History FanFic / ThePalaververse

* MicroMonarchy: The Viceroyalty of Saddle Arabia, population 60000, standing army of [[SuspiciouslySmallArmy two]]:
-->'''Viceroy Simoom:''' I’ll tell Dune and Sun Spot you mentioned them. They got these spiffy new uniforms just last week, and they’re very keen to do their pa-\\

* NaiveNewcomer: Bullwalda Greenhorn, having just recently ascended to the throne, has very little experience in the way the council works or in dealing with any sort of government outside of a traditional monarchy, and it shows. Viceroy Simoom of Saddle Arabia brings the naiveté to a whole new level. Finally, there’s Shahanshah Sailears of Pachydermia, who’s still a child and doesn’t yet fully grasp the finer points of politics and national rivalry.
* NoFocusOnHumans: Humans, or something like them, are mentioned to exist in the third chapter:
--> '''Warthog Delegate:''' Sacred skies, it jabbers on like one of the bipedal apes you find in the Interior forests. All they do is [[spoiler:screech and try to show off their advancements in tool-using and theoretical mathematics to you]].

* UsedToBeASweetKid: The Zebrican Pharaohs, at least to each other, as Celestia tells it:
--> “Honestly,” she said, “You were much more pleasant to each other when you were foals. Some of us remember.”

* [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Ornithopter]]: Not exactly the Cloud-Kisser, but her description strongly implies a level of unreliability in newly-designed aircraft:
-->Fifty leagues per hour at peak speed, so it shouldn’t take much more than three or four hours to get to Canterlot. Fitted out with the most modern galvanic rotors and a mithril-alloy fuselage and other unpronounceable things. It sometimes doesn’t explode mid-flight, even.

* LaceratingLoveLanguage: Charity the pyrefalcon, from a DeathWorld, expresses gratitude as "I'll kill you last.":

* RentAZilla: The Fire Queen of the dragons is enormous, the largest dragon alive, to the point that she can't physically leave her cave without breaking its mountain open.

* TimeTravel: ''The First Stitch'' is about Rarity accidentally traveling in time to Equestria's distant past.

--> “Guys, how’s Twilight?” Spike called, looking agitated. “She’s not hurt, is she?”

* LargeAndInCharge: The Fire Queen, ruler of dragonkind, is very, very large.

* CompleteImmortality: Discord. He simply can’t be killed, only forced into dormancy.

* EnemyWithin: All alicorns carry within them a Nightmare that constantly tempts, harangues and harasses them to try to get them to give in to their basest urges and impulses. Luna’s was purged by the Elements of Harmony, and Cadence and Twilight are too young for theirs to have fully developed yet, but Celestia has been constantly withstanding the influence of hers for the past one thousand years.

* EyeTake: In the fifth chapter, Old Chestnut's surprise in discovering Daring's presence in the ruin where they meet for a second time is described through him giving her a wide-eyed stare.

--> '''Story:''' “Thank you for being brave and honest, Daring,” said Celestia, a genuine smile breaking out across her features once more. “Those are good virtues to have. And what you’ve told me isn’t as bad as what I feared it could be.\\\

* CutHimselfShaving: From the last chapter of ''Treasures'', Daring's unbelievable explanations for her injuries as she lampshades to herself immediately after using them:
--> a [...] doctor [...] came out to take Daring into her office.\\

“That appears to be a burn on your snout,” she said at one point. “How did you get that, chookie?”\\
She drew upon her cunning. “I, um, I sniffed a candle too hard.”\\
Consarn her cunning.\\
[...]\\
“How did you hurt your wing, chookie?” the doctor asked.\\
Not candles, Daring told herself. “I … I tripped over a log.”\\
“Tripped over a log.”\\
“Uh-huh.” Consarn everything, was there a maximum cunning quota she had to stay under in a day?
* DoubleEntendre: From the first chapter of ''Treasures'', where kid Daring doesn't get the accidental joke when her dad is inspecting a tower, but the mares do:
--> “It’s not the size of the tower that matters,” said Dad, still star-struck. Both Ivory and Granny repressed snickers for some reason.

--> She’d found her first trap. She’d outwitted her first trap.

---> '''Old Chestnut:''' This is a feathering ''ruin''! An Antlertean ''ruin''!
* ExactWords: From ''Treasures'': Cervile does to to others and himself, trying to forget uncomfortable truths through rephrasing, and "In a manner of speaking":
--> “You tricked me as well, I guess,” she said at last. “You said [[spoiler:he was still in residence]].”\\
Cervile hesitated before speaking. “In a manner of speaking —”
* EyeTake: In the fifth chapter, showing Old Chestnut's surprise in discovering Daring's presence in the ruin where they meet for a second time:
--> Old Chestnut stared right at her, eyes wide.
* TheFairFolk: What the Mage-Lords were perceived as by the ancient inhabitants of the Equestria Girls universe when they crossed worlds -- otherworldly beings who seemed to wear human appearance like ill-fitting clothing, striking from deep forests to steal people away, never to be seen again.

* MissingMom: Daring Do’s mother, Storm Chaser, died exploring a ruin when Daring was still young.

* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: In the fifth chapter, one of Old Chestnut's many objections about foal Daring's presence in the ruin where they meet for the second time:
--> '''Old Chestnut:''' It's a rutting ''school hour'', for star’s sake!
* StrongFamilyResemblance: From the first chapter of ''Treasures'': Daring's similarity to her mom, is what Ivory clearly would've remarked upon if not interrupted:
--> “My word, you really are growing up.” Ivory sighed. “You’ve got your dad’s eyes, but otherwise you’re the spitting image of—”\\
“I was told by reliable authorities that you’ve got an ancient set of ruins in town?” Dad interrupted.

--> She’d found her first trap. She’d outwitted her first trap. Her cutie mark all but sang. She wanted to find another trap and relive that thrill again and again, feel her heart jump into her mouth on another gamble in the face of deadly odds.

* TimeTravel: It happens in ''The First Stitch''. As the short summary says:
--> One winter's day, before Hearth's Warming Eve, Rarity falls backwards in time. To before all the Hearth's Warming Eves to come.
* TranslatorMicrobes: In the second chapter of ''Treasures'', Daring gets things translated from Antlerean into Equish for her:
--> A little plaque ran below the carving, and as it caught Daring’s eye, magic suddenly flickered in the air around it. The sparkle of the magic was unexpectedly bright, much brighter than the old etchings she’d seen above, and the words on the plaque uncoiled and shifted in her vision to form understandable Equish letters.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Parodied in ''Thunderstorm and the Four Winds'', where Rainbow Dash tries to use old-fashioned language while narrating Thunderstorm's story despite not having a good grasp of it.
-->'''Rainbow Dash (narrating)''': "Prithee, O Wind of the North," Thunderstorm, um, declaimed. "I do beseech thee for thine most ... something-or-other aid, on behalf of ... wait, should that have been 'thy'? I can never remember the —"[[note]]It should indeed have been "thy".[[/note]]\\