Okay. Here's the question I'm sure has been eating away at all of us (Or at least me): What really is starfire? So. Let's look at what we know. We know every hundred years a black foal is born, and when it survives, the "star" on the sky sticks around. On this foal's first birthday (should it even survive until it's first birthday) the starfire will be transferred to the foal. But here's the thing; it can't be the fire from a star. Essentially, that is what it means.
And we all know no star can get that close to Earth without blowing all of us to oblivion. (Burning us up)
So, then, what is it?
And why does it stick around every time the black foal is born?
From what has been said in the book, some believe it a comet. But how could a comet get so close to Earth and then suddenly disappear when the so called starfire goes into the black foal?
I have another theory though. Some people may have already thought i this, but I believe it may be sunLIGHT. A light from another star, or the sun. Now, this doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But here's something that makes a little more sense than these other two theories.
I believe that whatever this starfire is could potentially be attracted by Earth's gravity and magnetic field. Now, I don't know too much about our magnetic field, but I think this could be a more logical explanation. Perhaps it could be a comet, or just another star's sunlight.
Please your thoughts on this in the comments below, and please try not to be too harsh when correcting my whole magnetic field theory majigger. (I'm talking to you Flamefrost x DUN DUN DUUUUN x...... XD)
I hope this wasn't too cheesy! :(
Solar Eclipse Lunar Eclipse
lol.
I'm jsut trying to figure out what it REALLY is, because pegasus minds are VERY VERY different from human ones, so it could be a natural cause that the pegasi don't experience often
We know it's fantasy Scipio
i want some starfire
it would be so cool
I mean light is as Flamefrost said. I agree with Love Those Cats and lets see, DragonLOL. Im not saying each theory is wrong as it is a theory after all. I also think as Flamefrost said, letys leave it a mystery. Or ask Jennifer.
We are well aware of this, Scipio.
this is fantasy.
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Why would aliens give away a lethal weapon/healing potion thingy to some black pegasus every hundred years? I have never heard of aliens being generous.
Aliens. It's go to be aliens.
Or maybe it’s.....
MAGIC! *makes mystical hand gestures*
Okay, fair enough. But if it is actually sunlight, then how on earth would it do that to a pegasus? Not only how would that power transfer to a (technically) mortal being, but how would it do it at night? The Sun is on the other side of the world at nighttime. Maybe it's similar to the "moonlight", which is just reflected sunlight. Maybe the Hundred Year Star is actually a comet/meteor/asteroid with a reflective, mirror-like surface that focuses a beam onto the Earth (or whatever the planet of pegasi is called). That still doesn't solve the question of how it transfers to a pegasus, though. Hmmm . . .
Well, I never said that the thing that was getting pulled was light. I said that with the Star fire could be just be an illusion of sunlight
Well exCUSE me. I actually happen to find this theory mostly sound, apart from the fact that light is not made of matter. Light is energy. Only matter, and metal, in fact, reacts to magnetic pulls. Gravitational pulls, on the other hand, are dependent on the masses of the objects involved. We are pulled into the Sun's orbit by gravity, not magnetism.
Now, that's beside the point. Even as scientific as I tend to be, I think we should just let the identity of starfire remain a mystery.
It might do with some alignment Thingy the planets, earth, moons, sun, ECT. and it does something to make it look like a star