Many have opposed Celestia and all of them have fallen, one way or another. Some she has slain. Others she redeemed. Her servants and friends have done great deeds in her name and her fame has spread throughout all of creation. She is the Sun in all of its glory.

And yet she finds that she cannot get a single child to believe she is even real.

Part of the Monophysite Quartet.
Ageless, Or Celestia Plays Dice With the Universe, Have You Considered My Servant, Twilight?, and The Esoteric Rites of Darkness (NSFW), all coming from a single story idea called "Monophysite" and exploring some perception/idea/theory about who or what Celestia is and how that effects her friends and loved ones.

My name is Midnight Aria, and I was never supposed to be here.

I joined the Rangers for adventure. I wanted to drive timberwolves away from frontier villages and soar over uncharted forests. I wanted to rescue little lost foals in snowdrifts and be a hero. I didn't want to be a guard or a soldier.

And now I'm chest deep in a war and I know for absolute certain that we are all going to die.

Art by the talented Backlash91

Rarity will not sacrifice anymore. Rainbow will never love again. Twilight renounces the things she has learned. Pinkie takes a vow of silence. Applejack casts off the shackles of trust. Fluttershy comes that ponies may learn Death. Steamships fly over a sad Equestria, and the earth cries out for Harmony.

Sweetie Belle asks questions about time.

Lyra and Bon Bon have a fight.

Evil is a circle. A pony is hurt and in turn hurts another. It self-perpetuates, misery on top of misery, geometric, exponential. Lyra considers this.

The Papers of one Lily, full name unknown, found by one Babs Seed of Manehattan. Found in the ruins of the Rockehoof Hotel on the last day of the Griffon Occupation of the city, an eyewitness account of the sorrows of the Long Night after Celestia left Equestria and went West. Held together with rubberbands and a few paperclips. Written on a variety of different kinds of paper. The back is bare except for splotches of blood and candlewax. The front bears the message:

I have only one song and I sang it for you.

A Sidestory to The Night is Passing , also found on Equestria Daily.

Twilight and Applejack are engaged. Life seems wonderful... yet Applejack doubts. Twilight seems happy, but she's so busy everywhere but Sweet Apple Acres. Two ponies are stuck in their own worlds, or at least that's how it seems to Applejack. When Twilight is called away from the harvest for an important political summit in Canterlot, Applejack decides in her loneliness that the only way to bridge the gap she fears is forming is to head off into a world of magic and intrigue after her favorite unicorn. She will place herself as a seal on Twilight's heart, come hell or high water.

Sometimes, heartache is a place, and you can leave it. But more often than not, it is both point and line, and though you leave injury behind you... you perhaps never truly are free. It lingers. Rainbow Dash learns this the hard way when Spitfire gives her free tickets to a Wonderbolts show in Cloudsdale as she's recovering from a terrible injury.

Who is that coming up from the wilderness,
leaning on her beloved?

Rarity is not whole. Her adventures have finally caught up to her, and after a daring rescue of her beloved Rainbow Dash, she finds herself at least temporarily crippled. Her doctors are baffled--raw magic poisoning of the magnitude she sustained is not exactly commonplace. But Rainbow is there for her, watching, worried, and hopeful. A Lady endures all things, after all, and Rarity is the epitome of a lady.

Sequel to Where the Sun is Silent, Catch For Us the Little Foxes, and Great Heart Will Not Be Denied. Knowledge of these is helpful, but not exactly required. The story is less about the continuity and more about Rarity and Dash.

A lot has happened to Rarity in the last few years. Engagement, new business, adventure, losing a limb. But with the last, she is done with adventure and with danger, or at least, done seeking it out. For Rarity, nothing seems safe anymore, and so when Rainbow has to help with a huge freak storm, Rarity is left alone in the dark.

The dark which she has learned to fear for wholly justified reasons.

The Zebrahara is the most inhospitable place on earth. Yet even here, life holds on and invades. In a small Zebra village, a shaman dances a terrible ritualistic dance that unleashes a tide of death so strong that it pulls in Equestria and it's brave and loving ponies. As Celestia sends the Royal Army to assist the bewildered Zebra King, she and her loyal soldiers witness first hand the true face of madness. These are stories of the Mad God King D'Jalin and the Dance of Blood.

(Oneshots, updated every now and then, all connected but not in sequence per-se. I hope you enjoy these. Zecora picture relevant. Character tags added as characters appear. May or may not be as rad as the other stuff I write. Have fun!)

To Prevent All Other Breaking-- Bic Macintosh writes a distraught letter home from the front in the final days of the War.