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"So you can do magic too?"

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Eventually i had to introduce some context on magic on my AU also on a image. As seen in the thread, while the average unicorn can manipulate magic slightly more efficiently than a earth pony or a pegasus (anyone can levitate something or light up their horn), there are earth ponies and pegasi with enough magical potential to cast spells as well. those usually need wands or other sorts of foci to be able to do that, while unicorns use their own horns as a focus. Any training schools for these ponies also double as seminaries, since traditionally, mobads were drawn from ponies with those abilities.

In Pinkie's case, the last high-magical ancestor of hers was her paternal grandmother, Sarlagab Eruvandyan, who was also a mobad in Ævrefreodeh, and while Pinkie is the only one of her sisters on her level of skill, the others are also particularly powerful in regards to magic related to their special talents.

Meanwhile, in the Griffon principalities, much like in the Dragon khaganate, there is a division in roles between males with high magical abilities and females with the same abilities. in both cases, the females usually specialize in healing, mostly through potions, and the males usually specialize in offensive spells to use in warfare, mostly conducted through staves, which females are not allowed to use. however, the collapse of dragon society around 1500 SE effectively led some of their males to start isolating themselves with their hoards in distant mountains and caves to escape the infighting. the dragon that Fluttershy faces down early in Twilight's stay at Ævrefreodeh ¹ was one of these, with the smoke being part of one of his potions experiments.

Coming back to the Griffons, most males with such abilities also become priests for the various deities, while the females also tend to work as midwives. Greta is one of these. ²

And free griffon females wear veils. While nopony knows for certain why, it's possible that when griffons still lived in the same tribes as pegasi, they started wearing cloth in their heads to emulate the pegasus mares' hair, and it caught on. slaves aren't allowed to wear them, which for the griffons renders that as something akin in symbolism to the Roman pileus. Greta's is rather basic — wealthier griffons can afford more elaborate ones.

^{1 — Of course, nowhere as big as the show counterpart, but just as dangerous
2 — Griffon 'childbirth' is about as dangerous as pony childbirth — while their unfertilized eggs are relatively small and pass relatively easily, the fertilized eggs, once they leave the mother's body, which is about six months after conception, are about as large as a eleven-month foal. After the egg comes out, it still takes another three months until it finally hatches. Dragons also work the same way, but with a longer gestation and hatching time overall.}

Four days to finish this.

EDIT: Fixed lighting

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Posted previously at: 2019-12-03T14:37:41 | Posted previously by: Mildgyth