Hi everyone, I hope you are well! I receive many lovely letters, and I'm a bit slow about answering them--I'm sorry! It's always faster to reach me via email, however, it is fun to get letters, and I wanted to share this one with you since it's from one of your very own members--Clawberry!
Check this out--Clawberry drew a picture of ME, and using the pegasus name generator, she christened me AshStarFlight (using my middle name too). She included her legend about the very first pegasus, and a recipe for dog cookies! Here is her legend, word for word:
"She was here long before Spiderwing and Nightwing. When she came, Anok was formed, and with her came five foals, Jungle, Snow, Mountain, Desert, and Sun. These foals were how the five herds were formed.
When she died, her foals took over the land and, one by one, had sons and daughters. The Hundred Year Star gave them life, but soon the five foals passed into the Golden Meadow, leaving their legacies behind them. The pegasi left, had foals of their own, but there was no magic to be found within. And the legacies continued.
All pegasi know this story but it is never mentioned much anymore. Little do they know that they all have some magic within, deep down it's there."
Wow--what a wonderful and hopeful legend! Well done, Clawberry. I hope you all on the message board enjoyed it too.
Just a quick update: as you know RIDERS OF THE REALM is coming out May 1st, but I'm also hard at work on other projects--some new, and some related to Guardian Herd. I want you each to know that I want to write more TGH books, but everything depends on READER ENTHUSIASM!!! This is true for all authors. So Spread the Word about the Herd, and hopefully I can continue with a Nightwing prequel and a book about life after Nightwing. I'd like to explore Riversun's possible powers and what comes next for the pegasi. Or perhaps I'll jump far into the future to explore a new black foal, a filly!
And a final reminder--if you come across an advance copy of Riders of the Realm, remember that it does NOT include the super secret information about Bumblewind. That is only in the final version and nobody on Earth will know what it is until May 1st! (except for my editor and I, of course!) So stay tuned and thanks for reading!
Love, Jennifer
YESSS WE NEED MORE TGH BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Duskmoon: A black filly with galaxy purple wings and a blaze.
For Riversun's Powers, I would think that they would be shockwaves and small bolts of lightning.
If Starleaf has a foal, and it's a filly, I can imagine her name would be Duskmoon!
I just read this oml WE NEED THE NIGHTWING PREQUEL AND MORE. We need to spread the herd-
In Anok there mares foal at different times and not all together. I don't think it is like wild horses where they all have their young in the spring.
All the other mares
If Dewberry had foaled with all the other mates then she woud' had a week old foal and crossing an ocean and nursing don't mix
Dire. What is wrong with my auto correct?!?
You can believe what you want but I researched it and the timing is the day Star and Frostfire found them in the woods being chased by fire wolves.
I think they could've become mates while Star and his friends were flying. Mares don't become pregnant right away and it takes 11 moths for a foal to grow completely. She may have been pregnant and not have known or she did know but didn't tell anyone because its not obvious in the first months. Does that make sense?
Or the foal?
The time Dewberry and Bumblewind became mates?
That is a possibility but it doesn't line up. Dewberry would've already had a coal by the end of the GuardianHerd series. Her foal would be a yearling or older at the end of Nightwing's reign.She isn't mentioned to have any sign of a foal until the end of the first book in the trilogy
She never out right said that she and Bumblewind became mates. It was clued at several times.
I was wondering what the secret was!!!!! I don't have the secret info either but thanks for telling us!!!!
GUYS IM SAAAAAAAD! MY PARENTS GOT ME ROTR FOR EASTER AND IT DOESN"T HAVE THE SECRET INFO. AND ITS NOT LIKE I CAN JUST BUY A NEW ONE. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
BUUUUMBLEWIIIIIIING WHATS UR SECREEEEEEEETTTTT!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
The paperback GH books have stories about other characters. In the Windborn one there were pegasi who left Anok and those pegasi will be mentioned in ROTR. But the pegasi who escaped the landwalkers i wonder if they were also trained.
Yup
i read a special story
It was a giveaway I think...
what special story?
Oh! And at the end of Windborn with the special story :P I think that related to ROTR..
Oh! I mustve gotten it wrong! I thought Riversun was the male LOL! Sorry(:
I wonder if Riversun was bitter. Since both her parents died and Star was there. And the steeds who took her away didn't follow Star. I wonder if she would grow up to be evil.
Yeah, Riversun was the twin that lived, and the twin that died was a colt
nightwing's and Petalcloud's dead foal was a colt. The one that survived was a piebald filly.
ugggg spell check. last not that
The that two sentences are about star. i also meant power not bower.
And about Icewing when he got frusterated at Petalcloud for not birthing live foals. Why didn't he banish her or choose a new lead mare? Why didn't he stop her from driving Lightfeather and her dam off? But thinking about it he would probably be worse off around a bower seeking Petalcloud. She might have killed him.
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It was a she and yotally blck:P
I was thinking off the dead colt.
I don't really think that counts, because Starfrost was Petalcloud's grandcolt
Oh i forgot bout that one! I was thinking the one born alive and Frostfire
Petalcloud had twins with Nightwing, but one was born dead. The twins she had with Nightwing, plus Frostfire, that makes three foals
O.O Nightwing didnt sire both!
Maybe someone could write a fan fic?
I wondered what happened to Maplecloud to
No one knows what happened to Maplecloud, Mrs. Alvarez says she isn't mentioned in the books because her path doesn't cross with Star's.
Also, welcome Iceflower! I’m Wispiflower! How many of the books in The Guardian Herd series have you read?
Yes, Nightwing is very important because he was the sire of BOTH foals.
Dont forgot Nightwing!
That would make since. And that was only two of her mates. Sorry if that sounded rood
So something interesting i was recently thinking about is petalcloud. She had three mates: icewing, twisting, and She only had two foals. I would think that's the stallions would learn that this mare would be rendered baren and banished for having no offspring and her reputation of driving off steeds
Both Star and Brackentail like Morningleaf so I wonder who she will choose
Welcome the Message board Iceflower! And I hope they do
I have noooo idea XD
That’s cool! Is that series good?
AWESOME!
O.O yes I CANNOT wait for May 1rst! TWO books I want are coming out the same EXACT Day!!!! This book and The Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan
Seriously. I worry about that stuff every single day. I also really feel like someone’s made up May 1st just to mess with us (although I know it’s a real day)!!!
Lol Wisp wisp XD
I’m not sure if it’s gonna be easy, but okay
yep
SO. EXCITING. ARGGGGGHH I FEEL LIKE I GONNA DIE BEFORE THE BOOK GETS PUBLISHED OR MY PRE-ORDERED COPY WILL GET LOST ALONG WITH THE OTHERS IN THE LOAD OR- should I just stop worrying?
i know
We'll know then the next book comes out.
that's what i think
Maybe the foal is Bumblewind's Secret.
well i think that when they left and dewberry had a foal we would've been told
What do you mean?
without us knowing???
there are 123 pegasi that escaped Anok. Carrying a newborn wouldn't be that hard. They could rotate the carrying
but who would help dewberry carry it?
true...
If dewberry had a foal it would be only a week old. It would either fly with the herd or be carried across the dark water.
btw i love gypsy vanners!!!!!!!!
ok, but how would she fly across the ocean with a newborn foal?
Hazelwind already has Echofrost. Dewberry did leave Anok though.
WAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIT! dewberry left with hazlewind?!?!!?!!?!!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?
Maybe Dewberry dropped her foal like the other mares. Because the times she is mentioned when Star discovers he can become invisible without Nightwing knowing, several times during the construction of the tunnel and tribute, when the tunnel is finished, and a final time when she and Hazelwind escort the refugee pagasi away from Nightwing. There might not be any mention to her having a foal, but it would be awesome if she did.
maybe my story was for nothing, and bumblewind and dewberry are a thing....
and ugh i HAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEE snow. i am soooooooooooooooooooooo excited for the summer...
Who knows exactly what happened in the few days Morningleaf, Bumblewind, Dewberry, Hazelwind, and Brackentail had together after they escaped Nightwing and before Star and Frostfire found them.
AAAWWWWWW!!!!!!!!! THAT WOULD BE THE CUTEST FOAL EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My best guess for Bumblewind's secret is he and Dewberry are mates. Maybe Dewberry is with foal.
umm . . . . . Wispi? I'm gonna re-read the book ya know . . . . . . . . Because there could be a LOT of changes and i'll get to read the secret information ok? So you don't have to do that
Holy cow!!!!!! We arent even getting that much snow!!! Its supposed to snow here soon though
Same... its 9:26PM and the snow still hasn't stopped! (it's been snowing since 8:00AM)
And on that day I will post the secret information for you
It is not made up it's just far away from now. But youre time will come for glory
I feel like May 1st is some sort of made up day that will never come because it’s made up.
yep
Oh jeez you poor thing.
i count every hour until may... but i am starting to doubt that may will come for me... there is about 16000 inches of snow here(not quite 16000 but close)
OH MY GOSH ME TOO!!!! I’ve been counting every hour though!!!
And you thought maybe Bumblewind would be alive or maybe something related to that or- maybe I should stop torchering myself.
I have no clue what the secret info is! I just saw in one of the comments of a video that in ROTR there is going to be some secret info shared!
Same Rain!!!! It's like I'm counting down athe days now XD
I agree wisp wisp. But she said Riversun would be in there so if a hundred years pass Riversun wouldn't be alive. XD O wait, she's a black foal nvm. ;-; I hope not. 1. Anyway, CONGRATS CLAWBERRY :D 2. STARLEAF FOR LIFE!!! 3. Why does May 1st feel like a 100000000000000 years? 4. I gave my own book away (the guardian herd starfire) to one of my friends at class last summer. Hope she's reading it. c: 5. Basically cant wait for ROTR and new TGH books :D
I have the advanced copy but not the secret information . . . . . . . it's sad I now. But hopefully I will! In fact i've already told two of my friends! AND THEY LOVE IT LIKE LITERALLY BY BEST FRIEND ( HONEYGLIDER ) IS LISTENING TO THE AUDIO BOOKS MY OTHER BEST FRIEND ( CRYSTALIOD ) HASN'T READ BOOK ONE YET BUT I'M GONNNA LEND IT TO HER!!!!!!!!! I need you guys oppinions now . . . . . . while I was writing this comment I thought I could put up posters!!!!!!!!!!!! But i'm unsure where like school or the town or something!!!!! All I know is that i'm gonna put tem somewhere
That's a really good fan fic and drawing Clawberry, thank you for sharing it Mrs. Alvarez
# STARLEAF!!!!!!!! AGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY
That would be awesome Wispi!!! I would miss them to!!!!!!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! MAY 1ST IS TOO FAR AWAY BECAUSE I AM TOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!! By the way Mrs. Alvarez, please don’t skip ahead 100 years! I would miss Star Morningleaf and the others WAY too much! If you are EVER going to make a girl black foal, could she be Star’s daughter instead?
toooooooooo much snow... dying...
i will probably have flooding in may...
i need the link to cass's story, pls
I am SOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOO EXCITED FOR MAY 1ST!!!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO READ Riders of the Realm!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m not sure what Cass’s post was, but I can assure you—know one knows the secret!! It’s fun to guess though 😉