Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26186871-20180112015438

Some of you (All 0 of you who commented on the thread) may have seen a certain story I'm creating-But it's not with any of my original characters, hence it not being in the Stories board (which flat-out states "with your own characters". Only story I have there is Levels and Grinding.) My Heroic Pony is its name. So, what is it? Well, it's my own alternate version of My Little Pony, with several changes. None of them have shown up yet, but there are some headcanons that I'll be using in the story that you should be aware of, so you understand the story a bit better. And don't worry, none of this is spoilers-I'm leaving the "spoilers" to the actual story it's supposed to be "spoiling".

So, here's a timeline of the events leading up to the story, excluding the spoiler-y details, along with the meaning of some of the terms.

Long ago, three races ruled over the earth-Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns. One day, they all united with the help of Clover the Clever, and formed a country together-And that's how Equestria was made! This began the Pre-Classical Era, also known as PCE. (Yep, I'm going with how Twilight named it in Luna Ecplised.) Anything before that is denoted as BPCE, sort of like how we use BC.

Soon, Discord took over, creating the Era of Chaos. And... nopony really knows exactly how long it was, or what it was-It was just too chaotic for records to make sense of-In fact, records written during that time period were just gibberish! We know it was bad for the three races, though. Celestia and Luna soon rose to power, after discovering the Elements, and banishing Discord to stone. This started the Classical Era, or CE-Also known as the Diarchic Era, referring to the two princesses that ruled over the land.

...Then Luna turned into Nightmare Moon. After being banished, this started the Celestia Monarchic Era, the current era as of the story's beginning.

Now to get into the other terms and headcanons used within the story, whether used already or would appear later on-Once again though, no spoilers. First off, "mana" is magical energy-For there are four elements of magic (not to be confused with the Elements of Harmony), Fire, Air, Earth, and Water. By mixing these four elements together, many magical spells can be created. All magic (At least that we know of, we're not sure about the Elements of Harmony) is composed of these four elements.

So, there you go. Everything you'd need to know to understand the story, that isn't explicitly stated within the story itself. With this info, you should be able to understand ALL of the story. 