Talk:Alicorns/@comment-24714017-20140712131331/@comment-10390252-20141008114223

You're forgetting the most important reason why there might only be female alicorns around: the natural-born alicorn tribe is extinct and the requirements for a magical ascension are so extreme that it has only happened twice in a thousand years - Twilight and Cadence.

How could they be extinct? There are a thousand and one reasons, one of which could have been Tirek. Ancient Equestria was a dangerous place; harmony was an ideal, not a fact of life. It's quite possible that the Alicorns stepped on too substantive a set of toes (mabye the Dragons) and got themselves either wiped out or so totally depopulated and scattered that they bred into the rest of the pony population and lost their genetic and anatomical distinctiveness.