Blood, hatred, fear and hope. Before Equestria this was all there was in the world. A bloody war between the three pony races is destroying the beautiful realm from the inside, with nopony to stop it... unless a new race interferes.
This a head cannon story, describing the events during heart's warming eve and after. A very detailed view into this ancient world and it's culture and warfare is of course a big part. There will be blood, but I don't know if I consider it real gore, if you know what I mean?
I have tried to make it as 'realistic' and logical as I could, given what we've seen in the show. A lot of what I'm using in this was originally going to become an encyclopedia on the world MLP.
Just so nopony gets the wrong idea. Yes there is an alicorn OC in this, but he isn't the main character (And he will not be OP, we have seen what alicorns can do and frankly besides a few perks, they're hardly god-like). Also Starswirl the bearded is a major character, but I cannot pin a pic of him to the story, since it doesn't exist.
Please say if you have any problems and I'll try to better them.
And don't worry. It's not a Song of ice and fire rip off.
Please enjoy.