A Brief History of Equestria

A Brief History of Equestria is a fanfic by K9Thefirst1 on the founding of Equestria and the ponies involved, claiming to show the "real" history the Hearth's Warming Eve play was based on.

Style
The story is presented as an in-universe history book written by Twilight Sparkle.

Summary
After a table of contents listing chapters which haven't been written yet and a foreword by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna it is stated that very little is known about the time when ponies settled in river valley (the place they left from to found Equestria) or why they separated themselves into 3 different tribes. The Earth Ponies formed a democracy called The Hyracotherium Republic, the Unicorns a kingdom called the Unicorn Kingdom, and the Pegasi had the military lead the govenment and called thier country Celestine. The tribes stayed inside the valley due to outside threats from Griffin and Diamond Dog Empires, but those eventually fell apart.

This is followed by biographies of the founders.

This is followed by a part on the events that led up to the three tribes leaving for Equestria and what happened afterwards.

Characters
Commander Hurricane - In this story Commander Hurricane is male.

Private Pansy - Commander Hurricane's daughter. While shy by Celestine standards she would not be considered shy in modern Equestria.

Princess Platinum

Clover the Clever

Chancelor Puddinghead

Smart Cookie

Star-Swirl the Bearded

Sullamander

Reception
Other authors have written stories based this one which the original author has gathered inA Brief History: Side Stories