Hi everyone! I'm here for a very quick lore update, officially adding a bunch of stuff that sort of existed already for some time and clarifying some stuff.
But don't worry, if this is not enough for you, there will be a BIG lore drop later next week, so look forward to that >:)
This is the Everfree Village’s funerary ceremony. The mourning grifjx gather in an opening in the forest where the body of the deceased is put on the ground, covered by the Healer in special plants. The ceremonies are always accompanied by the Healer and the Queen.
The body is set aflame by the magic of the Healer, the flames absorbing remains of the deceased’s magic from their body and turning into the same color as their magic due to the plants it is covered in.
Then, the healer would start dancing around the body, moving as if she was just another flame in the fire.
The Flame Dance is, however, not just a simple dance, but a spell that requires moving. It cannot be performed without flame magic, which is a very hard to master kind magic, and requires very strong magic capabilities. It is quite draining for the Healer.
Prior to Eclipsa’s reign, the Flame Dance used to be performed by Flame Grifix, which were specially trained grifix with flame fluffs. For grifix with flame fluffs, Flame Magic is much easier than for others. Eclipsa, however, didn’t like having these grifix learn such powerful magic so she forbade those practices and the task of doing the dance fell onto the Healer.
Recently, a new flame grifix has been found in the Village and now she can perform the dance instead of the Healer. Healers, however, still need to learn the dance and be able to perform it, so sometimes the Flame Grifix is joined by the Healer Apprentice and the two dance together around the fire. The dance is even more impressive when performed by two grifix at once.
The dance is very spectacular, and can only be performed if it is accompanied by flame magic. Most grifix don’t know this, as it is not exactly obvious, but if one were to try performing the dance without the Flame Magic they would fail.
The sphinxes were introduced a while ago, but only now I managed too figure out a way to actually explain theeir existence, so here it is:
Back in the time before Equestria, there was a powerful species residing in the desert. They were wealthy and lived very happily, until eventually a tyrant took over as their king. But he liked not to be the king of these people, and he liked not that all of his wealth had to be shared with them, so he took an ancient magical crystal and with a spell absorbed all of his subjects inside, remaining as the only Sphinx, guarding his treasure.
When he eventually died, in the times of the Great Cataclysm, the spell broke and his old subjects were expelled from the crystal. They had no more kingdom to go to, so some of them settled in Saddle Arabia while others set off to various parts of Equestria. As the only safe place in Equestria at that time, they eventually arrived to the Crystal Empire and settled there among the crystal ponies. In the two thousand years that they resided there, they developed thicker fur from the desert counterparts
HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
A place for the restless Children of the Sun
Selenara, the Queen of the Sun, offered shelter to many orphans in the village since her reign begun. The children of the Sun often decided to spend their entire life working for her and enjoying their lives at the castle, but some just didn’t fit in. And no matter how many chances the queen might give them… The Head of the Castle Servants, Frozen Mountain, had limited patience. And when one continuously messes up things in the castle… they’re bound to get kicked out.
Truth is these children just had too much energy and mopping the floors all day just ain’t it for them. So they all sort of started to gather around the blacksmith at that time, and help around there, where work was truly tiring and they had something to out their energy into. Truth is they were all obsessed with how freaking cool the blacksmith was and just wanted to impress him.
The daughter of the blacksmith at that time, started jokingly calling her house “the house of the rising sun” as a reference to all the “children of the sun” gathering up in there. Over time, she took over as the Blacksmith but now the place is full of grifix doing various jobs such as glassmaking, pottery, or forging.
They all wear the same feather accessories as the castle servants, as they are considered servants of the queen, but they don’t live in the castle. They’re like a big family.
HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
The old Blacksmith of the Village. He's like a grandpa to the kids. He used to make the coolest stuff out of metal so the kids were obsessed with him. He's retired now, but he still gives a lot of advice to the young ones, and they are often amazed by the results they get by following his advice.
Nowdays his daughter took over the job of Blacksmith, and also that of the Head of the House, but her old man still goes around giving orders to everyone if he feels like it.
CHILDREN OF THE RISING SUN
The grifix that do various crafts in the House, such as forging, glass making and pottery. Some just live here without partaking in any such work, but then they cook and help around the house.
They all wear the special feather ornaments which are the castle servants symbol, as they are in fact part of the Castle Servants.
The feathers can be any type of feathers, but the little wool balls are always the same colors.
The Children of the Rising Sun so far are Pumpkin Flare, Artifice and Malus. Owners can update their bios if they feel like it's needed after this new information, but that is not required. The references of Artifice and Malus need updating, but as the cause of all this I will make sure to handle this myself and add the feather accessories on them.
Other stuff:
The species pages for GRIFFON, HIPPOGRIFF and CHANGELING have been updated with new information. The griffon page is the only one that has actual new stuff, the others only got some info on the species appearance.
This is all for today, hope you enjoyed this lore drop!
As always please reffer to the official pages for the canon information. All the titles in this post are links to the official pages. This news letter will NOT be updated in case of any changes to the official lore, so it shouldn't be taken as reference in the future.
