Alone Sneak Peek · 12:27am Aug 10th, 2022
So, it seems that Alone will have to be delayed after all. Well, I'm shooting for a release date of the 13th currently. To make up for this delay I figured I'd give you all a little sneak peek of what's to come. Here below is just a small excerpt from the first chapter of the tale, I hope you enjoy it and continue to look forward to the story as a whole when it comes out. Would love to hear so feedback too if you could, thanks!
"The end, it’s inevitable. Many kingdoms and nations have existed before just as many will exist after. All of them thought that they could prevail, that they could win. For a time most do, but in the end they all crumble into dust only to be remembered as nothing more than a small footnote in history if they’re lucky. Most aren’t.
Most are forgotten to time, lost completely to fade into obscurity. In each of those glorious empires there were creatures who never gave credence to the thought of obliteration the time of day. They heard the stories and rumors, the myths and legends of nations long past, yet they never once stopped to think that those kingdoms of old were once like them. They heard stories of their own, tales of the fallen and they never gave them any thought themselves. They gave no thought to how in those tales of kingdoms long gone that creatures just like them went about their lives with no thought that they could ever suffer the horrid fate of being forgotten.
If they thought it possible they’d only think about it for a moment before coming to their senses and reasoning that something that horrid wouldn’t happen to them. That even if their nation fell or their world burned they wouldn’t be around to experience it, they’d be long gone. Few however think how possibly the end could come in their lifetime, they push it off in their heads going on about their lives blissfully; however, absolution doesn’t care about those creature’s wishes. It doesn’t wait and it doesn’t stop.
So, one day there will be creatures who hear about nations of the past. The tale enthralls and captivates them before they go upon their ways off to live their frivolous lives. Then at least a few would stop and ponder the notion that perhaps real creatures lived through the end of their own empires, and with this thought they’d shudder before laughing off the idea. They’d return home and speak of the tale they heard before telling their family of their silly notion that the end would come in their lifetimes. They’d laugh at the thought before continuing on with their days. Then right as they would be settling in for a nice long rest after a hard day they’d see it, the sky lit ablaze by fire.
The fires of the end. The fires of Armageddon. The fires of war. Just like that it dawns on the creature that the end is here, and it waits for no one. As they’d scream, they’d be hit with the horrifying realization that they have become just like those old kingdoms in the stories. That everything they had ever done and ever been would be erased and lost to history. Their lives, family, friends, everything was meaningless. It was nothing more than a barely remembered story that someday itself will be gone. They’d realize that many had come before and said, thought, even breathed the same as them and never thought that they’d experience the end. Yet still there those creatures would lie, screaming in agony as their world burned and flames washed over them. And in the end, they are ultimately forgotten.
However, in almost every tale like that there would be at least one nation, one ruler, one creature who denies fate. They see the end and decide to fight back, they decide to try and persevere to a new beginning. Most times those rulers fail and their empires fall, but every once in a while the rare occurrence happens. A ruler pushes back and wins, and for the time being their kingdom is safe until the next catastrophe that the next ruler has to deal with. Rulers like those are the reason we still have civilization today. Rulers who fought back against fate, rulers who geared up for a war they had no idea they could win, rulers who in the end won.
That is what Sombra strives to be, a ruler who won and a ruler who doesn’t let his empire fall. He can see the end on the horizon, he knows it’s coming. He’s known ever since the day he ousted the previous leadership of the Crystal Empire and replaced it with his own. From that very moment he was on a timer, one ticking down to the day Equestria would find out about his machinations and declare war. A war upon his empire, his ponies, their way of life, their beliefs, and him. He knew the moment he sat down on that crystal throne and took his place as king of the empire that his fate was set in stone.
What the sister rulers of Equestria don’t know however is that he has been waiting and planning for that day for a long time now. Even before he took the empire for his own he knew that war would come, and he made sure to make his own preparations to defy fate and be a ruler who wins. One who pushes back, and one who doesn’t let his empire be forgotten. For now though, the upcoming war is something he need not concern himself with. For not only has it not come upon his empire yet, but he also has something more important to him standing right in front of him..."
I hope you liked that, it's just a small taste of what's to come. So, get ready! 
