Thousands of moons ago, the self-righteous Gusty the Great, unable to best me face-to-face, stole my Bewitching Bell. A talisman containing much of my own magic. The Bell cannot be destroyed, so Gusty hid it in a place it has taken me millennia to discover – an enchanted cave high atop Mt. Everhoof, protected by magical winds that prevent anypony from reaching its peak. There, the Bell has remained until now.
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~ Discord (disguised as Grogar) explaining the tale of Gusty the Great.
Gusty the Great is the posthumous overarching protagonist of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She was a legendary hero and the one who led her Unicorn Warriors to defeat the villainous Grogar.
Gusty was a white unicorn with a green mane and tail with a red streak. Her cutie mark consists of leaves blowing in the wind.
Personality[]
Gusty was quite brave as she stood up to Grogar, who was a powerful and terrifying tyrant at the time, alongside some other unicorns.
Abilities and Powers[]
As a unicorn, Gusty was able to use magic with her horn, but the extent of her magic was unknown. Considering her cutie-mark, she was likely adept at using wind magic. She was also cunning as she came up with a plan to take Grogar's source of power away from him.
History[]
Legend[]
Millennia ago, long before the pony tribes united as one, the country that would be known as Equestria was a dark and foreboding land where horrible monsters created by the evil emperor Grogar terrorized the populace so that they could fuel their creator's power with their fear. He also occasionally used his Bewitching Bell, which was the source of his power, to steal magic from unicorns to energize his own. But then a brave unicorn named Gusty the Great rose up alongside her Unicorn Warriors to challenge Grogar.
They encountered him atop the hill that would lead to Cloudsdale; The Unicorn Warriors shot magical beams into the clouds and wrapped around Grogar and pulled him to the ground, but the evil goat manages to break through the bonds as fear gave him power. The rest of the battle was unknown, but it was confirmed that she managed to steal away the Bewitching Bell and banished him from the land, never to return.
Afterwards, Gusty hid the bell within an enchanted cave atop Mount Everhoof, which was protected by a powerful forcefield and magical winds to prevent anyone from getting to it.
Legacy[]
The story of Gusty's triumph over Grogar was told for generations, lasting over thousands of years. Princess Twilight Sparkle was seen telling the story to some sick foals in Ponyville Hospital.
Eventually, after many millennia, Discord disguised himself as Grogar to gather the most sinister villains in the kingdom to turn them into formidable opponents to make Twilight confident enough to be the ruler of Equestria. In order to teach them about teamwork, he sent them on a mission to retrieve Grogar's bell from its resting place, and they eventually did after finally learning to cooperate. However, they then use the bell to take Discord's magic and expose him, forcing him to leave the lair so that they can rule over Equestria themselves. Before they could destroy the kingdom, the evil trio was defeated by Twilight and the rest of the Mane Six, who then recovered the bell.
Trivia[]
Considering that this was long before Equestria was established, she may have had some prejudice against pegasi and earth ponies, since her team consisted only of unicorns.
