Equestria was once a land of wonder where magic could do things beyond ponies wildest dreams and the Gods walked among mortals, It was an age of power, magic, and balance, it was the Era of Immortals
Then an event that became known as The Shattered Aeon happened and the world was never the same. What The Shattered Aeon was scholars have debated for centuries as records of this time and before are few and far between and they paint contradicting stories. All that is known is that when it was over the Gods had left the Material Plane to reside in their own divine realms never to return.
Survivors of the The Shattered Aeon were left to pick up the pieces and rebuild carving out their own kingdoms in what used to be the nation of Equestria.
It became known as The Fractured Era.
Twilight Sparkle was born to a poor family in one of these nations known as The Thronecrest Dominion and left home as a teenager to earn money for her family putting her magic and intelligence to work as a soldier for hire.
Now though Twilight is a wanted mare in the Silverspire Republic after being framed for the assassination of an Ambassador by a client, Twilight has to stay one step ahead of the authorities, bounty hunters and assassins sent by her client as a loose end that needs to be tied.
As two nations are on the brink of war Twilight Sparkle must rely on rival mercenaries as the only people she can trust, as she has to fight to stay alive by pulling back The Shadow Veil that hides the crimes of her ambitious former client.
Greeting everyone and welcome to my first real attempt a fully original AU world for MLP and I hope you all enjoy what I hope will just be the first book in a new series I am calling The Chronicles of The Fractured Era
Anyways brief bit about how this came to be as i was inspired to write this by a mix of The Sword Coast by AdrianVesper
Some art by IRUSU
And a Reply to that art by a user named Blue Spector who I can't link to do to their Twitter account being NSFW
A bit of Pathfinder
These four things came together to inspire this and I thank all Four of them for the Inspiration.
Cover art is by Audrarius
Anyways Ill let you all get to reading.