AU and OC topic.

@Wiimeiser
 
Hey if you let me call out the shots we will wind up in a magical girl RPG…whih sound a lot like the dram Yang first showed up in,

@Shepherd  
Okay then, maybe in Season 1, then.

a well thought out AU that crosses over mlp with spyro the dragon. I’d like that.

I want to make a AU with Them’s fightin’ herds with Mlp . Though I’d lik to mix a kid icarus world in it too. But I feel I might be biting off more than I’m capable of.

Just had an idea for a new AU. To start with, it’s an anthro universe where the Mane 6 wear the clothes they’re wearing on the cover of comic #64 >>1611721 and Spike is a teenager and like in >>911419, not sure about Starlight but I’m thinking >>1178228, >>1601890 (merged) or >>1412678, maybe also >>1499131 (deleted) for TCR. No idea about the other characters. I’ll have to develop it further.
 
Also, Luna’s mane is the same as in >>1464112

@Wiimeiser
 
My Little Pony Friendship is Music

@Ranch  
I’m not actually sure who the outfits are references to…
 
Do you have any new AU ideas?

@Wiimeiser
 
That comic cover is referencing a lot of old musical artists. You can see their names in the tags. Like Michael Jackson, Prince, Cyndi Lauper etc.
 
And I don’t have any AU ideas presently.

@Ranch  
I’ll see if I can think of more…

@Wiimeiser
 
I think it would be better to take an AU you’ve already made and expand on it.

I have a anthro AU of my own.

@Mildgyth
 
Tell us then.

@Ranch
 
Well, there are a lot of divergences (although the episodes’ progressions remain mostly unchanged), where should i start?

@Mildgyth
 
Lol best place is from the beginning. But I guess you can tell us what you think is the most interesting part.

@Ranch
 
Well, i’m going to be using a lot of IRL referentials for this, and i guess that geography and language are a beginning: The geography of that world would be similar to Earth’s, with Equestria being located around West Asia.
 
The main languages in Equestria are a Germanic language (“Teodesc”), originally spoken by Earth ponies, and a Indo-Iranian language (“Parsig”), originally spoken by unicorns and pegasi, with both influencing each other. besides those, there are a number of smaller regional languages and dialects.
 
In regard to personal names, originally, both had different logics Teodesc had male and female names and Parsig had no such distinction; Parsig only developed a gender distinction After the Yauna invasion, upon which due to their influence, male names often began to be accompanied with a ‘š’ at the end.
 
There’s more, but i can tell about it tomorrow.

So, should i continue, and what should i talk about?

@Mildgyth
 
Please continue!

@Ranch
 
So, as i was saying, Equestria is ruled by both Celestia and Luna (after she returns, of course) and a third mortal queen from a lineage that has ruled Equestria even before them (Sasanzad). in fact, the Pillars of Equestria were contemporaries of the first ruler from that lineage (Ardashir V). Blueblood (Abixun) is the brother of the current one - Fleur-de-Lis (Ardashir XVII).
 
The country is divided into multiple satrapies; the satraps are chosen by the queens from among the jarls, the rulers of the cities (which also include many smaller settlements in their territory), and they usually have terms of six years, although they can be renewed occasionally. the jarls are assisted in the city administration by popularly elected ealdormares. the satrapy where the capital is located is Pars, which is ruled directly by the queens. most of the Mane Six are from there, and most of the episodes happen there.
 
To be continued…

@Mildgyth  
Out of curiosity, how is the X pronounced? Because in the N-Verse Equestria language it represents the Voiced uvular fricative, and it’s a click in Xhosa…

@Mildgyth
 
@Wiimeiser
 
Oh man this sounds complicated. I might need this in a book.

@Wiimeiser
 
Voiceless velar fricative; roughly a “kh”.

@Mildgyth  
I see, as in the IPA itself. Do C and Q mean anything?

@Wiimeiser
 
C, no. Q would be a voiceless uvular stop. rarely used, though.

@Mildgyth  
So Q would be as in Arabic then. The IPA also uses it for that, probably for that reason.
 
I usually use C for the epiglottal stop, though Indonesian uses it for “ch” if memory serves…

@Ranch
 
It is kind of elaborate.
 
So, as i was saying, most city names tend to be in Parsig or in native names (the latter mainly in the western satrapies). the rural settlements of the central and eastern satrapies tend to have names mostly in Teodesc, with a sizeable minority of Parsig names. the equivalent of Ponyville is called Ævrefreodeh, and it’s located in the south shore of a lake. the Everfree Forest (Ævrefreoweald) is located east of it, and Whitetail Woods (Whitaelfrith) is at west. it’s not a proper city, and it’s under the jurisdiction of the capital, which is named Istakhr.
 
Every satrapy has one cloud city (abrapura) that handles the weather in its territory. while there is natural rainfall, it’s unreliable enough that most of the time, “artificial” rainfall is used instead.  
Every city has a lake that serves as a reservoir, and the cloud cities rotate between these to meet the yearly water supply. for the coastal satrapies, it’s possible to make rain/snow out of seawater, but since part of that water is sold to inland satrapies, lakewater needs to be used to make up the difference. since there is only one in each satrapy, the cloud cities mostly have generic “satrapy name+abrapura” official names such as “Parsabrapura”, “Asorabrapura”, “Madatropatakanabrapura”, and so on.
 
Pegasi don’t actually live there; most inhabitants of the city only work there and live in ground towns around the cloud city, which are considered as neighbourhoods/suburbs of the cloud city. Ævrefreodeh, despite being somewhat close to Parsabrapura, is not one of these, and its proximity to the Everfree Forest meant that the general area was very sparsely inhabitated until Celestia settled its first ponies there, around 100 years before Nightmare’s return.
 
There are six regional administrative centers in the country; Ani, at northwest, Tisfon at southwest, Hagmadana in the center, Asmarakand at north, Istakhr itself at south, and Bakhtrapura at east.
 
To be continued…