Or that Twilight Sparkle believes that is what a Princess looks like, so she's running an illusion spell to make it look like she is. That the magic in the totem is changing her appearance. So then, why does she look different? Well, a few possibilities exist: That an appearance change isn't correlated with immortality (e.g., we see ponies of many different appearances) but just ascention. Twilight Sparkle has neither of these: She is an ascended alicorn, and she only moves the sun and moon with the help of the totem the Sisters gave her. They have a unique bond with Sun and Moon, which continuously rejuvenates them every time they made use of it. This already granted them greatly extended lives their fillyhood may have extended into what would be considered 'grown adult' or 'middle aged' for other mares. They are elder alicorns, born as such to the ancient tribe of alicorns. The Royal Sisters are explicitly rendered unaging by a combination of two factors: Yes this means they probably have a shorter life span than Twilight, however show staff has stayed that Twilight will never outlive her friends.

The rest of the Mane 6 are not Alicorns, so they age how most ponies normally do. (Sunburst helped to fine tune it when Twilight broke it.) Twilight can raise and lower both the sun and moon with a magic device that Celestia and Luna had made for her. They retired because they had been planning on taking a break from ruling for a very long time, with Celestia looking for a worthy successor since Nightmare Moon’s banishment when the royal sisters both lost their connection to the Elements of Harmony. Like dragons, they have been shown to be extremely long lived, but they do still age and anything that ages can assume fly eventually die.Ĭelestia and Luna retire to Seaward Shoals, the location of the same retirement home that the Canterlot Librarian retired to, but its implied that Celestia and Luna will both still travel from time to time.

It has not, nor ever been, confirmed that Alicorns are immortal.

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