A rundown of all the races

[Dx121 13]

Sorry, the title was meant to be "A rundown of all of the PONY races". (Kinda didn't realize that until after I'd posted the thread.)

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First up, sorry if I put this is in the incorrect section (thread mod, please move it if it needs it).

 

Second, sorry if someone else already made a thread about this exact topic (and someone please send me a link if there is).

 

Third, the reason for this thread.

 

So, after about 2 years of watching the show, getting sucked into it and the comics, my muses finally got me to sit down and write a fanfic. However, not far into it I realized that I really didn't know the pony race's abilities that well. Sure, I know the basics, like everyone else.

Earth pony (has magic that) makes stuff grow.

Unicorns have (clearly seen) magic that makes stuff move.

Pegasus have wings and can fly.

 

So, what I'm looking for here is a rundown, with pictures to back up what's been stated, about what each race's abilities are. (It's easy to state what their abilities are, but I prefer to see an actual picture of it as the act in action.)

 

I read over on the earth pony biased (or something like that) thread about such traits as earth ponies having tremendous strength (makes me wonder how so  after seeing AJ, Big Mac, and Pinkie Pie's sister Maude at work), and that they, and zebra too, can use their tail like an appendage too in order to grip things.

 

The thing is, my goal here is to get together a single post that lists ALL of these traits so, in the future, when someone else (like me who's not a super die hard fan of the show and doesn't know every tiny detail of every aspect of it) is wanting to write a fic and get the details correct on all of their (currently known) traits, they'll have someplace they can go to in order to find all of the details needed.

...well... that... and I'm honestly curious about just what traits they all have.

(Mind you, yes I know we can do whatever we want in fanfics, but still, I'm a bit of a stickler for getting details right. It'd just bother the dickens outta me if I had any doubts that I got something wrong.)

 

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So, for those of you who are die hard knowledgable about the series and knows all of these traits, (especially any that aren't listed) please feel free to share. It'd be appreciated! <3 Please and thank you in advance!

 

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The categories are (since, for my limited little view, they do seem to be different)

 

Alicorn - (Main) Princess Status (i.e. Celestia and Luna)

Control planetary bodies (I figure that since, to date, we only have the 2 to base our information from, that will be the best for information purposes.)

Princess Alicorn Abilities by Princess :

Celestia -

Can raise the sun

 

Luna -

Can raise the moon

Can enter dreams/nightmares to offer guidance, clarity, and comfort (But how? When someone has a nightmare, does it set off some sort of mental alarm for the princess? Does it happen for EVERY pony that has a nightmare, or only certain types of nightmares?)

 

Alicorn - (Lesser) Princess Status (i.e. Candace and Twilight)

 

 

Unicorn

*Uses magic to move items

(though this makes me wonder. As seen above, though Luna's special skill is only for raising the moon, she is raising the sun, and clearly Celestia must've been raising the moon all the years her sister was trapped on the moon, right? Can the same hold true for all unicorns? Just because their special skill is for working with 1 particular object, that they can move / manipulate any object?)

And just how powerful is a typical unicorn's power? We see when Rarity was getting her cutie mark, that, thanks to RainbowDash's rainboom, her horn ticked on and actually dragged Rarity all the way to a huge rock that was full of gems.

 

Pegasus

Can Fly

Can control the weather

 

Clouds are solid ground for them to walk/run/live on

 

Earth

*Great Strength

 

(Not entirely certain if we can use Maud has a good example of strength, seeing as she threw a huge boulder which outrighed shocked RainbowDash. If all earth ponies could do this, and RainbowDash had seen others doing it, she wouldn't have been so shocked, right? As well as her literally drilling into a boulder to save Pinkie Pie's life.

And, I'd think, that if Pinkie was able to do this on her own, she would've just drilled right through the rock herself as it was bearing down on her. ... right?)

*Also falling under the 'strength' category, can we use RainbowDash and Rarity as valid examples of their entire race strength-wise, or would this be unfair?

Because RainbowDash had difficulty carrying -more like dragging- a rock *candy* necklace

Whereas, in other episodes, we've seen Rarity carrying a huge BOULDER -more than once- on her back and even PinkiePie lifting up a boulder *then again, I guess it's a bit unfair to use PinkiePie as any sort of standard. Not with all of the 4th wall breaking she consistently does*

 

 

Can grasp items with their tail (I've read this. I don't recall where it's been shown. Can someone screencap it for me?)

Have inherent and subtly seen magic that helps plants grow

 

 

Zebra

 

 

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And last but not least, just idle curiousity here. Are the ponies, at least somewhat, telepathic? The reason I ask this is because (is it just me??) it kinda seems like a LOT of ponies names match their role in life. This isn't a 100% the same for everyone, but still. (Yes, yes, yes, I know, the names have to sorta match the pony's role just for toy marketing purposes, but still. Not taking that into account, when they name their offspring, on some unconscious level are they telepathic and give their kids names that'll match their, eventual, special skill in life?)

Edited March 23, 2014 by Dx121

[A Joe in the Bush 255]

In the Bats! Episode, Applejack and Pinkie pie each have flashlights. We never see Applejack actually holding hers in her mane, but Pinkie definetely uses her mane to hold it, so we can assume Applejack was doing the same. I'll try to find an actual screen cap somewhere.

 

And can we add Bat ponies to the list of races? We've seen 6 of them so far, so they're an actual race.

[Adorkable 2,737]

I'm unsure if making things grow fast is apart of Earth Pony "magic", I think their race specialty is just strength, isn't it?

[TerribilisScriptor 107]

there are actually more sentient races in the MLP universe!

 

-Umbrums

-griffons

-changelings

-crystalponys (maybe to be considdered as a different race)

-yaks

-does/deer

 

these are all i remeber from the lore, comics and the series ^^ al though there MAY be even more to come in the future or there may be some i forgot. so equus is PRETTY variable if it comes to sentient habitants.