Equestria has been blessed by years of peace, it's citizens live happily through their days safe from fear, turmoil and strife. Yet in the shadow world of secrets, lies and politics something is happening; something terrible...

Up in the North a dark cult is gathering strength, down in the South a civil-war between diamond dog counts threatens to spill over into Equestria and to the East, The Griffon Empire becomes more bold and audacious with every passing day.

Remember my friend; Darkness is on the rise, and it's going to take more than harmony to defeat it...

So this is my first attempt at a pony fic so it probably is pretty terrible. My biggest fear is that it isn't 'pony' enough but we'll see. I'm very happy for C&C so please let loose with all you've got - this is an exercise in writing after all!

I'm sorry to say that in this story things will die, things will bleed and things will explode (in some cases twice) and that the story is also predominantly written for OC's; so this isn't the fic for you if you dislike those things. There's a bit of comedy and a bit of darkness in there as well along with some terrible poetry.

So I hope you enjoy and please give me feedback.. especially on names... I'm really bad at thinking up names for some reason...