There is a tale among ponies that on the night before they earned their cutie mark, they saw a mysterious alicorn in their dreams. She never appeared again afterwards, and it was ALWAYS one time. No pony has seen an alicorn resembling the one they saw- some thought she was Celestia, others thought she was a fusion between Celestia and Luna- but she wasn’t. Of course, there were ponies who claimed to have seen this princess but didn’t earn their cutie mark the next day- or ones who claimed to have never seen her but earned their cutie mark anyway. It is also said that soon-to-be mothers saw this princess in their dream, and she gave them names for their foals. One thing was for sure; this princess had a connection between ponies and their cutie marks.