Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games/@comment-26944486-20151209195303/@comment-10390252-20151210114918

My guess/headcanon is that the Everfree Forest is a major geographical feature in the region around Canterlot High - a primeval forest that pre-dates civilisation in the area. A city was founded outside the forest (initially as a base for the lumber industry). As it was the town by the Everfree Forest, it was named Everton. Crystal Prep is in Everton City proper whilst Canterlot High is in the suburb of Ponyville. Although the forest is smaller now than it was in past centuries, it still exists and is now a protected national park.

There are... legends about the forest. Stories of strange creatures, impossible beasts and strange events. Of a underground grotto containing a crystalline tree that can perform miracles. Then there are the ancient stone tablets found in a cave in the forest detailing the legend of seven girls who would, one day, become the Guardians of Harmony... These are dismissed as myth and legend by most serious researchers although archaeologist and paranormal expert Dr A K Yearling (the discoverer of the Everfree Tablets) maintain that there is a truth to them and has been somewhat marginalised by her insistence that science has been too quick to reject them without proper research.

If I were asked to write EqG4, I'd start it with Dr Yearling giving a guest lecture at Canterlot High about her more controversial theories (she and Celestia were in college together and are still friends). Twilight, who prefers the measurable certainty of mathematics and the physical sciences, would dismiss Dr Yearling's theories if it weren't for the fact that her recently-repaired magic detector went berserk when she walked past the Everfree Tablets, which were on display in the school auditorium. The last time it did that was when she accidentally turned it on in Sunset Shimmer's presence.