadequate Inheritor: In his mortal youth, Sparkling Wing was originally supposed to succeed his mother, Queen Silver Clock, as ruler of Papilion. But neither his subjects nor his female divine relatives accepted him because Papilion was a matriarchy and Sparkling Wing, as a male, was seen as a break in tradition. As a result, his younger sister Rising Sun was named heir to the throne, while he was abused and indoctrinated by his divine relatives to "know [his] place". Ironically, Sparkling Wing ends up being King anyway, albeit of his own kingdom, but the hardships he endured because of his gender gave him huge self-esteem issues.
In Spite of a Nail: Despite everything that happened to him, he was still stripped of his status as Crown Prince of his kingdom once his baby sister, Princess Rising Sun, was born, due to his kingdom being matriarchal and the throne only inherited from mother to daughter.
Internalized Categorism: Due to the abusive misandry he received from his corrupt divine relatives as a colt, Sparkling Wing internalized the idea that as a male, he should "know [his] place". This caused problems when he first joined the Church of the Stars, as it was led by Queen Dazzleglow. Fortunately, he is receiving therapy for his trauma.
It's All My Fault: Sparkling Wing blamed himself for his role in his younger sister's death and his failure to prevent her niece's sealing, believing it was his duty to support his family. His guilt and trauma not only prevented him from using his Wand of Innocence (it runs on Innocence magic so things like PTSD would interfere with it) throughout the Third Age, but also eventually led to him sealing himself away inside one of his own hats, unable to deal with it any longer. Fortunately, Sparkling Wing's surviving friends and family helped him through it, pointing out that Rising Sun made her own choices and circumstances happened beyond even his control.
Living Legend: It's noted in his entry that after leaving his childhood kingdom to travel with Luminiferous as his students, stories and legends about him would pop up throughout the Third Age, telling of a lavender-pelted pegasus stallion who would resolve conflicts all over Equus and manipulate the skies themselves. It's what later led to Sparkling Wing meeting Queen Dazzleglow in the Fourth Age post-Ascension, having heard of said legends and was interested in his potential role in breaking "The Cycle".
Living Lie Detector: As a god of Peace, Unity, and Leadership, Sparkling Wing has telepathic and empathic powers to discern lies from truth, making him very hard to fool.
Magic Hair: Post-Ascension, Sparkling Wing's mane and tail became composed of wispy, cloud-like energy. It's fitting since he's the Alicorn god of Weather.
Magnetic Hero: He's escribed as such in his entry. As a mortal teenager, he was rather infamous for having an interracial entourage, which included Griffon and Yak nobles and princes, and an elderly commoner stallion named "Whizzbag". And after he became an Alicorn, he continued down this path, attracting people to him with his words and defusing conflicts all over Equus. Justified, as he had the social skills and silver tongue required to be this trope, and is also a natural empath.
The Magnificent: Known as "The Royal Unifier" due to his background as a Prince, and his uncanny ability to unite hostile factions, countries, and even individuals with his natural empathy and silver tongue.
Making a Splash: As a god of Weather, Sparkling Wing can summon rain and create massive rainstorms like hurricanes (which induce rain).
Meaningful Name: Sparkling Wing's last name, Metamorpha, refers to the kingdom he founded after Papilion's destruction. It's also a play on the word "metamorphosis", which refers to a butterfly's life cycle and Sparkling Wing's growth from an insecure royal to a confident, powerful King.
Momma's Boy: Like his character inspiration, he was very close to his mother, Queen Silver Clock, and wants nothing but the world for her. Despite having every right to do so, he doesn't blame or resent Silver Clock for superseding his claim to the throne despite her high hopes for him, as she was only keeping up appearances for her subjects and he was disinterested in ruling at the time. Notably, when Luminiferous got angry at the kingdom ruining his potential because he was born a royal with the wrong sex, Sparkling Wing begged him to be lenient with his mother, which he did. He also kept his promise to her to write home while he was away, and when he Ascended and wrote her a letter about it, Silver Clock started crying out of proud joy.
Never Accepted in His Hometown: Many of Sparkling Wing's subjects came to hate him for daring to break the status quo by being born a male royal, since Papilion was always ruled by mares. Even his divine relatives abused him and believed he should "know [his] place". As a result, whenever he came back home, Sparkling Wing had to disguise himself to avoid attracting unwanted attention. This stops when Papilion was finally destroyed for its corruption.
"Not So Different" Remark: Dazzleglow notes that his Brilliant, but Lazy personality was something Princess Stitching Time once had — Sparkling Wing would use his magic to goof off despite his intelligence because deep down, he was terrified of taking on responsibility that he thinks he's not ready for, and fears failing people's expectations of him, no matter how ridiculous they might be. Presumably, Stitching Time did the same thing for the same reasons until she was forced to grow out of it through proper teaching.
Parents as People: Despite being Princess Meteor Shower's granduncle, Sparkling Wing became her father-figure after her mother, Obsidian Star, was sealed away for the crime of falling in love with a Fire Jotunn. Sparkling Wing at the time was suffering from immense PTSD and guilt over past real and perceived mistakes, but there's no doubt that he loved Meteor Shower and tried to raise her right despite everything. Obsidian even thanks Sparkling Wing for raising Meteor Shower well in her absence.
Physical God: As an Alicorn, he is this, despite being one of the younger members of the Church. Notably, he is skilled with weather magic, a powerful empath, and can empower mortals and forge temporary bonds that allow them to share each other's abilities based on how deep they trust each other.
The Power of Friendship: As a god of Unity, Sparkling Wing can grant boons that empower people based on how united they are. His fusions also run on this, as the closer the fusion's components are, the stronger the fusion itself becomes.
The Prankster: Sparkling Wing is a very mischievous god who used his weather magic to play pranks on people, which he admits to.
Psychic Link: As a god of Unity, Sparkling Wing can forge psychic links with his allies for long-distance communication.
Purple Is Powerful: His entry describes him as a lavender-pelted Alicorn with dark purple hair that became wispy clouds after Ascension. He's a god with powerful empathy and weather-based magic, and can empower other people through their bonds, though he normally doesn't like doing more than is necessary.
Robe and Wizard Hat: Sparkling Wing's Iconic Outfit is generally a red, wide-brimmed hat with numerous feathers and a golden crown pattern, a red sorcerer’s cloak with a furry collar, and golden barding.
Seers: Inverted; as a god of Peace, Sparkling Wing has the unique "Diplomatic Recalling" ability, essentially a form of retrocognition that lets him discern the sources of hostility between groups.
Shock and Awe: As a god of Wealther, Sparkling Wing can summon lightning bolts.
Sibling Yin-Yang: Sparkling Wing is a flamboyant, silly, and party-loving stallion, but he is also The Good King, a powerful mage, and a Magnetic Hero who brought various races together. His younger sister, Queen Rising Sun, was a warrior and racist warmonger who essentially tried committing mass genocide in hopes of ending her queendom's Forever War with the "monsters".
Signature Headgear: When he isn't wearing a golden, butterfly-themed crown, Sparkling Wing is wearing a red, wide-brimmed hat with numerous feathers and a golden crown pattern.
The Social Expert: He's described by his entry as having a "silver tongue", which allows him to charm people to his side, befriend people from multiple races, and defuse conflicts. Being an empath helps significantly, too.
Spanner in the Works: Sparkling Wing ended up becoming this to both his corrupt family members and the corrupt Papilion Pantheon members to a huge degree. Instead of fading away into obscurity as his bigoted divine relatives intended, he leaves home with Luminiferous and comes back an Alicorn many years later, despite Ascension being only reserved for females. While unable to prevent his sister Rising Sun's eventual madness and death, or his niece Obsidian Star's wrongful sealing, he saved Obsidian Star's hybrid daughter Meteor Shower and raised her himself (albeit with help). When he came back to find his home became even more corrupt in his absence, an enraged Sparkling Wing covertly launched an investigation that exposed an entire Government Conspiracy and other dirty secrets to the world, causing several good Papilion royals to defect. The Papilion Pantheon declared war on Sparkling Wing out of spite, but in the resulting Civil War, Papilion was left a smoking ruin while the Papilion Pantheon, save for its innocent and repentant members, was completely destroyed.
Spare to the Throne: Because the kingdom he grew up in was matriarchal, he was never intended to be king, even though his mother, Silver Clock, wanted him to succeed her. When Rising Sun was born due to Silver Clock caving to pressure that she should bear a daughter, Sparkling Wing's claim of succession was automatically superseded in favor of his sister. Silver Clock deeply regretted ruining her son's potential for the sake of pleasing her subjects, and her realization that Sparkling Wing would fade into obscurity if he stayed home was what made her plead for Luminiferous to take in Sparkling Wing as his student. The rest was history.
Squishy Wizard: In contrast to his warrior sister Rising Sun, Sparkling Wing is an accomplished spellcaster, but a piss-poor fighter, which he admits to.
Supernatural Floating Hair: His entry describes his mane and tail as ethereal, resembling wispy, dark purple clouds.
Telepathy: As a god of Peace, Unity, and Leadership, Sparkling Wing has telepathic abilities that let him sense what is preventing people from achieving peace and unity, as well as counter mistrust and bitterness among his subordinates.
The Unfavorite: Subverted; even though tradition deemed him as such due to being born a royal with the "wrong" sex in a matriarchy, Silver Clock loved both him and his sister, Rising Sun, and deeply regretted ruining her son's potential for the sake of pleasing her subjects. She pleaded for Luminiferous to take Sparkling Wing in as his student, knowing that he would fade into obscurity if he stayed home. When she learned through a letter that her son became a god, she cried out of proud joy.
Weather Manipulation: As a god of Weather, Sparkling Wing can do things like create clouds for various uses, summon rain and lightning bolts, generating loud thunderclaps to disorient his foes, and maniplate heat, snow, and ice. At his strongest, he can make storms of various kinds, like hurricanes, tornados, blizzards, and hailstorms. However, he can also quell storms and make the skies clear and sunny. His domain also makes his natural wind and weather magics as a Flutter Pony/Pegasus hybrid much stronger. However, he has admitted to using his domain for pranks at times.
What the Hell, Hero?: Sparkling Wing was utterly disgusted with the Changelings' atrocities and toxic behaviors, and called them out on their wrongdoing numerous times. He notably lambasted them for their role in Princess Apterus' rise as a villain as it was their racism and grudges that turned her into one of the most dangerous threats the Changeling Courts had ever faced.
King Sparkling Wing: If you really are the Flutter Ponies’ successors as you claimed, then you are doing an extremely poor job at it! They would've disowned you - ALL of you - if they were still alive today!
What You Are in the Dark: While he was heartbroken by his subjects' rejection of him as a royal due to being born with the "wrong" sex, he doesn't blame or resent his mother and his sister for taking away his claim of succession despite having every right to do so. Notably, he still loves them like family even though they have their disagreements.
Winged Unicorn: What he eventually became, after spending several years helping people and defusing conflicts all over Equus.
With Great Power Comes Great Perks: As part of his Brilliant, but Lazy shtick, he often used his powerful magic to goof off whenever he's faced with difficult situations. This got him scolded many times by Golden Scepter, who wants him to act like the the royal diplomat and leader he's supposed to be instead of doing mere "parlor tricks". Fortunately, the benevolent influence of Luminiferous and the Church has largely curbed this behavior.

Kúzelník, the Sorcerer of the Stars

Classification: Ethereal/Elemental

Portfolio: Sorcery, Transformation, Duality

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"To perform sorcery is to transform the nature and flow of the world, and the change can be for both good, or ill."

Kúzelník (his entry here

) is the Deer god of Sorcery, Transformation, and Duality, and a joint-member of both the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon and the Church of the Stars.

Adoption Angst: He feared the Terran Princes wouldn't like him if they found out their father adopted a Deer god, but he was quickly proven wrong when his new family welcomed him warmly. Prince Written Word even hugged him for being a good friend to one of his older brothers, Prince Crimson Star.
Afraid of Their Own Strength: Justified. He was restricted to learning only the Alvslog Deer Herds' druidism and White Magic because his parents feared his potential to become another Grogar. This made him fearful of using the 'dark' aspects of his Sorcery domain, believing using it even for beneficial purposes will automatically make him evil. It's deconstructed as the limits imposed on him left him weaker against certain threats, which he learned the hard way while freeing a non-Deer kingdom from a tyrannical and greedy cabal of sorcerers. His parents, especially his father, also turned out to be Hypocrites who killed his unborn brother by trying to purify him of his inner evil in-utero. It's later reconstructed when, after running away from home, he discovers that other people don't share his parents' beliefs and even lauded him as a hero, giving him closure over his insecurities. Temnobog and Belyolen also become his teachers in sorcery once they reconcile.
Animalistic Abomination: Compared to his parents, who have eldritch traits themselves due to being "older" deities, his eldritch nature is much more obvious. He has an ethereal pelt that displays various cosmic phenomena such as stars and nebulas, and his antlers sparkle with stars. Whenever he goes into the extreme sides of his emotions, his pelt changes depending on what he feels, becoming bright and radiant when extremely happy, and black-furred/antlered when extremely sad or angry, with the cosmic phenomena in his pelt becoming more violent. In addition, he has a Holy Halo made of starlight adorning his head, a sign of his great power. However, he is a benevolent and heroic deity, though it took him a while to get to where he is now thanks to Irminsul and Arvan's toxic teachings and influence. His eldritch traits are also normal for deities in the Codexverse, as they only get Stronger with Age.
Anthropomorphic Personification: He's a Deer god who embodies Sorcery, Transformation, and Duality.
The Archmage: He is a Deer god of Sorcery, Transformation, and Duality, which along with his intelligence and aptitude makes him a powerful sorcerer. He can use both White Magic and Black Magic, as well as elemental magic and other forms of sorcery like ritual magic, druidism, and potion-making. His Transformation domain makes him an expert in Voluntary Shapeshifting, so much that the Alvslog Deer Herds call him "The Sorcerer/Prince of a Thousand Faces". He also possesses strong Psychic Powers, but he sees Prince Crimson Star as the better psychic due to embodying Psionics. His great power made his parents fear his potential of becoming an Evil Sorcerer like Grogar, so they tried restricting him to only 'good' magic... but it not only made him magically weaker, it also gave him insecurities over his identity once he discovered the extent of his parents' hypocrisy via his unborn brother's fate. Only after saving a non-Deer kingdom from a tyrannical cabal of sorcerers with 'evil' magic did he accept both aspects of his Sorcery domain.
The Atoner: He became this after running away from home. Seeing how toxic and hypocritical his family is, especially his parents, caused him to regret many of his actions, including his abuse of Temnobog, his younger brother. Despite giving Temnobog a heartfelt apology years later, he initially believed that any retribution is well-deserved and was willing to let Temnobog injure him out of penance. However, Golden Scepter broke him out of this harmful mindset by encouraging him to learn from his mistakes and make amends with his siblings instead, something that he took to heart and follows to this day.
Badass Cape: He's described as wearing a thick sorcerer's cloak that has starry properties. He's also a powerful Deer god of Sorcery, and a magical and intellectual prodigy that might surpass even his parents once he gets "older". It's noted, though, that his powers allow him to change his clothes on a whim, and it's rumored In-Universe that his clothes are actually made from his own magic.
Bad Powers, Good People: Deconstructed. Half of his Sorcery domain involves the destructive and harmful aspects of sorcery, such as necromancy and curses. His potential to wield such magics spurred Irminsul and Arvan to make him suppress that part of himself by teaching him to use only 'good' magic instead. This is despite him embodying Duality, which gives him the ability to see the good and bad aspects of everything. His parents' puristic views on magic gave lots of insecurities over his identity that would take him some time to resolve. Then it's reconstructed when he saves a non-Deer kingdom from its tyrannical rulers with dark magic, leading to everyone hailing him as a hero and making him realize that even 'evil' things like dark magic can be used for good. Joining and learning from the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon, whose members believe in Good Needs Evil, also helps him a lot.
Big Brother Bully: Deconstructed. He hated Temnobog, his younger brother, for being born a God of Evil regardless of whether he truly deserved it or not, and he would emotionally abuse the latter by blaming him for Grogar I's crimes. Part of the reason why he secretly researched Temnobog's bizarre origins was to figure out how to get rid of him. His abuse led to Temnobog snapping, which he refused to believe, and when Irminsul called a family meeting, he was among those who advocated for Temnobog's death. Discovering that Temnobog's birth was the result of Irminsul's attempt to make his unborn son 'perfect' later led to a falling-out with his father of epic proportions, and after running away from home and doing some soul-searching, he would meet and make a heartfelt apology to Temnobog for his abuse. He deeply regrets mistreating Temnobog for ultimately baseless reasons and wanted Temnobog to hurt him in atonement, but Golden Scepter convinced him to actually learn from his mistakes and make amends with his siblings instead.
Black-and-White Morality: Deconstructed. He once shared the puristic morality as his parents and older/younger siblings, which proved extremely toxic and damaging in the long run. His emotional abuse of Temnobog for being born led to the latter snapping and antagonizing his family out of sheer spite, while his parents' attempts to control his magical potential led to him becoming scared of turning into Grogar if he used his more destructive spells, despite them having beneficial uses. What broke him out of this mindset were his family's mistreatment of Blue Suede Heartstrings (and seeing Blue show his mother genuine kindness), discovering that his parents caused Temnobog's birth in the first place, his globe-trotting adventures (one of which he defeated a cabal of tyrannical sorcerers with Black Magic and freed a kingdom from them), and learning the philosophy of "constructive Evil" from Belyolen and Temnobog.
Black Magic: His entry notes that he knows "evil" and destructive magic like raising the dead, stealing away a person's life-force for himself, and casting a large variety of curses and hexes. Some of said curses and hexes were taught to him by his younger brother, Temnobog.
Blue Is Heroic: Double-subverted. It's noted that he wears dark royal blue robes with silver regalia/armor, as well as a thick sorcerer's cloak with starry properties, which makes him resemble his infernal grandnephew, Prince Stoltur. While he initially shared his family's toxic behaviors (much to his great shame), he eventually left his family behind after seeing the consequences of said behaviors up close and Took a Level in Kindness during his subsequent adventures in the outside world, eventually settling down as a joint-member of both the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon and the Church of the Stars.
Bonding over Missing Parents: After his official adoption by Golden Scepter, he was able to easily connect with the Terran Princes because they both lost a loved one — the Terran Princes lost their mother, Blessed Skies, to old age, while Kúzelník's unborn brother was killed in the womb by Irminsul when the latter tried purifying his son of his inner evil to make him perfect and completely flawless.
Broken Pedestal: He used to love Irminsul, but learning that his father was responsible for creating Temnobog after teaching him not to become like Grogar in any way left Kúzelník feeling betrayed, though that wasn't enough to make him leave as he wanted to make sense of the new information. Learning that Temnobog came to be in the first place because Irminsul selfishly tried to create a perfect and flawless heir, effectively mutilating and killing his then-unborn son, enraged Kúzelník to the point where he confronted his father over it (among other things). Irminsul accidentally implying he won't hesitate to do the same to his other children if they fell below his standards motivated Kúzelník to run away from home.
- His feelings of Broken Pedestal towards Irminsul eventually reached a point where he wishes he was Golden Scepter's son instead of Irminsul's due to the former being a much nicer and fatherly divine sovereign, but feels that he shouldn't be indulging in "childish fantasies". Thankfully, Golden Scepter is quite understanding of Kúzelník's situation and officially adopts him as his son, with the Terran Princes welcoming him warmly into the family.
Calling the Old Man Out: He would confront his father, Irminsul, after the Elternteil Deer Pantheon wrongly tried to punish Blue Suede Heartstrings for "stealing away" their mortal Alvslog Deer subjects. His entry then notes that he was both horrified and furious when he learned that Temnobog was born because of Irminsul's actions and twisted standards of perfection.
Kúzelník: (roaring at Irminsul) You HYPOCRITE! All this time, I could have had a brother whom I would love and cherish as part of my family... and you MUTILATED him inside Mother's own womb because you wanted my brother to be PERFECT!
Cruel and Unusual Death: He sees the death of his unborn brother as mutilation, as Irminsul essentially cut him up in-utero to get rid of the parts he doesn't want in his son. Learning Irminsul is capable of doing it to the rest of his children if they fell below his standards of 'purity' caused him to develop the worst impressoin of his father and run away. This is what created his fear of Irminsul, and motivated him to seek protection in both the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon and the Church of the Stars, as he might be punished for running away with what he essentially sees as a death sentence. Notably, when he explained Irminsul's actions to Princess Twilight/Amicitia Sparkle, it was horrifying enough to make her sick to her stomach.
Curse: As the Deer god of Sorcery, he knows a lot of curses and hexes. His entry notes that some of them were taught to him by Temnobog, his younger brother.
Dark Is Not Evil: Whenever he feels extreme negative emotions like sorrow or anger, his fur turns black and starts showing violent cosmic phenomena like meteor showers and supernovas. He also has the ability to wield dark magic. Despite this, he's a benevolent Deer god of Sorcery, though it took him a long time to reach that point because of the bad influence of his haughty, puristic, xenophobic, and self-righteous parents.
Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of Bad Powers, Good People. His Sorcery domain makes him an incredibly powerful sorcerer and gives him access to magic like Necromancy and Life Drain. But his parents taught him to only use 'good' magic because they feared his potential of becoming like Grogar. His puristic upbringing led to him developing identity issues, especially after discovering the true depths of his parents' hypocrisy regarding Temnobog, and for years, he struggled to reconcile the 'good' parts of his Sorcery domain with the 'bad' ones. He eventually gains closure when he uses dark magic to rescue a non-Deer kingdom from its Sorcerous Overlords, having realized that even dark magic can be used for good.
Defector from Decadence: He eventually grew disgusted with his family and mortal subjects' arrogance, self-righteousness, and xenophobia, especially after discovering the origins of Temnobog's birth and witnessing the wrongful mistreatment of Blue Suede Heartstrings. What makes him leave home is a heated argument where Irminsul accidentally implies he won't hesitate to "purify" his other children for falling below his standards, causing him to develop the worst impression of his father and seek protection from various benevolent deities.
The Empath: One of his Psychic Powers is empathy. His entry notes that he inherited it from his parents.
Endearingly Dorky: He's very intelligent and well-learned, with a thirst for knowledge. Learning that the blind Terran Prince, Crimson Star, shared many of the same attributes caused him to Squee, and the feeling was mutual.
Freudian Excuse: He is terrified of his father because during a nasty argument between them, he discovered the latter killed his younger unborn brother trying to make him completely flawless. When an emotionally-charged Irminsul implies he will do the same thing to his own family should they fall below his standards, he developed the worst impression of his father and ran away from home in fear of being subjected to such a fate. Since then, he's afraid of going back home because he'll be punished with a Cruel and Unusual Death if he does, even though he's trying to overcome his fear with Mentálne's help.
Happily Adopted: As of this canonized Codexverse quote, he's officially adopted by Golden Scepter as one of his sons. At first, he feared the Terran Princes wouldn't like him, but they welcomed him warmly into the family and even sympathized with his loss of his unborn younger brother to Irminsul, with Prince Written Word hugging him.
Hates Their Parent: He has an extremely stra
Holy Halo: Much like Golden Scepter, his head is adorned with a bright divine halo as an indicator of his great power, except his is explicitly described as being made of starlight.
Interspecies Adoption: He wishes that he was a son of Golden Scepter instead of Irminsul, but (likely due to his upbringing) doesn't believe that interspecies adoption between deities is possible. Golden Scepter confirms that yes, it is, and upon learning that the Radiant Emperor is quite willing to officially adopt him as his son, he breaks down crying in Golden Scepter's forelegs. The adoption is finalized as of this Codexverse quote, with the Terran Princes welcoming him warmly.
Jerkass Realization: Thanks to Irminsul and Arvan's influence, he initially shared his family's nastier traits, such as a puristic view of morality, self-righteousness, and xenophobia. This led to him emotionally abusing Temnobog until the latter became genuinely evil for a time. He later realized his family was wrong after seeing them abuse Blue Suede Heartstrings and discovering Irminsul and Arvan's role in Temnobog's birth, and ran away from home to do some soul-searching. He deeply regrets his past behavior, especially his role in Temnobog's abuse, and is still making amends for his actions even after apologizing and reconciling with Temnobog.
Kaleidoscope Hair: Justified; the color and appearance of his starry pelt changes whenever he veers into the extremes of positive and negative emotions. For example, if extremely happy, his pelt becomes white and radiant, while his pelt turns black and starts showing violent cosmic phenomena like meteor showers if extremely sad or angry. Only by keeping his emotions in check does he remain in his normal form.
Karmic Jackpot: He would quickly befriend Prince Crimson Star due to being extremely alike in many ways. After he was officially adopted by Golden Scepter as his son, he would be welcomed warmly by the Terran Princes, largely because of the fact he's good friends with one of their brothers.
Karmic Transformation: One of his applications of his Transformation domain. His entry notes that he uses his magical abilities to transform sinful people in a way that their appearance reflects the sins they indulged in — for example, Alvslog Deer who became gluttonous were magically turned into pigs.
Life Drain: He learned this from his younger brother, Temnobog, after joining the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon and reconciling with him, giving him access to knowledge in wielding destructive and dangerous Black Magic.
The Magnificent: Known as "the Sorcerer of the Stars", due to being a god of Sorcery and having a starry pelt. It later gained a double-meaning once Golden Scepter introduced him to the Church of the Stars, and he joined its pantheon through a unanimous vote.
The Marvelous Deer: Double-subverted. Like the majority of the Elternteil Deer Pantheon, he believed himself to be good, but his perception of 'good' is incredibly puristic, hypocritical, and bigoted. He also participated in Temnobog's fawnhood abuse because he was taught by his parents to see his younger brother as an irredeemable 'abomination'. Once he sees how horrible his family is and breaks away from them, he starts making efforts to atone for his previous actions, starting with apologizing to Temnbog and reconciling with him.
Meaningful Name: His name translates to "magician" in Slovak, which is appropriate for a Deer god who embodies Sorcery and Transformation.
Mind over Matter: One of his Psychic Powers is telekinesis. His entry notes that he inherited it from his parents.
Mirror Character: Much like Prince Crimson Star, he was born into royalty as a son of a very powerful divine sovereign, embodies magic in some form (Sorcery for him, Psionics for Crimson Star), and is an extremely intelligent prodigy who desires to gain knowledge about all things, including topics that are considered to be dangerous. And like Crimson Star, he once behaved like a haughty Jerkass until certain events humbled him and changed his beliefs. According to Princess Twilight/Amicitia, meeting each other in person and discovering they're extremely alike in many ways caused Kúzelník and Crimson Star to share a mutual Squee.
Never My Fault: Deconstructed. Thanks to his parents' toxic influence, he refused to accept that his emotional abuse contributed to Temnobog becoming genuinely evil, instead pinning the blame on his younger brother's nature as the unrepentant God of Evil he supposedly is. But once he learns of his parents' role in creating Temnobog and his actions (and its consequences) finally sinks in, he deeply regrets his behavior, and later makes a heartfelt apology to Temnobog for abusing him. For his part, Temnobog refuses to forgive him at first due to deep-seated grudges, but eventually does so thanks to Belyolen and his friends helping him look past his animosity.
Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: Justified and downplayed. After discovering that Temnobog was really created via Irminsul's misuse of his purification magic, he began deeply regretting his participation in Temnobog's emotional abuse for being born "evil". Because of this, he initially believed that any violent retaliation made by Temnobog is well-deserved, and was willing to let his younger brother injure him as atonement. Golden Scepter broke him out of this harmful mindset by encouraging him to learn from his mistakes and make amends with his siblings, as punishing himself continuously won't solve anything.
Psychic Powers: Much like his parents, he has psychic powers as part of his Sorcery domain, such as telekinesis, telepathy, teleportation, and empathy. He can do Astral Projection for certain attacks, though that leaves him vulnerable to threats designed to attack astral beings. He also has Irminsul's precognitive abilities, which he inherited from his father. By his own admission, though, he believes that his friend, Prince Crimson Star, is the better psychic among them due to embodying Psionics and being more adept with his powers. He is also dwarfed by Crimson Star's father, Golden Scepter, who also embodies Psionics but is much more ancient and powerful.
Rebel Prince: His parents are the ruling High King and High Queen of the Elternteil Deer Pantheon, making him a Prince by default. However, even before his departure, he was always somewhat rebellious, as he often tried studying forbidden arcane lore behind his parents' backs despite their efforts to control what he learned. His desire to study Temnobog's nature/origins ironically led to him breaking away from his family, as once he discovers the truth, he realizes that his family is horribly flawed. A nasty argument between him and his father spurs him to run away from home out of fear of having his own flaws "erased" like what happened to his then-unborn brother.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He more or less immediately legs it from the Eltenteil Deer Pantheon's divine domain and the pantheon itself altogether when his father, Irminsul, unintentionally gave him the impression that he won't hesitate to do "erase" him of his flaws like what he did to his then-unborn brother (which Kúzelník equates to mutilation) if he doesn't live up to his parents' standards. Irminsul never got a chance to tell him he didn't actually mean that, but Kúzelník's fear of his father became so strong that he decided not to take any chances.
Seers: His entry notes that he has inherited Irminsul's precognitive abilities. He is also known for cultivating the largest number of Seers among his worshipers, which is saying something since foresight is a prized ability to have in Alvslog Deer society.
Silver Has Mystic Powers: Subverted. He does wear ornate silver regalia/armor, but they don't have magical properties. However, he does, since he's a Deer god of Sorcery, making him a powerful magician/psychic. Furthermore, it's noted that his silver regalia/armor are only mystical because they're rumored In-Universe to be made entirely from his own magic.
Squee: According to Princess Twilight/Amicitia Sparkle, he shared a mutual "squee" with Prince Crimson Star of the Terran Empire after meeting each other and discovering that they're both extremely alike in many ways.
Squishy Wizard: While a genius in sorcery and academics in general, he's not very good in close combat, as much of his life was largely devoted to studying and, after he ran away from home, hiding from the Elternteil Deer Pantheon. Thankfully, he's currently remedying his deficiency with the help of combat-oriented individuals like Válka and Yarost.
Telepathy: One of his Psychic Powers is telepathy. His entry notes that he inherited it from his parents.
Teleportation: One of his Psychic Powers is teleportation.
Token Minority: He's the only divine Deer member of the Church.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: As the Deer god of Transformation, he can disguise himself as various things, such as inanimate objects, non-sapient animals, plants, and sapient creatures. This earned him the title of "The Sorcerer/Prince of a Thousand Faces" Of course, his domain also grants him the power to magically transform others, usually in the form of Karmic Transformation.
Warrior Prince: Subverted. Being the son of a divine High King and High Queen makes him a Prince of the Elternteil Deer Pantheon by default, and he's an extremely talented and powerful sorcerer largely thanks to embodying Sorcery... but he's a Squishy Wizard due to his talents focusing on magic than combat, giving him a disadvantage. Thankfully, he's trying to remedy this by learning how to fight from combat-oriented individuals like Válka and Yarost. Being officially adopted by Golden Scepter doesn't take away from his badass credentials.
White Magic: After joining the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon, he expanded his repertoire of magical knowledge and skills to this with the help of his younger brother, Belyolen, using White Magic spells for defensive, protective, and healing purposes.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Justified. His father, High King Irminsul, became a huge source of fear for him after a nasty argument over revelations of Belyolen and Temnobog's origins caused Kúzelník to develop the impression that Irminsul would not hesitate to "purify" him like he did to his then-unborn brother in the womb if his son falls short of his standards. While Irminsul immediately and immensely regretted implying that, the damage was done, as a horrified Kúzelník immediately turned tail and ran from the Elternteil Deer Pantheon's divine realm to go into a self-imposed, soul-searching exile. Kúzelník's fear of being subjected to what he essentially sees as a Cruel and Unusual Death is one reason why he eventually joined the ranks of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon and the Church of the Stars. His entry notes that he's taking steps to overcome his fear thanks to Mentálne, but he still feels scared when the Elternteil Deer Pantheon is mentioned around him.
Willfully Weak: Justified. He only limited himself to using druidic and holy magic because his parents taught him to avoid the same 'evil' magic that Grogar I used to wreck the proto-Alvslog Deer civilizations in the First Age. This left him fearing the idea of becoming corrupted if he uses dark magic even for beneficial purposes, which cut off his full potential and prevented him from fighting effectively. It's after he used dark magic to free a non-Deer kingdom from its sorcerous tyrants that he receives closure for his identity issues, now realizing his parents' teachings were wrong. Receiving magical tutelage from Belyolen and Temnobog after reconciling with them helped him a lot, too.

Luminiferous, the Devil Child

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Perfection, Self-Determination, Potential

Rank: Titan

"I am not my father. And my fate, is mine to decide."

Luminiferous (his entry here

) is the Alicorn god of Perfection, Potential, and Self-Determination, and a member of the Church of the Stars.

Before Known History, Equus was once dominated by the Alicorns, widely considered the greatest of the god Equus' mortal/immortal children. The Alicorns built and ruled over the fabled Alicorn Civilization that covered the world, but over time, their extreme success, power, and experience caused them to stagnate and fall into corruption. Eventually, the Alicorns reached such levels of depravity that it led to the rise of the infamous Fallen Alicorn, Morning Star, who sought to shape Equus and the surrounding universe according to his own twisted ideas of perfection.

After the destruction of the Alicorn Civilization during the "Twilight of the Alicorns" conflict, and the surviving Alicorns' retreat from the wider world to recover from their fall, Morning Star was banished and left to wander Equus for crimes unknown. Full of anger and spite, Morning Star tried many times to craft a child that would also serve as his weapon for revenge, and finally succeeded when he used a fraction of his own Primordial Quintessence to create Luminiferous.

While what happened next is still debated, it is known that Luminiferous managed to become a loving and compassionate individual despite his villainous origins as his father's "clone". This compassion motivated him to stop Morning Star and put an end to his wickedness, leading to a divine conflict that lasted for over a hundred millennia. During the conflict, Luminiferous looked into his Fallen father's mind due to having Primordial Quintessence that's near-identical to Morning Star's, and discovered that underneath his rage, Morning Star actually missed his home and wanted to stop his quest for revenge.

Despite this revelation as well as Luminiferous's attempted appeals to his better nature, Morning Star refused to swallow his pride and accept his mistakes. Luminiferous was forced to defeat his father for good, and he has wandered Equus ever since.

Luminiferous has an infamous reputation for being a demonic-looking Alicorn god and is assumed to be on a dark path, much like the one Morning Star took when he fell. However, his appearance and might are all that he ever shared with his villainous father, for he is in fact opposite of his father in every way. Unlike Morning Star, Luminiferous is selfless, humble, and noble, and sees great potential in others, while Morning Star was a prideful and narcissistic being who only saw flaws in everything else. Luminiferous's quest to help bring perfection in mortals has gotten him personally involved in several major crises, and also caused him to develop great interest in the current generation of Equus's heroes, such as Thorax, Ember, and Rainbow Dash.

The Ace: Incredibly ancient, incredibly powerful, incredibly heroic, he's widely seen as this. And given his portfolio, he even goes around helping others become this as well.
Amplifier Artifact: His double-headed poleaxe, Arisen Demon, can bring out the wielder's future potential indefinitely as long as they're holding it. It was used on Thorax and Ember during the "Revenge of Apterus" conflict to show both Changelingkind and Dragonkind just how much potential they were squandering by keeping up an old racial grudge.
Anthropomorphic Personification: He's an Alicorn god who embodies Potential, Perfection, and Self-Determination.
Anti-Anti-Christ: Was originally created by his father to be The Antichrist, but due to growing up to become a selfless and noble hero, he became this instead. In Amareros' words, he's 'Morning Star as he should had been'.
Armor-Piercing Response: He would give one to a then-young and mortal Winter Opera/Nivis during their first meeting — after Winter Opera angrily and bitterly yelled at him for claiming to understand her situation of being ostracized for being a villain's daughter, he proceeds to reveal his true Alicorn form and explains to her that he is the clone/'son' of Morning Star, which also caused him no shortage of grief. This horrifies Winter Opera into realizing that she judged Luminiferous unfairly as others had done to her, and she starts sobbing and blubbering apologies from the guilt.
Badass Teacher: Oh yes. He's known for being a mentor for many people from multiple races, but he's also a "Tier V/Titan"-ranked Alicorn, making him one of the more ancient deities of Equus. As shown with numerous incidents in other entries, he's quite capable of defending himself, and also has been known for empowering his students and other people of interest with their future potential.
Berserk Button: Double-subverted. If there's anything that could get to him, it is seeing potential for greatness squandered, but usually he gets more upset and disappointed than angry. The only times he does get angry is when when people try to get rid of their own flaws (and other people's flaws) in an attempt to achieve "perfection", which Luminiferous sees as a bastardization of true Character Development, where one becomes 'perfect' through overcoming their flaws and improving because of them. He also doesn't like it when someone deliberately ruins people's innate potential either to fulfill their own goals, or according to their own biases, opinions, and traditions.
- Even when he was calling out the Changelings for letting their grudge with Dragonkind rob them of a chance to cure their Curse a thousand years earlier after Apterus' rampage, he mostly just let the ramifications speak for themselves.
- He angrily called out High King Irminsul for trying to purge his then-unborn son's flaws, stating that he's no different than Morning Star since they both share twisted standards of what perfection actually is.
- The same goes for people who ruin someone else's potential because of their own biases and opinions, such as when he angrily chewed out the ponies of Sparkling Wing's childhood kingdom for rejecting him as a potential ruler, just because Sparkling Wing was born a royal with the "wrong" sex in a matriarchal environment.
- He angrily called out both Noble Grace and Bubbling Beaker for experimenting on countless pony foals and teenagers in order to fulfill their well-meaning yet twisted and cruel goals, dashing their victims' innate potential before they had the chance to act on it or even become aware of it, and causing the crisis that led to the birth of Crystal Prism. He even made it a point to show Noble Grace and Bubbling Beaker their own potential they had squandered.
Beware the Nice Ones:
- He generally acts like a surrogate older brother to both his students and those he helps out. While he usually acts more disappointed and upset when potential is squandered, he will get angry if someone actively ruins another person's potential for various (usually selfish) reasons.
- Luminiferous was understandably angry when he learned that a matriarchal kingdom rejected Prince Sparkling Wing as heir to the throne despite his great potential as a leader simply because of his sex. While he was lenient with Silver Clock, who deeply regretted caving in to pressure to have a daughter, Luminiferous chewed out the entire kingdom for what they had done. Sparkling Wing would comment years later that Luminiferous was "scary" for someone so nice.
- Luminiferous was enraged when he learned that High King Irminsul tried purging his unborn son High King Bogolenya of his inner evil in order to truly make him a God of Good, only for it to backfire and create Belyolen and Temnobog through his son's death instead. He called Irminsul out on his actions and stated that he's no better than Morning Star since they both tried enforcing their twisted standards of perfection on innocent people, including their own children.
- He was also angry towards Noble Grace and Bubbling Beaker for the experiments that led to the birth of Crystal Prism and ruined the future potential of countless other victims. After they were arrested, tried and imprisoned for their crimes, he chewed them out while showing them the potential they themselves have squandered in their mad quest to Ascend Ponykind.
- A canonized drabble shows what happens when you genuinely make Luminiferous so angry he decides to deal with you himself rather than guide someone else to grow by doing so. A group of rogue, Malrègnar-affiliated deities, on the run from their infernal leader, decided to try and power up by magically stealing the potential from others. Luminiferous confronts them after Radiant Rapier tracked them down, and, despite the power of anything related to Malrègnar, completely shrugs off everything they threw at him. He then retaliates by slamming one of them so hard into the ground it creates a crate a kilometer in diameter before completely crushing them in moments. He then hands them over to Radiant Rapier to be taken by to their infernal mistress for punishment.
Be Yourself: Or rather, "Be the best you can be." As the Alicorn god of Perfection and Potential, he tries to encourage great individuals to improve themselves and grow into their potential, but also lets them know that the road to perfection is an uphill battle and in order to become great as he had envisioned them, they must work to reach that stage. This is how many of his students became success stories, as they worked to grow into their own potential and Ascended as a result.
Buffy Speak: He called Page Wheel's monster form as a "dangerous, blue, blob-looking monster thingy that absorbs any type of magic it came across".
The Chooser of the One: As the Alicorn god of Perfection and Potential, Luminiferous actively seeks to bring out the best in others.
- He's the reason why Thorax was able to become a Royal Changeling, and seems to have chosen both him and Dragon Lord Ember to fulfill a great destiny. This is largely because Thorax and Ember managed to become friends despite the difference in species, which becomes an important theme in 'The Changeling-Dragon Trilogy' as Luminiferous intends to help break the centuries-long racial grudge held between both Changelingkind and Dragonkind by showing them the potential they wasted in trying to satisfy said grudge.
- From what was implied, Luminiferous is also interested in bringing out Rainbow Dash's full potential so she can finally unlock and perform the fabled "Rainbow Warp".
- With the exception of Princess Brightglow and Princess Stitching Time, all the members of the Church of the Stars are people he chose in the past and nurtured until they Ascended to godhood, such as Arcaniss, Jiniri, Dazzleglow, and Sparkling Wing.
- It's implied he chose then-Crown Princess Starcatcher (Dazzleglow and Brightglow's mother) because he saw she had the potential to reunite the Pony Tribes, something vitally necessary for Equus' survival and future.
- He chose Princess Rarity/Arcus as a pupil because he saw she had the potential to permanently restore Equus's then-broken arcane fabric and reverse the fracture that once required a ritual to be done yearly to preserve its colors. She eventually does so by absorbing the Rainbow Nexus into herself.
- He chose Princess Winter Opera as his student because she had the potential to become an Alicorn that her father, War Rock, squandered with his narcissism and villainy. Thanks to both him and Blue Suede Heartstrings, Winter Opera was able to break away from War Rock's legacy and become a highly beloved and successful musician. The many good deeds she did over the years later allowed her to become the Alicorn goddess of Dark Magic, Potential, and Defiance, giving her the immortality that War Rock died trying to attain for himself.
Clones Are People, Too: Luminiferous is a perfect clone of Morning Star, but ironically a far better person than he ever was.
Curbstomp Battle:
- Known for inflicting this on his opponents due to how powerful he is. Terraton, a war god among the Giant Deities, learnt this the hard way.
- He does this to a group of renegade Malrègnar-affiliated deities. Notable for it being Malrègnar-affiliated deities, a place known for incredibly strong evils, and Luminiferous didn't even use Divine Unity or ''Arisen Demon".
Determinator: Unsurprisingly for a god of Self-Determination, Luminiferous is a very determined person and inspires others to be determined as well.
Disappointed in You: His general reaction to those who have great potential but still end up squandering it for various reasons. While he hates people who do this, he doesn't get angry as people normally would — rather, he behaves like a disappointed parent or teacher dealing with unruly and disobedient children. The aftermath of the "Revenge of Apterus" event is a prominent example of this, where he bluntly tells both the Changelings and Dragons that their racial grudge against each other really is holding them back, unlike Thorax and Ember who put it aside and became more powerful than their peers. The only exceptions to this rule are those who intentionally ruin other people's innate potential for various reasons, usually to benefit their own goals, which provoke genuine anger in him.
The Dreaded: Being as ancient and powerful as he is, and with regards to his origins as an exact clone of Morning Star, he's this to many. Subverted for those who truly knows him for who he is (and not evil).
Elemental Hair Composition: Due to being a Nightmareified Alicorn clone of Morning Star, he shares his "father"'s red mane and tail, which are both composed of fiery energy.
Endearingly Dorky: He's surprisingly adorable and dorky despite being an antediluvian Alicorn hundreds of thousands of years old. He likes playing videogames, is a fan and geeks out when he met A.K. Yearling/Daring Do, and blushes when pointed out about his age. It's part of what makes him so friendly and approachable. This also makes him rather befuddling to Changeling Queen Acanthosomastidae, who is rather traditional and expects him to behave as befitting his station as the ancient Alicorn god of Perfection and Potential.
Exotic Eye Designs: Like his father Morningstar, Luminiferious has draconic eyes, a telltale sign that he is a Nightmare Alicorn.
Expy: He's based on the titular character of Ultraman Geed. Like Ultraman Geed, Luminiferous is the son of a Fallen Hero who was corrupted by pride, and was cloned specifically for the purpose of carrying out his father's evil designs. However, he became a selfless, compassionate hero who wanted to defy his father's influence and protect everyone. When his attempts to reach out to Morning Star's better nature failed, Luminiferous was forced to kill his own father to stop his wicked deeds. His name pattern also follows Ultraman Geed's, taking the first two letters of "Destiny" and then reversing it as a symbolic gesture of defying his intended fate as his father's image and weapon.
Face of a Thug: Despite his very kindhearted and faithful personality, Luminiferous's appearance is quite the opposite, looking similar to a Nightmareified pony — flaming mane and tail, draconic eyes, demonic wings, and a curved, misshapen horn like King Sombra's. All of this tend to give him a bad reputation even though he doesn't mean to.
A Form You Are Comfortable With: Subverted. He's not ashamed of his true form, but for the sake of convenience and not scaring away people who don't know of his true nature, Luminiferous often appears as a young Neighponese unicorn.
Give a Man a Fish...: Firmly believes in 'teaching people how to fish' rather than just 'giving them the fish', due to his portfolio. While he could choose to solve mortals' problems for them, he would rather help them solve it themselves, as he is confident in mortals' potential for greatness. He even has abilities based around that concept, using his powers to briefly unlock the full potential of those he wishes and allow them to save the day.
Gone Horribly Right: Morning Star kept trying to make a perfect clone of himself. After many of Luminiferous's failed 'siblings,' Morning Star finally succeeded with Luminiferous...who was 'Morning Star as he should've been' and turned against him.
Good Is Not Soft: That being said, if he has to go save the day personally, he would do it, and as many Fallen Deities, Demons and Monsters found out, the might and experience of an ancient Alicorn that's hundreds of thousands of years old is nothing to scoff at.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: As a side effect of being made of Primordial Quintessence, Lumi can No-Sell corrupting influences, like cursed objects and spells.
In-Series Nickname: Several characters who know him personally call him "Lumi".
Like Father, Unlike Son: Unlike his monstrous, narcissistic father who only cared about perfection in himself and sought to rid the world of all 'imperfections', Luminiferous chooses to seek perfection in others and bring it out. The only thing they share is their appearance.
Meaningful Name:
- "Luminiferous" is an archaic word that describes something as producing or transmitting light.
- His mortal alias, "Blood Seed", is short for "Blood Set Destiny", except with the first two letters of "Destiny" reversed. It represents how he was supposed to be a weapon for his villainous, narcissistic father, Morning Star, but he ended up subverting his destiny by becoming a heroic deity despite his terrifying appearance.
Mentor Archetype: He served as this for many individuals over the years. As the god of Perfection and Potential, he is attracted to certain people's potential for good, including godhood, and tries his best to help his students cultivate that potential. And being the god of Self-Determination means that his students come from all walks of life, regardless of race, status, and/or beliefs.
- Luminiferous personally mentored the Glow sisters, who are also his biological sisters as they share a father in the evil Morning Star, something he didn't discover until much, much later.
- Dazzleglow and her sisters were Luminiferous' students who all four Ascended to godhood and became royal founders of their own kingdom, Kerajaan Cahaya.
- Luminiferous took great interest in the newly-Ascendant Changeling King Thorax, and Dragon Lord Ember, despite the ongoing racial blood feud held between Changelingkind and Dragonkind. This is because Thorax and Ember were willing to cast aside their people's hatred of each other and become best friends, and thus they have more potential to become full-blooded divines than any of their respective peoples. Luminiferous has even empowered them twice with divine power during the 'Changeling-Dragon Trilogy', the first time being against Princess Apterus, where he would give Thorax and Ember their future potential to fight evenly with the rampaging hybrid.
- At one point, he took in a very young Alicorn demigod, Crystal Prism, to help recover from his traumatic experiences and Ascension, and to help him grow into his own potential. This is mostly because he felt guilty for causing Crystal's death instead of finding a way to save him from his corrupted form, and wanted to make up for it.
- In the Third Age, he mentored both Princess Jiniri, back when she was the mortal mare Razzaroo, and Prince Sparkling Wing, a royal pegasus who was cast aside by his subjects in favor of his younger sister because his sex barred him from his family's matriarchal line of succession. Jiniri would become the Alicorn of Miracles and Wishes and the Mother of modern Genies, while Sparkling Wing would become the Alicorn of Peace, Unity, Leadership, and Weather.
- He would also influence Golden Scepter, an ancient Alicorn Emperor from both the Alicorn Civilization and the Imperium of Ponykind, into undertaking a long process of Character Development despite the latter being much older than him, so he can break free from both his own mistakes and the mistakes of the other Alicorns. By the time they would reunite in the Fourth Age, Golden Scepter has become a much kinder stallion, and they would ironically become friends.
- He and Blue Suede Heartstrings would become co-mentors of young Winter Opera. While Luminiferous was massively disappointed with War Rock for squandering his own potential, he saw great potential in his daughter and focused on helping Winter Opera become what War Rock could not. While Blue Suede was responsible for encouraging Winter Opera's musical aspirations and humility, Luminiferous would curb Winter Opera's worst flaws/impulses overall and tutor her on using her dark magic for good. Both Luminiferous and Blue Suede's influence would ensure that Winter Opera would become a heroine despite negative public expectations/opinions of her at the time, and her good deeds would allow her to Ascend to godhood.
- He also mentored Winter Opera's younger half-brother, Dissonant Tune, whom he met while the latter was recovering from a drug overdose and suffering from an existential crisis regarding his birth and place in the world. Luminiferous contributed to Dissonant's choice to become a constructive villain by making him aware of alternative paths better than the one War Rock took, which led to Dissonant traveling to Silicon Valley and learning the story of Moon Ray Vaughoof's struggles with addiction. However, Luminiferous wasn't Dissonant's only teacher — the scions of the Grand Primevals also tutored him, though it's debated whether they descended from Adversus or Nekelmu. Luminiferous' presence is implied to have influenced Dissonant's divine transformation into an Alicorn whereas Dissonant's friend, Film Trivia, became a Pony Draconequus instead.
- Ascending Dawn, Luminiferous' own mentor, would compliment him on this, pointing out that he's probably done more to increase the Alicorn population than some of the leading Hierarchs of the Alicorn Civilization had.
Morality Pet: He would serve as a positive influence for Emperor Golden Scepter after the latter's reemergence in the Second Age, teaching him kinder and more benevolent ways of interacting with his mortal subjects and making him realize that his then-current behavior was toxic and high-hoofed. This is justified in that Golden Scepter had been subjected to a tragically unfortunate combination of war-related PTSD, untreated psychological issues, and immortality-based loneliness before the Known Ages, so when he reemerged in the Second Age, he was essentially a very broken stallion. Luminiferous's compassion would gradually rub off on him and reawaken the best parts of himself, influencing Golden Scepter to atone for his past crimes and eventually seek therapeutic help from Mentálne, the young Bogolenya Deer goddess of Psychology. He would also, because of Luminiferous, ease up on his Fantastic Racism towards Synthetic Automatons and develop a respect for the heroic Automaton, Corona and his sister, Aurora.
Morally Superior Copy: Of his father Morning Star, the Light of Perfection/Baleful Light, on account of being a clone of him who turned out noble and good and went on to stop him and help the world wherever he goes.
Must Make Amends: Part of the reason why he took in the young demigod Crystal Prism as his student, besides seeing they're similar to each other. Luminiferous genuinely didn't know that the "dangerous, blue, blob-looking monster thingy" was a unicorn colt named Page Wheel, who was transformed by Noble Grace and Bubbling Beaker's horrendous experiments in their attempt to mass-produce Alicorns. So he ended up killing the pony equivalent of a child for the greater good without looking for better alternate options until it was too late, when he and the Equestrian Princesses discovered Page Wheel's body. He became Crystal Prism's mentor in order to make up for what he did and the trauma he unknowingly inflicted on his student.
My God, What Have I Done?: Both he and the Equestrian Princesses reacted with horror when they learned too late that the magic-eating monster they killed to save the Grittish Isles was actually a unicorn colt named Page Wheel, who was transformed by horrific magical experiments. The worst part was that they killed him without looking for other ways to save him. Part of the reason why Luminiferous took in Page Wheel, now Crystal Prism as his student is to make up for the trauma he unknowingly inflicted on the young Alicorn demigod.
Nice Guy: He's incredibly carefree, friendly and approachable, described in one Codexverse story as like a loving older sibling. This is a constant source of dismay for Changeling Queen Acanthosomatidae, who despite their cordial relationship is rather befuddled by Luminiferous's casual behavior, which she sees as unbecoming for an antediluvian Alicorn god of Perfection and Potential. That being said, it still doesn't mean he's not capable of defending himself.
"Not So Different" Remark:
- Part of the reason why he took in the young demigod, Crystal Prism, as his student is because he acknowledged Crystal Prism's past as similar to his own and knows what it's like to be created as a wheel to carry someone's unscrupulous agenda, as his Fallen father, Morning Star, had done.
- He angrily states to High King Irminsul that what he did to his then-unborn son in the womb was no different than what the evil Alicorn Morning Star did to ensure his own twisted view of perfect, where one is without flaws instead of working to overcome their flaws and improve because of them.
The Paragon: Became this for many, much to his own father's discontent. He's also a patron of mortal paragons, inspiring and aiding heroes and champions of Equus throughout the ages. Several of them even Ascended to become benevolent deities in their own right, with most members of the Church of the Stars being just a few examples.
The Paragon Always Rebels: Played with. He is a paragon, and he did rebel — except that unlike most examples where the paragon falls and becomes a villain, he is the son of a villain who rises and becomes a hero.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech:
- After the unicorn trio Decepticolt, Goldencap, and Zappityhoof pressed Crystal Prism's Trauma Button hard and provoked him into an Unstoppable Rage by claiming he's an entitled person who wants to keep the secrets of Alicornhood from "worthy" individuals, Luminiferous interfered and gave them a thorough dressing-down in turn. It's noted that it would've worked had a mysterious being likely Ispita hadn't whisked them away.
  Luminiferous: If you were willing to do the work and be a moral person? All you would've had to do is seek me out. I would've GLADLY helped you become Alicorns... As I have others. I have NO desire to keep the ability to become an Alicorn secret. In fact... I look forwards to a day where anyone who chooses and has a good heart can become one. Your problem isn't that no one wants to give you a chance, it's that you're too lazy to take the ones offered because they'd be too much work. THAT is why you've squandered your potential.
- Mixed with What the Hell, Hero?, he gave one to High King Irminsul for trying to enforce his twisted standards of perfection onto his then-unborn son, High King Bogolenya, by magically purifying him of his flaws, which killed Bogolenya in the womb and created the twins Belyolen and Temnobog. Luminiferous states that Irminsul is no different from the evil Alicorn Morning Star, who sought to get rid of flaws in general out of a deep sense of narcissism.
Screw Destiny: One of his powers is to "Reject Fate" — as the Alicorn god of Potential, he can change prophecies and fates to his will, no matter how inevitable they are. This makes him a valuable boon to some, and a bane to others (particularly villains that are protected by prophecies) — notably, he became a target of ire among the Changeling Kings of the Summer Court, who believe that their semi-divine heritage as children of Emperor Blackthorn makes them entitled to royal privileges and the right to rule. His power of "Reject Fate" seems to have influenced his belief that everyone has the potential to become great heroes and individuals, even gods, regardless of what some people might think, and always tries to help these people tap into said potential whenever he can. Those who ruin others' potential, usually out of selfish and arrogant reasons, will always earn his disapproval and even anger.
- It's revealed in Golden Scepter's entry that after he was shown the ruins of the fallen Imperium of Ponykind, Luminiferous encouraged him in his despair to break free from the shackles of his past and the mistakes of the Alicorns by learning from the examples set by his mortal subjects. Despite his initial animosity towards Luminiferous due to looking like Morning Star, Golden Scepter heeded his advice and became a much kinder ruler after spending three Ages wandering all over Equus. He would even encourage a despairing Crystal Prism to forge his own path as the Alicorn demigod of Rebirth and Change after the latter believed that being the symbol of a "New Age" for Ponykind is all he has for a future now.
- When Prince Sparkling Wing, then a mortal pegasus, was rejected as heir to his family's throne by his own subjects for being born with the "wrong" sex, Luminiferous refused to let him fade into obscurity, and took him as his student after Sparkling Wing's mother, Queen Silver Clock, pleaded for him to teach her son the things that she was unable to teach him. This led to Sparkling Wing doing great things all over Equus, eventually allowing him to become an Alicorn god.
Secret Test of Character: He transformed an Earth pony filly, Midnight Bell, into a unicorn after she wished to be one on a shooting star, wanting to see if she actually wanted to be a unicorn, with all the expectations and baggage that came with it. Later on, when Midnight Bell refused to be turned into a unicorn again, having found her own calling in life, Luminiferous was noted to be rather impressed and proud of her.
Self-Made Orphan: Justified; as he was created directly from Morning Star's Primordial Quintessence, Morning Star is Luminiferous's biological father by all intents and purposes. However, his intended purpose as his father's weapon was averted once he was adopted into a pony family and gained a moral compass because of them, and so he would rise to oppose and eventually kill Morning Star to stop him from spreading his evil across Equus anymore.
Sins of Our Fathers: Defied. While many fear him for being an exact copy of his sire, Morning Star, his resemblance is only skin-deep. Those who do know him as he truly is praise him for his benevolent actions, with Amareros holding him as a shining example of what a deity of Perfection and Potential should be. He also refuses to let his father's crimes affect or shape him, as to him, "bloodlines mean nothing" — it's a person's own choices that influences their development. After all, Tirek and Orochi did become horrible monsters despite being born to great parents. Thus, he makes sure to teach everyone, including his own children, the Luminiferi, a lesson on avoiding this trope since judging others solely based on their connections to wicked people is what hinders one's potential to become good. Even the likes of Emperor Golden Scepter, an ancient Alicorn god who was badly hurt by Morning Star's actions, eventually came around upon seeing that he is nothing like his father.
So Proud of You: As the God of Potential, he tends to react this way whenever the people he helps/mentors start growing into their potential and become the heroes they were meant to be, instead of squandering it for evil purposes.
- He was responsible for Midnight Bell's temporary unicorn transformation because he overheard her desperately wishing to be one on a shooting star, and wanted to see if she really wanted to be a unicorn, with all the expectations and baggage that came with it. Later on, when Midnight Bell refused to be turned into a unicorn again, having found her own calling in life, Luminiferous was noted to be rather impressed and proud of her.
- He tells Button Mash "good job" for defeating CreepEntity513 and saving its victims after Crystal Prism led everyone out of the gaming realm and into the real world through a portal in Button Mash's Crystavision set.
- He was noted to be rather surprised and proud after Sparkling Wing resolved an enduring and petty feud between two noble Houses that nearly caused its two heirs/lovers to run away and commit suicide together to escape their families' hatred. He was also proud when Sparkling Wing managed to Ascend to Alicornhood.
- Both he and Blue Suede Heartstrings (now King Caerulus Melodia Equestria-Corporatum) are very proud of Princess Winter Opera for overcoming the flaws/impulses that corrupted her father, War Rock, and becoming everything that her father squandered in his quest for immortality.
Super-Empowering: As the Alicorn god of Potential, he can temporarily empower mortal individuals with their future potential, which almost always turns them into a powerful deity. He does this both to lend aid during crucial battles, and to give the recipient(s) a taste of what they could become should they take certain paths.
- During the "Revenge of Apterus" event, he would empower both Thorax and Ember with their future potential, turning Thorax into a full-blooded divine Changeling and Ember into a dragon goddess that's even larger than her father, Dragon Lord Torch. This had the dual purpose of allowing them to fight Apterus on equal footing, and to make a point to both Changelingkind and Dragonkind that they are wasting their potential on a bloody and vicious grudge that has hurt even innocent people not involved in it.
- After he was tipped off by Crystal Prism's empathetic foresight, he helped Button Mash defeat the evil digital spirit, "CreepEntity513", by giving him a magical trinket. The trinket in question would lend Button Mash his future potential should his desire to protect his loved ones be strong enough to resonate with him. This would quickly lead to CreepEntity513's death, as it couldn't stand a chance against a foal that was temporarily turned into a young Alicorn, and was further empowered by its various victims.
- During a battle against one of Ispita's divine children, 'Ajnihat Mudhhab, he empowered Rainbow Dash with her future potential, giving her the power to absolutely shatter 'Ajnihat Mudhhab's time-loops and render him as powerful as a "Tier II"-type deity. This would play into 'Ajnihat Mudhhab's defeat and sealing, enraging his mother Ispita because he was crucial to her plans for "The Darkest Wish".
Superior Successor:
- He's one for his father, Morning Star; as his profile stated, he's described as being like Morning Star as he should have been, due to using his powers to bring about perfection and potential in others instead of focusing on getting rid of flaws altogether out of deep narcissism.
- Also to his master and uncle Ascending Dawn; as Lumi is noted to have even more potential than he has and caused a massive boom in the Alicorn population.
A Taste of Power: He can temporarily grant others their future potential and power, giving them a taste of what they're capable of his they apply themselves properly. They can reach this on their own, and it's merely meant to give them the power for a necessary moment or just to see what they could become if they try.
Time Abyss: The ascendant Alicorn Civilization fell hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years ago, and he was created not too long after. Needless to say, he is ancient. The only known Alicorns on Equus currently older than him is Queen Mzazi and Golden Scepter — Mzazi is technically a "Zebralicorn" and is 4 million years old, while Golden Scepter, though younger than Mzazi, is similarly ancient, having lived in the prosperous Alicorn Civilization as well as fought against Morning Star through ten Ages of war.
Walking the Earth: Did this ever since he defeated his father for good, helping people wherever he could and inspiring them to become their best.
What the Hell, Hero?:
- He called out Changelingkind in general for letting their racial hatred of Dragonkind get in the way of finding a permanent cure for their Curse a thousand years early by forcibly separating Queen Acherontia and Dragon Lord Vulcan, sealing the Star-Crossed Lovers away out of sheer disgust towards their union, and then not bothering or caring to look for the lost Princess Apterus and rescue her from the cruelly abusive Summer Court Changeling King who kidnapped her. While he wasn't angry at them, he did allow the ramifications of their actions to speak for themselves.
- He also gives High King Irminsul a "The Reason You Suck" Speech for trying to magically alter his then-unborn son so he'll be "perfect" without flaws, essentially mutilating and killing his son in the womb. He proceeds to point out that Irminsul shares the same twisted ideas of perfection as the evil Alicorn Morning Star, Luminiferous's father. It's noted that this is one of the few times where Luminiferous is genuinely angry.
  Luminiferous: You are no different than my father: believing perfection is the ABSENCE of flaws, rather than the OVERCOMING of them. Growing BECAUSE of them, not IN SPITE of them. Still, in spite of YOUR mistake, your son will indeed grow because of his flaws, even if those flaws aren't part of him. And those flaws have more potential than you will ever know.
The Worf Barrage: When confronting a group of renegade Malrègnar-affiliated deities, he allows them to hit him with everything they have...only succeeding in a Smoke Shield and failing to so much as scratch him.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Due to being an Alicorn god of Perfection and Potential, as well as his general personality, he is very encouraging to those he teaches and helps, and often assures them that even if they don't think so, they are a lot stronger and more powerful than they give themselves credit for. This would lead to many of his students gaining the self-confidence needed to tap into their own potential, becoming great individuals in the end.
You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: Given his nature as the Alicorn god of Potential, he tends to give out speeches and reprimands of this nature to those who hold great innate potential, but choose to squander it for malicious and/or selfish means.

Moon Ray Vaughoof, the King of Blues/King Tunglið Hreinsar Innlausn-Heimdrasil, the Sovereign of Cycles

See his page here.

Wind Whistler/Princess Ataraxia, the Princess of Reason

Classification: Elemental/Ascendant

Portfolio: Self-Control, Reason, Technique

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

Princess Ataraxia, born Wind Whistler (her entry here

) is the Alicorn goddess of Self-Control, Reason, and Technique, and is a benevolent member of the Church of the Stars.

Alliterative Name: Wind Whistler.
All Your Powers Combined: As an Alicorn, she has combined magics of all Pony tribes, including new tribes that evolved during her time as Abaddon's warden. She's noted to be very fascinated by this and has been trying to learn each tribe's powers.
Anthropomorphic Personification: She's an Alicorn goddess who embodies Self-Control, Reason, and Technique.
Awesomeness by Analysis: As a goddess of Reason, she has the ability to speed up her mind, allowing her to not only scan her environment, but also find reasonable answers to dire situations at high speeds.
Break Them by Talking: Unintentionally does this to to several Autorist and Tribalist groups who wanted to kill the Lights of Potential for being "unnatural" by pointing out that half of Equestria is descended from clones.
Cheerful Child: When she was younger, she was ditzier and rather silly. Her present logical and intelligent mindset was the result of a combination of being invested in her own studies, and constantly having to keep Firefly out of trouble. She ends up being reminded of her old fillyhood self when a group of Frazzits gave her the free-spirited, ditzy personality of her friend Fizzy, which prompted her to lighten up a little.
Commonality Connection: Since her public reemergence in the Fourth Age, she would quickly bond with Princess Merula due to both sharing a passionate love for studying and their similarly intelligent mindsets.
Crossover Relatives: Both she and Firefly are joint-ancestors of G4 Rainbow Dash here in the Codexverse, where in their respective canons they weren't related at all.
Did You Think I Can't Feel?: While she is extremely stoic and logical, she hates it whenever her friends treat her like an emotionless robot for not showing her emotions the same way as they do.
Fake Defector: In order to stop Crunch's rampage, she had to pretend to join Crunch's side and let one of her friends, Truly, be turned into stone. While her actions did lead to Crunch's defeat (and Truly's restoration) and reformation, she deeply regretted betraying her friends since she endangered Truly's life. However, her friends, including Truly, would forgive her for it.
Forgiveness: Her friends, including Truly, forgave her for siding with Crunch the Rockdog and letting Truly be turned to stone, since her actions were necessary in giving Crunch the Heart Stone and letting him feel positive emotions.
The Good Chancellor: She would serve as the personal advisor of Megan Williams alongside Magic Star/Magicum, who was the Lord Chancellor, after Megan became leader of the Dream Kingdom and turned it into the Paradise Empire. Even after Ascending to godhood, she would still serve the role until the end of the First Age.
Good Wings, Evil Wings: A "Multicolored wings" example. As an ancient Alicorn goddess from the First Age, she has a magical wing gradient going from cyan to pink, which is one of many eldritch traits that Alicorns develop as they get "older" by divine standards.
Heavenly Blue: She's a cyan-furred Alicorn goddess, which not only denotes her divinity, but also her benevolence. She also helped take down Abaddon, a Fallen child of Amareros, the Love Primeval, by keeping him imprisoned inside her own body for tens of thousands of years, until her sister and their friends found a way to kill Abaddon.
Heroic Lineage: She and Firefly are joint-ancestors of the Fourth Age's Rainbow Dash, the former Bearer of Loyalty, a member of the Mane Six, and a legendary Equestrian heroine.
The Magnificent: Known as "the Princess of Reason", due to being a stoic, logical goddess who embodies Reason.
Meaningful Rename: Her birth name is Wind Whistler, but she would later gain an Alicorn name, "Ataraxia", following the death of Abbadon and her reemergence in the Fourth Age. "Ataraxia" is a Greek term referring to a state of serene calmness, which fits her stoic, logical personality as well as her domains of Self-Control, Reason, and Technique.
Modest Royalty: She generally prefers to wear pink barding with minimalist designs, though she has yet to have new ones made due to having long outgrown her old barding.
Mutants: She's a "So Soft Pony", giving her thicker fur that she can use as makeshift armor to increase her natural durability.
No-Sell:
- In her mortal youth, she was able to resist the Goblins' use of Telepathy granted by Queen Majesty's third horseshoe by using one of Majesty's other horseshoes that granted foresight. This allowed her to free those of her friends who were captured by the Goblins and steal the third horseshoe.
- After becoming a goddess of Self-Control, she gained absolute control over her own emotions, and thus spells and artifacts involving emotion manipulation had no effect on her. This made her perfect for the task of being Abaddon's warden for tens of thousands of years after the Fallen god was sealed within her body, as her domain gave her resistance to Abaddon's temptations.
Personality Swap: In one incident involving the Frazzits, she ended up with having her friend Fizzy's ditzy and free-spirited personality. By her own admission, Fizzy's personality reminded her of how she was as a young filly and later prompted her to lighten up a little.
Related in the Adaptation: In canon, there's no relation between her and Firefly. Here, they're biological sisters.
Restoration of Sanity: As a goddess of Reason, she can cast spells to help temporarily restore reason in people who are suffering from insanity.
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Due to her intelligent, logical personality, she has a tendency to use large, complex words in her speech. This becomes a character flaw of hers as others who aren't as intelligent are unable to understand what she's saying half the time, something that Princess Patch/Berani admitted to. This has led to her needing a "translator" in numerous occasions so others can understand her.
Walking the Earth: Following Abbadon's death and a much-needed bath on her part, she would spend the rest of the year traveling all over Equus together with Firefly, reconnecting with the world and figuring out what she missed during her time as Abbadon's warden.
Weak, but Skilled: Because all of her domains revolve around promoting self-control, reason, and learning new techniques, she is entirely dependent on using her own skills and intelligence in combat. This can be a problem when she's facing much stronger and more skilled foes, or situations where her intelligence or skills aren't enough.

Prince Arcaniss, the Amethyst Guardian

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Magic, Nobility, Protection

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"A noble character is as much a treasure as those belonging to any hoard."

Prince Arcaniss (his entry here

) is the Ryujin of Magic, Nobility, and Protection, and a joint-member of both the Draconic Pantheon and the Church of the Stars.

Adaptational Badass: He's G1 Spike, except here he Ascended to godhood under Luminiferous' tutelage and grew into a mountain-sized dragon god who's likely the third-most powerful dragon in existence. It's also possible that G1 Spike was just one of his many mortal incarnations, meaning that he might be even more older and powerful.
Adaptation Name Change: His name in G1 canon is Spike. Here, he has a full name, Kenbroth Gilspotten Heathspike the First, aka Spike the First. His current name is Arcaniss, which translates to "magic" in the Draconic language in Forgotten Realms.
Anthropomorphic Personification: He is a Ryujin who embodies Magic, Nobility, and Protection.
The Archmage: As the Dragon God of Magic, he is an incredibly powerful Dragon Mage and likely the most capable one currently existing due to a huge majority of Dragonkind neglecting their magical capabilities in favor of brute strength. He channels his magic through his Dragon's flames to various effects, such as teleportation, which his mortal descendants in the 'Dynasty of Spikes' inherited down to the current Spike. It's also noted by his entry that he has dominion over all of Dragonkind's elemental magics.
Armor and Magic Don't Mix: Averted. Despite wearing golden armor, it hasn't impeded his ability to use magic in the slightest, and he can still cast spells just fine.
Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Subverted. Despite being the third-strongest divine Dragon, he loathes Dragonkind's mentality that being stronger and more powerful makes them superior to "tiny" races. So while he's an ancient Dragon god and an extremely skilled mage, he uses his power for good rather than to dominate those weaker than him.
Big Little Brother: He's the younger adopted brother of Princess Regina (G1 Princess Tiffany), assuming G1 Spike was truly his original form rather than an incarnation. Being a Dragon God, he physically dwarfs his sister in size.
Bigotry Exception: Changeling Empress Blackrose normally acts quite racist towards Dragonkind due to the traumatic "Burning of Amorea" event, but she made an exception with him because he actively tried to stop his Dragon peers from burning down Amorea and plundering its riches.
Breath Weapon: Like his draconic peers, he has fire breath, though it also serves as the basis for his many spells.
The Chooser of the One: Whenever a worthy Dragon Lord is found by him, he unlocks the full capabilities of their Dragon Lord Scepter and gift them their personal Dragon Lord Regalia.
Deity of Human Origin: He was once known as G1 Spike of the First Age before he ascended to divinity. However, he's been known to incarnate himself as a mortal drake to get more connected with the mortals he once sojourned with.
Famous Ancestor: He's the first Spike, making him the founder of the "Dynasty of the Spikes" as well as the father of the Mana Drakes. He's also an accomplished hero in his own right, having been the guardian of Ponyland and a close friend of the Rainbow Empress during the First Age. It's noted that one time when G4 Spike met him, he promptly fainted out of shock.
Fantastic Racism: Averted. Because he was raised by ponies and even adventured with some of them, Arcaniss has developed a more compassionate perspective of smaller races, seeing them as racial equals. He hates his people treating them as "inferior" for various reasons and sees it as a very toxic mindset that's blinding them to the potential of other races.
Fling a Light into the Future: He would go into slumber after the First Age ended, so he would wake up later and help his divine peers assist mortal sapientkind in breaking the Cycle.
Gentle Giant: While smaller than his draconic divine parents, Tiamat and Bahamut, his true divine form is still noted to be rather large, to the point where he often got mistaken for a mountain whenever he walks. He's also a very benevolent and noble dragon, which is notable considering that most of his peers, including Tiamat, believe themselves to be superior to "tiny" races. Because of this, as well as his attempted prevention of the "Burning of Amorea" event, he's one of few Dragons that Changeling Empress Blackrose hasn't openly acted racist towards.
God in Human Form: Draconic equivalent. He is known to incarnate as a mortal Dragon from time to time, with his divinity and memories suppressed, in order to maintain his connection to mortal-kind. Interestingly, this leads to in-universe ambiguity as to his exact age; the earliest record of his existence in Known History was as G1 Spike in the First Age, but as a Tier IV-ranked 'Greater Deity' he may be older than that. This leads to the question: whether he actually is G1 Spike, who Ascended and was adopted into the Draconic Pantheon, or if G1 Spike was his younger divine-self incarnating as a mortal at the time.
I Got Bigger: He's G1 Spike, all grown up and ascended to a mountain-sized dragon god.
Legacy Character: He's the original G1 Spike. Spike from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is one of his youngest descendants.
The Magnificent: Known as "the Amethyst Guardian", due to being a divine amethyst-scaled dragon that embodies Nobility and Protection, and protects the innocent while nurturing their nobler qualities.
The Maker: He is the progenitor of the Jewel-scaled Drakes, most notably the Mana Drakes. One of them would become Pyro II in present day.
Meaningful Name: In Forgotten Realms, arcaniss translates to "magic" in the Draconic language. Prince Arcaniss is an ancient Ryujin who embodies Magic, and is currently one of the strongest Dragon mages in existence.
Meaningful Rename: His mortal name is Kenbroth Gilspotten Heathspike the First, or just "Spike the First". After Ascending to godhood under Luminiferous' tutelage, he changed his name to Arcaniss, which is a Draconic term for "magic" in Forgotten Realms.
Mentor Archetype:
- He has taken his very distant descendant, G4 Spike, under his wing after meeting him, something that Princess Twilight Sparkle appreciates. He hopes that he could help Spike Ascend into a divine dragon one day.
- He has also become the mentor of Dragon Knight, who became his champion after being freed from 'Ajnihat Mudhhab's thrall, teaching him how to be kind without letting himself be manipulated by unsavory individuals.
Nepotism: He underwent accusations of this as he deemed G4 Spike worthy despite the latter ruling for only a few minutes and giving a few orders, making it unfair to the other worthy Dragon Lords who had to go through much bigger hoops to be just as qualified.
Only the Chosen May Wield: He placed a seal on the Dragon Lord Scepters to keep the majority of their more powerful abilities from falling into the wrong hands so that they can only be unlocked by a worthy Dragon Lord. He can also shut down these abilities at will. Tiamat was initially enraged by this as it technically counts as sabotage, but he managed to convince her that it was for the best.
The Paragon: Justified. It's noted by his entry that due to embodying Nobility as a concept, people feel more in touch with their nobler impulses and are inspired to do good things just by being around him. Of course, even without it, he wants people to do good on their own volition and has taught various mortals how to do it.
Purple Is Powerful: He's a purple dragon, the first of his kind, and he's noted to be a very powerful Dragon Mage who's only second to his divine parents, Tiamat and Bahamut, in terms of overall strength.
Related in the Adaptation: He's the divine ancestor of G4 Spike, who would become his student. And due to being the progenitor of the Mana Drakes, he's related to the Pyro dynasty as well.
Riddle for the Ages: Is G1 Spike his mortal self before ascending to godhood? Or was it simply one of his many mortal incarnations?
Token Minority: He's the only divine Dragon member of the Church.
World's Strongest Man: Played with. He's the third-most powerful Dragon in existence, divine, mortal or otherwise. However, whereas Queen Tiamat is the strongest and King Bahamut is the fastest, he is the most skilled.

Prince Healing Song/Prince Medela Cantor Cahaya, the Divine Teacher

See his page here.

Prince Star Cut, the Prince of Teaching

See his folder entry here.

Prince Stella Fictor Cahaya, the Oracle of the Stars

See his folder entry here.

Princess Amicitia Sparkle Equestria, the Spark of Friendship/Princess Twilight Sparkle, the Bearer of Magic

See her page here.

Princess Brightglow, the Stellar Diplomat

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Peace, Thermal Energy, Space

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"It is within all our interests to work together to break the cycles keeping us bound. Then we can break our limitations and reach for the stars."

Princess Brightglow (her old entry here

; her new entry here

) is the Alicorn goddess of Peace, Thermal Energy, and Space, and is the younger sister of Queen Dazzleglow.

Adaptational Badass: While the canon Brightglow was awesome, she wasn't a powerful goddess. She also wasn't a Power Ranger.
Adaptation Species Change: She was a G1 "Glow n' Show" Pony toy, though My Little Pony Tales did depict her as a Pegasus. Here, she's a Sparkle Pony Alicorn whose mixed heritage comes from her parents being a Celestial Pony (father) and an Equusian/Telluisian Pony mare (mother). This also applies to her sisters.
All Your Powers Combined: She not only has the combined magics of the three Pony tribes, she also has the combined magics of the Sparkle Ponies. This is because she and her sisters (including Brightglow) are the hybrid daughters of a "Visitor" — specifically, a Celestial Pony.
Animal Motifs: It turns out not only did Power Rangers exist in the Second Age, she was one of them, they Yellow Ranger to be exact. Her motif is peacocks.
Anthropomorphic Personification: She's an Alicorn goddess who embodies Peace, Thermal Energy, and Space.
Commonality Connection: It's noted in Prince Sparkling Wing's entry that she became one of his friends due to being diplomatic Alicorn deities.
Dangerous Forbidden Technique: She was a Power Ranger in the Second Age, but her Power Coin was damaged in the Void Aeon. As in canon, she can still use it despite that, but even her divine nature can't fully protect her from the negative effects of doing so and is painful to utilize. Thus she saves it for a last resort. She does so during Final Ragnarok so she could summon her Zord. She eventually gets it repaired.
The Empath: As an Alicorn goddess of Peace, she's got this as a power. Her entry notes that with her empathy, she can sense the emotions of those around her, making her good at reading people and thus is suitable for the role of a diplomat. This, combined with her ability to read heat differentials through her domain of Thermal Energy, also makes her a Living Lie Detector; Emperor Blackthorn loves amusing himself with testing the limits of Brightglow's power during diplomatic meetings, as he himself is a consummate deceiver and manipulator. However, she's unable to calm people down with her empathy like Mier is.
Henshin Hero: She's the Yellow Power Ranger, and can still transform, although her damaged coin makes it a dangerous prospect until its repaired.
Humongous Mecha: As a Power Ranger, she has her own Zord, the Peacock Zord to be exact. She can still summon it, though until her Power Coin is fixed it's physically painful for her to morph to summon it.
An Ice Person: As a goddess of Thermal Energy, she can absorb it to free things or manipulate ice and cold.
Living Lie Detector: Being both able to see heat differentials and read emotions makes lying to her quite difficult. Blackthorn likes to test her limits during diplomatic meetings as an amusing diversion for him.
Magic Hair: Her mane and tail are made of pink and purple energy, and are both described as being made of the same ethereal matter as Dazzleglow's. However, when angered, her hair transforms into burning flames due to her heat-based magic.
Mentor Archetype: She and Blue Suede Heartstrings would tutor a then-mortal Prince Shamrock Bloom on Ascending to godhood. He eventually succeeded, becoming the Alicorn god of Luck, Dance, and Prophecy; he admitted he didn't think he could become a god and fainted when he realized he did it.
Playing with Fire: She can manipulate thermal energy, letting her use heat to attack with.
Space Master: As an Alicorn goddess of Space, she specializes in spacial magic like her older sister, though in her case, she is more skilled in her domain's defensive aspects. A few of her capabilities include creating portals and bending space for defensive maneuvers. Her domain also makes her capable of speaking to celestial bodies via Telepathy, but admits that Dazzleglow is better at speaking through stars, while Dazzleglow admits that Brightglow is better at speaking through planets.
Super Mode: She was the Yellow Ranger of a Second Age Power Rangers team, and could still use it even after ascending. As she's already extremely powerful, her morphed state is more of this trope now. It's also a Dangerous Forbidden Technique, as her Power Coin was damaged. She eventually gets it repaired.

Princess Grizelda II, the Heart of Griffonstone

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Morality, Sound, Defiance

Rank: Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)

"If we are to defy something, it must be for a cause that is morally sound. For example, should we defy the ruler who refuses to follow cruel, ingrained traditions out of compassion and ethics? Or should we defy the ruler who commits great atrocities behind honeyed words and noble intentions?"

Princess Grizelda II (her entry here

) is a Celestial Griffon goddess of Morality, Sound, and Defiance, and is a surviving daughter of Queen Grizelda I, the Storm Breaker.

Abstract Apotheosis: Under the tutelage of Blue Suede Heartstrings, she would eventually Ascend to godhood as the Celestial Griffon goddess of Morality, Sound, and Defiance.
Anthropomorphic Personification: She's a Celestial Griffon goddess who embodies Morality, Sound, and Defiance.
Divine Parentage: Inverted and played straight. She's the daughter of Queen Grizelda I, a Griffon heroine who saved her kingdom from being conquered by Emperor Yaniv, but chose to stay mortal instead of Ascending after discovering she became tainted by the toxic attitudes she opposed in her people. On the flipside, she herself is implied to be a very distant biological ancestor of Gilda.
The Empath: As a goddess of Morality, she possesses a sense of empathy that lets her detect the morality of those around her.
Ethnic God:
Gold and White Are Divine: She has the hindquarters of a white lion, and she wears her deceased mother's golden armor as her royal barding. Her talons are also made of gold due to being a Celestial Griffon. They're all indicators of her divine heritage and status.
Heroic Lineage: She's the daughter of Queen Grizelda I, who fought and killed Emperor Yaniv, earned Agalina's respect by freeing her from slavery at Yaniv's hooves, and did her best to oppose the imperialistic, racist, and warmongering attitudes of her people.
Immune to Mind Control: As a goddess of Defiance, she possesses an unbreakable will that allows her to resist mind control as well as magical attempts to control her.
Karmic Jackpot: Invoked. As a goddess of Morality, she possesses the ability to reward those who succeed in learning their moral lessons well.
Laser-Guided Karma: Invoked. As a goddess of Morality, she can reward those who learn their moral lessons well. Presumably, this means that she can also punish those who fail to learn their moral lessons.
Like Father, Unlike Son: Downplayed. While she shares a lot of traits with her mother, she's far more upbeat, energetic, and open than the latter due to not being introverted or having suffered as many hardships in her lifetime. She also succeeded in becoming a goddess while her mother, despite having potential to do the same, chose to live and die as a mortal after discovering she was affected by the same toxic attitudes she opposed in mortal Griffonkind.
Magic Hair: Feathers, in her case. Her tail and head feathers are described as tapering off into sonic waves due to being an ancient goddess of Sound.
The Magnificent: Known as "the Heart of Griffonstone", due to being a patron goddess of Griffonstone who encourages benevolence in mortal Griffonkind by teaching them moral lessons.
Make Some Noise: As a goddess of Sound, she can do things like creating deafening sonic blasts, muting sound, and projecting devastating sonic roars and screams capable of shattering metal. She can also cast sonic spells by singing songbird-like songs, but is not as skilled with it as Music deities and largely learned said sonic spells from Blue Suede. However, her Sound domain can be difficult to use in the direction of allies due to having a wide area-of-effect.
Meaningful Rename: Her birth name is unknown, but after she became a Celestial Griffon, she took on her mother's name as her Ascendant one out of love for her.
Mistaken Identity: She gets mistaken for her mother, Queen Grizelda I, by Emperor Yaniv, now brought back as a Frost Lich, due to their Strong Family Resemblance. Grizelda II is quick to correct and engage her mother's old enemy in battle.
Emperor Yaniv: Who dares stand up to Yaniv-...You.
Princess Grizelda II: Not quite, you're thinking of my mother. I'll give you one chance to surrender.
Emperor Yaniv: Yaniv never yield! Yaniv conquers!
Princess Grizelda II: ...Then so be it. I'll return you to the Hell that my mother sent you to.
Never Accepted in His Hometown: Like her mother, she experienced rejection by her own kingdom (which would contain modern-day Griffonstone) for not advocating war and imperialistic superiority over their neighbors like them. What made it worse in her case is that after Ascending to godhood under Blue Suede Heartstrings' tutelage and returning to her kingdom, she found that her grandnephew had reversed all of her deceased mother's peaceful and tolerant policies upon inheriting the throne, effectively erasing Grizelda I's legacy and returning the Griffon kingdom to the same warmongering ways that Grizelda I opposed in life. This understandably left her with a lot of emotional baggage, though thankfully her mentor, Blue Suede Heartstrings, would help her deal with the subject and she found acceptance in similarly open-minded deities like Luminiferous.
Noble Bird of Prey: As a Celestial Griffon, her bird half is a Crowned Eagle with aurora-cloaked wings. She's also a benevolent and pacifistic individual who despises wars, racism, and irrational hatred, and seeks to encourage morals and virtue in people as a goddess of Morality.
Our Griffons Are Different: She's a mortal Griffoness who later Ascended to godhood and became a Celestial Griffon under Blue Suede's tutelage. And as a Celestial Griffon, she has eldritch traits like talons made of gold, aurora-cloaked wings, and head and tail feathers that taper into sonic waves.
Personality Powers: Her domain of Defiance represents her desire to defy mortal Griffonkind's imperialistic warmongering and xenophobiic attitudes due to seeing them as unjust like her mother did. Her domains of Morality and Sound come from her desire to teach mortal Griffonkind lessons on morality and spread them to all races, which also resonates with the Church of the Stars' beliefs in peaceful coexistence.
Screw Destiny: Weaponized. As a goddess of Defiance, her powers are similar to Luminiferous' in that she can defy fate and break things that bind people to a specific fate, such as prophecies and those who possess Doom-related powers such as Surtr, the Jotunn god of Doom and Destruction.
Secret Test of Character: As a goddess of Morality, she can set up moral tests and lessons for others to learn from, with her growing far stronger while doing so. Those who succeed in learning their lessons are rewarded, while those who fail are presumably punished.
Strong Family Resemblance: She strongly resembles her deceased mother, Queen Grizelda I, due to both of them being Eagle-headed Griffons, something that's taken further with her decision to wear her mother's old golden armor as her divine barding post-Ascension. It causes a returned Emperor Yaniv to briefly mistake her for her mother, which she is quick to correct.
Super-Empowering: As a goddess of Morality, she can draw strength and grant strength to others based on the present morality of those around her.
Super-Scream: As a goddess of Sound, she can project devastating sonic roars and screams capable of shattering metal.
Trickster Mentor: As part of being a teacher and goddess of Morality, she sometimes teaches lessons indirectly as it is often the most effective way for someone to learn.
Walking the Earth: She traveled the world with Grizelda I after her brother inherited the throne, seeing the world and learning from her mother the various things that drove sapientkind to harm each other. It's during her travels that she met Blue Suede Heartstrings, who became her mentor due to having all the traits Grizelda I desired her daughter to have. This led to her eventually Ascending to godhood.

Princess Jiniri, the Lady of Miracles

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Miracles, Wishes, Hope

Rank: Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)

"Take care when you make a wish! Yes yes yes..."

Princess Jiniri (her entry here

) is the Alicorn goddess of Miracles, Wishes, and Hope, and is a benevolent member of the Church of the Stars.

Adaptational Badass: In My Little Pony (G3), Razzaroo was a mortal Pony who recorded people's birthdays so they wouldn't be forgotten. Here, she became an Alicorn goddess of Miracles, Wishes, and Hope thanks to Luminiferous' tutelage, and is the powerful progenitor of the modern Genie race. She also tricked a Summer Royal Changeling into pledging his life to one of his hostages by granting his wish for godhood, earning the respect of Emperor Blackthorn.
Adaptational Intelligence: She once outsmarted a Summer Royal Changeling, King/Prince Pelcia, by granting his wish for godhood, and then tricking him into pledging his life to True Heart, one of the hostages he took to ensure his wish in the first place. What makes this notable is that Summer Royal Changelings are known to be Manipulative Bastards extraordinare, and she gained the respect of Emperor Blackthorn for it.
All Your Powers Combined: Her entry implies that she has the combined magics of all three Pony tribes, as she's described as having "the expected abilities of an Alicorn goddess".
Anthropomorphic Personification: She's an Alicorn goddess who embodies Miracles, Wishes, and Hope.
Be Careful What You Wish For: If your wish is going to backfire, expect her to be the first one to warn you and you should probably listen. Changeling King/Prince Pelcia found this out the hard way when his wish to become as powerful as Blackthorn backfired horribly when he didn't heed her warnings.
Bedlah Babe: As a goddess, she wears fancy genie attire that's primarily gold with purple fabric and jewels, complete with a veil on her face.
Benevolent Genie: She's the Mother Goddess of the modern Genie and has a genie motif. She's certainly this trope, and even warns villains who manage to get a wish out of her that their wishes won't end how they expect.
Curse Escape Clause: After reemerging in the Fourth Age and learning that several of her Genie children had decided to use their wish-granting powers for wicked ends in her absence, Jiniri punished them by binding them to their lamps, preventing her wicked children from leaving unless they were summoned. The only way to free themselves is if they grant good wishes to make up for the number of evil wishes they granted.
Deity of Human Origin: She was once a mortal Third Age Pony named Razzaroo, until she became a student of Luminiferous. Now she's an Alicorn goddess and the creator of the modern Genie race.
Elemental Hair Composition: Her entry describes her mane and tail post-Ascension as being made of golden-tinted sand that's constantly rippling and suspended.
Fling a Light into the Future: She sealed herself away by the end of the Third Age so she could wake up later and help future generations break the 'Cycle'.
Forgotten Birthday: Defied. When she was the mortal Razzaroo from the Third Age, she would always make sure to keep track of very important dates, especially birthdays. After becoming the embodiment of Wishes, she would frequently show up at people's birthday parties and listen to their wishes.
Genie in a Bottle: Subverted. While she's a Benevolent Genie and she did seal herself away in a lamp at one point, her power is completely independent of it. Also, she put herself in a lamp so she could wake up in a later Age and help future generations break the 'Cycle'. She can also inflict this on other genies as a punishment, as she did so to punish those of her children who started using their wish-making abilities for evil in her absence.
Good Is Not Dumb: She's got not a single mean bone in her body due to being from the Third Age, but she was also smart enough to grant King/Prince Pelcia's wish to become a god like Emperor Blackthorn, horrifying True Heart to make her want to save him from the horrible consequences that came afterwards, and then trick Pelcia into pledging his life to True Heart, all to save the hostages. Emperor Blackthorn was impressed and congratulated her for her plan. And when it comes down to it...
Good Is Not Soft: Neither is Jiniri not willing to put down a heavy hoof when the situation or villain calls for it. To note, when she finally caught her wayward Fallen son, Demarest — who had just been out-witted by a mortal wishing for Jiniri to appear instead of freeing an army of imprisoned evil genies as he tried forcing her to do — she is implied to have delivered a Curbstomp Battle to him, before undoing all the damage his malevolent wish-granting has caused and imprisoning him in a 'Sealing Lantern' for a "very, very, VERY long time-out".
Gratuitous Princess: Her backstory included a hilarious in-universe incident where the ruling Princess of Third-Age Ponyville, Princess Wysteria, declared then and there that all her subjects were to be made official Princesses so she wouldn't feel Lonely at the Top. This resulted in Jiniri, then Razzaroo, becoming a Princess despite not being born into royalty.
Magic Hair: Gained this post-Ascension. Her hair as the mortal Razzaroo was three-tone, being colored green, faded pink, and white. After she became an Alicorn goddess, her hair retained its colors, but it became rippling sand with a golden tint.
The Maker: She's the "mother" of the modern Genie, and most of her children are benevolent wish masters.
Meaningful Rename: As Razzaroo, she would keep track of everyone's birthday dates. After becoming Luminiferous's student, she would Ascend and become Jiniri, the Alicorn goddess of Wishes. She would also become the "mother" of the modern Genie race, with most of her children being benevolent wish masters.
Our Genies Are Different: She's a mortal Pony who Ascended to godhood under Luminiferous' tutelage, and created the modern Genie race. As a goddess of Miracles and Wishes, her normally average power skyrockets to a level equal to Discord or higher when granting wishes or calling down miracles, and she can do various things like soul manipulation, resurrection, or history alteration (within reason). Her wishes and miracles are powered by faith, however, and the stronger the faith, the more likely a wish/miracle is going to come true. However, her wishes and miracles have no strings attached, unlike Ispita, whose wishes come at a price. She also sealed herself away in a lamp for benevolent purposes, and was later freed in the Fourth Age by A.K. Yearling under Luminiferous' direction.
Punny Name: Her name post-Ascension sounds similar to "genie", with "-ri" added at the end in place of the 'e' letter.
Reality Warper: Like Ispita, when granting a wish or summoning a miracle, her power is on par or exceeding Discord's in what she can do. However, she also requires true faith or belief from the one needing the miracle or making the wish, and her power is proportional to those things.
Sealed Good in a Can: She sealed herself away in an elaborate golden lamp by the end of the Third Age so she could wake up later and help future generations break the 'Cycle'. A.K. Yearling would find her lamp hidden in the deserts of Saddle Arabia under Luminiferous' direction and release her.
Supernatural Floating Hair: Her sand-based mane and tail are constantly rippling and suspended.
Verbal Tic: As shown in her folder quote, "Yes yes yes."

Princess Magicum Ponyland, the Supreme Enchantress

See her folder entry here.

Princess Mvua, the Rainmaking Teacher

Classification: Ethereal/Elemental

Portfolio: Teaching, Rain, Harvest

Rank: Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)

"Despite us being bound by oath, there are still ways to make it rain, so our people's suffering will not be in vain."

Princess Mvua (her entry here

) is the Zebralicorn goddess of Teaching, Rain, and Harvest, and a benevolent teacher who seeks to help alleviate the troubles suffered by the country of Zebrica.

Anthropomorphic Personification: She's a Zebralicorn goddess who embodies Teaching, Rain, and Harvest.
Elemental Hair Composition: Befitting a goddess of Rain, she has a mane and tail that are composed of green rain clouds.
The Famine: Her Harvest domain allows her to induce famines to punish wicked people if necessary.
Fan-Created Offspring: She's a daughter of Queen Mzazi, aka Zigzag of G1 My Little Pony, though she's an Original Character as Zigzag didn't have any children in canon.
Food God: As a goddess of Harvest, she can make the lands fertile and harvests bountiful. However, she can bring famines to punish wicked people if necessary. Her domain also gives her some level of plant manipulation.
Green Thumb: As a goddess of Harvest, she has some level of plant manipulation.
Loophole Abuse: This is what led to her joining the Church of the Stars. At one point, she realized that while the divine oath of non-interference only applied to her mother, Queen Mzazi, she and others could still act if they didn't use their divine power, or if they joined a different, foreign pantheon. On the flipside, she and her siblings provided one for their mother — if any of them came to harm, then Mzazi could act on her family's behalf, which the oath allowed as she technically wasn't interfering with Zebrican affairs.
Magic Hair: Her mane and tail are composed of green rain clouds.
The Magnificent: Known as "the Rainmaking Teacher".
Making a Splash: As a goddess of Rain, she can create massive rainstorms to the point of causing floods, as well as create devastating droughts. It's noted that her domain meshes well with her chimeric Kelpie traits, which give her additional hydrokinetic powers as a racial trait. It also gave her synergy with Moon Ray Vaughoof/Prince Canticum Lunae Cahaya, who was a Water god before he transformed into an eldritch deity.
Mix-and-Match Critters: As a Zebralicorn, she has the double horns of an Abada, a pair of wings, and the legs of a Kelpie.
Token Minority: She's the only Zebralicorn member of the Church.

Princess Nete, the Scholarly Insight

See her folder entry here.

Princess Stitching Time, the Princess of Time

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Casualty, Fate, Time

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"We have come to the end of our time!"

Princess Stitching Time (her entry here

) is the Alicorn goddess of Casualty, Fate, and Time, and is a benevolent joint-member of the Virtusidae and the Church of the Stars.

Stitching Time is Queen Dazzleglow's beloved student, and as a filly, Stitching Time had a fascination with time, which eventually led to her being taken under Dazzleglow's wing. Eventually, thanks to Dazzleglow's guidance, she was able to become the Alicorn goddess of time, and worked together with the Time Primeval, Ourophion, in protecting the universal time stream.

The fall of the Second Age during the "Void Aeon" event and being forbidden from restoring it by changing time caused Stitching Time to corrupt herself with anger and grief, turning her into Final Epoch. Final Epoch's plan was to become powerful enough that she could erase from time anyone she deemed as threats, and to change time in a way that the only way to undo her changes would be to outright destroy Equus itself. It was her greatest hope that she could restore the Second Age to how it was before it was destroyed, thus preserving both her and her divine teacher's greatest work. With Ourophion's help, Dazzleglow confronted and defeated her student in "The Realm That Never Was", a defunct future timeline that was beyond happening. Final Epoch's actions inspired the birth of the Cult of Timebreakers, whose efforts to continue her plans would be opposed by Starswirl the Bearded and his time spells.

Starlight Glimmer's revenge gambit against Twilight Sparkle would free Final Epoch, and allow her to continue her quest to erase all the evils across time itself. With Ourophion unavailable at the time, Dazzleglow would instead use a loophole in Final Epoch's powers that presented itself when Twilight Sparkle finished Starswirl's Cutie Mark spell. While Dazzleglow fought Final Epoch, Dazzleglow's younger sister, Brightglow, briefly pulled Dame Patch out of time so she could talk down her mad daughter. Dame Patch's words distracted Final Epoch long enough for Dazzleglow to pull in Twilight Sparkle and her friends just as the Storm King was defeated. Using the Elements of Harmony, the Mane Six attacked and purified Final Epoch, returning her to her original form as Stitching Time.

Stitching Time would take up her original position as the goddess of time, but the horror of her actions caused her to develop a guilt complex that Luna is trying to help her with. Despite her sorrow over the Second Age's destruction, she is determined to atone for her crimes, and fix the damages she made to time itself.

Achievements in Ignorance: At one point, during a battle against Thracean demigods, Princess Stitching Time bucked one of them trying to backstab her from behind out of reflex, sending him flying who-knows-where. Unbeknowest to her, due to her time magic she was using at the time, she managed to kick him right into the time stream of Equus, where he drifted for some time before reappearing one week later at Ponyville, crash-landing and sliding to a halt right before Princess Stitching Time who was having a luncheon with the Council of Friendship. In short: somehow, to even her own surprise, she managed to literally buck him into next week.
Anthropomorphic Personification: She's an Alicorn goddess who embodies Casualty, Fate, and Time.
The Atoner: After her Heel–Face Turn, she becomes this. The Summer Court is not convinced, however, and many of them, Scions included, are closely watching her so they could kill her the moment she relapses into her villainous behavior as Final Epoch.
Brilliant, but Lazy: Averted. She used to be this pre-Ascension, but thankfully, proper teaching from Dazzleglow forced her to grow out of it. It's implied in Sparkling Wing's entry that she did and felt the same things that Sparkling Wing did — she was stressed out by the expectations put on her by others, and was terrified of failing them, so she would goof off and avoid her problems, or use her magic to churn out easy solutions to problems that are unavoidable. Seeing the same behaviors in Sparkling Wing greatly reminded Dazzleglow of her student.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Even as Final Epoch, she loves her mother and when Brightglow pulled her forwards in time to the present temporarily, she's the only one who can cause her to second guess her evil scheme.
Heroic Lineage: Is the daughter of Patch, one of the legendary Tales Seven. She became a villain, but is eventually redeemed.
Knight Templar: As Final Epoch, she seeks to erase the evils of the world from existence, but the damage it would cause would be cataclysmic, as without said evils, the various immortal/mortal heroes and other individuals will never be able to become great as they did. Notably, while no one would certainly miss the Storm King, his attempted global invasion would force everyone to become better fighters, with Equestria, who was hit hard by the Storm King Crisis, being forced out of political isolation while rebuilding and reforming its military so it could be better prepared against future threats.
The Magnificent: Known as "the Princess of Time", due to having great power and skill in time magic and, post-Ascension, literally being an Alicorn Princess whose domain is Time.
My God, What Have I Done?:
- She naturally had this reaction to being purified from being Final Epoch and realizing what she'd done, reduced to a sobbing wreck in her mother Patch's embrace.
- She has this reaction to realize her becoming Final Epoch and being sealed away was the final straw that nearly caused her friend Prince Shamrock to nearly commit suicide. Her response was to break down crying and hugging him while apologizing frantically.
Punny Name: Her real name before becoming Final Epoch sounds like "stitch in time".
Restoration of Sanity: On the receiving end of this trope courtesy of the Elements of Harmony, brought into her pocket reality across time and space, at the climatic end of her Fourth Age rampage as the mad and corrupted goddess of time Final Epoch.
Sealed Evil in a Can: After becoming corrupted and turning into Final Epoch, Dazzleglow was forced to seal her away in the Realm That Never Was. Thanks to Starlight's revenge plot, she escaped.
Set Right What Once Went Wrong:
- As Final Epoch, she wanted to alter history so the Second Age never ended, and then later to simply erase villains from existence. However, both due to the Butterfly of Doom and her insanity, it'd have never worked.
- After being sent to bring back the group who foiled the Dark Ages Alliance's attempt to Make Wrong What Once Went Right by sending Chrysalis back to help Spring Heart win the Winter Wedding Crisis, Ourophion informs her that, due to the unique circumstances at play, the timeline will be split. This means the divergent timeline now have a future with no set fate, and he gives her permission to warn Silversmith of what's going to happen so he can stop it.
Superpowered Evil Side: Like Luna, she became corrupted and transformed into Final Epoch until she was eventually purified.
Sympathy for the Devil: Despite knowing Temporal Sea was too insane to be reasoned with and had to die for the good of the universe, she couldn't bring herself to hate him because he was trying to bring back his world by changing the past — something she herself tried doing with the Second Age after it was prematurely ended by the Void Sovereign.
Princess Stitching Time: ...I can't hate him. He was just trying to get his world back... just like me. He was just like me... I don't hate him, I feel sorry for him.
Throw the Dog a Bone: Ourophion permits her to warn the Silversmith of a divergent timeline created due to the Dark Ages Alliance's meddling of what causes the end of the Age so they can avoid that fate. This finally creates the timeline she always wanted to live in, in a manner of speaking. She's naturally touched by this.
Time Master: She's a goddess of Time, though her powers have their limitations. Her ultimate goal as Final Epoch was to gain the ability to Ret-Gone whoever she pleases from time.
Time Stands Still: Has the power to do this for five minutes ever ten minutes, but she can't physically interact with the outside world while doing so or vice versa.
Villain: Exit, Stage Left: As Final Epoch, she mainly uses her Time Stands Still power to perform this.
What the Hell, Hero?: She would give one to Princess Radiant Rapier after she learned the Poenan Pantheon sent the latter to "punish" her for the "Final Epoch" crisis, and Radiant Rapier apologized for willingly going with the decision afterwards.
Princess Stitching Time: So, your boss sent you to 'punish me'?
Princess Radiant Rapier: It was a group-decision. I'm sorry, Stitching...
Princess Stitching Time: You're sorry?! I freaking screwed up the timeline nine or ten times! I betrayed my mentor and all of you! I nearly made Shamrock kill himself! And I'm sorry for all of it! I've spent every last second since I came back trying to make up for it however I could! But that doesn't matter to your groupie, does it? I did a bad thing, so I'm forever bad? How is THAT fair?! How is THAT justice?
With Great Power Comes Great Perks: It's implied that despite being a powerful and incredibly skilled time mage, she would use her magic to avoid problems, or churn out easy solutions for problems that she couldn't avoid. Seeing the same behavior repeat in Prince Sparkling Wing was what reminded Dazzleglow of her former student.

Princess-Regent Merula, the Guardian Angel

Classification: Ascendant

Portfolio: Guardianship, Mastery, Wisdom

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"Studying allows us to be prepared for any situation. That, and it's enjoyable..."

Princess-Regent Merula (her entry here

) is the Alicorn goddess of Guardianship, Mastery, and Wisdom, and is a member of the Church of the Stars.

Anthropomorphic Personification: She's an Alicorn goddess who embodies Guardianship, Mastery, and Wisdom.
Composite Character: Combines G2 Princess Silverswirl and Myth/Merlin.
Humble Hero: Despite being the first of the Four Princesses to Ascend to godhood, Merula didn't seek the position of leadership over all, and remained subservient to Queen Sunsparkle until the latter left to look after a group of pony adventurers stranded in space after the "Void Aeon" event. Even after being given back a portion of land from the Friendship Gardens by Princess Celestia, Merula chose not to become its Queen, as the Enchanted Throne would only choose a new Queen. This even applies to the Church of the Stars, as she lets Dazzleglow lead the pantheon despite being smarter than her as the Alicorn goddess of Wisdom, because in her eyes, Dazzleglow is the better leader of the two.
Princess-Regent Merula: A truly wise pony knows when another is better suited to a task than themselves.
The Leader: She was once the leader of the Four Princesses ruling the Friendship Gardens, until then-Princess Sunsparkle was chosen to inherit the Enchanted Throne as Queen in the Second Age. Since then, she has served as Sunsparkle's adviser, aid, and right-hand mare. Her entry notes that she could have easily taken the position of leadership over the Church of the Stars due to being more intelligent, but is far too humble to do it and believes that Dazzleglow is better at leading of the two.
Magic Hair: Literally. Her mane and tail is described as being made of silver-colored magic post-Ascension.
The Magnificent: Known as "the Guardian Angel" due to her role as divine guardian and protector of the innocent, and a divine patron of those who pursue the same goals such as police, guards, and other like-minded beings.
Super-Intelligence: As the Alicorn goddess of Wisdom, she has incredible intelligence, which makes her one of the smartest deities alive when combined with her divine domain of Mastery. As a result, Changeling Emperor Blackthorn respects her and has invited her to play Go with him and Dragon King Bahamut.

Princess Winter Opera/Princess Nivis Iustitia-Cahaya, the Defiant Symphony

See her page here.

Professor Historical Fiction/Prince Fulgur Deus Cahaya, the Keeper of Myths

Classification: Elemental/Ascendant

Portfolio: Death, History, Storms

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"No matter the myth, no matter the legend, they always have some truth to them. They make up a part of history that we often dismiss or take for granted."

Prince Fulgur Deus Cahaya, born Historical Fiction (his entry here

) is the Alicorn god of Death, History, and Storms, and is a benevolent joint-member of the Church of the Stars and the Pramanthan Pantheon.

Abstract Apotheosis: His good deeds as an 'Angel of Death' eventually led to him Ascending to godhood as the Alicorn god of Death, History, and Storms. According to him, he was protecting a group of archaeologists from his old college against Reichist forces during a storm. A lightning bolt struck him while he was fighting, only for him to survive and come out an Alicorn, and he proceeed to use his newfound power to drive the Reichists away.
Alternate Identity Amnesia: He constantly suffered from memory loss because Lord Jubiter always made sure he never learned of the villainous things he did while controlling his body. According to him, every time he did try figure things out, Lord Jubiter would always convince him to sit back and let him 'take care of things'. It's later averted when, thanks to Mrs. Hackney, he discovers the full truth and confronts Lord Jubiter, leading to the latter's death.
All Your Powers Combined: After becoming an Alicorn, he gained the combined magics of all mortal Pony tribes.
Anthropomorphic Personification: He's an Alicorn god who embodies Death, History, and Storms.
Back from the Dead: Subverted. He Ascended as a Death god, tying him to the afterlife realms he helps his adoptive family look after. This means that he's technically still dead.
Badass Teacher: He started off as an ordinary, if tormented college archaeology professor, until he awakened Weather Manipulation powers during a supervillain attack. After killing his evil alter-ego, Lord Jubiter, to end his threat, he would use his powers to protect his students from harm and prevent various artifacts from falling into the wrong hooves, like Reichists and Overdom forces. He would continue getting stronger following his death from old age, first becoming an 'Angel of Death', then Ascending to godhood by being struck by lightning while fighting off Reichists during a storm.
Battle in the Center of the Mind: He would engage in one with Lord Jubiter after Mrs. Hackney telepathically entered his mind and showed him evidence of what Lord Jubiter was doing with his body while he was inactive. Despite Lord Jubiter's attempts to kill him, he was able to No-Sell his lightning attacks due to them being one and the same, and kills Lord Jubiter instead. This leads to him gaining both Lord Jubiter's weather magic and the emotions he assigned to his alter-ego, as they were technically his, though it took lots of therapy for him to get used to experiencing all of his emotions.
Battle in the Rain: He was fighting Reichist forces during a storm to protect a group of archaeologists from his old college. During the fight, he was struck by lightning, but thankfully he survived and came out an Alicorn, after which he successfully drove the Reichists away.
Be All My Sins Remembered: The main reason why he didn't want to be worshiped at first. He feels extremely guilty over his own failures and mistakes, including the bad things Lord Jubiter did since he created him in the first place. This led to him being unable to understand why people would want to worship someone who screwed up so much. Gagal encourages him to accept worship, noting that people forgave him for what Lord Jubiter did a long time ago and the only person who needs forgiving is himself. Thanks to Gagal, he accepts that Lord Jubiter's actions were his own and joins the Church of the Stars.
Beware the Nice Ones: [WIP]
Blue Is Heroic: After being crowned a Prince and becoming a joint-member of the Church of the Stars and the Pramanthan Pantheon, he starts wearing blue togas. He's a benevolent God of the Dead and a Cool Teacher who loves history, and is also a Redeeming Replacement for Ouratheros.
Blow You Away: As a god of Storms, he can use wind magic for things like creating windstorms. This is because his domain is more versatile in representation of his open, intelligent mind.
Bolt of Divine Retribution: As a god of Storms, he can summon lightning bolts to strike specific targets. Unlike Ouratheros, who abused his power to smite people he didn't like, he uses this for benevolent purposes like punishing the genuinely wicked.
Close to Home: He hates those who display reactionary attitudes and stifle people's eagerness to learn, or seek to misuse and/or destroy history, such as Reichists, Autorists, and Tribalists. He also hates those who preach toxic gender roles, which stems from dealing with his birth father's warped standards of masculinity and seeing what Ouratheros/Jubiter is actually like as a god. Reportedly, he has gone after judicial extremists like the Poenan Pantheon with unadulterated fury for mercilessly persecuting repentant criminals and innocents who are believed to have potential for evil.
Commonality Connection: He has befriended lots of deities who have intellect, domains, and passion for learning similar to his own, and he would go on expeditions with them. One such deity is Prince Sermo, who became one of his close friends and got him interested in various ancient technologies through visiting Machina.
Cool Teacher: Even as a mortal, he would conduct educational field trips for his students (with supervision) or, if unable to, bring relics he found to class instead. However, he always tries to keep his students safe by making sure said relics are not cursed and giving his students instructions on how to handle them.
Create Your Own Villain: He created Lord Jubiter, but at the time, Lord Jubiter was originally a benevolent entity designed to represent his ideal masculine self and help him cope with his birth father's abuse. Gradually, a combination of studying Flecian mythology and manifesting Weather Manipulation powers led to Lord Jubiter becoming a supervillain and megalomaniac with delusions of godhood. He was cleared of all criminal charges since Lord Jubiter was his own entity, but he blamed himself for Lord Jubiter's actions for three Ages, both because a lot of people were harmed because of his actions and because he believed Lord Jubiter would have never become a villain if he didn't study Flecian mythology at all. Gagal points out to him that while, yes, Lord Jubiter was his creation, Lord Jubiter's supervillainy was his own conscious choice, not his.
Dark and Troubled Past: Historical Fiction's mother died giving birth to him, and his father, a former Hoofball player, physically and mentally abused him since foalhood for not being the "proper stallion" he wanted. The sheer trauma caused him to develop a split-personality disorder that birthed Lord Jubiter, who was created to embody everything in a stallion that Historical Fiction wanted to be. Unfortunately, his love for studying mythology influenced Lord Jubiter to turn evil, and he would be psychologically manipulated into letting his villainous alter-ego go on a crime spree in his own body. Historical Fiction eventually fights back and kills Lord Jubiter with Mrs. Hackney's encouragement, but his abusive past, combined with his guilt over his role in Lord Jubiter's villainy, would continue affecting him for three Ages. Even worse, the Second Age's toxic attitudes towards gender roles caused him to believe that no one would take him seriously as an abuse victim just because he's a stallion.
Deity of Human Origin: He was originally a mortal Earthpony who developed Weather Manipulation powers following a supervillain attack on a club he was attending. After dying of old age, he became an 'Angel of Death' with the Three Deaths' blessing, only to Ascend during a storm when he was struck by lightning while protecting a group of archaeologists from Reichist forces. Now he's an Alicorn god of Death, History, and Storms.
Dem Bones: As a Death god, his true form is a rather frightening Alicorn skeleton with a mane, tail, and wings made of golden lightning. Despite this, he's a benevolent Death god.
Don't Fear the Reaper: He's a Death god with a rather frightening true form, but like his adoptive family, he's a benevolent god who is devoted to his job, cares a lot about the souls he ushers and, due to his experiences with Abusive Parents, is very protective of abuse victims in general. He is also a Badass Teacher who loves learning and teaching history and mythology, often taking his students on educational field trips.
Dragged Off to Hell: After helping kill Ouratheros during the 'Twilight of the Orosians', he would drag Ouratheros' damned spirit to Nekelmu's Hell-Realms after the Orosian god was killed.
Elemental Absorption: As a god of Storms, he can empower himself with lightning. It's also how he Ascended to godhood — he was struck by lightning while fighting Reichists to protect an archaeology group from his old college during a thunderstorm.
Elemental Embodiment: Post-Ascension, he became a god of Storms, which gives him more powerful and versatile Weather Manipulation abilities in addition what he initially had.
Elemental Hair Composition: Post-Ascension, his mane and tail became composed of golden lightning.
Enemy Within: Lord Jubiter, his alter-ego, eventually becomes this for him. Whereas Historical Fiction is meek, unassuming, and passive, Lord Jubiter is an arrogant, villainous megalomaniac who believed himself to be a god and lusted after a mare who's ten years younger than him. What makes this tragic is that Lord Jubiter was originally a benevolent alter-ego designed to help Historical Fiction deal with his birth father's abuse and be the ideal stallion he wished he was. Eventually, after seeing what Lord Jubiter had become with Mrs. Hackney's help, Historical Fiction would confront and kill Lord Jubiter, regaining all the emotions he once delegated to his alter-ego... but the guilt over his role in things would stay with him for three Ages.
Ermine Cape Effect: Zigzagged, as his clothes change depending on the situation. When being a professor, he'll wear reading glasses and suits. When being an archaeologist, he'll wear a protective hat and bandana, as well as waterproof clothes. When attending to his divine duties, especially on behalf of the Pramanthan Pantheon, he'll wear blue togas and golden Tauren-style regalia/barding with various mythologies engraved into it.
Forgiveness: [WIP]
Freudian Excuse: Many of his present issues stemmed from his physically and mentally abusive foalhood. It's deconstructed as, while extremely sympathetic, many of said issues turned out to be holding him back, and letting go of them allowed him to grow as a person.
- He suffered from anger problems because of his birth father's abuse and sexism, causing him to hate both those who wronged him and himself for not living up to society's standards of 'proper' stallionhood. While most of it was resolved with therapy in the Second Age, his anger issues later caused him to envy his adoptive cousin, Moon Ray Vaughoof, for having everything he wished he had, including loving biological family members, a healthier self-image, and emotional stability. Fortunately, Moon Ray eventually noticed and helped him overcome his resentment.
God of the Dead: He Ascended as an Alicorn god of Death after helping protect a group of archaeologists from Reichist forces, which led to him being adopted into the Trimortidae. As a god of Death, he has abilities like soul manipulation, weapon-summoning, Invisibility, shapeshifting, sonic screams, and clairvoyance, though he can only predict upcoming deaths. He also has the role of overseeing the histories and past actions of those who died, allowing his adoptive family to judge souls properly determine which afterlife they would go to; this makes him very important in locating Judicial Replacements and their creators.
Gold and White Are Divine: He has a golden mane and tail, and white fur, and he heavily associates himself with various divine mythologies, given that his main interest lies in Flecian mythology. His Enemy Within, Lord Jubiter, was originally a benevolent alter-ego who becomes a Superpowered Evil Side with delusions of godhood after assimilating knowledge of the Flecian Pantheon into himself. He eventually defeats and kills Lord Jubiter, but in an ironic turn of events, he ends up becoming a bonafide god post-mortem through his good deeds. He also becomes a Redeeming Replacement for Ouratheros after killing the latter and coming to terms with his past failures, and later accepts the Pramanthan Pantheon's 'thank-you' invitation to join them as their joint-member.
Guilt Complex: Deconstructed. Because he was constantly treated as a failure by his birth father for not living up to his toxic ideals of stallionhood, his trauma evolved into a guilt complex where he blamed himself for both real and perceived mistakes.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He has a golden mane and tail, and post-Ascension he gained golden wing gradients as a sign of his divine 'age'. He's also a benevolent, if flawed, god who is seen as a Cool Teacher by his students and a Redeeming Replacement for Ouratheros by the Tauren Peninsula as a whole.
Happily Adopted: After Ascending to godhood, he is adopted into the Trimortidae by Audens Manes, who became the loving mother-figure he never had growing up due to his biological one having died in childbirth. He loves Audens, though he has made efforts in connecting with his biological mother after finding her spirit in the Heaven-Realms.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: When combining his Death and History domains, he gains the ability to read a soul's entire history unbiased, including their sins and good deeds. It doesn't seem like much on paper, but it's actually very important for identifying Judicial Replacements (and their creators), as well as locating escaped souls.
Heavenly Blue: He would wear blue togas and golden Tauren-style regalia/barding with various mythologies engraved into it, especially when acting as a joint-member of the Pramanthan Pantheon. He's also an Alicorn god of Death, History, and Storms, and is a benevolent divine teacher who is also a Redeeming Replacement for Ouratheros following the latter's death.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Deconstructed. [WIP]
Horrible Judge of Character: Justified. He admits that his birth father's abusive bigotry led to him admiring Ouratheros for being the epitome of what he thought was 'proper' masculinity. However, it's deconstructed — his admiration and knowledge of Ouratheros corrupted the benevolent Lord Jubiter into an egotistical supervillain, something he deeply regretted for years. He also notes that had Lord Jubiter been influenced by Ouratheros at his absolute worst, things would have taken a much darker turn.
Professor Historical Fiction: I was in... a very bad place at the time. Because I was constantly treated like a loser by my own father, I started seeing Jubiter — or rather, Ouratheros — as everything I wanted to be. Everything I THOUGHT I should be. And because of that, my alter-ego became a maniac just like his namesake god. I think things would've gotten worse back then if my alter-ego was influenced by Ouratherous as he was by the time of his death.
Humble Hero: Despite being willing to protect the innocent and prevent villainous factions from destroying/misusing historical artifacts, he merely sees himself as an ordinary professor who is doing the right thing. It's gradually deconstructed; his Guilt Complex initially caused him to avoid being worshiped by mortals, unable to understand why they would want to worship someone who screwed up so much. Thanks to Gagal, however, he comes to forgive himself, leading to him becoming a joint-member of the Church of the Stars and, later, the Pramanthan Pantheon when they invited him over.
Immortality Begins at Twenty: Subverted. Because deities in general only get Stronger with Age, he will only gain more power and eldritch traits as he gets "older". As a "Greater"-ranked deity from the Second Age, he has a magical purple wing gradient and a mane and tail composed of golden lightning. He was originally taller than Moon Ray Vaughoof due to Ascending to true godhood first, though Moon Ray being a 'prodigy deity' lessened the age gap; after Moon Ray re-Ascends, he is now utterly dwarfed by his cousin (along with the rest of the Trimortidae save for Adelais).
Invisibility: As a god of Death, he has the power to render himself invisible.
Jekyll & Hyde: [WIP]
Jock Dad, Nerd Son: Deconstructed and played for drama. His father was a former Hoofball player who had high hopes for him as an athlete, but when he chose to study history and archaeology instead, his father became extremely abusive to him, physically and mentally. Among the things his father did was beating him up under the excuse of Tough Love and treating him like a 'loser' for not being a 'proper stallion'. The abuse not only led to him creating Lord Jubiter, but also admiring/studying Ouratheros as the epitome of masculinity, setting Lord Jubiter on the path to villainy. Fortunately, he was able to kill Jubiter with Mrs. Hackney's help and get some much-needed therapy, but his father's abuse continued to have lingering effects on him three Ages later. His issues also led to him envying Moon Ray Vaughoof, one of his adoptive cousins, for having things he himself wished he had like loving biological family members, a healthier self-image, and emotional stability, though Moon Ray would eventually notice and help him overcome his envy.
Karmic Jackpot: Despite not seeing himself as a hero, a lot of good things happened to him over the course of his life because of his good deeds.
Magic Hair: Post-Ascension, his mane and tail became composed of golden lightning.
The Magnificent: Known as "the Keeper of Myths".
Making a Splash: As a god of Storms, he can use water magic for things like creating rainstorms and floods, but also nourishing crops and dry lands. This is because his domain is more versatile in representation of his open, intelligent mind. His entry notes he shares a lot of water-based techniques with Moon Ray Vaughoof, who used to be a Water god prior to his re-Ascension, largely because Moon Ray taught him himself.
Meaningful Name:
- Historical Fiction always loved studying history and various mythologies, even back in the Second Age when deities were largely treated by the world as myths. A myth or legend is an example of historical fiction.
- His Alicorn name, Fulgur Deus Cahaya, is a two-fold example. Fulgur Deus means "lightning god" in Latin, and he is a Meta Pony-turned-Storm god who has powerful Weather Manipulation abilities, especially lightning magic. Cahaya means "light" in Malay and Indonesian; after moving to Kerajaan Cahaya and joining the Church of the Stars, he adopted part of the kingdom's name into his own as part of an ancient Alicorn tradition to signify his evolution into full-fledged royalty.
Meaningful Rename: His birth name is Historical Fiction, but after joining the Church of the Stars, he would be crowned as Prince Fulgur Deus Cahaya. Fulgur Deus means "lightning god" in Latin, referring to his heavy association with Flecian/Tauren mythology and his domain of Storms. Cahaya means "light" in Malay and Indonesian; after moving to Kerajaan Cahaya and joining the Church of the Stars, he adopted part of the kingdom's name into his own as part of an ancient Alicorn tradition to signify his evolution into full-fledged royalty.
Mix-and-Match Critters: After becoming an Alicorn, he has the chimeric traits of all mortal Pony tribes. He prefers to stick with traits of the three main Pony tribes, though.
Mix-and-Match Weapon: His main weapon, Astrapí, is actually three weapons in one. Its basic form is a staff made of metal, but two hidden switches would reveal either a spear tip or a scythe's blade. This gives him combat versatality.
Morality Pet: He served as one for his emotional and hot-tempered adoptive cousin, Moon Ray, despite the latter ironically being an Alicorn demigod of Temperance. It's his influence that pushes Moon Ray to forgive his own abusive father and let go of his harmful obsession with the past, setting off a chain of events that makes Moon Ray grow as a stallion and, eventually, turns him into an eldritch Alicorn. On the flipside, Moon Ray himself served as one for him due to being fellow abuse victims, as he was the one who helped him overcome his resentment.
No Hero to His Valet: He sees his more popular adoptive cousin, Moon Ray Vaughoof, as a flawed, well-meaning stallion due to witnessing the latter's worst traits and knowing what the latter is like in private overall. This hasn't changed much following Moon Ray's re-Ascension, other than him taking precautions so he wouldn't accidentally drive himself mad around his now eldritch cousin.
No-Sell: As a god of Storms, he is immune to lightning and electricity spells in general. He was also able to completely tank Lord Jubiter's lightning attacks due to them being one and the same.
"Not So Different" Remark: He eventually comes to realize that his Only Friend, Lord Jubiter, had become little different from his birth father in how they both mistreated him and psychologically manipulated him.
Only Friend: For many years, he saw Lord Jubiter (back when he was a benevolent entity designed to help him deal with his birth father's abuse) as his only friend and confidant because he felt no one would believe him as a male abuse victim. This relationship would be exploited as Lord Jubiter became increasingly independent and egotistical, using his body to commit villainous acts whenever he took over. Eventually, with help and encouragement from Mrs. Hackney, he confronts Lord Jubiter and kills him to end his threat. This frees him to be himself but also leaves him with lingering guilt for three Ages because he felt Lord Jubiter's villainy was his fault — if he hadn't been studying Flecian mythology, Lord Jubiter wouldn't have been inspired to become like Ouratheros.
Our Gods Are Different: He's an 'Ascendant goddess', described In-Universe as one of the rarest of the three main types of deities. And like all deities, he becomes more powerful and eldritch the older he gets.
Photographic Memory: As a god of History, he has a photographic memory regarding anything involving history, including myths and legends.
Physical God: [WIP]
Psychometry: As a god of History, he has psychometric abilities that give him information on objects and people via touch.
Real After All: Despite growing up in the Second Age, where magic was almost completely absent, he always believed gods and magic are real in part due to his beliefs that all myths and legends ahve some truth to them. He was elated when he discovered the gods he believed in were actually present in the Second Age, just in ways that rendered them undetectable to malicious forces like the Interregnum.
Redeeming Replacement: He eventually becomes this for Ouratheros of the Old Orosian Pantheon. Unlike Ouratherous, a petty Jerkass God who punished people for perceived insults, he is a kind, selfless, and humble god who loves learning about the past and overcame his inner demons to become something greater. Fittingly, he helped kill Ouratheros during the 'Twilight of the Orosians' and then dragged the latter's damned soul to Nekelmu's Hell-Realms. When the Pramanthan Pantheon invites him to become a joint-member of their group as a 'thank-you' for his role in Ouratheros' death, he accepts and is doing well there compared to his predecessor.
The Resenter: Deconstructed. Because he was physically and mentally abused by his birth father for having intellectual pursuits, he developed anger issues — he feels angry at those who wronged him for not being the 'ideal' stallion, while hating himself at the same time for not living up to people's ridiculous standards of masculinity. While he does get better thanks to receiving therapy following Lord Jubiter's death, he admits he also envied Moon Ray for having everything he wished he had, like loving biological family members, a healthier self-image, and emotionally stability. Thankfully, it's defied when Moon Ray eventually notices his resentment and helps him overcome it.
Seers: As a Death god, he has clairvoyant abilities that allow him to predict upcoming deaths, though he lacks true precognitive abilities. His History domain inverts it by providing powerful retrocognitive abilities that give him visions of the past.
A Shared Suffering:
- He has a huge soft spot for abuse victims, especially those whose dreams were crushed by selfish, vicarious parents, and is very protective of them. This is what influenced his close relationship with Moon Ray, as discovering his adoptive cousin is also an abuse victim was both a 'huge relief' and a sign that he wasn't alone in his suffering.
- He is also very sympathetic towards those who made huge mistakes or were forced to make them. This caused him to gravitate towards those of the Trimortidae who wanted to atone for their own mistakes, such as Broken Fang and Double Helix.
Sharp-Dressed Man: Even as a mortal, he would wear suits as required by his job as a professor. Outside of it, however, he would either wear blue togas and golden Tauren-style regalia/barding with various mythologies engraved into it, or (when on expeditions) appropriate archaeology gear like waterproof clothes and a protective hat.
Shock and Awe: His storm manipulation powers included lightning magic, which he and Lord Jubiter are most skilled at. After becoming a god of Storms, his original powers were greatly enhanced, allowing him to do things like firing beams with lighting, empowering himself with lightning, creating powerful thunderstorms, and fashioning solidified lightning bolts into spears and javelins. Like Ouratheros, he can invoke the Bolt of Divine Retribution, though unlike Ouratheros, who abused it to smite those he doesn’t like, he used it for benevolent purposes. He can also wield a spectral form of lightning that can kill malicious souls and other spiritual entities when combining his Storm powers with his Death domain. Being a god of Storms also means he is immune to both lightning and electricity spells.
Sinister Scythe: His main weapon is Astrapí, a seemingly simple staff that can turn into either a spear or a scythe by pressing hidden switches. It can also be used to channel his lightning powers. It's subverted as he is a heroic Death god who uses his scythe for beneficial purposes, like helping the dead pass on to their respective afterlives.
Small Role, Big Impact: He helped a pre-Ascendant Moon Ray find the courage to confront his birth father's damned spirit and forgive him for his foalhood abuse, setting off a chain of events that would not only make Moon Ray grow as a stallion, but also ultimately lead to Moon Ray's re-Ascension into an eldritch god.
Smart People Wear Glasses: He wears reading glasses as part of his teaching job, even after Ascending to godhood. It pegs him as a very intelligent and experienced stallion.
Split-Personality Merge: His father's abuse led to him creating Lord Jubiter, in the process delegating to him all of his own personality traits that he associated with 'proper' masculinity. After defeating and killing Lord Jubiter years later, he reabsorbed said traits back into himself, though afterward he was put in a mental hospital so he could get used to experiencing the emotions he split off.
Split-Personality Takeover: He was on the receiving end of this by Lord Jubiter many times. At first it had a benign purpose — whenever he was in trouble with his abusive father, Lord Jubiter would emerge to placate him until he felt better again. However, as Lord Jubiter became increasingly self-aware, he started taking over his body frequently, especially after becoming a supervillain. This led to him suffering from Alternate Identity Amnesia thanks to Lord Jubiter keeping him in the dark. Once he learned of Lord Jubiter's misdeeds and confronted him about it, Lord Jubiter tried to take over his body permanently in retaliation. Thankfully, he was able to No-Sell Lord Jubiter's attacks and kill him due to them being one and the same, though he had to be put in a mental hospital so he could recover from this.
Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Justified, as having a Death domain allows him to summon magical copies of various weapons.
Stop Worshipping Me: What prevented him from joining the Church of the Stars despite his great interest in their work. At the time, he still felt guilty for his role in Lord Jubiter's creation and supervillainy, and had a hard time understanding why people would want to worship someone who made huge mistakes in the past. It takes Gagal encouraging him to forgive himself that he accepts that Lord's Jubiter's actions were his own, and he joins the Church of the Stars as he originally intended.
Soul Power: AS a god of Death, he can manipulate souls, including summoning them from various afterlife realms.
Superpowered Evil Side: Lord Jubiter is this to him, as a mental part of him gone rogue who happens to have lightning-based powers. Completely affected with megalomania, Lord Jubiter became a supervillain and went on a crime spree under belief that he is Ouratheros (then named Jubiter in the Second Age) reborn, and actively suppressed Historical Fiction so he could have complete control of his body. He is later killed when Historical Fiction, encouraged by Mrs. Hackney, breaks free, confronts Lord Jubiter, and obliterates him with lightning since, as part of him, Lord Jubiter's powers were his as well.
Super-Scream: As a god of Death, he can unleash sonic screams that affect his targets.
Taught by Experience: He believes students can learn effectively by experiencing the past firsthand, which is why he often takes them on archaeology field-trips (with supervision). If he isn't able to, he would bring relics he found to class instead.
There Are No Therapists: Justified and deconstructed. He admits he didn't see a therapist at all because he felt people will shame him for being a male abuse victim, so he relied on Lord Jubiter as his Only Friend and The Confidant for many years. After Lord Jubiter's death, he was arranged by Dr. Silversmith Sr. to be put in a mental hospital with the best care possible so he could recover from the experience. Meeting Shifa' Alhabi Moufette, Moon Ray Vaughoof's young student, three Ages later confirmed to him once and for all that he completely deserves help whether he's male or not, finally giving him closure.
Traumatic Superpower Awakening: His Weather Manipulation abilities first manifested when a supervillain attacked the club he (or rather, Lord Jubiter at the time) was attending.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: As a god of Death, he has natural shapeshifting abilities that aid him in ushering the dead and comforting troubled souls.
Weather Manipulation: He gained weather magic, including lightning powers, following a supervillain attack on the club he (or rather, Lord Jubiter) was attending, something that Lord Jubiter took advantage of while alive. After killing Lord Jubiter in a Battle in the Center of the Mind, he gains control of his powers due to Lord Jubiter being part of him, and he would use his powers for good for the rest of his life. After Ascending to godhood post-mortem, he becomes a god of Storms with his powers stronger than before, giving him water and wind magics while allowing him to create various storms like thunderstorms, rainstorms, and wind storms. He can also generate clouds for easy travel, misdirection, and defense. He is also best at using Pegasus magic despite originally being an Earthpony because grant him additional storm-related poweres. The fact that he is a benevolent Storm god makes him a Redeeming Replacement for Ouratheros, who wielded similar power over storms yet was an utterly despicable Jerkass God who abused his power and station to have his way with mortals.
Winged Unicorn: Post-Ascension, he became an Alicorn with a mane and tail composed of golden lightning, and a magical wing gradient going from white to golden. He was originally taller than Moon Ray due to Ascending to true godhood first, though the age-gap is alleviated by Moon Ray's 'prodigy' status; after Moon Ray's re-Ascension, he is now utterly dwarfed by Moon Ray along with the Three Deaths and the rest of the Trimortidae, save for Adelais.
Workaholic: One of his flaws is his workaholic tendencies. He can get carried away with his work, whether as a professor, a Reaper, or a Prince. It's for this reason he prefers carrying prepackaged lunches with him instead of making his own meals, even though he can cook for himself. This has forced his loved ones to make him take breaks for the sake of his health.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Gagal encourages him to accept worship from mortals by essentially telling him that he isn't to blame for Lord Jubiter's actions since the latter chose to become evil upon becoming self-aware, and that people forgave him for what happened long ago. This influences him to finally forgive himself for his perceived involvement in Lord Jubiter's crimes, allowing him to overcome his Guilt Complex and join the Church of the Stars.
Gagal: You know, Fiction, creatures are often much more forgiving and merciful than you think.
Professor Historical Fiction: What?
Gagal: Even though we tend to hurt others, directly or not, we as sapients are also built with compassion. Without compassion, we wouldn’t be able to make friends or sympathize with our fellow creature. And without compassion, we wouldn’t be able to forgive each other or ourselves for past mistakes.
Professor Historical Fiction: How do you know?
Gagal: Many times I screwed up, whether on purpose or by accident. And many times I was forgiven because I wanted to make up for my mistakes. From these experiences, I taught my pantheon that it's okay to receive worship from mortals... as long as they are honest about themselves and willing to temper their flaws in return. If people get used to seeing one’s flaws, then they will be more tolerant and forgiving in the face of said flaws.
Professor Historical Fiction: But I hurt creatures by creating an alter-ego that went mad. How can they forgive me for that?
Gagal: Did you tell Jubiter to develop a god complex?
Professor Historical Fiction: No, but-
Gagal: Did you tell him to lust after a mare several years younger than you? Or become a crime lord? Did you tell him to do all the things that he did when he was alive?
Professor Historical Fiction: N-No...
Gagal: Then you have nothing to worry about. Jubiter was part of you, yes, but he became his own creature that ultimately chose to do bad, with you as his unwilling passenger. Creatures forgave you for it a long time ago. All you need to do is forgive yourself.

Queen Belajar, the Mother of All Crustacea

See her folder entry here.

Queen Dazzleglow, the Shining Queen of Kerajaan Cahaya

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Preservation, Light, Space

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"The Cycle will be broken - and I will help light the way to breaking it."

Queen Dazzleglow (her entry here

) is the Sparkle Alicorn goddess of Preservation, Light, and Space, and the leader/founder of the Church of the Stars.

The divine matriarch of the Glimmering Isles, Dazzleglow was once the queen of Kerajaan Cahaya, a kingdom from the Second Age that existed concurrently with other mythical realms of that age, such as Ponyland, the Isle of Pony and the "Empire of Ushr". However, her kingdom fell, vanishing from history like the rest of the Second Age, though not before she willingly put herself in a magical sleep so she could wake up in another time, hoping that she'll break what she calls "The Cycle".

After 20,000 years of dormancy, Dazzleglow was awoken by adventurer Daring Do, who was trying to prevent Ahuizotl from killing the ancient queen and destroying what was left of her and her kingdom. At the last moment, Dazzleglow displayed her power for the first time in millennia, easily wiping the floor with Ahuizotl. Having witnessed Daring Do's moral integrity, Dazzleglow has decided to make her one of many champions that would help her succeed in her plans.

Adaptational Badass: She was originally a G1 Unicorn mare that was part of the "Glow n' Show" pony toyline. Here, she's a Sparkle Pony, a type of mutated pony that could manipulate light and stardust, and is a Sparkle Pony Alicorn who easily wiped the floor with Ahuizotl once she emerged from her several-millenia-long sleep (though she did appear with a non-speaking role as an Alicorn in the My Little Pony Tales series).
Adaptation Species Change: She was a G1 "Glow n' Show" Unicorn toy, though My Little Pony Tales did depict her as an Alicorn. Here, she's a Sparkle Pony Alicorn whose mixed heritage comes from her parents being a Celestial Pony (father) and an Equusian/Telluisian Pony mare (mother). This also applies to her sisters.
All Your Powers Combined: She not only has the combined magics of the three Pony tribes, she also has the combined magics of the Sparkle Ponies. This is because she and her sisters (including Brightglow) are the hybrid daughters of a "Visitor" — specifically, a Celestial Pony.
Anthropomorphic Personification: She's a Sparkle Alicorn goddess who embodies Preservation, Light, and Space.
Big Good: As the Queen of a prosperous kingdom and the leader of a very benevolent religion, Queen Dazzleglow actively participates in international affairs in her attempts to break the Cycle, often sponsoring heroes like Daring Do so their deeds will further her plans to unite the world.
Deity of Human Origin: Implied to have been once mortal, as Daring Do expressed surprise at the sight of a Sparkle Pony Alicorn. Her profile labeled her as an "Ethereal/Ascendant" deity. It's eventually confirmed that she indeed was, and Luminiferous was the one who taught her and helped her ascend.
Fantastic Racism: Defied. Dazzleglow believes this is also part of the reason great civilizations perpetuate "The Cycle" — when one lets bigotry and hatred color their perceptions of others, they are doomed to failure. This is why she donated a large sum of money to the School of Friendship, applauding Twilight Sparkle for establishing a place where friendship and unity can be taught to the younger generations.
Gravity Master: Implied; one of her described powers is the ability to manipulate her own gravity as well as the gravity of other objects and people.
The High Queen: She's the matriarch of the kingdom Kerajaan Cahaya in both the Second and Fourth Ages, and she's treated as a respected and beloved queen by both her subjects and those who know her through her actions. Of course, she still has her enemies, particularly in the Clovenists and Autorists, who try to overthrow her because she has openly opposed their beliefs and methods, but her allies are so great that they never succeed.
History Repeats: Defied. Dazzleglow is an adamant opponent of what she calls "The Cycle", a never-ending Vicious Cycle that often leaves great civilizations falling to decay and stagnation as the result of moral evils like pride, bias, and greed or natural evils like disasters that are beyond their power to control. Having seen it happen with her own eyes, she is outspoken against the Clovenists and the Autorists, who both seek to dominate the world for extreme or unsavory reasons, and preaches the idea of friendship and unity so her kingdom would never fall like so many before and after it.
Queen Dazzleglow: When one species seeks to present themselves as superior to all other forms of life, or when they seek progress without limitations, they run the risk of lighting the world on fire and burning themselves to a cinder. I speak as one who has seen such folly with her own eyes.
Immortal Ruler: She has been ruling the ancient kingdom of Kerajaan Cahaya since the Second Age, and even after undergoing a millennia-long magical sleep, she hasn't aged a day. It's implied that she was once mortal.
Light 'em Up: One of her powers as a Sparkle Pony Alicorn; while all Sparkle Ponies are capable of manipulating light, Dazzleglow takes it further, being capable of create Hard Light weapons, energy beams, and shields. Her first move upon waking up was to call herself the "Goddess of Light", and attack Ahuizotl with a magical sphere made of light and lightning that created a deep crater upon impact. She even has Light in her portfolio, and is described as so powerful that she can draw light energy from even distant stars.
Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Defied. Despite being the Alicorn Queen of a very prosperous kingdom, Dazzleglow believes that this is partly what perpetuates "The Cycle"; when a kingdom or race seeks to dominate others and/or prove itself superior to others, it is doomed to failure. According to her, it happened in the past where she came from, and she seeks to end it by preaching friendship and unity.
Magic Hair: Tales of Equestria describes her mane and tail as being made of rippling blue and white energy. Her pelt is also dotted with stars, and a ring of stardust constantly encircles her.
The Magnificent: Known as "The Shining Queen of Kerajaan Cahaya", due to her being a very benevolent queen to her subjects.
Parental Substitute: Prince Sparkling Wing sees both her and Golden Scepter as his surrogate parents, especially after he started losing his biological family and old friends to time and age.
Physical God: Tales of Equestria describes her as an Alicorn with a mane and tail made of blue and white energy, stars dotting her glowing body, and stardust forming a ring around her. Considering how she was able to drive away Ahuizotl in just two moves, she's immensely powerful. Her profile describes her capabilities; as an Ascended Sparkle Pony, her natural powers are heightened to an incredible degree, and in addition has the powers of all three pony tribes.
Reasonable Authority Figure: She's a very benevolent and reasonable queen, who will not hesitate to aid her subjects and other heroes if they are having some kind of trouble. When she offered the young demigod Crystal Prism a place in the Church of the Stars, he refused, saying that he'll join once he has everything sorted out and he feels like he's ready. She completely understands and has accepted his decision.
Secret-Keeper: Justified; whenever she tells someone about something of great value, material or not, she makes them swear an oath of secrecy. This is to prevent people from misusing items from her kingdom for selfish, corrupt desires, and to prevent her enemies from conquering/destroying her lands as it happened before in the Second Age. However, it gets deconstructed in that her secrecy tends to make people doubt and even question her motives — Temnobog assumes that her breaking "The Cycle" would result in a gradually stagnating world where Good overwhelmed Evil until Dazzleglow cleared things up with him, and even Crystal Prism is starting to question her benevolence due to her redirection of the subject when asked. Golden Scepter admits that he is worried by Dazzleglow's secrecy, because he had tried the same thing for millennia — withholding his plans from his own subjects because he felt he couldn't trust mortals with his knowledge — only for it to backfire on him spectacularly.
Space Master: Much of her magic as a Sparkle Pony Alicorn falls under this. Some of her capabilities include hearing the voice of stars and summoning them for her needs, manipulating gravity, drawing light from distant stars, and creating portals.
Star Power: She can hear the "voice" of the Celestial Bodies such as stars, a magical power that some exceptional Sparkle Ponies possess. She's so powerful that she can draw light energy from them and summon shooting stars to bombard her enemies. Due to her beliefs in unity and peaceful co-existence, she encourages this ability among her mortal subjects and worshipers, as it is key to breaking the 'Cycle'.
Supernatural Floating Hair: Her mane and tail are perpetually rippling, as they are literally made of blue and white energy.
Telepathy: A variant. Her Space domain allow her to communicate with stars and other cosmic bodies. She can also talk to Celestia and Luna by using the Sun and Moon, respectively. However, by her own admission, her younger sister, Princess Brightglow, is better at speaking through planets than she is, while Brightglow admits Dazzleglow is better at speaking through stars.
Winged Unicorn: She's an Alicorn, but is not like the Alicorns from the antediluvian Alicorn Civilization that used to openly populate Equus. As Sparkle Ponies are alien hybrids, this fact may extend to Dazzleglow, who is also a Sparkle Pony herself.

Characters / Codex Equus: Church of the Stars

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Church of the Stars

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Teaching, Nepotism, Punishment

Rank: Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)

Classification: Elemental/Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Peace, Unity, Leadership, Weather

Rank: Divine (Tier II/Lesser)

Afiliation: Church of the Stars, Metamorphan Pantheon

Classification: Ethereal/Elemental

Portfolio: Sorcery, Transformation, Duality

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Perfection, Self-Determination, Potential

Rank: Titan

Classification: Elemental/Ascendant

Portfolio: Self-Control, Reason, Technique

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Magic, Nobility, Protection

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Peace, Thermal Energy, Space

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Morality, Sound, Defiance

Rank: Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Miracles, Wishes, Hope

Rank: Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)

Classification: Ethereal/Elemental

Portfolio: Teaching, Rain, Harvest

Rank: Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Casualty, Fate, Time

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

Classification: Ascendant

Portfolio: Guardianship, Mastery, Wisdom

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

Classification: Elemental/Ascendant

Portfolio: Death, History, Storms

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Preservation, Light, Space

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

Former Members

Classification: Ascendant

Portfolio: Music

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

Classification: Ascendant

Portfolio: Joy

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

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