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// Prologue 
// Story: Reaper Tales 
// by aapur 
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Confidential Files – Clearance level 12 needed to read.

A short report on Reapers
A thousand years ago was Nightmare Moon banished to the moon. This didn’t mean she would be gone for good, and her presence was still strong through the cults. Because they were gathering power to summon her back, Celestia had no choice, so she looked to the only pony who could help. Death. The guardian of the soul stream. They made a deal. He would take the strongest souls that passed and offer them a new life if they would serve as his tools to stop the cults.
These were known as reapers. If they accepted, were their past life erased and they would gain new powers, and the ability to become an alicorn. But their powers were limited to a set of spells and a single weapon, and they were not allowed to show their reaper form to anypony, unless there was no other choice. This was because their non-reaper form had a spell that caused other ponies to forget them entirely, but if they saw the reaper form would this spell be broken for the one who saw them.
The first reapers were four. They were Blood Fangs, Eclipse, Daggerheart and Golden Sword. For many years were they hunting the cults down and destroying them, at all cost, and when the final attack was done did they think it was over. 
But it wasn’t. There will always be darkness luring in the shadows. Evil things that want to destroy the very existence of Equestria. And as long as these exists will the reapers be there. The shadow organization that was at its peak a hundred years ago. Why they almost vanished is yet unknown, but a few reapers still walk, following the rules they have. These are the protectors of our world. Of our entire existence.

Ps. A report on what happened should be coming in soon. I got an interview with Reaper Team who had a major role in the biggest events. Their story will be added to this archive as it comes.

Crimson Quill – Univeristy of Canterlot