Name: Dream Warden (Original name: Bright Ember)

Race: Unicorn

Gender: Mare

Age: Over 1000 years

Cutie Mark: Unknown (Original cutie mark: fire spark)

Special talent: The stolen power of Princess Luna

Physical description: Always hides under a cape that covers most of her features. She has a crimson colored coat. Her eyes are never visible, but one can occasionally see her mane from under her hood. Both her tail and mane are Bright red with what looks like golden trim.   

Personality: Cunning and manipulative. She can appear cheerful and kind but usually has the whole stage already set beforehand.

Bio: Born in time before the banishment on princess Luna, Bright Ember was a simple commoner, living with her family below the nobles of Canterlot. She was the only unicorn in the family and for that was always praised and held above her siblings by her parents. They all expected great deeds from her, maybe even getting the whole family to live in the Canterlots finest one day. But as years passed by, her parents grew older and her siblings grew tired of the praise she was getting. She hadn't filled the expectations of her parents and felt that she had betrayed their trust.

When princess Luna became Nightmare Moon and the events leading to her banishment took place, Bright Ember promised her parents that she would achieve greatness. She traveled to the castle of the two sister, and from the ruins she managed to find a fragment of power from the fallen princess of the night and moon, and with it she acquired the ability to walk in ponies dreams. She arrived back home, proud from her achievement, only to learn that her mother had already passed and her father wasn't far behind. Her father was so proud about her, again leaving his other children in the shadow of Bright Ember.

After the passing of her father, Bright Ember was given all the gold family had saved up, so that she could travel to Canterlot and begin to study there, leaving only the small farm to be shared by her five siblings. Her brothers and sister were furious, all their life they had been living in her shadow, below her, not as equal. They ambushed Bright Ember on her way to Canterlot, to rob her of the riches she was unjustly blessed with. First, Bright Ember tried to fight her siblings, but was quickly outmatched. She used her stolen gift to escape into the dream realm, leaving behind her defenseless mortal body in the hooves of her angry siblings.

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During Luna's absence, Bright Ember began to regularly visit ponies in their sleep, to talk, to laugh and to remember what life is. After a while she was named Dream Warden by the ponies she had kept company to and she decided to adapt that name for herself. As the years passed, she could feel the Nightmare Moon coming closer every day. Her visits became shorter and less frequent, which lead to ponies eventually forgetting her.

Today, her status is unknown. Older ponies might have a memory of her, maybe some documentation made of her existence from many years ago.

Abilities: Dream Warden is rather weak now, but her influence over the dream realm is growing fast. She is skilled in manipulating dreams of the ponies she visits, or in some cases invades, through their subconsciousness, but she can't directly affect or change the dream itself. She is also capable to observe dreams without entering them herself. Dream Warden is unable to leave the dream realm.

Extra details: Dream Warden possesses immense knowledge over both the old and new magic in Equestria, but in her current form is unable to use this knowledge in any way. Though her name and existence has been forgotten, some ponies speak of strange hooded figure, who claims to be a dream walker from the past, appear in their dreams. Dream Warden collects names from ponies she has interacted with to her codex, that's written in strange, unknown language.