This is the entire lore and story of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
I am Sawtooth Waves.
I am Littleshy.
I am JarrodFeng.
and I am Wubcake.
Together with daspacepony, we'll be recapping all nine seasons of the main show,
along with the Equestria Girls spinoff movies and specials.
However, we won't be covering stories from the comics, games and other media in order
to stick to canon as closely as possible.
This video project is an update to the last MLP recap video daspacepony and I did back
in 2018 and since the show has officially ended, it’s time to re-cover everything!
We hope you enjoy this video we all worked really hard on.
Without further ado, let's begin!
Long, long ago, an ancient ram known as Grogar declared himself emperor over a collection
of farms and pastures.
He created various monsters to lay siege to the land.
Containing most of his power was a talisman known as the Bewitching Bell.
A pony known as Gusty the Great then rose up against Grogar, taking his bell and banishing him.
She hid the bell at the top of Mt. Everhoof, sealing it away with a magical forcefield.
Now, among pony kind were three tribes, the Pegasi, the Unicorns and the Earth Ponies.
Though the tribes were divided, they all depended on eachother for survival.
The Earth Ponies, with their special connection to the ground, were tasked with growing crops
for all the tribes.
In return, the Pegasi with their wings controlled the weather, while the unicorns with their
horns and magic spells, raised and lowered the sun and moon to bring forth day and night.
During this time, a unicorn named Clover the Clever underwent seven trials, one of which
involved pursuing an evil sorceress who had a memory-erasing artifact
called the Memory Stone.
This ended when the sorceress entered a portal and the artefact became lost in another world.
The tribes’ precarious peace was suddenly toppled when mythical creatures known as Windigoes
arrived and started a massive blizzard that destroyed most of the Earth ponies crops.
A grand summit was held where the leaders of each tribe discussed what to do about the famine.
The meeting didn’t go too well as the leaders blamed each other for the blizzard.
The leaders and their number twos all separately decided that they would seek out a new land.
But unexpectedly, all three tribes came across the same territory, so they fought for sovereignty.
This drew the attention of the Windigoes’ blizzard, which had been feeding off the hatred
between the tribes since the beginning.
The leaders had no choice but to seek shelter in a cave, but they brought their fighting,
and therefore the blizzard, with them.
It wasn’t long before the leaders were completely frozen in ice.
Fortunately, the tribes’ number twos saw how the fighting caused their leaders to freeze
and they befriended each other.
This ignited the “Fire of Friendship”, which incinerated the Windigoes and melted
the ice off their leaders and the land around them.
The three tribe leaders saw how harmony had conquered the coldness of hatred.
They agreed to share the land, officially declaring it “Equestria”.
After the founding of Equestria, a powerful unicorn known as Star Swirl the Bearded was
assigned to be the mentor of the two newly crowned princesses of Equestria,
Celestia and Luna.
The young rulers were powerful ponies known as Alicorns,
having both a pair of wings and a horn each.
After some time, Celestia learned the ability of raising and lowering the sun all by herself.
She took over the duty that was previously held by Star Swirl and five other unicorn sorcerers.
Eventually, Luna likewise learned to raise and lower the moon by herself, and together,
Celestia and Luna offered to bring forth day and night together, bringing balance to the land.
Meanwhile, dangerous creatures coming in all shapes and sizes threatened to take advantage
of young equestria’s growth.
Brothers Tirek and Scorpan were intent on stealing magic from Equestria.
However, Scorpan came to appreciate the ways of the ponies and urged Tirek to abandon their plans
to which he refused.
Scorpan alerted the princesses, who responded by sending Tirek to Tartarus
a prison for dangerous beings.
The Sirens: Adagio, Sonata and Aria fed off ponies' negative energies, giving them power.
They intended to conquer Equestria through their songs.
To stop them, A scholarly unicorn named Stygian brought together six of the land’s greatest
heroes who became known as the Pillars of Old Equestria.
One of the pillars, Star Swirl, banished the sirens to another world, believing their magic
would cause no harm there.
Stygian, wanting to fight alongside the Pillars, took artefacts from each of them to make copies
However, the Pillars misunderstood this as an act of selfish jealousy, and kicked him out for it.
Having been cast away from the group he assembled, Stygian let the darkness envelope him and
he transformed into a creature known as the Pony of Shadows.
The Pillars responded by sacrificing themselves, using a rock formation known as Ponhenge to
trap the Pony of Shadows in limbo.
Knowing this plan would trap themselves in limbo too, they infused a powerful seed with
their magic that would one day grow into a force that could protect Equestria in their absence.
The pillars summoned the Pony of Shadows to ponehenge and its magic caused all of them
to disappear into limbo, leaving behind each of the Pillars’ artefacts to be scattered
across Equestria.
That seed they planted grew into a magical essence known as the Tree of Harmony.
By the time it was full grown, the powerful and mischievous creature of chaos known as
Discord turned Equestria into his playground, ruling it in a state of unrest and unhappiness
for all ponies.
Celestia and Luna wanted to put a stop to it.
Having discovered the Tree of Harmony, they retrieved six magical artefacts contained
within it known as the Elements of Harmony.
They wielded the Elements against Discord and defeated him, casting him into stone.
But before his defeat, Discord had planted “plunderseeds” to steal the magic from
the Tree of Harmony and capture Celestia and Luna.
However, even without the Elements contained in it, the tree continued to have enough magic
to prevent the seeds from taking over.
Around this time in the arctic north of Equestria, an evil unicorn named King Sombra took over
a magical domain known as the Crystal Empire and enslaved the Crystal Ponies that lived there.
Celestia and Luna saw the suffering of the ponies in the north, so they overthrew Sombra,
turning him to shadow and banishing him into the ice.
but not before he was able to put a curse on the Empire that caused it to vanish completely.
Over time, tensions between Celestia and Luna grew hot.
Luna became jealous of her elder sister’s reign over the ponies during their waking hours.
One day, she raised the moon to block the sun, and refused to lower it.
The Darkness in Luna turned her into a wicked mare known as Nightmare Moon, who wanted to
destroy Celestia.
The fight that followed led to the destruction of their castle.
Celestia had no choice but to begrudgingly use the Elements of Harmony
against her own sister.
The Elements banished her to the moon for a thousand years.
This began the great Celestia-Luna rift.
Celestia took over Luna’s duty and raised both the sun and moon every day.
Shortly after Luna’s banishment, Celestia formed the E.U.P Guard to protect herself,
and those left vulnerable by the recent change.
After a successful year of peace brought by the E.U.P, Celestia declared an event to commemorate
the day of nightmare moon’s defeat, and celebrate the peace that followed.
At the celebration, General Firefly of the EUP led an elite team of aerial performers,
who showered the ground with magical lightning.
This inspired the name that group known by: “The Wonderbolts”.
Celestia made the event into an annual festival called the Summer Sun Celebration.
Though, to her, this day was one of great regret and sorrow over the loss of her sister.
Over time, ponies began to forget there ever was a second princess,
and Luna was forgotten from history.
A family of travelling seed collectors arrived in the capital city of Canterlot
and met with Princess Celestia.
Noticing the family’s need for a new home, she directed them to a land next to the Everfree Forest
where they soon settled down and planted their first orchard.
But since it would take a while for the orchard to grow,
a young filly we know as Granny Smith ventured into the Everfree Forest to look for food.
She found a magical fruit called Zap Apples
that grew to full size the moment their seeds were planted.
Granny paid attention to the special signs in the harvesting of zap apples and then developed
a process of strange activities to produce her one of a kind zap apple jam.
Ponies started coming from far and wide for her jam, including one named Stinkin’ Rich
who opened a store nearby.
This attracted even more ponies into the area
and it developed into a humble town by the name of “Ponyville”
and Granny Smith’s farm became “Sweet Apple Acres”.
Another family eventually settled next to Sweet Apple Acres.
They grew their own pear farm and started a feud over who’s farm was better.
The only ponies that ever got along between the two families were Bright Mac and Pear Butter.
The two grew closer despite their families never allowing them to meet.
Over the years, they continued to meet in secret and eventually fell in love.
The head of the Pear family, Grand Pear decided to move the family to Vanhoover to expand
their business but also get away from the Apple family.
Without a moment to lose Bright Mac set up a secret wedding
located between the Apple and Pear farms.
He and Pear Butter planted their own families’ seeds in each other’s farms as a special
way to seal their vows.
Both Grand Pear and Granny Smith found out about their wedding
but the vows had already been sealed.
After being forced by her father to choose between being an Apple and being a Pear,
she tearfully decided to stay with the Apples.
Grand Pear left, angered by his daughter’s decision.
Bright Mac and Pear Butter went on to have three kids together,
Big Macintosh, Applejack and Apple Bloom.
Back in Canterlot, a unicorn named Sunset Shimmer
enrolled to Princess Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns.
However, her greed and impatience eventually led her to abandon her studies.
She came across a Crystal Mirror which lead her to another world.
Princess Celestia left the mirror in her throne room, hoping that one day Sunset Shimmer would
come back through the mirror to seek her guidance once more.
One summer sun celebration,
A young unicorn named Twilight Sparkle witnessed with awe Princess Celestia raising the sun.
She was inspired to extensively study magic.
Her parents enrolled her into Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns.
But to get in, she was required to pass an entrance exam that involved using magic to
hatch a dragon’s egg.
After several failed attempts, Twilight was about to give up until a powerful magical
blast triggered her magic, allowing her to successfully hatch the egg.
That magical blast came from a legendary phenomenon known as the Sonic Rainboom.
It was performed in Cloudsdale by a young pegasus named Rainbow Dash
who was racing through the sky.
This Sonic Rainboom set in motion a chain of events that caused six ponies across Equestria
to get their cutie marks, symbols on a pony’s flank that represents what makes them unique.
Of these ponies were Rainbow Dash, discovering her love of speed and flying
Twilight Sparkle, discovering her raw magical abilities
Applejack discovering her love of the country life
Fluttershy, discovering her love for animals
Rarity, discovering her sense of beauty
and Pinkie Pie discovering joy and happiness.
With the help of the Sonic Rainboom, Twilight passed her entrance exam to Celestia’s School
with outstanding results and became one of her pupils.
Twilight took in the baby dragon that came from the egg, named him Spike
and cared for him like her little brother.
In the outskirts of Equestria, another young unicorn named Fizzlepop Berrytwist had her
horn broken after being attacked by an Ursa Minor.
This rendered her magic unstable and dangerous, driving her friends away out of fear.
Filled with bitterness, she ran away from her hometown.
Meanwhile, Princess Celestia continued to teach Twilight Sparkle at her school fostering
her academic and magical abilities.
However, she noticed that Twilight isolated herself from other ponies, which prevented
her from reaching her full potential.
The thousandth year since Nightmare moon’s defeat, and that year’s Summer Sun Celebration was
coming up, and Celestia devised a plan to help Twilight finally make some friends.
We’re now at the premiere, the point where Friendship is Magic begins.
Twilight Sparkle stumbles upon a book on “Predictions and Prophecies” during her studies in Canterlot.
Twilight discovers that the “Mare on the Moon” will return “on the longest day
of the thousandth year” and bring about everlasting night.
Twilight writes a letter to warn Princess Celestia, but Celestia soon replies back to
tell her to focus on making friends and to help out at this year’s Summer Sun Celebrations
held in Ponyville the next day.
Celestia sends both Twilight and Spike to Ponyville to check on preparations for the
celebration and meets Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash who have
all done their duties for the celebration.
However, during the celebration, it is found that Celestia has been captured, and the menacing
Nightmare Moon has returned, showing herself in front of everypony and executing her plan
for eternal night.
Twilight Sparkle, upon seeing Nightmare, returns to “Predictions and Prophecies” to find
that defeating Nightmare Moon requires one to possess the Elements of Harmony, currently
hidden in the Everfree Forest.
She plans to seek the Elements herself, only to find the five ponies she met in Ponyville
following along with her.
Together they faced obstacle after obstacle, with everypony using their unique abilities
to pass each one.
When the six ponies finally find and recover the Elements, Nightmare Moon arrives and destroys
the Elements right in front of Twilight.
Then, a spark ignites in Twilight, finally realizing that the spirits of the Elements
of Harmony are embodied within the five friends she made including herself, each representing
a certain aspect in friendship, namely Honesty, Kindness, Generosity, Laughter, Loyalty and
only when those five elements are present does the sixth element appears, Magic.
The Elements are reborn as gems on necklaces, except Magic, which is forged on a crown.
The Elements, wielded by the six ponies, create a rainbow-colored blast of magic that vanquishes
Nightmare Moon, returning her to her original form, Princess Luna.
Celestia returns with the sunrise and explains that Twilight had the magic to defeat Nightmare Moon
when she let true friendship into her heart.
It is then revealed to them that Princess Luna is Princess Celestia’s long lost little sister.
Not wanting to leave Twilight’s newly made friends behind, Princess Celestia assigns
Twilight a new mission to learn as much about friendship as she can in her new home in Ponyville,
which Twilight accepts.
From then on, Twilight lives in Ponyville’s Golden Oak Library.
Together, Twilight and her friends are known as the Mane 6.
Twilight begins learning about friendship, sending letters to Celestia about her findings.
She sees the birth of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, a group of three young ponies who have yet
to earn their cutie marks on a mission to do what it takes to get theirs.
A unicorn named Trixie boasting about defeating an Ursa with her magic, only for everypony
to find that she lied when a real Ursa invaded Ponyville.
Twilight stepped in to put it back to sleep.
She sees winter getting wrapped up by the ponies manually as tradition to prepare for the spring.
Rainbow Dash overcoming all odds to perform her second Sonic Rainboom,
and attending the Grand Galloping Gala in Canterlot in an evening of unmet expectations and disaster.
After a minor squabble between the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Discord is suddenly freed from
his stone state after a thousand years and returns to wreak chaos, turning Ponyville
into the chaos capital of the world.
The Mane 6, upon overcoming the challenges Discord has placed, defeats Discord and traps
him in stone again with the Elements of Harmony.
Queen Chrysalis, the leader of the dangerous creatures that feed on others’ love called Changelings
infiltrates Canterlot and takes Princess Cadance's place in her wedding with
Twilight Sparkle’s older brother, Shining Armor, by using a changeling’s unique ability
to disguise as any other being.
Twilight eventually finds the original Princess Cadance trapped in a dungeon and frees her,
which brings Chrysalis to reveal herself during the wedding.
Chrysalis and Celestia have a standoff,
while Twilight and her friends go get the Elements of Harmony.
Though they had an epic fight, they eventually lost.
However, with the power of love that the real Princess Cadance brought to Shining Armor,
they banished all the changelings including Queen Chrysalis to lands far away in one fell swoop.
They get married afterwards.
The Crystal Empire reappears after vanishing for a thousand years.
King Sombra, in a weakened shadow form, attempts to regain control.
Twilight is sent to the Crystal Empire to help save it as part of a test by Princess Celestia,
and her friends accompany her.
After setting up a Crystal Fair to raise the spirits of the Crystal Ponies, Twilight finds
the Crystal Heart, an ancient relic that protects the empire from the heavy snow of the north
and sends Spike to deliver it.
With the Crystal Heart in place, the Crystal Ponies use the "love and light within" them
to defeat Sombra.
Princess Cadance is recognized as the "Crystal Princess" and rules the empire with her husband
Prince Shining Armor.
Princess Celestia decides to move the Mirror that Sunset Shimmer escaped
from her throne room to the Crystal Empire to have Princess Cadence watch over it instead.
As a request by Princess Celestia, Discord is freed once again from his stone prison
to be reformed, so that his magic can be used for good instead of evil, a feat which Fluttershy
accomplishes, and Discord is now friends with the ponies.
(flutter yay)
Twilight Sparkle receives a book from Princess Celestia, which is said to contain Star Swirl’s
secret unfinished spell.
This spell, which Twilight casts, unknowingly switches her friends cutie marks, causing
them to question their destiny.
Twilight, knowing she needs to fix this, assembles them and cures them one by one.
Through the adventure, Twilight finally finishes the secret spell and creates new magic.
This new magic is of course, friendship, which Star Swirl was unable to accomplish long ago.
The creation of this new magic, earns her a new title of Princess,
and becomes an Alicorn in the process.
Twilight Sparkle, now a Princess, attends her very first Princess Summit held in the Crystal Empire.
While asleep, Sunset Shimmer emerges out of the Crystal Mirror and steals her crown containing
her Element of Harmony.
Twilight chases her down into the human world where Twilight becomes a human
and Spike becomes her dog.
They arrive at Canterlot High School and meet human counterparts of her friends from Ponyville.
Twilight finds out that her crown is being used by the school as a prize for the Princess
of the Fall Formal and decides to compete against Sunset who also wants the crown as
she knows it contains one of the Elements of Harmony.
With the help of Twilight’s new human friends, they rally the school to vote for Twilight Sparkle,
who wins the Fall Formal.
Sunset decides to take matters into her own hands and forcefully steals the crown from Twilight.
She then transforms into a demon, intending to mind-control the school into an army for
her to rule Equestria for herself.
Sunset fires a magical blast at Twilight but she is protected by the magic of her new friendships made.
This friendship allows Twilight and her friends to transform and “pony-up”, allowing them
to have the power to defeat Sunset Shimmer, returning her to her human form.
Sunset is reduced to tears and apologizes, hoping to learn more about friendship from Twilight’s friends.
Sunset is forced to clean up the mess that she made while Twilight regains her crown
and goes back to Equestria through the portal.
The Sirens Adagio, Aria and Sonata, are trapped in the human world as humans after their battle
against the Pillars long ago and witness Sunset Shimmer’s defeat in the distance.
Knowing that Equestrian magic is at work, they seek to take control of it once again.
The Summer Sun Celebrations in Canterlot is suddenly disrupted when the plunderseeds that
Discord planted a millennia ago begin to sprout, invading Equestria
and capturing Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.
Twilight, upon drinking a time travelling vision potion, sees the Tree of Harmony.
Twilight and her friends return the Elements of Harmony to the Tree of Harmony and destroy
the plunderseeds, releasing Princess Celestia and Princess Luna in the process.
The tree however, sprouts a chest that has six locks for six keys.
Celestia and Luna are unsure of how to open it, but tells Twilight that she’ll definitely
need her friends to help unlock the chest.
Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Applejack eventually find their keys while
helping other ponies discover their element of harmony.
This leaves one key left for Twilight to discover.
One night, Tirek’s escape from Tartarus was seen in Celestia’s vision and so she
elects Discord to stop him.
This plan backfires however, as Discord betrays the princesses and allies with Tirek in his
plan to steal all of Equestria’s magic.
The princesses know that stealing alicorn magic would be Tirek’s ultimate goal and
so they transfer all their magic to Twilight, since Tirek is unaware of the new princess.
Twilight, who now has the magic of four alicorns, goes into hiding.
Tirek eventually finds out about Twilight and seeks to find her.
Tirek then betrays Discord while Twilight continues to practice with her new powers.
However, she stumbles upon Tirek while teleporting.
Twilight and Tirek engage in an insane magic duel that leads to the destruction of the
Golden Oak Library and pretty much the landscape outside Ponyville.
Tirek then offers Twilight a trade of releasing her imprisoned friends for all the magic in Equestria.
Twilight agrees despite her friends' protests.
Discord, repentant of his actions, gives a medallion given to him by Tirek to Twilight
as a sign of true friendship.
Believing this to be the final key needed to open the chest, Twilight and her friends
race to the Tree of Harmony and unlock the chest.
The unlocked chest gives Twilight and her friends new “Rainbow Power” that derives from their friendship
and locks Tirek back into Tartarus
as well as bringing everypony’s magic back.
The chest then flies into the sky and implants itself in a spot near Ponyville.
The chest then grows into a new castle.
The new castle is now Twilight’s, now crowned the “Princess of Friendship” by Celestia.
The Sirens attend Canterlot High and join the school’s musical showcase with their
band known as The Dazzlings, where they are up against Twilight’s human friends in their
own band called the Rainbooms,
who are also helping Sunset recover from the events of the Fall Formal.
Using their magic, the Sirens manipulate the school into turning the showcase into a battle
of the bands, which drives the student bands against one another.
The resulting negative energy from the students feeds The Sirens and grows more powerful.
Seeing this, Sunset calls Twilight to their world for help using a magical book given
to her by Princess Celestia.
Twilight arrives and helps the Rainbooms write a counter-spell in a form of a song that will
break the Dazzling’s spell.
After a gruelling battle of the bands among the students and fighting against the magic
of the Sirens, The Rainbooms emerge as finalists with The Dazzlings and they each play their
respective songs to power over the other.
When The Dazzlings are getting the upper hand, Sunset steps in and joins the Rainbooms singing
in their counter-spell song.
The combined singing and magic of Sunset, Twilight and her friends
get them all to “pony up” once again and defeat the Dazzlings.
Twilight then returns back to Equestria for her duties, while Sunset finally redeems herself
amongst her fellow schoolmates.
The energy from the Dazzlings’ defeat is picked up by Twilight Sparkle’s human counterpart
far away and she seeks to investigate it.
In the Castle of Friendship, the Mane 6 discovers a map containing all of Equestria.
The map summons all of them to a small village that houses ponies with equal signs as their
cutie marks.
All of this is the work of Starlight Glimmer, a unicorn who believes true friendship is
achieved through everypony being equal.
As such, she replaces the Mane 6’s cutie marks, imprisoning and brainwashing them until
they accept their new equal fate.
Starlight is then revealed to have not been equalized, and so the entire village goes
after her and their old cutie marks.
Seeing her plan foiled, she runs away with the Mane 6’s marks already in her possession
only to be stopped by the unique talents of the newly recovered villagers, allowing the
Mane 6 to get their cutie marks back.
After Twilight’s failed attempt at trying to reason with her,
Starlight escapes into the caves.
The village is restored and the inhabitants live happily together with their new marks.
The map signals a job well done.
The map continues to summon various pairs of the Mane 6 to various locations to solve
the friendship problems of not just ponies, but all sorts of creatures across Equestria.
At the same time, the roots of the destroyed Golden Oak Library are now hung up on the
ceiling of the new castle as a memoir of how far they have come.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders eventually get their cutie marks at the exact same time in helping
others find their purpose in life
and Princess Cadance and Shining Armor announce that they're having a baby.
Starlight Glimmer seeks to take revenge on Twilight by travelling back in time with the
help of an ancient spell to stop the first Sonic Rainboom from happening.
As a result of Starlight's interference with history, several alternate timelines are created
that were filled with war, suffering and darkness.
Starlight reveals in her backstory that it was because of her old best friend Sunburst
getting his cutie mark that she didn’t get to see him again.
This led to her wanting to develop a society where no one will be judged by a cutie mark.
Twilight reasons with her, Starlight is reformed and becomes Princess Twilight’s first pupil.
Canterlot High School hosts the Friendship Games, a quadrennial academic and sports competition
held between them and Crystal Prep Academy, in which Canterlot High School has consistently lost.
The Rainbooms soon discover that studying in Crystal Prep is Twilight Sparkle’s human
counterpart, popularly known as Sci-Twi, along with her very own Spike dog.
She assembled herself an amulet that is able to let her study a strange energy surrounding
Canterlot High in hopes of getting into an independent study program.
Throughout the games, Sci-Twi’s amulet begins to involuntarily absorb the magic of Canterlot
High and stores it, rendering a few of Sunset’s friends unable to “pony-up”,
and the mirror to Equestria ineffective.
The amulet also begins to open rifts into Equestria, giving Spike the sudden ability to speak.
Sunset reaches out to Princess Twilight in her book for help, but receives no response.
Crystal Prep’s Principal Cinch has noticed Sci-Twi’s quest to understand the strange
energy and coerces her along with other students to unleash the magic from the amulet to help
their team win and save their reputation.
Sci-Twi opens her amulet, releasing all the magic inside, which engulfs and corrupts Twilight,
transforming her into a demonous alter ego known as “Midnight Sparkle”.
With a desire of wanting to understand all of Equestria’s magic, she opens multiple
rifts into Equestria with her new powers, endangering the students of Canterlot High and Crystal Prep.
The two schools decide to put aside their rivalry and come to help each other.
Sunset proceeds to destroy the amulet left on the ground, returning her friends’ magic
and transforms herself into her angelic alter ego “Daydream Shimmer”.
The two girls engage in an explosive magical battle, but when Spike calls to Sci-Twi,
Midnight snaps out of her corrupted trance, allowing Daydream to finally overcome her.
Daydream offers to Sci-Twi her hand in friendship, after seeing the real power that friendship
can offer, she accepts the offer and the two return to normal,
re-appearing in front of the school.
Sci-Twi shows deep remorse for what she did,
but Sunset assures her that everyone will forgive her.
Principal Cinch demands Celestia that Canterlot High forfeit the Friendship Games, threatening
to take up what has happened with the school board.
However, she assures her that the school board won’t believe a word she says.
With Crystal Prep siding with Canterlot High, Cinch walks away with her dignity intact.
Celestia declares everyone a winner of the Games, and Sci-Twi, seeing that the study
program won’t help her learn anything about friendship, decides to transfer to Canterlot High.
Later, Princess Twilight pops out from the portal and apologises to Sunset for her late
reply as she was preoccupied with a time-travel loop from the events of the time travel episode.
She notices Sci-Twi and stares in shock and confusion.
Princess Cadance gives birth to Flurry Heart, the first naturally-born Alicorn in Equestria.
The Mane 6 and the royal sisters travel to the Crystal Empire to help with the new baby’s
“Crystalling” when suddenly Flurry Heart breaks the Crystal Empire’s Crystal Heart
and the empire is once again vulnerable to the snow of the arctic north.
Meanwhile, Starlight reunites with her childhood friend Sunburst.
Upon being notified of the enveloping snow, Sunburst and Starlight brings to the rest
a spell to fix the Heart and with the magic of the princesses, Sunburst and the rest of
the Crystal Empire, the Crystal Heart is restored along with the Empire.
Soon, a rogue changeling is discovered in the Crystal Empire which causes the whole
city to go into lockdown.
Spike eventually finds the starving changeling named Thorax and learns that he is nice and
different from the other changelings.
Spike eventually persuades the Crystal Empire to accept the changeling into the family and succeeds.
Starlight continues her apprenticeship under Twilight, adapting into her new life and making
new friends such as Twilight’s old rival Trixie.
While Starlight and Trixie were away from Ponyville, Queen Chrysalis returns with her
army of changelings, effectively capturing all of the most powerful ponies in Equestria
including Twilight and her friends, leaving Starlight with only Trixie, Thorax and Discord
to rescue them from the Changeling Hive.
Discord and Trixie fall into the changelings’ traps and are captured while Starlight and
Thorax make it into the throne room only to come face to face with Chrysalis.
Chrysalis proceeds to drain the love from Thorax that he has collected from the Crystal Empire.
Unable to hold onto the love inside him,
Starlight instead tells him to share it with Chrysalis willingly.
This transforms Thorax into a new colorful form.
The other changelings follow suit, sharing love instead of stealing it,
taking on similar colorful forms.
The resulting magical energy destroys Chrysalis’s throne, and the ponies that the changelings
captured are all freed.
While the changelings changed, Chrysalis did not and rejects Starlight’s offer to reform
and swears inconceivable revenge upon her before flying away.
The students of Canterlot High go on a camp at Camp Everfree.
There they meet the camp director Gloriosa Daisy and her brother Timber Spruce.
During a campfire, Timber Spruce tells the legend of Gaea Everfree, an ancient spirit
who held domain of the forest until Gloriosa and Timber’s great-grandparents came to
establish a camp which upset Gaea and wanted to claim the land back for herself.
It is revealed that he told the story as a cover up for Gloriosa, who have stirred some
trouble with the power of magical geodes she found in a cave.
She believes that with the power in the geodes, she could save her camp from being taken over
by Filthy Rich whom she had fallen behind on her payments to.
However, Timber told her to let it go as she had not mastered her new powers completely.
Meanwhile, Sunset, Sci-Twi and the rest of the Rainbooms themselves discover they have
developed new magical powers too.
Sci-Twi has telekinesis, Sunset upon physical contact can read into people’s minds,
Rarity can conjure shields, Applejack has super strength, Pinkie Pie has exploding sprinkles,
Fluttershy can actually communicate with animals and Rainbow Dash has super speed.
While confronting Gloriosa, Sunset uses her newfound powers and discovers Gloriosa’s
use of the geodes, informing her to stop using the magic of the geodes before it becomes
too much for her to control.
Soon the magic corrupts Gloriosa and transforms her into a she-demon
similar to Sunset and Sci-Twi’s.
With her new powers, Gloriosa traps the entire camp in vines vowing to keep it open and protect
everyone within its walls, oblivious that her powers are instilling fear in the students
of Canterlot High.
The Rainbooms pony-up, except for Sci-Twi who fears Midnight Sparkle will take control
of her once again.
After some reassurance and support from her friends, she conquers her fears and embraces
the magic of friendship within her and ponies up.
With the combined power of all of the Rainbooms, they defeat Gloriosa and her vines.
The Geodes are then reformed into necklaces worn by the Rainbooms.
Seeing Gloriosa’s plan to save the camp failed, Canterlot High holds a Crystal Ball
fundraiser and successfully saves the camp from being sold.
However, Sunset confesses to wondering where the magic of the geodes comes from.
It is revealed that a crack has formed on the portal to Equestria back in CHS and magic
from Equestria continues to leak through.
The Rainbooms continue to raise funds for Camp Everfree until Rarity proposes to enter
a Music Video contest together with the students at Crystal Prep.
Together as the “Crystal Rainbooms” they win the music video contest by tapping into
each team’s special talents.
The prize money is split between the schools, with half going to Camp Everfree and the other
to the two schools’ maritime spring dance.
The Rainbooms are then invited to Canter Zoom’s film studio as thanks for saving Camp Everfree
but soon find out someone is intentionally sabotaging Canter Zoom’s movie production.
After a big round of hunting down the culprit, the gang deduces that Canter Zoom’s niece
and personal gofer, Juniper Montage is behind all this.
Juniper admits that she resents her uncle for not casting her as the main star in his
movie and seeks to jeopardize the film’s production.
Juniper is then banned by her uncle from the studio.
Juniper now works as a movie theater usher and blames it on the Rainbooms for denying
her a chance into stardom.
A stray wisp of Equestrian magic lands on a hand mirror besides Juniper, allowing her
to see a vision of herself as a famous movie star and becomes obsessed with it.
Meanwhile Sunset has begun to run out of pages in her book to Twilight.
Twilight then writes back to Sunset, telling her to return to Equestria.
Using the portal, she enters the Castle of Friendship and meets Starlight Glimmer who
gives her a new book.
Starlight becomes curious and coerces Sunset to follow her back to the human world.
Sunset hesitantly agrees, seeing that she has never run into Starlight’s human counterpart before.
While Starlight adjusts herself into the human world, Juniper begins to trap the Rainbooms
into her magic mirror.
The magic from the geodes that are now trapped with the Rainbooms corrupts Juniper and turns
her into (yet another) she-demon.
Starlight eventually meets the rampaging Juniper and begins to reason with her, saying that
she saw her past self that is full of revenge in Juniper and people will forgive her if
she makes up for them, starting with setting her friends free.
Juniper realises her mistake, releases the Rainbooms and returns to normal.
Seeing Juniper giving a sincere apology, they all become her new friends.
Starlight, Trixie, Discord and Thorax are awarded “Pink Hearts of Courage” by Twilight
for their heroism during the changeling invasion and Starlight graduates from being Twilight’s
student but continues to stay in Twilight’s castle.
Sunburst discovers Star Swirl’s lost journal in an antique store in Ponyville and learns
that Star Swirl and the Pillars are still trapped in limbo and alerts the Mane 6 and Starlight.
Without much thought, they gather the artefacts of the Pillars to Ponhenge and free Star Swirl
and the Pillars, as well as the Pony of Shadows from limbo.
(facehoof)
Twilight soon finds a spell that could send the Pony of Shadows back to limbo without
sacrificing the Pillars using the combined magic of the Pillar’s artefacts and the
magic of the Elements of Harmony contained from the Tree that grew from the seed the
Pillars have planted.
The whole team goes to find the Pony of Shadows and opens the portal.
While the Pony the Shadows is being pushed into the portal by the magic of the artefacts
and Elements, Twilight sees Stygian’s true form within the darkness and flies inside.
Twilight finds Stygian despairing over his friends' betrayal and only wanted their respect.
He explains his motives behind taking their artefacts and the Pillars overhear their conversation,
realising their misunderstanding.
The Mane 6 and The Pillars of Old Equestia work together to pull Stygian from the darkness
with their magic and the darkness gets sucked into the portal to limbo.
Soon, Star Swirl is reunited with his old pupils, Celestia and Luna, and The Pillars
decide to each see what has become of their old homes.
Princess Twilight oversees Equestria’s first Friendship Festival in Canterlot when it is
suddenly disrupted by the evil Storm King’s attack, led by a unicorn with a broken horn
named Tempest Shadow who manages to capture Celestia, Luna and Cadance, turning them into
stone using a magical orb.
However, all four princesses’ magic is required to channel into the Staff of Sacanas for it to work.
Storm King agrees to fix Tempest’s horn if she could gather the last princess.
The Mane 6 flee south of Equestria and makes contact with the Hippogriffs, transformed
into seaponies in the underwater kingdom of Seaquestria,
to hide from the wrath of the Storm King.
Along the way they also make new friends such as Capper a charming but cunning cat, the
crew of Captain Caleano and Princess Skystar, the daughter of Queen Novo, ruler of the Hippogriffs.
Together, they launch a Trojan horse cake attack into Canterlot.
The Storm King eventually betrays Tempest, but Twilight steps in and saves her, inspiring
her to protect the Mane Six from the Storm King, who then turns himself to stone and shatters.
Twilight brings Tempest and the Princesses back using the Staff and magically repairs
Canterlot, ready to start the Friendship Festival once again.
Tempest, now friends with Twilight and the ponies turns her once destructive magic into
fireworks for the festival and reveals that her real name is Fizzlepop Berrytwist.
One of the students of CHS, Wallflower Blush grows resentful of the attention Sunset Shimmer
gets after making friends as she herself has always been ignored
and unnoticed by the other students.
She stumbles upon the Memory Stone left behind by the sorceress chased by Clover the Clever
thousands of years ago in Equestria and uses it on Sunset’s friends, erasing their memories
of Sunset when she was bad before the Fall Formal.
Sunset decides to seek help from Princess Twilight in Equestria and reunites with her
former mentor Princess Celestia, finally making amends with her.
Princess Celestia then brings Sunset and Twilight to the restricted section of the Canterlot
Library where they find the writings of Clover the Clever and the Memory Stone.
Returning to the human world, Sunset grows suspicious of Wallflower and uses her powers
to discover that Wallflower used the Memory Stone on her friends.
Wallflower then erases that moment from Sunset as soon as she discovers it.
But learning from the tricks of Clover the Clever, she was able to outsmart the Memory Stone
and gather her friends to destroy it.
Wallflower feels deeply ashamed and apologizes, while Sunset apologizes to her for making
her feel invisible for all these years.
Wallflower then gains the Rainbooms as her new friends.
The Mane 7 and several of their Canterlot High School classmates are on a luxury cruise
liner, when they suddenly encounter Equestrian magic causing a storm that is sinking the ship.
Sunset, Sci-Twi and Rainbow seek to investigate and discover another portal to Equestria in
some quicksand on a remote island.
Sunset quickly finds Princess Twilight who shows them the Staff of Sacanas and their
battle with the Storm King.
Rainbow recognises the insignia from the storm on the cruise earlier and so they all rush
back to save them.
Possessing the Staff of Sacanas, Sunset, Rainbow and Sci-Twi absorb and seal the rest of the
Storm King’s magic, causing the storm to subside.
All cruise guests are rescued thanks to the magic of the Mane 7
but are now stranded on the remote island.
Sunset proposes a weird idea, and so all the guests travel back to the school through Equestria
using the portals.
After her journey beyond Equestria, Twilight realises that there are so many creatures
beyond Equestria who know nothing about friendship.
With provisional approval from the Equestrian Education Association, or EEA, the School
of Friendship is officially opened near Twilight’s castle, teaching students from all over Equestria
the Magic of Friendship
Students such as Gallus the griffon,
Yona the yak,
Smolder the dragon
Ocellus the changeling and Silverstream the hippogriff.
They all make friends with an earth pony named Sandbar and got along pretty quickly.
Together, they are known as the Young Six.
However, Chancellor Neighsay of the EEA proclaims the non-pony races in Twilight’s school
as dangerous and made clear his point when the Young Six caused a ruckus during Friends
and Family Day, causing him to shut down the School of Friendship with a magical lock on
its doors.
After some reassurance from her friends, Twilight re-gathers the non-pony students and their
respective guardians to the gates of the School of Friendship to bring down
Chancellor Neighsay’s lock, bringing to them his attention.
Twilight argues that her school may not be an EEA-accredited school, it is a friendship school
and requires its own set of rules independent of the EEA.
Neighsay insists that changing the rules for such a diverse group of students will not work,
but Celestia argues the same thing was once thought about earth ponies, unicorns, and pegasi.
In the end, Chancellor Neighsay still refuses to believe in Twilight and leaves the school
grounds in a rage and the school is officially reopened.
As a result of a dragon’s molting, Spike grows a new pair of wings.
A young pegasus named Cozy Glow enrols into the school of friendship.
Cozy becomes aware of the raw power of the magic of friendship and conspires a plan with
Lord Tirek who is still locked in Tartarus, while continuing her studies in the School
of Friendship, gaining the trust of the other students and Headmare Twilight.
She secretly steals various magical artefacts from the school of friendship and uses them
to drain all the magic of Equestria, at first rendering all potent unicorn magic ineffective.
When the Mane Six are alerted to the sudden disappearance of magic, they visit Lord Tirek
in Tartarus, leaving Starlight in charge of the School of Friendship
and Cozy Glow is not fond of it.
She tricks Starlight and traps her within a bubble containing all the magic of Equestria.
However, Chancellor Neighsay, believing the loss of magic is the result of the non-pony
creatures in the School of Friendship, steals the role of school principal before Cozy could
and redeclares his stance of the school being for ponies only.
Cozy Glow argues that Princess Celestia supports Twilight’s beliefs in making a friendship
school for all creatures, and once threatened to close the school down.
This incites a full-blown student uprising, throwing him off his role as principal.
With no one left to oppose her, Cozy Glow declares herself the principal of the school.
The Young Six follow Cozy Glow to a chamber underneath the school where they discover
where all the magic has disappeared to.
Meanwhile, the Mane Six learns of Cozy’s and Tirek’s plan straight from the centaur’s mouth
but got themselves locked in Tartarus.
In order to escape, the trapped creatures of Tartarus transfer their remaining magic
to Twilight to open the gates.
The Young Six attempt to remove the artefacts to release the magic, but not before Cozy
manipulates the students into thinking the Young Six are responsible for the disappearing
magic and plan to destroy the school by releasing it.
Just as all hope seems lost, the spirit of the Tree of Harmony, which has been living
beneath the school all this time, lights up the chambers and rescues the Young Six from
falling into Cozy’s trap.
They then remove the artefacts and release all the trapped magic returning them to their
rightful owners.
Seeing her magic restored, Twilight teleports the rest of the Mane Six back to the school.
Cozy escapes the chambers but returns to an angry Mane Six, where she is then apprehended
by Royal Guards and locked in Tartarus together with Lord Tirek.
With magic restored by the friendship of the Young Six, Chancellor Neighsay admits that
he was wrong to see that non-ponies were incapable of friendship and returns the role of principal
to Twilight.
Assigned to give Twilight a gift for the Mane Six’s “Hearthswarming Helper”,
Pinkie stumbles upon a trio of reindeer known as the Gift Givers of the Grove and prepares
her a present for Twilight.
Pinkie looks at the gift and doesn’t get it, but the reindeer chant a rhyme that says
the best gift is more precious than gold, but cannot be sold;
when it breaks, it’s not ended, for quickly it’s mended;
and it can never be bought yet is easily sought.
After giving their gifts, Pinkie recalls the rhyme and Twilight recognizes the riddle and
reveals that the best gift someone can give is friendship.
The Mane Six follows Rainbow Dash as she is invited to Hope Hollow's Rainbow Festival,
but are surprised to see the town's emptiness and literal lack of color.
The town's mayor Sunny Skies then admits that there used to be a Rainbow Festival that celebrated
the town's togetherness with the help of a magical Rainbow Generator
creating rainbows in the sky.
Over the years however, the townsponies slowly drifted apart and the mayor wanted to give
the Rainbow Festival the extra spark it needed to bring ponies together again.
He made alterations to the Generator to generate a bigger rainbow.
Unfortunately, the magic of the Generator overloaded, causing the town’s color to
disappear and the townsponies drifted even further apart.
Inviting Rainbow Dash to this year’s festival was his last resort.
The Mane Six tries various ways to bring the color back using magic but nothing works.
After talking to several of the townsponies however, the Mane Six slowly restores the
town’s friendships, and its color, bringing the town back together again for one more
Rainbow Festival.
Apparently the loss of color was not the result of the Generator,
but the lack of hope in the town.
The overloaded Generator was just the last straw that turned the whole town grey.
After giving the Generator a quick fix, it once again showered the town with a rainbow,
filling the rest of the town’s color back.
Thanks in part to the efforts of the Mane Six in maintaining peace and harmony in Equestria
for the last few years, Princess Celestia and Luna announce their retirement,
with Twilight Sparkle taking over as their replacement.
Twilight doesn’t take the news too lightly.
She plans to handover the School of Friendship to Starlight as she prepares for her coronation.
To help boost Twilight’s confidence in ascending to the throne, Discord comes up with a plan
and disguises himself as the ancient monster Grogar, restores King Sombra and teleports
Queen Chrysalis, Lord Tirek and Cozy Glow to a remote part of Equestria.
He plans to “attack” Twilight’s coronation, and restore her confidence after defeating
all the villains.
King Sombra refuses to join the other villains,
but Grogar gives him a chance to prove himself anyway.
Sombra swiftly re-invades the Crystal Empire, but the Mane Six eventually catches up to
him and liberate the Empire with the Elements of Harmony.
However, Sombra follows the Mane Six back to the Tree of Harmony and destroys it along
with the Elements of Harmony.
Sombra proceeds to mind control all of Equestria to take Princess Celestia and Luna off the throne.
The Mane Six, the Princesses and Star Swirl put up a fight against the mind controlled
ponies, alongside battling the growing Everfree Forest and eventually made it to the Canterlot
throne room where Sombra awaits them.
With some reassurance from Discord, Twilight realises the power to defeat Sombra does not
come from the Elements but from each of her friends being together.
Their Magic of Friendship then eradicates Sombra to dust
and frees all the ponies from his control.
Grogar makes his next move by trying desperately to make Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy work together
for his plan to retrieve his Bewitching Bell atop Mount Everhoof.
They are successful, but decide to keep it a secret
as they come up with a plan to betray Grogar.
In anticipation of the Princesses’ retirement, Twilight creates the Festival of the Two Sisters
to replace the Summer Sun Celebrations, in recognition of the contributions by the Princesses
for over a thousand years.
Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy sneak into the Canterlot Archives to steal a book about the Bewitching
Bell and turn various ponies against themselves, giving them an idea to incite a race war,
weakening the harmony of Equestria.
Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy eventually learn to use the Bewitching Bell and transfers its
stored magic onto themselves, making each of them stronger.
They turn on Grogar with the bell, effectively stealing Discord’s magic and his disguise.
Discord quickly escapes to warn the Mane Six and the princesses.
Despite his warning, the three villains eventually caught on to them, destroying most of Canterlot
and capturing the Mane Six, the Princesses, Starlight, Spike and the Pillars, but not
before Twilight was able to make a daring escape.
Discord wanting make it up to his mistakes, tricks the villains into releasing Starlight,
who then frees the rest of the Mane Six where they find Twilight seeking refuge in the Crystal Empire.
They witnessed the various pony races turning cold to one another as a result of the villains plan,
and as such the Windigos make their return.
With the three villains, ponies turning against each other and the Windigos, it seems all
hope is lost for the soon to be ruler of Equestria.
Thanks to her friends and the royal family, Twilight gets back up again, bringing the
fight to the Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy once more.
It was an epic fight but at the end, the Griffons, Changelings, Hippogriffs, Dragons, Yaks and
all pony races all show up to join and help the Mane Six,
united thanks to the friendships of the Young Six.
With a final blast of rainbow magic, Twilight restores the villains to their original strength
and brings everyone’s magic back,
but not before Pinkie gets a taste of Discord’s magic.
Twilight decides to postpone her coronation, to assist in the reconstruction of Canterlot.
Once Canterlot is rebuilt, Twilight’s coronation begins.
Despite her thoughts of leaving her friends and Ponyville behind, and some hiccups along
the way, Twilight is officially crowned the ruler of Equestria,
while Celestia and Luna retire to Silver Shoals.
As her first decree as ruler, she establishes the Council of Friendship with her friends,
to gather every moon to keep in touch and face problems and threats to Equestria.
Many years pass and Princess Twilight has long settled in her throne, ruling Equestria
with harmony and friendship with creatures everywhere settling and roaming Canterlot.
She inherits Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns and oversees her students,
including her top student Luster Dawn.
One day, Luster questions her curriculum’s focus on making friends and wants to set up
an independent course of study.
She refers to Twilight’s coronation being a disaster
and as such caused her friends to drift away.
Twilight is reminded of her own self back when she was a student of Celestia, underestimating
the magic of friendship.
She reveals to Luster that despite everything, her friends did not grow apart, but it takes
work to maintain them, and life would be much easier with friends by your side.
Luster takes her mentor’s words to heart, but is unsure how to start making friends.
Twilight takes Luster to where it all began, in Ponyville, and immediately starts making
friends with the ponies in town.
She introduces her to the school of friendship which is still up and running thanks to
headmare Starlight and vice headmare Sunburst,
with the CMCs and a few of the Young Six becoming teachers.
At the end of the day, Luster makes friends with all sorts of creatures,
with the Mane Six bidding her farewell onto her own adventures,
thus solving the last problem, in a world where Friendship is Magic.
This has been the entire lore and story of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
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