Twilight Sparkle is trapped in the body of a human who in turn, has taken her own and disappeared with it. Nopony believes her: not her brother, friends, nor mentor. She is being interrogated and asked a single question: Where is Twilight Sparkle? When she tells them that she is the one they seek, torture follows. Twilight begins to lose hope and weighs the question: What's the point of going on when even the world bets against you?

The year is 1032 After Celestia; nearly 200 years since the exile of the Nordic ponies from Equestria to their homeland of the Nordic Isles, a set of islands off the north-western coast of Equestria. It was the Nordics that led a civil war that spanned for 30 years against Princess Celestia and her regime, leaving Equestria in ruins and millions to bleed. As punishment for their treason, the Edict of Harmony was signed. The Edict stated that the entire Nordic race was to be exiled and secluded to their fatherland for 500 years, also giving permission for the Equestrian Navy to blockade these islands to limit trade and to cage all the Nordic ponies from leaving.

The Jarl (Governor in Nordic) and the ruler of Caroland, one of the two nations that reign on the Nordic Isles, has fallen into fatal sickness. His eldest son, Heinrich Montelius, is expected to claim the throne, and with that his radical ideals. He speaks out against the Edict of Harmony and Princess Celestia, and will do whatever deems necessary to see the Edict repealed and Celestia overthrown. As a result, he has gained popularity among both the nation's military and the poor, who of which make up the majority of the Carolean population. Some of Heinrich's followers even call him their King; a title that has been considered blasphemy since the assassination of their last King over a thousand years ago.

Prince Dietrich Montelius, a renown Nordic historian and the younger brother to Heinrich, grows weary of his brother's intentions and his unnerving hatred of Equestria and all non-Nordic creatures. In Dietrich's fears of the repetition of history, he will have no choice but to embark on an illegal voyage to Equestria in hopes that Princess Celestia will listen to his plea of warning of an uncertain future...

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Current cover is the most relevant cover I found so far by hussii on DA

Discord, Spirit of Disharmony, God of Chaos & Entropy and a nice addition to the Royal Sculpture Garden. Swift Thought, former student of the Royal University, first and only democratical theorist in the history of Equestria, now Canterlot's foremost hobo. When the latter decides to take an illegal midnight stroll through the Royal Sculpture Garden, he finds out that not all the statues are just silent chunks of marble, as the frozen form of the Spirit of Chaos offers him a deal: he will take a hitch on Swift Thought's mind, lend him a bit of his powers, and together they will make an incredible journey around Equestria, to ask the old gods of ponykind, now lying forgotten and forced to live among the mortals help to beat Celestia and Luna and finally, after three thousand years of monarchy, transform Equestria in a democratic nation.

Whether they like it or not.