<> A city and its dependent villages and towns located Northwest of the Western Dusts. It was a cloistered wizard-city founded around the tower of [[Bluestar]] the Brilliant a few decades after the catastrophe, but the cloister fell hundreds of years ago. New Canterlot was spared the worst of the [[Dark Age]] by its cloister and, later, its geographical isolation; it is cut off from easy contact with the Dusts by extensive growth of the [[Crystal Forest]]. Although occasionally visited by travelers and traders, New Canterlot is generally isolationist and self-sufficient. Knowledge of it is scanty in the Dusts. It is said to be ruled by a pegacorn called [[Meridian|Queen Meridian]]. Its most remarkable feature is rumored to be an actual lake, which could be fed by a spring, or possibly created by powerful magic. New Canterlot has an astronomical observatory and a temple of the [[religion|Old Religion]], the Temple of the Undying Sun. Besides students from New Equestria, its seminary also attracts particularly determined ponies seeking a traditional religious education from elsewhere on the Isle of Yore. Clerics trained there are found throughout the island. New Canterlot considers itself the capital of the Kingdom of [[New Equestria]]. Its de facto level of control over its dependent settlements only approaches that which would fully justify this claim. Its territory is divided into civil parishes. {{attachment:newcanterlotvicinity.png}} {{attachment:ncroad.png}}