"... Contrary to popular belief, Queen Chrysalis is not the ruler of all of Changelingkind; although she herself makes this pretentious claim as part of her long list of titles, she is merely one of the countless



Politically, the Changeling race is currently experiencing a period that could be best described as a "Warring States" era: A unified Changeling nation, a unified polydomous hive known as the Grand Empire of the Changelings, once existed in the past, founded by Rhyniognatha the Conqueror, the first Changeling King, who ruled Changeling from the Throne of Horns from his ruling hive..



However, centuries of corruption and negligence, dynastic power-struggles, crises in the form of famines, natural disasters and increasing monster attacks led to the gradual weakening of the once powerful ruling king/queen and central government and increase autonomy of the Changeling nobility ruling domains in the monarch's name. When the last supreme changeling queen and her royal family were assassinated three centuries ago, the Grand Hive disintegrated and fragmented into hundreds of smaller hives and colonies, as rival Drone Lords and Brood Matrons claimed the title of Kings and Queens and fought for control of the empire, each claiming to be the legitimate ruler of all of Changelingkind.



Changeling lands, once fertile, had been reduced to ruined badlands by three centuries of constant warfare and dark magic, filled with demolished hives, infested with wild beasts and bandits, and strewn the rotting carapace remains of dead Changelings, whether fallen warrior or massacred civilians. The suffering of the Changeling people, however, are generally ignored by the Changeling warlords, each of them vain, ambitious, ruthless and deprave beyond sanity, driven by intense hunger for power over their own subjects and other rivals, that they continue to pursuit with monomaniacal ruthlessness at the expense of everyone else.



The greater Changeling warlords continue to fight and scheme among themselves for supremacy, while lesser warlords, such as the relatively young and ambitious Queen Chrysalis, unable to wrest control of greater warlords' and unwilling to risk conquest by them, often expand outwards to seek and conquer new territories and species to expand their power and bring new harvest of cattle love to the Changeling lands. Many even smaller hives and colonies, desperately trying to escape the fighting and oppression



As of today, no self-proclaimed Changeling King and Queen have yet prevail over all other rivals, and that is not likely to change in the foreseeable future with the current state of affairs in the Changeling badlands. Until a Changeling warlord whose power and cunning rival Rhyniognatha himself, emerges to wipe out all other rivals, the Throne of Horns shall remain empty..."



--- Extract from the Codex Equestria entry of the Changelings, political section.