User blog comment:Guildmaster Grovyle/JLE Role Play, Summer 2015/@comment-7345250-20150715105657


 * A lone unicorn slowly walks up the marble stairs to the Royal Maretropolis Library. Only she is not exactly a unicorn... or even a she. The pony is none other than Parlys the Pale, a changeling without a home.

Parlys: "What a beauty you are... If only our desert were not so macabre, I would take you with me."


 * Here he stands before a place of learning and progress—nothing at all like the deer's organic hokum. On a more fundamental level, it is a place of books. Something about that strikes him as amusing. Of all the places in Equestria that could make him think about his choices, why does a library do the trick?


 * He knows the answer, of course. Books are all the beauty a mind can leave for the world before it expires. However, he has only ever wanted to possess one book in his long life. He chased that book across Equestria for years, but the trail went cold—incidentally, right around the Everfree Forest. He gave up his pursuit of that book long ago. He almost believes it was only a myth.

Parlys: "Your title still haunts me, Inspiration Manifestation..."


 * And why did he want it? Because his power has never been enough. He knows that he has power enough to change the world, but his magic falls short of bestowing immortality, halting time, or anything worthwhile. He lacks the power to banish ugliness. In truth, that alone is all he has ever wanted. The book inspired him to seek such power.


 * After longer than expected, he reaches the top of the steps and enters through the front door. The world seems to grow quiet, save the occasional rustling of turning pages. How droll. When was the last time he learned something from an ordinary book? Not counting the deer's dinky scrolls, it must have been ages ago. Once old King Ariovystis generously sent him forth to explore Equestria, he trained with everyone from the itinerant Meadowbrook to the dreaded Umbrum, but barely in that time did he stop to read.

Parlys: "Oh, don't pretend you regret it."


 * And yet what good did his training do him? He was thwarted at the last minute by Power Ponies from Equestria. They and took everything from him. He lost his gallery, his queen, his army, his talismans, his bed, and even his precious fragments of poor Princess Amore. He never did get around to finding the rest of her before his coup. Bummer.


 * Then there is Discord—an abomination in appearance and also behavior. Discord is just as guilty as the Power Ponies. He hopes Discord will suffer the worst when the time comes. Fluttershy will not be spared his wrath.


 * Yes. This time, he is out for revenge. And the sweetest revenge of all will be the knowledge that he, Parlys the Pale, has at last managed to make Equestria immaculate.