Solace, the King and ruler of Equestria, had lived peacefully with his brother Discord, and his two young fillies Celestia and Luna. However, after a war was declared by the dragons, Equestria became a ravaged battlefield, and Canterlot was Ground Zero. Fighting a losing battle at Discord's castle in the Everfree forest, King Solace had left his two fillies with his brother to save the ponies he was sworn to protect. Through a forbidden spell to annihilate the dragons, the original ruler of Equestria had not instead found himself dead, but now in the present.

Now Solace must fit in with the new residents of Ponyville and Canterlot, all while at an attempt to see his two young fillies grown up, and to stop his brother, who sold his soul as an alicorn to become a monster, bent on taking his rightful place on the throne.