Bright Shining

By General Solar Magus (edited)

• September 21, 2017




Age: Over 300 (according to the legend)

Gender: Female

Species: Pegasus

Appearance: <p> Bright Shining is a tall Pegasus with a white coat, mane and tale, and blue eyes. Her mane is very short and thin, and her tail is of medium length and quite thin as well. </p> <p> Her eyes and body can turn a shining white when she uses her light magic. She also wears her necklace of immortality which is silver colored, and has a blue ruby on it. </p>

Cutie Mark: <p> Her cutie mark is a bright white star, and it has never actually been seen as it is always shining with the intensity of a strong light. She sometimes covers her back half to make seeing and reading easier for herself and others. </p>

Personality: <p> Bright is a very quiet, calm and collected Pegasus. Having been a member of the Temple of Mist, she naturally grew to enjoy her quiet time, and often enjoyed meditation, and practices involved understanding of all things. She is very kind, very confident and strong minded. </p>

Backstory: <p> Bright Shining is a powerful mystical Pegasus with a white coat who even at a young age was able to use certain kinds of magic even without a horn. </p> <p> <br /> Legend says that 300 hundred year ago Bright Shining was born into poverty in Cloudsdale to her mother Mirror Shining. Her father by the name of Flash Magnus (S7E16) was a cadet in the Cloudsdale Royal Legion. Bright unfortunately never knew her father as he mysteriously vanished after a mission to the Dragon Lands while her mother was still pregnant with her. </p> <p> After she was born her mother volunteered to become a caretaker of the Cloudsdale Temple of Mist, thus giving her a home to grow up in. The life of growing up in a temple made her into a very quiet and soulful pegasus who enjoyed meditation and practices of kindness and understanding. </p> <p> As she grew, it became very clear that she had grown a beautiful gift. One early night as a little filly, she was meditating in the temple courtyard when suddenly it was time to receive her cutie mark. What was a very quiet setting turned into a magnificent display of mystic magic. During her meditation, she began to levitate in the air and all her body began to shine so bright that she vanished from sight. The priestesses of the temple including her mother heard of what was happening and gathered to see it. Mirror was amazed to see her little star was truly becoming a star.<br /> The light shining off of her body was so bright that the night sky around Cloudsdale seemingly turned to day for a short time. She then began to levitate downwards and the light slowly decayed.<br /> Upon landing she opened her eyes to see that she had her cutie mark, but she couldn't believe the mark she saw. Her cutie mark was still shining and she couldn't see it.<br /> She and the priestesses of the temple quickly realized that her cutie mark was a star, as no other cutie mark but a star could shine like that. </p> <p> In the days after that she and her mother learnt that she could control the light itself with her thoughts. All members of the temple ensured to give her the best upbringing so that she could learn to use her gift properly. As she learned, she found that she could create light, or absorb it making a room dark. She could also launch bolts of light from her eyes, mouth, and wings, and project light barriers over her body. Her most astonishing ability was that she could turn her eyes white and she could read the souls of other ponies, alowing her to read their past and future. </p> <p> When she was old enough, she was finally granted the title of priestess like her mother and was a full member of the temple. After hearing about her, Cloudsdale ponies who visited the temple were eager to learn more about their pasts and futures. Pegasus from all over Cloudsdale would visit, and Shining quickly became known as The Oracle. Shining was happy to help so many ponies, but felt like this was not what she was meant to do. </p> <p> One day, she announced to her sisters of the temple that she would be leaving to find a bigger calling. Her mother, old and weak at the time congratulated her on her growth and gave her a mothers send off. She also gave her daughter a beautiful neckalce to remember her and her family in the temple by. </p> <p> And away she flew.... </p> <p> <br /> "Legend says that Bright Shining is still alive today and lives somewhere in the fields south of Foal Mountain.<br />  Apparently, the part of the fields where she lives glows, earning the name of the White Fields. It is said that only ponies with good intentions and pure hearts can find the White Fields. <br /> The legend also says that the necklace her mother gave her was a necklace of immortality which is why she can live for so long. It also says here that anypony with dark intentions will be swiftly struck down by her magic if they try to cross those fields." - Dr.Whooves, researcher and inventor in the tower of magic.<br />   </p>