Talk:Alicorns/@comment-182470-20160326225846

I'm going to restate my own thoughts on Alicorn lore from another comment page:

As stated in The Journal of the Two Sisters, Alicorns (including Celestia and Luna) were around long before Equestria was founded, just like any other pony race. Also note that Celestia said, "The birth of an Alicorn is something Equestria has never seen!" At face value, she's simply saying Flurry Heart is the first Alicorn born in Equestria since it was founded. But if we go a step further, Luna says, "It is beyond even our understanding." She and Celestia are treating this as a significant event, that it begs the question: what counts as a "normal" Alicorn birth?

According to Rarity, it's when an ordinary Unicorn like Twilight earns Alicorn wings after accomplishing a goal worthy of a princess. However, if you recall Magical Mystery Cure, she flat-out stated that she'd never heard of such a thing before. Evidently she was unfamiliar with Cadance's origin story which, as acknowledged by the show's staff at the 2014 SDCC panel, is present in Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell. Not only that, but Cadance was originally a Pegasus, not a Unicorn. So I think it's safe to say we can't count Rarity among the experts of Alicorn-kind, and that she was simply acting on second-hand experience.

Yes, this raises the question of how that Celestia and Luna were born if it wasn't as Alicorns. But since nothing in the latest premiere flat-out disproves it, that just makes the origin of Alicorn-kind even more mysterious. All we know for a fact is that they predate Equestrian history. If the mere idea of a new Alicorn's birth in Equestria shook them up, could it be that Celestia and Luna may not even be of the same world as Equestria...?