"How in Equestria did this happened?!"



"Beats me, Dash, but I kind of like it!"



--- Rainbow Dash and A.K. Yearling/Daring Do, now God-Queen Arken-Yer, the Daring.



While exact circumstances remain unclear, it involved an adventure to recover the Crown of Sek-Ra, the Indomitable - the legendary wise, powerful, domineering but fair and beautiful (literal) God-Queen of Hatshetpsutra - racing against her arch-rivals to ensure it would not fall into the wrong hands, which could allow those who could wield it to conquer or destroy the world, the former which the illustrious Sek-Ra once nearly did.



At the climax of the final struggle for the crown, Daring Do was forced to don it in order to access its powers to defeat her foes. What all parties were unaware of was that the Crown, in addition to carrying Sek-Ra's divine power, also carried an imprint of Sek-Ra's vast knowledge, prodigious intelligence, forceful personality, ambitious motivations and domineering drives, which overwhelmed Daring Do's personality.



By the time Daring Do came back to her senses, she had ascended to godhood (with proportions and power to boot), wearing scantly Hatshepsutran Royal clothing, and through diplomacy, strategy, intrigue and sheer military and divine might (further enhanced through various means she recovered, acquired or developed along the way) had directly conquered a majority of the planet (making vassals and tributaries of many remaining), subdued or subordinated most of the gods or godlike beings, and was on the verge of defeating the last remaining resistance in Equestria and several other yet-pacified regions as the head of the New Hatshetpsutran Empire.



While no longer fully under the influence of the crown and the previous God-Queen, Daring Do retained many parts of Sek-Ra's personality and traits owing to the similarities between the two. Because of this, while she would free Equestria and many lands from her dominion, she would keep the rest the planet under her new empire, going into semi-retirement as an adventurer, writer and scholar in order to run it as a (mostly-)benevolent philosopher-autocrat. She would regard her new status as divine and world-hegemon nonchalantly, going as far as to assume her mortal form on non-formal occasions (such as meetings with her ally Rainbow Dash and other friends/colleagues from her time as a mortal), but also willing to milk her new privileges and perks that comes with divine-royalty for convenience and 'fun'.