Decades after her ascension, an upsetting revelation brings Twilight to distance herself from her old mentor and dive back into what she knows best: research.
Equestria becomes host to a being who can plunge people into their darkest nightmares with but a touch. He claims to have no ill intentions, yet the ponies are skeptical; how does one do good through fear?
Shortly after his death, Master assassin, Altair emerges into a foreign land inhabited by a different races of ponies. Altair pushes onward to discover his reason for his purpose for his extended life.
Words and actions can sometimes hurt more than we know, sowing betrayal and hatred where friendship and innocence lies. A single thoughtless action can be a tipping point, one fallen domino setting off hundreds. Look back, and answer me.
A human-turned-dragon finds herself in Ponyville... After spending a decade as a globetrotting adventurer. The only problem is that Ponyville is the very last place she wants to be, for a fact as plain as her appearance.
One morning while raising the sun and lowering the moon, the princesses sense a disturbance that leaves them unsettled. On the same day, a traveler arrives in Ponyville.
An emotionally distant Celestia begins to reconnect with her ponies thanks to a young filly called Twilight Sparkle. (A Celestia adopts Twilight story)
Princess Celestia recounts her dealing with her guilt over ignoring Twilight Sparkle's warnings about the royal wedding, and the role she has let her student play in fighting threats to the kingdom.
Thought to have been killed as a filly, Twilight Sparkle is discovered to be returning to Canterlot. Instead of a joyous reunion awaiting her, a trail of destruction follows her as Celestia and Luna struggle to discover how, and why, she's returned.