Mythos Gray The Storyteller

By GreyScholar

• November 27, 2012




Age: Looks to be in is late 20s early 30s but actually over 300 years old

Gender: Male

Species: Unicorn

Appearance: Mythos is a fit yet lean pony, clearly not very strong or tough though he does keep in shape. Has a styled white mane and tail, his mane often falling in the way of his violet eyes. He gray coat is always well groomed and he often wears a black suit shirt with a white collar accented with a purple cloth. It would seem as well he always has a smile, as if amused at what is going on around him.

Cutie Mark: An open book with a fire breathing dragon's head poking out the book (a book for his talent as discovering stories and the dragon to show his ability to make the stories 'come to life')

Personality: Mythos is all about enjoying himself, even if there is risk involved. He has a love of a good story whether it be myth, legend, or ponylore. He even loves to learn the stories of ponies that he meets, and may go out of his way to learn about interesting ponies that he meets. He is charismatic, and has a gift for getting ponies to like him using his good manners and respectful speech. In many ways he is manipulative, and is not above playing with the emotions of other ponies. Yet he is a stallion of his word, always keeping a promise, and would never allow or bring harm to a filly or mare if he can help it. He also has a great dislike for any that show rudeness towards or insults a mare, and will not allow a mare to be hit in his presence.<br />Yet his personality and good cheer is very much a mask at times, an act he has perfected over many years that hides the pain and sadness he holds inside his heart. Also, despite the fact he seems to be able to make friends with relative ease he very rarely allows anypony too get close. He has also taken to a path where more and more he has grown selfish, becoming thoughtless and uncaring to the feelings of others. He has even pushed away the only mare that would ever care for him because of his selfishness and manipulative nature. Since then, while he still tells himself he would not harm a mare or filly he has, more and more... as he has with others.

Backstory: Little is known of this stallion, least of all his past as he keeps himself a mysterious enigma. Yet he has lived for near three hundred years, growing his skill as a storyteller while also improving his abilities as an illusionist with the help of the strange pocket watch he had found so long ago... before he had gained his curse and he was gifted with the powers he now has.<br />Long ago, he had lost all the family he had ever known because of the curse he carried. His father Brightstrings, a gifted musician of his time, and his mother Autumnheart who was a respected private teacher of the history of Equestria. He had also lost his cousin Sundipple, who he has nicknamed Sunny and through which he had gained his cutie mark. Lastly, his wife and children, who died in a fire accidentally caused by others when they confronted him about how he had now seem to age at all.<br />Over the years he has traveled through Equestria and beyond, his thirst to know more and to discover stories driving out his pain. He had left Equestria partly because of what he had done, because of what he had created, upon finding his family dead. The memories of such hunting him, the monsters he had created using his magic and the artifact he carried with him at all times. At times he had even come to introduced himself as the Storyteller.<br />Upon returning to Equestria he discovered that there was others like him, those both gifted and cursed because of an artifact they had found. For him this item was a watch but it would seem the form of the others it was different. It was also seem he might be one of the oldest of Gifted with the Composer, as she called herself, being the oldest and from the distant land of Japony as it was now called. She took it upon herself to lead the others, to bring them together, and while Mythos had become a loner he allowed himself be brought in... glad to be with others like himself.<br />It was around this time Mythos had the chance to learn what had happened while he was away from Equestria, of how it would seem the legend of Nightmare Moon had been true and now Princess Luna had returned to rule along side her sister. Of how Discord almost had the land fall to chaos yet again, yet had been defeated. These stories intrigued the stallion and after looking into what had happened discovered that it was because of six young mares, using the Elements of Harmony... items he had heard about only in stories and was surprised to find out where real.<br /><br />Mythos was able to be there when the changling queen was revealed, much to his enjoyment as saw how she had been stopped by the power of love of all things... he was also in Equestria at the disappearance of the princess, which is when everything changed. This was a bittersweet time for Mythos as despite the fact what would happen in the next fifteen years would make a wonderful story in which to tell in years to come... his Equestria was lost. He considered it a cruel irony that the heroes of Equestria, the wielders of the Elements of Harmony themselves would be the ones to actually divide it and bring chaos. Which is why when he learned of the Guardians of Harmony that he joined them, offering his abilities to aid them in bring Equestria back to what it has been.<br />Because of his skilled as an illusionist, and the power he gained for his watch, he was able to because a spy able to move in and out of each faction with ease. Taking on a persona for each of the houses and the Cult of Laughter he kept himself safe by the very curse that had made his life so hard. During this time actually meeting to different ponies, on being a pegasus mare with a gift for seeing the future and a young stallion with a talent for writing.<br />He became close to the mare, her name Stardream, even came to care about her deeply and she him yet because of what he was willing to do and his unwillingness to let her in she finally left him in pain and frustration, saying she could couldn't see how the nicest pony she knew could do such horrible things nor be honest with her. The stallion on the other hoof, a pony named Stryder, was a simpler matter and Mythos in a way took him in even teaching him a few things on stories and using his ideas for his own. Yet the stallion didn't have the chance to always meet up with Mythos often, his duties as a Guardian as well as his secret intent as a Gifted keeping him busy indeed. There being times when Styder would wonder, as have others, if he could even trust the stallion going by many names.