Family is everything. Right?

One rainy night in Low Town Canterlot, Final Hour tries to find his runaway brother and bring him home.

The only problem is, his brother doesn't want to be found.

And even Hour himself hopes that he won't find him.

Cover Art by Ruirik. Editing by LoyalLiar, Dusk Watch, and Ruirik.

A Price of Loyalty story.

With the three pony tribes uniting, forming Equestria and its government, it seemed that pony kind was finally able to create a nation strong enough to withstand the the test of time. Yet as the wealthy say: everything has its price.

With the newborn nation’s economic system failling, and its leaders unprepared to pay the price necessary to solve the slump, Equestria was plunged into a massive crisis. As inflation runs unchecked and food shortages threaten the population, the threats of poverty and famine become all the more real. Tempers flare, riots erupt across the nation, soon transforming into full-fledged revolts are crushing Equestria’s once bright promise of peace and prosperity.

With its continued existence in jeopardy, merchants gather in the city of Lubuck, hoping to find a way to save their threatened positions were about to change the face of the nation for centuries to come.

Their solution: a confederation.

In the year 4 A.o.E, Equestria witnessed the birth of the Horseatic League. With the sudden shift of power the leading class of Equestria was faced with a situation none of them were prepared for. A new power forming at the edges of the realm, heralding the dawn of a new era, the weakened crown had to cope with a blow to its prestige. Plots were formed and poisons were brewed as the birth of a nation was washed in a river of blood. Yet the year 4 A.o.E was to be remembered as the birth date of the Horseatic League, a league, that was destined to change the face of the world. After all, steel may win battles, but Gold Wins Wars.

Soundtrack is completely optional.

Side Story to “A Song of Storms: Summer Lands”
Co-written by Spike the Scribe
Proof-readed by LoyalLiar, 24th Pegasus, and Ruirik
Cover-Art by Ruirik

Limited Liability is a changeling with a very routine life. He works at a bank. He lives with a marefriend. He goes through every day making sure he isn't discovered.

At least, that is, until the day that the hive has planned to invade Canterlot. On that day, his love runs out, and his disguise fails. Trapped in public with a chitinous body for all of Equestria to see, Liability has to find a way not only to survive, but to avoid ruining an invasion years in the making. Along the way, he learns a very interesting lesson about the ponies around him.

Written for the Equestria Daily "Outside Insight" contest.

Cover Art by Ruirik.

How far will you go to save your family? Your friends? Your empire? Twenty years before the events of the Hearth's Warming Eve story, long before the pegasi had even met the other two races, Commander Hurricane was a simple farmer in the great Cirran Empire. When the neighboring griffon nation declares war on Cirra and everything it stands for, the young Hurricane finds himself thrown into the middle of a conflict with the fate of his very race put into question. Will he rise to be the pegasus Cirra needs him to be, or will the mighty empire fall to the claws of the griffons?

Officially part of "The Price of Loyalty" storyverse, in collaboration with LoyalLiar.

Now with a side story! Come check out my friend Ruirik's Wind and Stone and follow along with the journey of another legionnaire who struggled through the Red Cloud War at the same time as Hurricane. (*contains references to events in the sequel to OSLF, Snow and Shadows, so be wary*)

Cover art by Ruirik