Jeremy Whitley (w) • Andy Price (a & CVR A) • Brenda Hickey (CVR B) • JustaSuta (1:10 RI CVR) • Amy Mebberson (1:25 RI CVR)
Season 10 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic begins! Explore new worlds and go on new adventures with your favorite fillies!
Twilight’s first act as Queen of Equestria is to send the Mane 6 to explore mysterious—and potentially dangerous—areas of Equestria. When Applejack, Zeocra, Rockhoof, and Tempest travel to Zecora’s home country, they meet a zebra named Marini—and learn exciting, surprising information about Zecora, the magical kelpies and abada, and the not-so-magical zebras who live there!
manipulator’shoofsteps by sending ponies on dangerous expeditions.I’m gonna check that out 📖
Heck yeah, that promises to be a very different season opener.
The AFRICAN abada. Not the european. The abada is a unicorn-like animal with two horns, which can be used as an antidote to poison. The artist SomeSoap on DeviantArt has a picture of an “Abada Unicorn”. That’s pictures of abadas here, too. According to myths from Africa, these abadas are smaller than the zebras. The abadas is the african response to kirins from the far east.
On the abada… from Wikipedia:
Äbädä is a demon or spirit. He is a Turkic forest being, similar in nature to the İyes. He protects the birds, trees, and animals of the forest; he appears in the shape of a human with blue skin, two great horns, green hair, and a long green beard across his face, carrying a club or whip indicating his mastery of the forest. He can shapeshift into many different forms. As a human, he looks like a peasant with glowing eyes, and his shoes are on backwards. Should one ever encounter an Äbädä, one must thwart him immediately by turning all one’s clothes inside out and backwards, and placing one’s shoes on the opposite feet.
Maybe the last part doesn’t quite apply to the MLP world, but the first part would seem to be the same as how the kelpie idea was brought to the previous comic, mirroring to some degree the mythological entity.
Alternatively, Phillip II of Spain kept a pet rhino called Abada, and THAT would be a lot more interesting…
The kelpies are sea creatures known from IDW # 23 and # 24 so it meant that the expedition must have sailed on or over the ocean or used the waterways en route to the land of the Zebras. Since Whitley is the writer behind # 23 and # 24, it meant that his version of the kelpies may have been chosen. It meant that “Coltlantis” is now canon should there be a link between # 23 and Season 10. Kelpies are interesting because they are not hippogriffs, more a continuation from the sea ponies of G1 - although # 23 shows they can be related to the sirens.
The abadas are going to be brand new and since these can use magic it meant that he has stolen ideas from the fim fiction writer Rambling Writer? Lets just hope that Whitley will respect this, for the fiction story is good. Abadas are likely to be smaller than both the ponies and the zebras, but they can play an important role in the country where the zebras live. The Rambling Writer portrayed these as skilled magicians who were far ahead of the ponies in the use of magic in abuse. Only the earth ponies were immune to these spells, as Twilight Sparkle discovered when she examined the weapon fired at her.
Applejack is sure to discover a lot of new things about the zebras and the land, and not least about Zecora itself. With Rockhoof, the strongest earth pony and Tempest Shadow, one of the toughest warriors in Equestria - it certainly won’t be trouble.
Certainly?
Same here I hope it is good.
If it’s Whitley, that mean he is taking his rejected ideas to put those one in S10 because the show ends… years ago he said that he wanted to create a story about Zecora’s backstory but hasbro rejected the idea because they said that will be explored in the show, something that never happens.
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2016/07/bronycon-coverage-mlp-idw-comic.html
That mean Whitley have posibilities to make the Discord’s trial but replacing Twilight’s kingdom with Ending of the End… but the Discord’s sister thing would be weird thanks to Princess Eris and Accord…
Just hope that Whitley didn’t dumb out, as the zebras were almost as rare as the kirins, it meant that they came from very far away without good transport opportunities between the land of zebras and equestria. The kirins had chosen to isolate themselves because of the nirik problem despite the short distance to a railway station. I don’t see the zebras doing the same; and after all, most are non-magical as seen with Zecora; she was a shaman.
Probably the Mane 6 must use sailing ships or airships to get to the land of the zebras. Railroad will be ridiculous.