Other Lands
Nations and realms beyond Equestria, and those who reside in them.You can return to the main character list here.
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Cavallia
A nation to the south of Equestria that is closely allied with them, and is ruled by Princess Cadance, Luna's daughter. Used to have border wars with Zaldia, based on that country's belief that Cavallia "stole" their Pegasus population. Cavallia
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: To Italy and Rome, in culture if not historical points. The Cavallian language is simply Italian, and their capital city is Roam. They're known for their wine, and their aqueducts are famous across the continent of Cissanthema.
- Oh, Crap!: Their collective reaction to the Stairs Coup causing the Equestrian army to wind up on their doorstep. Despite the then-recent wars with Zaldia, Cadenza and Cavallia knew full well their army would be no match for Equestria's.
Mi Amore Cadenza
Alicorn. Princess of Cavallia, a land to Equestria's southeast. Apparently once believed herself to be the reincarnation of all things good about Celestia. All tropes below apply to her appearance in An Early Reunion, 980 years before the rest of the Lunaverse, unless otherwise stated.
- Benevolent Boss: To her retainer, Cartasole. He's explicitly identified as an indentured servant (not quite, but basically, a slave) in the comments of An Early Reunion, but Cadence treats him with respect and care, even going so far as to try and protect him when it looked like Luna was going to try and kill her and all the other Celestia impersonators.
- Break the Cutie:
- Learning she isn't Celestia, and that the real Celestia is a raving nutjob who's first encounter with her ends with Celestia threatening to burn out her mind and enter it makes a severe dent in her cheerful persona. She does eventually recover, though.
- The death of Cartasole and their adopted children hit her so hard she sealed herself in a cave for a good few months.
- A Day in the Limelight: An Early Reunion is a distant prequel to the Lunaverse, taking place 980 years before the first episode, and focuses on the then-twenty-year-old's Mi Amore Cadenza's first meeting with Princess Luna.
- Does Not Like Spam: She hates peas. Hate hate hate hate hate hates them. Her first thought on being declared an Alicorn was to consider burning every pea farm in Cavallia to the ground, only to consider that this was probably an overreaction. Nonetheless, on being confirmed as an alicorn by Luna, her first decree was to never have peas again.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Played with. Her adoptive parents named her Mi Amore Cadenza, and Luna wants to call her either Cadenza or Cadence since she doesn't believe that she really is Celestia reborn. Cadence, for her part, wants to be called Celestia.
- There's a good reason Luna doesn't believe that Cadence is Celestia reborn. The epilogue of the story reveals that Luna is Cadence's mother. Sort of.
- Goal in Life: Hers, she believes, is to reclaim her throne in Equestria as the alicorn in charge of the sun; she's trying to prove herself to Luna as a result. This eventually stops once she realizes that she is not, in fact, a reborn Celestia.
- Godhood Seeker: Cadence's specific goal in An Early Reunion is basically to become the deity of the sun.
- "I Want" Song: An Early Reunion opens up with Cadence, believing herself to be Celestia, singing about her goal of coming to Canterlot and reclaiming what she believes to be her rightful throne.
- Jumped at the Call: Grew up as an earth pony, but around when other foals were earning their cutie marks, she manifested her horn and wings. She was told that she was the reincarnation of all that was good in Celestia, accepted this as fact and eagerly looked forward to becoming the sun deity.
- Light Is Good: The one example of this trope in a setting where the opposite is generally true; her heraldry and colors specifically invoke the image of a rising or setting sun.
- Living Forever Is Awesome: Though the last chapter of An Early Reunion made mention that, after her first husband died, she did have a brief period of regreting her immortality, she eventually recovered, and now views her immortality as a positive thing. She regrets every friend and lover who dies, but refuses to let it get her down, instead viewing her life as a progression of one good time to another.
- Mayfly–December Romance: She married Cartasole after the events of An Early Reunion, but outlived him due to being immortal. She's noted to have had other romances over the centuries, with Shining Armor hinted to become next.
- Any pony who wants a long-term commitment with her gets "The Talk" about what it means to love an immortal. That she will be saddened when they pass away, but her heart will eventually open itself up to the possibility of new love with someone else. This does not in any way diminish the love she feels for those she is with, though, or for those who have come before.
- Mistaken for an Imposter: Played with. Was one of about thirty ponies all claiming to be Celestia reborn. Luna thought that they were all imposters and had them all arrested after giving them a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. However, when Cadence made her presence known, Luna realized that she was an alicorn - though not Celestia reborn - and had her and Cartasole instead brought into Canterlot castle as guests.
- Naïve Newcomer: While she was prepared to become the princess, she had no real idea of how much of a Crapsack World Equestria had become, nor does she remember what the era of Corona had really been like.
- Never Grew Up: In a sense. Despite being 20 years old in An Early Reunion, and so a full adult, Cadence has yet to earn her cutie mark. She does earn it a few years later, though, specifically around the time that Cartasole proposed to her.
- Physical God: Is an alicorn, just like Luna, but she is very young, and grew up as an earth pony, so her powers at the moment are largely unexplored.
- The side-story An Awkward Day showcases a much more mature and confident Cadenza, after 700 years of getting comfortable with her power and role as Cavallia's princess. By that point, she's capable of flying faster than sound, casting powerful spells casually, and using the Royal Canterlot Voice if she feels the need.
- The later story From the Depths has her do battle with Squirk, a bona-fide Eldritch Horror who previously had fought both Luna and Celestia to a near-standstill. Cadenza wins. Alone.
- When an extraordinarily powerful black dragon invaded Cavallia around 300 years ago looking for a thief who had stolen from his horde, Cadenza didn't even break a sweat in stopping him.
- Poke the Poodle: In Chapter 1 of An Early Reunion, the owner of an inn and tavern was rude to her when she let slip that she believes that she is Celestia reborn, this being a mere 20 years after Celestia went insane and tried to take over Equestria. Her response?"When I am Princess again, thou shalt regret thy actions! I will visit ruination upon thy business! I shall... I shall give it a poor review and none shall wish to dine here!"
- The owner then points out that the Celestia they knew would have burned the place down.
- The Power of Love: As in the maneverse, Cadance's special talent is love. However, it's clarified that her talent is all love - romantic love, the love between friends and family, the love of a citizen for his or her country, and so on. Additionally, she cannot create love, only clarify or help it grow. Her special talent also gives her some degree of awareness and sensitivity to all other emotions, as well.
- Pretty Princess Powerhouse: The Alicorn princess of love has kindness, politeness and power to spare.
- Erases any doubt of this in From the Depths, when she takes on Squirk, a bona fide Eldritch Abomination.
- Then there was that time she beat down a dragon.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: A dragon once invaded Cavallia, going after a thief who'd stolen something from their horde. After beating the dragon down, Cadenza heard him out, found the thief and made him return what he'd not managed to sell off already.
- Sheltered Aristocrat: She's Princess of Cavallia and she's treated as something of a messiah in the land. She has lived a life of comfort and luxury ever since she discovered her alicorn nature. She also looks forward to being a Princess and feels that luxury and comfort are hers by right. However, she is courteous, kind, not very good at making threats, and seems to want to genuinely help ponies. This doesn't change with time, as the last chapter of An Early Reunion and the side-story An Awkward Day show.
- Sliding Scaleof Idealism Versus Cynicism: Well towards the idealist side; arguably, in fact, one of the most positive characters in the entire Lunaverse, exceeded only by Dinky.
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Throughout An Early Reunion, but then every noble character speaks that way to get the point across that it takes place 980 years ago.
The Crystal Empire
General
- Theme Naming: The locals tend to have names going along the lines of "[Colour] [Mineral]"
Blue Agate
Speaker for the Crystal Council. Hardline neutralist in the Luna / Corona split.
- Stubborn Mule: While not an actual mule, she has a reputation for stubbornness which is well-earned.Schwartzkopf: Corona would have a better chance of talking a mountain into moving than getting Blue Agate to agree to anything.
Professor Schwartzkopf
Tenured dragon professor at the University of Beren
- Former Teen Rebel: During his youth, he got bored with the Crystal Empire and ran off to meet other dragons. Being partially crystal, this didn't work out so well for him.
- Raised by Orcs: From the dragon perspective, having been raised by ponies instead of around other dragons. As a result, he's a very un-draconic dragon, preferring quiet academia to pillaging and hording.
Zaldia
A nation to the east of Equestria and the north of Cavallia, chiefly defined by its Fantastic Racism and its paranoid opposition to everything Equestrian and/or Cavallian. General
- Fantastic Racism: Zaldia is virulently unicorn-supremacist. Three-quarters of the population are unicorns. The earth ponies that comprise most of the remaining quarter are kept in deliberate ignorance as a quasi-slave caste, while the pegasi were long ago driven out into Cavallia and Equestria.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Linguistically, the Zaldians used the Basque language, spoken in parts of northern Spain and southern France. Culturally, however, they're modeled on Tsarist Russia, with the Guarsai standing in for the Okhrana. However, they are also mentioned as maintaining a series of small colonies spanning from Shouma (China), Gia Suc (southeast Asia), and Farasi (Africa), making them also partially inspired by colonial Portugal.
- Insane Troll Logic: Zaldia's pegasi population left because they didn't like it, many of them immigrating to Cavallia. Many Zaldians see this as Cavallia "stealing" them.
- The Paranoiac: For centuries, Zaldia has defined itself almost entirely by its fear of and opposition to Equestria, to the point where basically anything Equestria does is automatically at least suspicious and probably nefarious, and constant action and vigilance must be taken to ensure that Equestria never gains the upper hoof over them because the Equestrians are surely waiting just to pounce on them or, at the very least, weaken them in some way.
Ispelu Magikoa
The Archmage of Zaldia and a master diviner.
- Anticlimax Boss: In-universe. Despite being the Archmage of Zaldia, he's primarily a diviner, not a battlemage. When he and Trixie go toe-to-toe, they end up being pretty evenly matched.
- Bilingual Bonus: His name is Basque for "Magic Mirror".
- Crippling Overspecialization: How Trixie defeats him. He figures out how to see through her illusions, but she figures out how he's doing that, and so manages to disguise her illusions.
- Deal with the Devil: Made a deal with Corona for help in overthrowing the King of Zaldia and taking the throne himself.
- Designated Villain: Invoked, by him. While his stated goals as king (toning down Zaldia's Fantastic Racism, ending the ridiculous feud with Cavallia) are ones that Equestria would support, making a bargain with the Tyrant Sun and framing Trixie and Lyra for treason was more than enough to make him a legitimate enemy.
- High-Class Glass: He's got a fancy, magic-endowed monocle, which allows him to detect scrying spells.
- Smug Super: He looks down on illusion spells as not being proper magic.
Kristal Zati
Ispelu Magikoa's apprentice.
- "Ass" in Ambassador: He's rude, arrogant, paranoid and condescending. And this guy is put in charge of handling delicate negotiations? Trixie guesses, going by the reaction of the Guarsai agent he summons during their meeting, that he's often summoned them up for ludicrously petty reasons.
- The Ending Changes Everything: The revelation that he's actually a deep-cover Guarsai agent puts a very different cast on a lot of his actions.
- Then the epilogue reveals that he's actually a changeling drone, working to disrupt Zaldia's defenses.
- Heel–Face Turn: Pulls a wholly unexpected one in Chapter 6 of The Glass Kingdom, when he reveals himself as a Guarsai agent and arrests Ispelu Magikoa.
- Jerkass: Accuses Trixie of trying to bribe him, tells the Guarsai agent she speaks poor Prench (Trixie is practically Prench/Equestrian bilingual), and generally is rude to Trixie for no good reason.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Pretends not to speak a word of Equestrian. He can, just another reason for Trixie to hate his guys.
- The Mole: He's a changeling drone pretending to be a deep-cover agent for the Guarsai
Ohar Garai
An earth pony musician in Zaldia, considered one of the best on the entire continent. Plays the zither.
- Closest Thing We Got: Several years prior, the musician who was supposedly to play for King Tronua was, ah, "indisposed" at the last minute. Ohar graciously filled in for her, which was how he impressed the king.
- Cruel Mercy: He convinces the king to spare Magikoa, not because of any actual mercy. He just doesn't want to waste potential food.
- Evil All Along: Actually the changeling hivelord in command of the invasion of Zaldia.
- Nice Guy: About the only Zaldian Lyra and Trixie encounter who isn't a colossal jackass. Of course, he's not a Zaldian.
- You No Take Candle: Since he can't speak Equestrian, he and Lyra converse in Cavallian, serving as the musician's lingua franca. But he's not much good at Cavallian, either (though then again, neither is Lyra).
Platinozko Tronua
King of Zaldia
- Deadpan Snarker: Gets in a good bit of snark at Zati when reading him the riot act, asking if the Guarsai truly believed he couldn't be trusted in a plot against himself.
- The Good King: According to Ohar, he's a very progressive, friendly sort. Of course, we only have Ohar's word on that. And given the state of Zaldia, it's not much to go on. At the end of the fic, though, he meets up with Lyra and Trixie, and despite criticizing Zati for his behaviour, still displays a few condescending attitudes towards them.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives quite a long one to Kristal Zati at the end of The Glass Kingdom, pointing out every flaw in the Guarsai's plan to reveal Ispelu Magikoa as a traitor.
- The speech, however, is somewhat undercut by the epilogue's revelation that Zati wanted the Guarsai to lose power in Zaldia...since that makes a changeling invasion easier.
Armarria Solidoa
Member of the Guarsai
- State Sec: Essentially his job. However, he appears to be reasonable and friendly when dealing with Trixie and Zati's "mix-up".
The Dragon's Forge
The homeland of dragons in the Lunaverse, located in the Western Wilderlands. It's a three-mile wide volcanic caldera surrounded by jungle and a pool of lava in its center, with a tall black spire made of obsidian coming from the center of that pool. Spike
Baby dragon. Introduced as Zecora's friend. Was dragged along with her to work for Corona, but ran away due to how scary Corona is. Somewhat snarky.
- Artifact of Doom: Spike got his claws on the Alicorn Amulet after finding it washed up in a river.
- Awesome Moment of Crowning: He manages to become the Overlord of All Dragons between A Chance Encounter and The Great Dragon Coronation. Sadly, it happens off-screen.
- Badass Adorable: Shows up in chapter 3 of The Great Dragon Coronation...as the Overlord of All Dragons.
- Break the Cutie: Poor Spike. First his oldest and only friend hands him over to a mad Alicorn, who proceeds to warp Spike's mind and body to use as a weapon. So Spike runs away, and has to deal with the awfulness of being a baby dragon on his own, in the Everfree. By the time he reappears, it's made pretty clear Spike's developed some nasty abandonment issues.
- Power Corrupts: It's a known drawback of the Alicorn Amulet. However, Spike does manage to shake it off before anything truly serious happens, and does an excellent job of resisting it in the meantime.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In A Chance Encounter.
- Snake Speak: When in greed-growth, Spike draws out his sibilants in this manner. As his name begins with an s, and as he tends to talk in the third person, this comes up a lot."Ssspike... hungry! Ssspike mad!"
- Third-Person Person: When in greed-growth, Spike tends to refer to himself strictly in the third person.
- Token Good Teammate: Really doesn't like Corona, and only sticks with her because of his friendship with Zecora. This doesn't last long, however.
- Took a Level in Badass: Somehow between A Chance Encounter and The Great Dragon Coronation, Spike managed to become the Overlord of All Dragons. As a reminder, dragons value strength, and the Overlord has to be able to defeat any challengers. Of course, the Alicorn Amulet really helped in that regard.
Griffin Kingdoms
The largest nation on the continent, and the most powerful except for Equestria itself. The Kingdoms are most a loose collection of feudal fiefs ruled by local warlords, but the griffins can and will align into a more cohesive union when circumstances dictate. General
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: To the Holy Roman Empire and Germany, and also Medieval Ireland to an extent. The Griffin language is largely shown to be German, although West Griffin is described as sounding like Russian instead. The Griffins elect High Kings during crises but for the most part are very independent, with individual kingdoms vying for power against once another.
- Theme Naming: Griffon names tend to start with G (Gilda, Gavril, Gwendolyn). It means bad-guy griffon Terrorwing stands out all the more.
Gilda
Griffin, Rainbow Dash's friend. A jerk with a heart of more jerkiness and a bad influence on Rainbow Dash.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: As briefly explained by Trixie during her plan to force Gilda to leave town, supposedly griffin culture works this way (though it's more about posturing than actual violence) and is sort of what Gilda is appealing to.
- Blatant Lies: Gilda is making patent abuse of cultural dissonance to weasel out of a well deserved beating while contently forgetting to mention that by griffin standards any 'friendship' would place her as clearly subservient to Raindrops.
- The Bus Came Back: Shows up again in The Voice of The Sun when Raindrops and Lyra visit the Griffin Kingdoms.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Getting into a fight with Raindrops convinced Gilda that "Dropsy" was a really good friend... nopony's really sure how that happened.
- Stands up for Raindrops and Lyra in The Voice Of The Sun, providing them with useful information as well as support in both the court and the dueling arena.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Clashing between pony and griffin culture is supposed to be at least partly the reason for her bad behaviors and attitude, though
Word of God has it she's still something of a hooligan even by griffin standards as well. - Fantastic Racism: She makes it rather apparent that as a rule she has no respect for ponies, even going so far as to say, "All ponies look the same to me, each as lame as the next," although she's quick to point out that Rainbow Dash is the exception.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In The Voice of the Sun, Gilda may be obnoxious and rough around the edges, but becomes determined to help Lyra and Raindrops to the extent she threatens to beat up every griffon she has to until they help.
- Worthy Opponent: She views Raindrops as such, though more so out of fear than respect.
King Garvill
King of one of the outer kingdoms, specifically the one the Equestrian embassy lies in
- Death Glare: When one particularly foolish griffon says he had declared Raindrops part of his court, allowing her to take part in duels, Garvill glowers him into silence.
- Depending on the Writer: An interesting one. Voice of the Sun has switched writers by the time he shows up, but portrays him as being a relatively reasonable guy. The non-canon Hearth's Warming Helper, also written by TalonandThorn has him as a horrible, abusive piece of work.
- Sins of the Father: Is still pretty pissed about Equestria's involvement in his uncle's coup, and their refusal to help in the name of politics. He does, at least, forgive Twilight for her grandmother's inability to help, but he's still frosty toward Luna.
Naqah
General
Dunya
A djinn, and former servant to the Caliph of Naqah.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Her specialty.
- Jerkass: She's pissed off at Yangin for not bothering to look for her in the last fifteen hundred years. And then she goes and hands her over to Kindle, making no effort to save her and obstructing the Bearers' attempts to do the same.
- Karma Houdini: After screwing over her sister, letting Kindle walk off with her in tow, she binds the Bearers just long enough for her to get away.
- Loophole Abuse: She's bound by her order to do everything she can to protect the Army of Smoke and Fire. But if, say, someone just happened to break it, well...
Emir Ofkeli Grev
- Affably Evil: A jerk he may be, but he's still very polite on meeting the Element Bearers.
- Arc Villain: Its his actions in "Chasing Smoke" that bring the Element Bearers to Naqah.
- The Fundamentalist: He disagreed with the Sultan's attempted reforms, but it was the attempts to reform Naqah's education systems that pushed him over the edge into outright rebellion.
Parlac Kilic
- First-Name Basis: After his introduction, he's generally just referred to as Parlac.
Sultan Pinric
- The Good King: Or sultan, in his case. He's trying to institute reforms to make things better for his subjects, specifically the non-camels among them.
Shouma
General
Kenkuro Kazeyama
Elderly tengu mentor to Dao Ming
- Big Eater
- Dirty Old Man: He got in to some trouble before Contest of Champions for convincing some temple priestesses to do some very naughty things with him.
- Parental Substitute: Since Dao has no idea who her father actually is, Kenkuro is the closest thing she's ever known to a loving parent.
Fu Ling
Current empress of the Shouma.
- Abusive Parents: She is utterly horrific to Dao Ming, having refused to ever once show her a single ounce of motherly affection.
- Hate Sink: The actual villains of Contest are mysterious and shadowy, and Celestia's slightly less loopy than she used to be, so that just leaves Fu Ling to draw the reader's ire. And boy, does she.
- Jerkass: She almost seems to take delight in finding new ways to be an awful parent to Dao Ming, including forcing her to cast the dangerous magic to get her ship to the contest on her own, not saying a word to her after, and then insulting her own kid by assigning Kenkuro to take part in the contest with her, when in every occasion prior the Shouma have only had one champion. Of course, she's also rude and aloof to everyone else, as well. Dao just gets it worst. It's stated that she believes this is necessary to shape Dao Ming into a worthy heir.
- Lack of Empathy: Yes, why would your daughter want to know who her father is?
- Never My Fault: Dao Ming finally stands up to her and calls her on her crap? Those Equestrians must've corrupted her somehow, and she'll clearly have to fix it.
- Pet the Dog: For what little it's worth, she did adopt Tomoko, and before Dao was born named her the imperial heir.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Villain might be stretching it, but not by much. She's arrogant and hideously racist towards non-Shouma.
Dao Ming
Daughter of the current empress, a highly skilled mage with some serious mommy issues.
- Beneath the Mask: Dao very rarely shows anyone her softer side.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Eventually, she gets into a screaming match with mom.
- Disappeared Dad: She has absolutely no idea who her father is. That her mother didn't care is just an additional layer of emotional damage.
- Expy: Basically, a kirin version of the show's Twilight Sparkle, if Celestia was an emotionally abusive cow.
- Jerkass: She can be polite towards those she considers of equal status. Those she doesn't (read: anyone not royal) on the other hand, she'll sneer and condescend at.
- Tsundere: Non-romantic version, with her mentor.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: She pushes herself to dangerous extremes trying to prove to mom that she's worth being the imperial heir. So far, no luck, with only nearly killing herself and Trixie earning little more than vague approval. Eventually, character development kicks in and she decides she no longer cares so much about getting mom's approval.
Tokomo
Adopted daughter of Empress Fu Ling
- Calling the Old Man Out: After luring Fu Ling into a trap, she takes a moment to call her out for being a horrific parent to Dao.
- Happily Adopted: By the Empress. She's considered and treated as much a blood relative by the Empress and her child. Eventually, it turns out the "happy" part isn't quite as true, she just hid it a damn sight better than Dao did.
- Sweet Tooth: Takes a keen interest in BonBon's bubblegum.
- This Is Your Brain on Evil: Turns out plugging yourself into the fortress practically, if not actually, made of evil has a nasty effect on things like sanity...
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her goal in the conspiracy is to hijack the ancient evil fortress and... destroy it. Oh, and get rid of Fu Ling so her adopted sister can be empress, because she figures Dao will be better than their mom ever could.
Cow Cow
A warlord.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: As his name implies, he is based on the historical Chinese warlord Cao Cao
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Zhalast-Zin
A mysterious city far removed from Equestria in which the uintatherium live. General
Asyana
Member of Ritter's archeology team. Zebra.
- Bold Explorer: Why she's wound up with Ritter, she wanted to get out there and see the world.
- Horrible Judge of Character: She's... pretty bad at seeing how Ritter's a scuzzball.
- Motor Mouth
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: The two major examples of zebra-kind besides her are Zecora and Tendaji, both of whom are stoic, mysterious types. Asyana... is nothing like that at all.
- Plucky Girl
Grayback
- The Jeeves: To the Watcher.
Grima
Member of Ritter's archeology team.
- And I Must Scream: For a short while, anyways.
- Mauve Shirt
Dr. Ritter
Archeologist and treasure hunter who enters the Lost City in search of loot.
- Adventurer Archaeologist: Of the evil, selfish kind.
- Grave Robbing
- Greed: His motivation in life.
- Karma Houdini: He gets away at the end of everything unscathed. Though he didn't get any loot, either.
- Meaningful Name: Ritter means "knight" in German, much as one meaning of caballero does in Spanish.
- Non-Indicative Name: He doesn't act remotely knightly.
- Refuge in Audacity: One of the first things he does is try and get the Princesses to sign forms giving him legal rights to all discoveries in Zhalast-Zin, so they won't suspect what he's really after.
- Retcon: Was originally Dr. Caballeron, but when he introduced himself towards the end of Chapter 2 of Past Remnants, the Quorum objected, not wanting to touch the question whether the books were real or not, so his name was changed.
The Watcher
A Saurian Emperor who led his people in combat against the alicorns. Currently protects the uintatherium.
- Alter Kocker: Really comes across as an elderly Yiddish man in his conversations with Celestia and Luna, being more concerned with why they never came to visit him more than anything else.
- Break the Haughty: The extinction of his people and the subsequent period of isolation were this for him, finally allowing him to see just how wrong his actions were.
- Composite Character: A mixture between Azala, leader of the Reptiles from Chrono Trigger and Emperor Xin, founder of the Thassalonian Empire from the Pathfinder campaign setting of Golarian.
- Eye Scream: A just-escaped Discord blinds him, to prevent him seeing what's about to happen...
- Fog Of Ages: Being several millennia old will do a number on your memories. He can't remember his own name anymore, and might well have forgotten that it was Kerzog who put him where he was.
- God-Emperor: Treated as such while his people were alive (which is part of the reason they didn't listen to him after everything went sour - how could a god-emperor make a mistake?).
- Go Mad from the Isolation: Several millennia stuck on his own in his palace made him go quite mad, to the extent he tried to goad Luna into killing him.
- Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: In order to restore morale after his forces lost to the alicorns time and time again, he attempted to divert a comet closer to their capital. The resulting cataclysm killed so many Saurians that they soon went extinct.
- Pride: His major sin.
- Sealed Badass in a Can: Kerzog seized control after the incident with the comet, and had him sealed inside his own palace. Even after several millennia, the Watcher has been unable to break the enchantments.
- The Watcher: Well, duh.
