Whistling Wren is captain of the Hemera, a modest trading vessel operating in the Celestial Sea. With trade having reopened with the Griffon kingdom, there is high demand for brash young captains like her to brave the seas in search of fortune.

However the weather of the Celestial Sea remains outside the control of Equestrians. All it takes is a few rash decisions to leave Wren and her crew struggling for survival as winter closes in around them.

Preread by a friend. Covert art by Tiki Bat

In this version of Equestria, the vibrant and whimsical landscape now mirrors the vices and challenges of human kind. Ponies, pegasi, and unicorns struggle with issues of power, greed, and social inequality.

When a chapter of the Sisters Sororitas, a resilient order of warrior-nuns are pulled into Equestrias underground hollows, they find themselves facing a dire confrontation with the subterranean dwellers. These skilled warriors engage in a fierce battle against them to defend themselves and seek a way to escape.

Anonymous finds himself in Equestria, ready to attend Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. He didn’t quite study for the entrance exam, but using the Magic of Friendship™ has never steered anypony wrong before!

Unfortunately, he’s using that kind of magic almost a decade too early. Whoops. Worse, admission was only open to young fillies and colts. Guess which one Anon is stuck as.

In the heart of Equestria, shadows gather and secrets lie buried. A young alicorn named Nyx carries the weight of a dark past, while a relentless adversary seeks revenge that could shatter her resolve. As a deadly game of intentions unfolds, alliances will be tested, and the boundaries of morality blurred. Unveil the enigmatic journey where loyalties waver and a sinister peril looms, threatening to unleash chaos upon an unsuspecting land. 'Black Feather' is a tale of mystery, vengeance, and the choices that define heroes and villains.

Special thanks to Pen Stroke for writing Past Sins and inspiring this story.
Thanks also go to my friends, colleagues, and editors over the years, who helped make this project what it is.
DuvetofReason for helping shape the vision of the universe
Pawz for support and consistency help
BernardDK for inspiration and artwork
OrionWolf for detail coaching in 2016-2018
OnlyaNorthernSong for help with Nyx's characterization way back in 2015-2016
TundraStanza for proofreading
A host of others for a myriad of contributions ranging from painful to awesome but all shaped the story.

Mary Trottings is a unicorn foal living in Bridlewood. She has a dark green coat, an orangish-red mane and tail, done into pigtails, and slightly lighter shaded orange eyes with no cutie mark. She's a bit of an introvert and much prefers to be alone and by herself. She also hangs out at an abandoned house after school sometimes and today was just one such day in the fall, as the leaves rustled on the forest floor and there was nothing else to do in town... But she didn't expect to meet another pony there...

Another story presenting a "What if?" scenario.

The changeling invasion has been repelled by Princess Cadance and Captain Shining Armor's shield spell. Every changeling that attacked Canterlot has been blasted out of the city...

...except for one.

Special Thanks to TheOwtcast for proofreading this story. Please check out their work if you haven't already.

Made the Popular list 8/1/2023!
Featured 8/1/2023!

Edit 8/1/2023 - Forgot to include the AU tag

John is a RAF pilot, he and a Luftwaffe Pilot, Wolf, crash-land in Ponyville, Equestria nearby a cottage after a intense dogfight over the Cliffs of Dover, they have to put their differences aside in order to return to their world with the help of the Mane 6, but will they overcome their war fueled hate for each other, and stop the war from spilling out onto Equestrian soil?

The age of chaos has come to an end. The Avatar of Chaos, Discord, has been defeated by the valiant actions of the newly-minted alicorn sisters. Their courageous victory has earned them the adoration of their hometown of Evergreen, and they now seek to unite all of ponykind under their banner.

In the disconnected world left in the wake of Discord's reign however, theirs is not the only story to be told. Not all of them even start in their world, for that matter.

Geralt is a unassuming man living a comfortable but mundane existence. While not dissatisfied with his own life, he has always dreamed of what it would be like to make more of himself. To be able to live a life of adventure and glory, to steer the wheels of history.

Fate has smiled upon on him and granted him the opportunity to do so when he is swept away by a chaotic winter storm across worlds, finding himself in a new feathery body. He soon finds himself taking the first steps and rising above anywhere he thought he could reach as he defends his new home, and begins to build a shining beacon of prosperity that will resound throughout the ages.

But victory comes only to the prepared, and the road to his dreams will be long and hard. It is world filled with all manner of mysteries, monsters, and rivalries. A world where a land is kept safe by the armies that it fields. And so Geralt will resolve to stand tall, to defend his lands and his people, and to see his banner flying forevermore.

I was always different. A failing body and a mind that always felt incompatible. And with my body failing me, I died. Only, I didn't die. Instead, I returned home as the prophecy had foretold a thousand years ago. Where my mind matched my body, and my body matched my mind. But arriving in this new world set into motion an ancient conflict, one which I would be thrown head first into where I would learn who I truly was meant to be.

Please let me know what you think in the comments! Any criticism is greatly appreciated.

Just about everypony in Equestria had heard the story. Every now and again, and always at around midnight, a phone call would be placed from the Greenhill Resort, a closed down resort between Ponyville and Canterlot, to the Ponyville Ambulance Company, a company based in a run-down, barely functioning garage that houses two ancient ambulances to arrange a pickup of a "patient(?)" (identity unknown) from there, and take them to the Old Hollow Hospital, a decommissioned hospital outside of Canterlot. Nopony knew why these runs were needed, where these supposed "patients" were coming from, who they even were, why they were at a closed down resort, why they were being taken to a decommissioned hospital, and who was making these calls at all. Some had asked those at the Ponyville Ambulance Company what was going on, but none of the 3 employees there said anything. Most thought it was because they were tight-lipped, but in reality, even they didn't know what was going on, but they knew that something shady was afoot. This is the story of one of the fabled "Midnight Runs", and the mystery surrounding it, told from the perspective of one of the ambulance drivers

(Story contains no direct horror elements, but is still a bit spooky, and surrounded by mystery. Rated "T" for these elements)