Twilight was born in quite unusual times in Seaquestria as Sky Beak’s and Ocean Flow’s first child. Due to the situation in which her race found itself, she was forced to live in isolation away from life on the Surface, where Storm King was.
As a student of her aunt, she learned basic values and self-defense from a small age. The reason for this was that she was second in line to the throne after Novo’s daughter, Princess Skystar.
Despite the prohibitions of her parents, she wanted to know what the light looked like and escaped to the surface.
Unable to find herself in the other world as a hippogriff, she met several ponies who showed her around their place of residence.