The real author of the series is...
- Princess Celestia, why else wouldn't the author come forward after the books became a huge hit?
- Twilight Sparkle. She completed the last volumes while she was still in Canterlot and hid them in the university, since she wanted to move on to simply studying magic and didn't want the popularity of these manuscripts to affect her own life.
- Seriously? Twilight Sparkle? I know she's a national hero and all, but the timing is just unrealistic. Now what would be more believable if she was the fanfic author MagicSpark.
- Rainbow Dash from the future. It's a Stable Time Loop, she sent the manuscripts back in time so that her past self would become interested in reading and later writing.
- A zebra. Look at how amazingly accurate the depiction of zebra society is in Ring of the Marengeti! If a normal pony had written it, this story would be rife with inaccuracies!
- Multiple ponies. I mean, come on, it's pretty obvious with the changes in styles and details.
- A normal, secluded writer. Rumor has it that somepony named "Filly Trotman" had his name attached to the stories, but nopony can be sure thanks to the pony in question living a secluded life.
- Daring Do herself.
- A creature known as a "human", whose fanfiction of a show within a show about Equestria ended up in Equestria.
- Go back to bed, Lyra.
- Ah yes, "Humans" the mythical race of half-minotaur, half-ape, allegedly watching us from another world. We have dismissed this claim!
- Blackmane, showing his appreciation for Daring Do from beyond the grave.
- Ditzy Doo a.k.a. Derpy Hooves. Daring Do is her self insert fic. Heck, they even have similar names.
- With eyes like those? I doubt it.
- Considering that these books were written decades ago, unless she's somehow a time traveler, I doubt it.
- Discord. It's starting to look like a clever plan of his so we'd fight over the identity of author and cause enough strife that we'll break him out of his stone prison.
- Lauren Faust, creator of My Little Human: Friendship is Magic. Her favorite human, the tomboyish, athletic Firefly acts EXACTLY like Daring! They even have the same eye color!
- Despite Word Of Celestia that she isn't, fan speculation is still rampant.
- Unless Lauren's secretly an Alicorn, I'm pretty sure that's right out. The books were supposedly written decades ago. If anything, Firefly would be inspired by Daring. Though I have to admit, Laurentia of the Red Mane resembles her pretty well.
- That strange brown pony with a hourglass for a cutie mark. I mean, he looks to much like Doctor Whooves! Ya know, that pony who time travels?! He can find plenty inspiration from history.
- An anonymous griffon.
Conglomerate of theories on Daring's Mother.
She is....
- Still alive. When asked about their last mission in Griffin's Goblet, her father merely said that they "found darker things than they set out to." When she specifically asks about their mother, he said, "she's gone", not "she's dead."
- Lyrish. Whenever we 'see' images of her, she's always described as having green eyes and with a red mane, a common trait to ponies from Lyrland. Also, in flashbacks in which she speaks, the author takes care to give her a slight accent with a Lyrish slant to the dialect.
- Might go a ways to explaining where Derring and Daring get their respective tempers, as well as Daring's amazing drinking abilities.
The stories are all true.
Herpy has a crush on Daring.
The real reason why he changed majors to become Daring's grad-student wasn't because he found Economics too easy, it's that helping her again in
Temple Of Nightmare Moon made him realize he was in love with her and he wanted to be close to her.
Daring Do and the Bauble of Mystery was programmed by Ahuizotl.
Who else could make such badly animated cutscenes and awkward gameplay?
He was initially only trying to secure these priceless artifacts from the
greedy braggart, Daring Do. It was only through countless tussles with the pegasus
did he start to become as ruthless as she was. Unfortunately, history is
Written By The Victors, and so we have our
current interpretation of him.
Daring Do is based on Commander Hurricane.
Come on, you can see the resemblance! Sure, she lacks the historical Commander's full
Proud Warrior Tribe Mare philosophy, but honestly, that's just as well. She has the same
hooves-first to problem solving, and they're both undeniably, unquestionably unstoppable. In fact, if you look closer, there's a certain resemblance between many of Daring's friends and the founders of Equestria. Coco Pie might as well be a direct
copy of Chancellor Puddinghead, for one.
The fate of the missing statues from Children of Primus
They are...
- Still in Equestria somewhere.
- Transported to another dimension.
- Were destroyed off-page by one of the other statues.
- Beyond the stars.
Specifically, the two that are regularly
Ship Teased; though this is just my two bits.
- Daring Do/Bravado: Originally intended as being the Official Couple (or as close as it was going to get, it seems to vary from book to book) due to how similar the two of them were: Brash, Stubborn and Adventurer Archaeologist.
- Daring/Herpy: Not intended to be anything except maybe a one shot character, or possibly an easy out if Daring needed someone in the school to help her. But, thanks to both fan reaction and fleshing out of his character, his personality ended up complimenting Daring's much more than intended.
Calypso is a hermaphrodite
Why else would that bird be referred to as both male and female?
Daring Do and Ahuizotl will become playable in the next
PonyCalibur game.
The series had a few guest stars before, and who else would be more awesome?
- Celestia knows that would be better than the cash grab crossovers they've been doing since the third one.
The Wooden Mask and the Smooze are connected.
- Both turn ponies evil, both have the power of Mind Control, and both are maybe the only things that rival Krastos in evil or scariness. The Mask could have easily been made by an ancient Colt of Smooze for some dark ritual.
- That makes a disturbing amount of sense. They might have chipped a piece of the Amber and incorporated it into the Mask.
The reason why Children of Primus was never officially released was...
- That there was some sort of conspiracy that didn't allow it to get published.
- Copyright issues. I mean the whole thing does sound vaguely like Transformares.
We will eventually find out what happened in Fillydelphia three years ago.
It will involve time travel, and it will be hilarious.
The stories are true, and Rainbow Dash is the reincarnation of Daring Do
Daring wrote of her adventures under a pen name, and died during what was meant to be the last in the series. She is born years later as a pony almost identical to herself, just with a slightly different personality and a totally different colour scheme. She is born Rainbow Dash, with no recollection of her past life, but tends to get scraps of memory, which helps in her sparking interest in reading.
