In a world of friendship, magic, and card games, Twilight Sparkle and all her friends will face off against some the world's most dangerous opponents to decide the fate of the world. The game? Yu-Gi-Oh!

(Dark tag for prejudice and abuse themes in T story)
(Human stays human and is not the lead character)

It is four hundred years before the Unification of the three pony tribes and founding of Equestria. The events that prepared the three tribes began by chance, long before the idea of Harmony was even believed possible.

It is a time when Earth ponies struggle against abuse, exploitation, subjugation, and sometimes even outright slavery.

Unicorns and Pegasi regularly take their food, leaving them struggling to survive each winter. When an Earth pony gains their mark in something of value, they are often stolen away, forced into labor for the rest of their lives. Their treatment by other races is rarely better. Most are worse, if not outright deadly.

Pegasi, with their wings and weather control, can strike anywhere. Unicorns and their spells can lay them low from a distance. Their few free towns and cities never remain so long enough to develop any means with which to fight back. They have ideas, but learning is always stolen or destroyed with each raid. Each generation struggles just to maintain what has been, hoping to find a new way.

Then came the day a village, four years into a new subjugation, found a strange wounded biped known to them only by tale and legend shortly after a Unicorn visit took much of their food yet again one mid-winter. Unwilling to let him die in the cold even with so little to share, they take him in.

With a sign from the gods and the stranger's knowledge, one mare and her village begin to see a chance to finally break the cycle and be free.

Art of the main character, Quiet Grace: https://wilvarin-liadon.deviantart.com/art/Quiet-Grace-702726048

Editing help from: stupidhand14

A side story and ancient history in the same verse as my main story, Protecting Harmony. Timeline of the verse places the events of this story roughly around 4000 years in the past. The specifics of why are complicated in this intricate and expansive verse. Initial expected length was once projected under 50k words. However, considering the sheer volume of stuff I need to do, I have recognized it's not going to be enough. I have a terrible capacity for thinking up more stuff to add to something of this nature on top of it.

Initial inspiration came from listening to this thematic musical score: Chinese battle music - Xian

I had a moment of pondering what made Unicorns and Pegasi see Earth ponies as equals. About what makes the Earth tribe such an equally vital part of the triad and what those qualities are.

This story is the result.

To a certain extent, I am drawing from my understanding of the natural tendencies of humans and other species expressing preferential bias towards those like themselves, be it in family groups or up to the species as a whole. In ancient times, humans were quite brutal towards just rival nations visually identical to themselves. Where things like differences in skin color came into play, I don't think anyone needs to be reminded of how much worse it could get.

Cover image is more a Protecting Harmony verse placeholder. Might be a long time, but I eventually intend to see a post-chapter 1 image of a defiant Quiet Grace on this story. I have a lot of images in this verse to seek out surrounding my main story already.

After being pulled from his nearly nine-hundred year stretch of hell in the dark abyss that is the Twisting Nether to serve the new Lich King, the Archlich Kel'Thuzad was faced with the dilemma of freedom from his bindings to the Scourge. He had been an advisor and (somewhat twisted) friend to the most evil being in Azeroth's history for nearly 15 years. He had butchered and enslaved thousands, spit in and stepped on nature's face with the necromantic horrors that were created aboard Naxxramas, and was a generally annoying raid boss, all while under the cruel tyranny of Azeroth's previous Lich King, Arthas Menethil...
But, when an Equestrian Lich King is appointed by Death himself in exchange for immortality, Kel'Thuzad is in for the surprise of his unlife when he is thrown into a large room, with two comparatively small, sentient equines, who claim to be the reigning Prince and Princess of a kingdom.

My name is Kane Leumai, former Jedi Master, but now a former Sith Lord, also known as Darth Deimos. Trying to experiment with the Dark side of the Force can and will result in the creation of a Sith. I was an apprentice of Lord Sidious while Count Dooku was his current pawn, so technically I was a secret apprentice of sorts, breaking the Rule of Two and making way for irony given Lord Vader and Starkiller.
After Vader was.. indoctrinated, I was cast aside as weak compared to Vader, branding me as a threat to the Empire and using my former Jedi roots as a scapegoat, making me an official part of the Jedi Purge, now I am on the run with a formerly Imprisoned Miraluka Jedi. Hopefully my ship has enough power to make it to that small planet over there...

Takes place between Star Wars Episodes' III & IV and 6 months after MLP: FIM Season 4

Newly married Princess Cadance and Shining Armour return home after their honeymoon happy to be home again and ready to help out around the castle however they can. However, when Cadance discovers a small creature hiding in her room, she has a choice to make. Turn the changeling in to the royal guard or keep it a secret.

Warning: This story is made mostly for Dwaaa'a and will likely hit you in a feel or two.

Winter Aurora is a Lich. She didn't intend on becoming one, but now she can't help it. All she wants in her life is to be accepted by other ponies.

Part 1 of The Winter Memoirs

Note: This story will rapidly fluctuate between extremely sad, and absolutely hilarious, depending on the mood I'm in when I write. In addition, even I have no clue where this story's going, so I may be adding character tags over time.

Now with a prereader! Servo in Chapters 17, 18!
Now with another prereader! Pixel_Spark in Chapter 18!
Now with a group! The Winter Memoirs
Now with a needlessly added extra line!

Amazing art created by Pixel_Spark

I don’t know if I’ve truly died or lost my mind. What is reality, what is sanity? Are they not just a product of society, a unit to be measured? Something that can be judged, evaluated, and constricted by belief, but also something that is limited by our very biology? I’m not really sure, yet I believe myself to be sane, and have decided to embrace my own reality. One born purely from thought, bound by the limitations of my imagination. This… is a tale of ”my” reality, my triumphs, my mistakes, and the sins of a father.

Daring Do. Adventurer, archaeologist, scholar, philanthropist, and all around heroine to the ponies of Equestria. She's faced countless threats and challenges in her years traveling the world, and her efforts have earned her rewards, accolades, and prestige. However, she now finds herself against a new foe, one foul and sinister, so evil and diabolical that even she is powerless to fight against it.

Forced time off.

Banished by her superiors at Canterlot University to the dreary, ho-hum city of Prodigal Point, Daring Do is forced to find a way to cope with deal with her increasing boredom and insatiable curiosity. However, her attempts cause her to stumble upon a mysterious conspiracy, one being carried out by an enigmatic group of ponies with unknown motives. She's soon smack-dab in the middle of the action yet again, and while she's used to such things, she also winds up with a bigger problem that's completely new to her:
motherhood.

Picture by Kyrgyzpopstar.

Okay, so, my life so far has been a little wierd. Somehow, I ended up in Equestria. And I am for some reason a house. But not just any house, THE monster house. Like from the movie? Anyway, after a while, I figure out how to move around, and move the things around me.

However, ponies start noticeing me ( it's not every day a spooky looking house suddenly appears), and I start thinking 'since I'm here, i might as well have a little fun' This will either end really badly or Extremely badly.

I am here. Right behind you when you're not looking. In your dreams when you can't help it. In your thoughts when you finally notice. Always watching. Always stalking. Bringing fear to your heart. Making it spread through your existence. Until fear is all you are. Then you're ready. Then you're mine.

A story about a brony somehow ending up in Equestria... In the Everfree Forest... As Slender Pony.

Rated Teen for Gore.

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