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From the very start of MLP g1, ponies have always been shown to be settlers, never really staying in one place, but why is that?
In a tale of pony history told by the Moochick in “the Golden Horseshoes”, we get to learn that a distant ancestor of Mimic, a unicorn, used to live in a land called Argite/ Argyte until a tornado picked her up and dropped her in Dream Valley.
In “the My Little Pony Movie”, the witches complain that before Dream Valley was formed, it used to be a dark and dank wasteland, and that the ponies came there and made everything green and bright.
So too, in “Pony Tales”, the schoolponies recounted a tale in pony history where an ancient tribe of settlers, called the Pintos, settled the land and lived in what is now called “Pinto Cave” in modern times.
In g4, the Appleoosans also trekked from another territory into the Buffalo stampeding grounds that they made their home.
And also in the “Hearth’s Warming Eve” pageant, we learn that the 3 tribes of ponies- unicorns, earth, and pegasi, had also move out of their home and to a new land, when they were faced with being overrun by Wendigoes that nearly froze them to death.
In 2 out of these 6 examples, we’re given a reason for the ponies’ nomadic lifestyle, and only left to speculate on why this seems to be a habit for the ponies across every pony generation. Are the ponies simply bringing themselves and their land to ruin, wherever their roam, as seen in “Hearth’s Warming Eve”, thus making their nomadic lifestyle an inevitability? We see that in g4 that ponies DO tend to be a hindrance to the natural world- having animals and the land rely on them to the point where both have become completely dependent (heck, animals can’t even gather food for themselves without the ponies’ help), or nearly destroying themselves and their land by their own bitterness and hatred toward each other.
Could the same be true for each generation of pony settlers? If so, then what does this imply, if anything, about the ponies?
In a tale of pony history told by the Moochick in “the Golden Horseshoes”, we get to learn that a distant ancestor of Mimic, a unicorn, used to live in a land called Argite/ Argyte until a tornado picked her up and dropped her in Dream Valley.
In “the My Little Pony Movie”, the witches complain that before Dream Valley was formed, it used to be a dark and dank wasteland, and that the ponies came there and made everything green and bright.
So too, in “Pony Tales”, the schoolponies recounted a tale in pony history where an ancient tribe of settlers, called the Pintos, settled the land and lived in what is now called “Pinto Cave” in modern times.
In g4, the Appleoosans also trekked from another territory into the Buffalo stampeding grounds that they made their home.
And also in the “Hearth’s Warming Eve” pageant, we learn that the 3 tribes of ponies- unicorns, earth, and pegasi, had also move out of their home and to a new land, when they were faced with being overrun by Wendigoes that nearly froze them to death.
In 2 out of these 6 examples, we’re given a reason for the ponies’ nomadic lifestyle, and only left to speculate on why this seems to be a habit for the ponies across every pony generation. Are the ponies simply bringing themselves and their land to ruin, wherever their roam, as seen in “Hearth’s Warming Eve”, thus making their nomadic lifestyle an inevitability? We see that in g4 that ponies DO tend to be a hindrance to the natural world- having animals and the land rely on them to the point where both have become completely dependent (heck, animals can’t even gather food for themselves without the ponies’ help), or nearly destroying themselves and their land by their own bitterness and hatred toward each other.
Could the same be true for each generation of pony settlers? If so, then what does this imply, if anything, about the ponies?