Now the Star Swirl era ponies , we know so little about them all -- even Celestia and Luna is most of a mystery if you think about it. There's so much we don't know : why Celestia didn't just revert Luna from the beginning instead of locking her away in the moon for all those centuries; why the crystal ponies were unmentioned in the story of Equestria; what's Sombre's deal; and who the the in hell is Star Swirl! I have a couple of theories that might explain some of these questions. enjoy! first of all, Celestia. I don't have much to theorize on since I have so little to go on but my one theory for her is that she was originally a unicorn. from what we've seen, a pony transform into an alicorn once they master a particular kind of magic. and according to the novel, "Twilight and the crystal spell", anypony, despite their race, can become an alicorn. and in the intro episode, Celestia is depicted as a unicorn. (now I'm going to cross theorize some things so try to keep up) Next is Star Swirl. Who is this guy? They seem to talk about him a lot. He apparently is an important part of the story. So why do we know so little about our favorite magical ancient equine? Here are so of my theories about the guy. According to Celestia, Star Swirl was trying to master his greatest spell but ultimately failed because he failed to realize that friendship was the greatest magic. Whatever the spell exactly was -- either some sort of obliteration ray (still believe twilight just died and was reincarnated) or a way to enter the extra dimension Twilight was sent to and entering said dimension must turn a pony to an alicorn. If that's so then Celestia and Luna must have also entered that world, most likely shortly after the discovery of elements of harmony, seeing that they play a major part in the spell. Celestia might have learned a full understanding of light and Luna a full understanding of dreams. Star Swirl must believed it was the mastery of magic itself that ascends a pony to the alicorn and buried himself in studies to achieve this mastery. Celestia saw his potential and tried to reason with him for he can achieve the ascent and rule beside her. But Star Swirl ignord her thinking she'll hold him back. Star Swirl seeked only to become stronger, putting his care for others aside. Now the crystal ponies. In the play in the episode, "Hearth's Warning Eve", Equestria was made up of three pony races: unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies. From what we know, there are three other pony races unmentioned in this story: alicorns, for obvious reasons ; seaponies, for head-canon reasons ; and the crystal ponies, for unknown reasons. My theory is that they didn't exist before then. I have hunch that they came after Equestria founding. And I even have an idea on who was the first crystal pony. That is..... Princess Platinum. Why her? From there, lets move on to Sombra. So what DO we exactly know about Sombre? He's the king who enslaved the crystal pony race. And most importantly... a unicorn. Why is this important? Well, if you think about it, most major villeins were either alicorn or god-like. The only other unicorn villeins had crutches to make themselves more powerful, such as Trixie and another pony from the book series. So is why do Sombre have so much power? Maybe he just studied, devoting his entire life in becoming stronger. See were I'm going with this? Maybe Sombre... is Star Swirl. I also believe Sombre is responsible for Luna turning bad, corrupting her showing her false realities of whats to come. Note Sombre is also a king, expectantly self-granted from concurring the crystal empire. By the way, why do they call it an empire, anyway? an empire is usually made up of several nations -- the crystal empire is a single city. I expect the reason they call it an empire is because in has such an impact on the world. So its sorta like an empire. Now back to Sombre-- why he's a king. I like to believe king because was always a king... the unicorn king. Putting him as the the father of Princess Platinum. (hope you're keeping up) .. .to be continued .... (I finish later)
Nobody really knows the answers to any of these questions but i've come to accept the lack of knowledge about these things related to the show although some of those things could still be explained eventually although they probably won't be anyway that's my thoughts on the subject at hand.
Holy CRAP run-on! Your theory so far isn't too off from mine. I'll admit, I was a little surprised when I saw Celestia as a unicorn seeing as nobody else I've met thought of that one. Ours differ when it hits Twilight's death.
