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General Snowdrop, the crazed bloodthirsty warlord, whose life was considered so depraved and frankly embarrassing to even the warlike pegasi that it was revised over the next thousand or so years into a sweet morality tale that combined minor events from her childhood with bowdlerised tales of her once-legendary ability to manipulate the formation of ice and storm, and a bloodlust so powerful that she was driven to try carving individual snowflakes into lethal killing blades.
Creator of the feared Iceblade Storm, General Snowdrop was the scourge of any pony who opposed her. Or ran away from her. Or just happened to be standing nearby. Or even far away. Or in another country…
She had a particular dislike of unicorns, leading to the last element of her character. Far from being blind from birth, Snowdrop was blinded in one eye after headbutting a unicorn in a bar fight one that she started after the unicorn “refused to look at her funny”. She later remarked that she would have done it again for the sake of symmetry if only she didn’t need her remaining eye to see where she was aiming her ice storms.
Creator of the feared Iceblade Storm, General Snowdrop was the scourge of any pony who opposed her. Or ran away from her. Or just happened to be standing nearby. Or even far away. Or in another country…
She had a particular dislike of unicorns, leading to the last element of her character. Far from being blind from birth, Snowdrop was blinded in one eye after headbutting a unicorn in a bar fight one that she started after the unicorn “refused to look at her funny”. She later remarked that she would have done it again for the sake of symmetry if only she didn’t need her remaining eye to see where she was aiming her ice storms.
That is all easily available to anyone who reads a few history books. Sadly, sometimes it feels like no one reads history books any more.
“B-but muh anti-theism!” cries the rest of the world.
Just thought I’d give you some more examples of times when history has been completely falsified.
Basically anything involving the Catholic Church that’s generally accepted by the internet to be true is a result of anti-Catholic or anti-religious propaganda.
The idea that people believed in a flat Earth (not quite as popular as it once was) came from anti-religious scientists during the evolution debate.
Galileo was never excommunicated for his heliocentric ideas, but basically for forcing the Church into the issue (being a very devout Catholic, he was pretty fanatical in his belief that the Church would back him up). An issue, by the way, that was looked upon with dismissal by the scientific community at the time, mostly because the evidence for heliocentrism was outweighed by the evidence against it.
The Crusades were mostly a response to Islamic invasions and occupations of Christian lands.
The Church never stood in opposition to evolution. It simply never offered an official stance until 1950 (when its official stance was changed from “no stance” to “in favor”). Why a religious institution needs to offer official stances on scientific matters is beyond me, but it’s apparently important to certain people that are dedicated to finding fault in religion that they do… and then, when they do, they still find fault in their agreement on the situation.
There’s a difference between putting your own biases into your analysis and just plain completely replacing events.
But whatever, this is just gonna turn into one of those back-and-forths that only end when one of us realizes how silly this is and walks away. As I shall do now.
You go back and read history books from just 70 years ago, and compare then to history books from today, and you’ll wonder if they’re about the same planet, let alone the same historical era. There have been fundamental revisions of our understanding of just aout every major moment in history in the last century, starting with the so-called “dark ages”, which were once known for hundreds of years to be an era of blight and barbarity, but which are now known to have been an era of enormous technological and social progress. It was once known as fact that Rome had special rooms for vomiting after orgies. It was known as fact that Troy didn’t exist. It was known as fact that Columbus was fighting against a church that believed the world to be flat. So many things were known as fact even just thirty years ago, which have been revealed to be complete mythology or just plain bullshit. Most people don’t give a damn about history, leaving its curation to a minority who are in a position to fundamentally rewrite our understanding of the past if they so choose. And they have, with worrying enthusiasm.
In 1000 years, Celestia got rid of any evidence of Nightmare Moon/Luna’s existence, save for one book. And it’s entirely possible that Celestia only let Twilight see that book on purpose.
Luna is far more of an important figure than Snowdrop, and yet she was erased ENTIRELY.
I get the feeling that it would be child’s play for Celestia to do such a thing in such a long time.
Besides, we have a pretty good idea of what happened in the 1000s today, so there goes that argument.
There’s a difference between turning an asshole into an evil asshole and… yeah.
Oh but it can and indeed has happened. The portrayal of Richard the Third as a hunchback lunatic is one example off the top of my head. Until recently this was the accepted view - but it’s false. He wasn’t mad. Cruel, vicious, but not mad. Neither did he have a hunchback. It was all Tudor propaganda designed to solidify their hold on the crown.
That change happened within a century of his death. Give it a thousand and he could have been made into a cannibal warlord. Or a saint, if someone else got the pen.
I’ve been trying to think of similar ideas to create a series, but there any that many historical characters to work with St the moment.