drunkill wrote:I would just like to point out that Before Friendship and After Friendship are amazing terms for dating a civilization. Far better than BBY (
Before Battle of Yavin IV) for the Starwars universe.

1 AF

I'm glad you approve! I have to admit, it has a certain ring to it.
PictishBeast wrote:Just wanted to say that I love this kind of thing. This type of fannish overthinking is my greatest weakness.
I'd suggest adding more historical figures to the timeline, even if you end up having to put ??? in the years box. Figures like Commander Easy Glider and their accomplishments should help fill out the 1000-0 BF timeframe.
Things you could add:
- Figures and events from the history of the Wonderbolts
- Something about the ancient ruler mentioned in Hearts and Hooves day
- A mention of cutie pox and the Paleo-Pony Period
- A mention of the "hundreds of years" reference in regard to Ponyville, even if it's just a footnote, to put your "four core and seven seeds ago" placement into context
- A collective acknowledgment from everybody in this thread that this project is is simultaneously completely silly and completely awesome
It's been a fun project. I've enjoyed digging through the comics and the show looking for mentions of time-periods and whatnot, and bringing the discussion here has made it even better!
I'll definitely be listening carefully next time I rewatch "Testing, 1, 2, 3", I'm sure there's a ton of valid stuff in there. I'm planning to only include things that I can support with at least a single decent piece of evidence, so I'll have to do some fact-checking with a few of the other things you've suggested.
As for the last one, I think we can all agree on that!
The Doctor wrote:I think she was referring to the new Kingdom after the defeat of Discord. Return of Harmony would indicate that Discord wasn't just a villain who showed up, he took over. He was able to, for a time, depose Celestia and Luna. They had to retake their kingdom.
That's definitely a possibility.
My current reasoning is based on the assumption that Discord's takeover wasn't a particularly long one. I don't think there's a ton of evidence to back that up so far, but Luna and Celestia are shown to still have their crowns and whatnot when they take him out, so there's that at least.
Additionally, Discord tends to be more of a re-arranger than a destroyer, and more of a troublemaker than a killer, so I'm not sure Celestia (or anyone else) would reclassify their kingdom post-Discord as a "new" kingdom.
Headless Horse wrote:Hear hear.
I think there's one thing we can say for sure: nobody on the writing staff has put anything together with anything like the consistency or attention to detail as in this; they're studiously making everything as vague as they can possibly get away with. And hilariously, it's actually more or less working—no major irreconcilable problems yet!

I know, right? I'm pretty impressed with how things are shaping up; it's tending to be more of a case of plugging new events in rather than rewriting parts wholesale.
Bremen wrote:Agree on it being silly, but I think the funnest discussion on FiM I ever had was a debate on what kind of economy would result from the caste and cutie mark systems, so I'm hardly one to talk.
That said seeing as it's a timeline I think it should be limited to stuff that can be somewhat pinned down by info from official material.
Edit: Minor point, but maybe it would be best to move the formation of the E.U.P. to below Luna's banishment?
Edit2: The "four core and seven seeds" quote was penned in Season 4, so that would probably make it 83-85 years before the start of the show, depending on if you think Princess Twilight Sparkle was exactly one year after the show start.
Good notes, I'll get onto these. Agree on the official material thing, too.
ShieldedDiamond wrote:I feel one of the biggest issues in this timeline project to face, is the differences between writers, and if there is any writer whose lines would hold more "canon" than the other, should a contradiction arise.
Hopefully this never becomes a significant issue! I'd like to think a common-sense approach could sort things out, but you never know what kinds of curveballs might be coming...
Doctor Wheeze wrote:I would say that the Granny Smith/Winter Wrap-Up issue is a bit of a contradiction, but as I said you can handwave that away by assuming Twilight was talking about earth ponies in general.
Yup, I was happy to palm that one off.
Sorry for the massive post guys/gals!