▷ The History Book

[My Four Seasons]

tab Deep within Everchange is a library in Everville. Everypony knows of 'The History Book', a book enchanted to write itself as history unfolds. While anypony can approach the book and read it, any damage done to the book is immediately undone and it'll warp back to its resting place if a pony tries to leave the library with it. The intimidating book seems to be aware, sometimes scribbling insults to those with messy hooves or writing jokes for young ponies.

tab Check this book when you want to know the history of Everchange. META's will add information as time goes on.

 

[My Four Seasons]

tab The world started as lonely planet, lacking anything to differentiate it from a large space rock. Lifeless and inhabitable, the planet seemed doomed to me nothing remarkable -- like most unknown planets in space. Then, a most peculiar event happened; a rift in time and space opened and deposited a small Alicorn onto its planet. The Alicorn was not like those who currently reside in Everchange. She did not need air, nor did she follow the same rules most living beings lived by. The inhabitable planet had its first life form; someone extraordinary and from a different world than the one she sat one.

tab It's unknown where she came from or her domain. Perhaps she has none. Perhaps she has many. She did not need air, water, food, or warmth. Yet, she wandered the planet searching for something. Anything. The only light she could find was the one that emitted radiantly from her own being. The only warmth she could feel was the warmth that clung to her bones. The only living creature she ever found was herself, and that didn't seem terribly exciting when one was so bitterly lonely. It's unknown why she didn't just leave; perhaps she couldn't. Whatever brought her to the planet might have been out of her control.

tab When she found nothing she simply laid down and closed her eyes. Sleep took her quickly. She nestled against the cold planet and curled into a tight ball, drifting into a long and deep sleep.

tab She did not wake again.

tab Instead, something else happened. From where she laid a single tree began to sprout, glittering like a thousand crystals as it coiled around her. Roots dug under her and tightened against her legs, protecting the sleeping Alicorn from a threat unknown. As the tree sprouted so did grass. The air began to warm as light erupted across the sky. Slowly, life came to the planet, starting from where she laid and inching out across the empty planet. Days turned into months and then years as the world began to blossom, and yet the Alicorn did not awaken to see her new home. She slept, peacefully and tucked safely in a crystal kingdom built just to protect her. Centuries turned and her dreams brought forth mountains, oceans, deserts, and more. Her dreams of a world she wished she could live within brought forth the world of Everchange, and yet she slept.

tab She dreamed of friends. Friends and family. With those dreams came the first ponies; Earth ponies. The were born without warning. A hundred adult Earth ponies awoke at the foot of her crystal kingdom, defenseless and confused to who they were. These Earth ponies began civilization, although it was a slow beginning as they had no guide. The world kept changing with her dreams, growing unstable as time went out and sometimes dangerous. Her dreams would erase towns and create monsters at times. Ponies watched their world change color over night only to return to normal the next. Seasons flickered in and out and time would loop.

tab She dreamed of stability and it came. Four Alicorns woke beside her, each feeling a deep power within them she did not possess. One was the Alicorn of Winter, who ran off into the north, where the world grew bitter cold and snow could be found wherever one stepped. Another was the Alicorn of Summer, who left to the south, where the warmth of the sun could be best felt. A third was the Alicorn of Spring, who took to the east, residing in a land of plants and rain. Lastly, the final one was the Alicorn of Fall, who settled in the west, where the trees bore many colors and a crisp wind rattled through the land.

tab Lesser Alicorns were born next, left at the foot of the kingdom like their Earth brethren. Gifted with domains, the world finally found a constant as these selected ponies kept it in check. Unicorns and Pegasus' found themselves born shortly after, and with them came a great leap in technology and civilization. Ponies began to explore the world and conquer it as their Four Queens ensured their safety. Ponies became the most abundant species on Everchange.

tab Ponies of various and unique breeds began appearing, finding themselves more comfortable within the region they were born in. The Four Alicorns named their lands similar to themselves; Winter's Breath, Summer's Touch, Spring's Rain, and Fall's Harvest. Ponies who left their home to visit another seasonal land would find themselves uncomfortable, but it did not stop them from mingling. Eventually, they named their world Everchange.

tab Centuries have passed and Everchange still grows. Named The Dreamer by her grateful subjects, the sleeping Alicorn remains protected within her castle, never seen or disturbed.