In Equestria and its surrounding nations, every creature has a different idea of who created the universe and who rules the world they live in. Some believe they are ruled over by a goddess, others favor the idea of a male god. Each species has a different idea of how and when he or she revealed him/herself, how exactly this deity rules, and so on. It causes plenty of conflict as creatures argue over who’s right and who’s wrong, but what if I told you they were all a little bit right?
 
Gaia is the ruler of this magical land we know and love, but she takes many forms. She has been a pony, but also a hippogriff, a changeling, a dragon, and an array of other creatures. She has presented as male and female. Each species’ stories about her “coming” all have truth to them because she was there in one of her forms. Interpretations have changed over the centuries to fit each culture of course, but it still stands that it was always her. Nobody has connected the dots yet, though.
 
Some of the forms she has taken include:
 
Queen Gaia - Goddess of the ponies, the mother of Queens Celestia and Luna
 
Queen Periwinkle - Goddess of the hippogriffs
 
King Augustus - God of the yaks
 
Dragon Lord Ardor - God of the dragons
 
Emperor Gideon - God of the griffons
 
Empress Laurel - Goddess of the kirins
 
Queen Aphid - Goddess of the changelings