Long before the rise of Equestria and the Elements of Harmony, a feral world was the law of the land. As the ancient ponies struggled day after day to survive a world of powerful predators, a different evolution was beginning far beneath the surface. Beginning with an accident involving a feeding, nine feral changelings begin the long trek toward true sentience. Facing resistance from their own kind as well as the various lifeforms of the surface, the nine of them will have to cast off the shackles of their old life and learn to adapt to a new world and to themselves as they become more than they ever thought they could be.
However, in a dangerous world such as the one they face is it possible for a hooffull of changelings to survive the trials that it will take to become royal?
So... Will the events of From Where and Back Again play some form of role in this story?
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I can't say that I'm familiar with From Where and Back Again, so if there are similarities, they are coincidental. This is more of a personal idea that I've been toying with for a while now and decided to start working on it.
Unless I'm misunderstanding and you're referring to the episode in canon "To Where and Back Again," in which case, this particular section of the Council of Crowns is a prequel to modern Equestria by 4000 years. I've already planned this out to being at least a 4 book series leading from the events of this story through the Wendigos freezing the pre-Equestria lands and possibly/most likely into and through modern Equestria.