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@SeraphimDawn  
Or they are the ones that were transformed into Statues.

@PonyPon  
Those ShadowBolts were probably based on actual ponies who fought along side NMM during the Nightmare Incident 1000 years ago. Of course they’re long dead.

@YetAnotherBrony  
I think I may have phrased it poorly (big surprise right?), I didn’t mean corruption. I meant more along the lines of this: once a being wields the elements, they can’t not be whatever their element is without something at least as powerful as discord screwing with their heads. A pony chosen for generosity has to be generous even if she’s been reduced to abject poverty for example

@Princess♠Molestia  
On a related note Celestia encourages the feeding of pigeons in the statue gardens. Its one of the few chances she has to indulge her mean streak.

All the statues in the Canterlot garden were once ponies, or atleast something that took on the appearance of one.
 
But they are also all horrible, Nightmare Moon/ Queen Chrysalis grade criminals that must never be loosed from their stone prisons.

@YetAnotherBrony  
I imagine even someone prone to that has their limits, which the element can erode their sense of overtime.
 
Also, Nightmare moon crafted personalities and backstories for her shadowbolts while banished and frequently found herself referring to them as her children.

@gasmaskangel  

 
Yeah, I like that part, but not the “the Elements will eventually corrupt the Bearer” part. If Rainbow Dash does a hopeless suicide mission to try and save her friends, it’s not because the Element of Loyalty is “corrupting” her, it’s because that’s what she’s like.

@SeraphimDawn  
They probably had other deities to pray to. You could even get magic from the untamed wilderness if you were willing to forever soil yourself and become a namby pamby Druid.

@Trickquestion  
What about Equestria before the Celestia and Luna’s rule?

@SeraphimDawn  
In Ancient Equestria, pegasi and earth ponies did magic by praying to Celestia and Luna for clerical spells. Celestia stopped giving them out once Equestria became a civilized country with no need for such magic, and because she was starting to want to be seen as a normal pony.

@FlutterLove  
We’ve seen how unicorns are able to transfer or merge their energy to perform powerful spells. A Canterlot Wedding part 2(Shining Armor and Cadence) and The Crystal Empire part 1(Celestia and Luna). Maybe she could have all the unicorns contribute their energy onto Twilight to raise the Sun.
 
I believe Earth Ponies, Crystal Ponies, and Pegasi and maybe certain other creatures such as Mythological, sapient, and animal races posses the same Magic energy as the unicorns do. The energy also occurs naturally in objects and the environment as well. Unicorns are one of the few creatures with the ability to utilize it at will. However, certain artifacts such as the Elements of Harmony and maybe even the Alicorn amulet may allow non-unicorn creatures to utilize the magic energy.

Twilight knows how to raise the sun and lower the moon, she can actually do these alone for about one week straight but if she does, she will end up bedridden for about another week. She mainly was taught how in case something happened to Celestia, but now that Luna is back it is less likely she will need that skill…

@Sjogre  
Well…. They’re just weird.

@SeraphimDawn  
I would say her father bought it for Rarity. Since he’s probably got the money and is a Football player.
 
Now he’s retired circling the globe for players.

@SeraphimDawn  
Summer home in the same town? What?

@Sjogre  
It was probably originally Rarity’s Family’s Summer Home. Rarity wanted to pursue her own interests at quite an early age(not unusual for fillies and colts in Equestria to leave home and start early), her parents supported her. They gave her ownership of the place and was able to pay her parents off overtime.
 
Rarity’s family looks upper-middle class to me. They may not have the wealth and prestige of the Canterlot nobles such as Twilight’s family, but they were pretty well off to afford a nice and vast lakeside property in Ponyville.

@Whatevs  
I… Yes?
 
I just said that I do think that she started the boutique herself. That doesn’t change that we don’t know how, why, or when she got the building she lives in.

@Sjogre  
She’s portrayed as ambitious and entrepreneurial. Faust made sure to have that as a part of her character.
 
It would simply be an extension of that characterization.

@gasmaskangel  
I have a hunch that there is an antagonist force in Tartarus who would be sick enough to do this to Twilight’s friends.
 
Breath of Fire II Final
 
Seeing Twilight helplessly watch her friends perish.

@SeraphimDawn  
Oh I like that. I may have to steal it if I need a mcguffin to drive the story.

@Whatevs  
Likewise, no reason to assume that she started it. No evidence in any direction.
 
While I personally think that Rarity established the boutique herself, that still doesn’t mean that she has had the building for any length of time.

@SeraphimDawn  
Reminds me of my theory of Cadance and the Crystal Heart.

The Elements of Harmony are spiritually connect to the lifeforce of its bearers. That is why when Twilight used Starswirl’s half completed spell and scrambled the elements, her friends were affected. I have a theory that, should the element(s) get damaged or destroyed, the bearer(s) will also die. When NMM smashed the Elements, they were fortunate that the elements weren’t connected to anypony yet and that Celestia and Luna were no longer bearers.

@Sjogre  
>for all we know
 
So no reason to think otherwise you mean?
 
It’s safe to assume she started it.

@YetAnotherBrony  
I agree, but mostly I’m trying to come up with a reason for one character to not be dead despite massive trauma and bloodloss. It needs to be fairly dark for story purposes.