Cosmos vs Cosmos? Explaining the lost alicorn race

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There are many people within the g4/g5 MLP community that seem to take most official media outside of the animated series as “B Canon” so long as it doesn’t contradict the series itself. But there is much untapped and unexplored potential for lore and long lost answers to questions others may have been asking for many years within these outside sources. That being said, I feel like it’s due time that an elephant in the room needs to be addressed. 

 

Addressing the topic of “what happened to the other Alicorns?” 

 

This has been a question that has been on the minds of many since the release of the official “The Journal of the Two Sisters” book. It details the lives of the young sisters Celestia and Luna and specifically mentions that they were raised by “the Alicorns”, meaning that there were others of their kind- presumably many of them, in the days before the nation of Equestria’s founding. This is the only time that “The Alicorns” are ever mentioned in any piece of g4 media. 

 

Except when “The Art of Equestria” art book for the MLP movie came out. There had been a scrapped idea of a pony named Cosmos being the younger, long lost brother of Celestia and Luna. He was intended to be a rough and wild pony adventurer that had a broken horn and wore a very strange looking and intimidating armor suit, but his character ultimately became Tempest Shadow, who had her role secured in the movie. 

 

Then when g5 came around, with the introduction of the villain Opaline, we seemed to get further confirmation of “The Alicorns” (although it seemed rather vague, with her wording of her backstory) Her dialogue basically says “When I was growing up in Skyros, THEY (Celestia/ Luna) were the golden ponies, the favorites. Everypony loved them! But I saw right through their act! They thought they were so great because they had the whole “sun and moon” thing going. Please! I had something much better. I was an alicorn of fire, of power, of strength!” At the end of her speech, Opaline then goes on to say: “I will live up to my elemental duty!” 

 

Now, while this brief bit of dialogue doesn’t mention other alicorns directly, I can only assume that when Opaline makes mention to not only Skyros- which can possibly predate the land of Canterlot where the Alicorns resided in the Journal of the Two sisters, but also alluding to herself being an “alicorn of fire”, it kinda makes me wonder of there were other elemental alicorns that had duties to fulfill, as Opaline seemed to have- only to be usurped by Celestia and Luna who were meant to govern the sun and moon. I simply cannot see Opaline talking about how, at the time, Celestia and Luna would be the favorites of any other pony species other than “The Alicorns” at the time of their childhood. 

 

So then begs the question again- “what happened to “The Alicorns”? 

 

Here is where the g4 comics might come into play, and my take on the matter. (Take it for what its worth) If we were to keep the idea of Cosmos being Celestia and Luna’s younger brother- although being left out of the movie, but existing in another B form canon media, while also looking at IDW comic issues #75-78, which feature a villain named Cosmos, that even Discord himself was afraid of, I think that it could unravel the mystery of what happened to the other alicorns. 

 

One thing I notice about the villain Cosmos is that she does not simply perform fun and amusing acts of chaos out of the hopes to connect with somepony and find a friend, as Discord did. She took things way too far, and enjoyed hurting others and having her chaotic powers destroy the fabric of existing realities. And, according to Discord, it took the combined powers of the “most magical beings” to lock Cosmos away in the 6 stars- into what then became known as the Andalusian constellation. 

 

Discord’s dialogue seems to imply that at this time when villain Cosmos was wreaking havoc on Equestria, during Discord’s first reign, the Alicorns, and Celestia and Luna’s younger brother, Cosmos  were already absent from the scene- otherwise, I would assume that they would’ve been the ones to properly deal with the villain Cosmos, rather than Queen Novo, Celestia, Luna, Discord, King Aspen, and King Meowmeow. 

 

My thought is that at some point before villain Cosmos came to devastated Equestria, she would've had a confrontation with the alicorn Cosmos. The Alicorns would’ve moved from Skyros to Canterlot, at some point. (Maybe Skyros was destroyed? Who knows?) Cosmos, being the younger brother of Celly and Luna could’ve had a major impact on his mentality- having his older sisters potential to strive to live up to. Especially when Starswirl came to collect them from Canterlot to truly unite the Pegasi, Earth, and Unicorn tribes in the newly established land of Equestria. It could be that Cosmos stayed behind with the other alicorns- or simply ventured out on his own to try and do his own part to bring harmony to the world- perhaps until the villain Cosmos came and destroyed the Alicorns and their land, out of fear for their power of unity, if ever they decided to try and stop her, as she later was, by others. Unbeknownst to her, both Cosmos, and Opaline could;ve been outside the city and on their own, hence why they would’ve survived to present day. 

 

I would like to think that at some point, Cosmos would’ve come up against the villain Cosmos, which would’ve resulted in his broken horn- and while he barely got away at the time, he would’ve then created an armor that would succeed in deflecting her magic. And he simply strives to either return to his home after finding a way to defeat her- unknowing that she had already been sealed in the stars, or now is attempting to bring the other alicorns back, after learning of all villain Cosmos had done. 

 

Super headcanon-y, but again, there is much potential in “B canon” for explanation of what could;ve happened to the other alicorns. What do you guys think? 

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I've wondered if Skyros is only connected to Equestria's world by a portal. It might dwell on another plane of existence, maybe in a pocket dimension or a parallel timeline. On the other hoof, maybe Skyros is a floating city hidden from the rest of the world like Hayao Miyazaki's Laputa.

Edited August 25 by Otaku-sempai