This story is a sequel to The Symphony of Dawn

Clover the Clever is dead. Or at least she should be. The black void she had expected just didn't seem to come. Although, an unexpected opportunity for redemption did.

Now she is given an offer and a challenge unlike any other: confront the gods, her past, and the future she never counted on having.

This also acts as a side story to Divine Move. Contribute to the TVTropes page!
Improved greatly because of the feedback from PaulAsaran.

This story is a sequel to The Crown of Night

Now available in print from Lulu.com! Hardcover - Paperback.

(New readers, unsure where to start? The Education of Clover the Clever is best.)

Clover Cordelia is a freshmare student at the Cambridle Academy of Magic who is determined to become a great sorceress.

Star Swirl the Bearded is a legendary wizard in need of an apprentice.

It's a tough job, working for the world's greatest wizard. On top of the usual challenges of student life there are apocalypses to deal with, and assassins who show up at inconvenient times, and plant life scheming for world conquest.

It's probably nothing Star Swirl can't take care of, provided he and Clover manage to resist killing each other first.

Previously updated alongside its prequel, The Crown of Night. It is not necessary to read The Crown of Night first.

Featured on Equestria Daily!
Featured on the Royal Guard!

Cover art by iisaw.

"Characterization is the name of the game here, and this story's take on Star Swirl is one of the most enigmatic and intriguing I've seen. His eccentricity is offset perfectly by his straight mare, Clover the Clever, and the interactions between them are a joy to behold."
-Prak, PR for the Royal Guard.

Rated "Why Haven't You Read These Yet?" by PaulAsaran.

Weird praise for The Education of Clover the Clever from the comments:

"........The sadist in me is grinning while the student is screaming it's little lungs out "
-Smirkythread.

"I can't tell if he's insane or not. And it's glorious."
-FancyFan.

"I am unsure if this is merely silly and deranged or subtly brilliant."
-SIGAWESOME.

"Ok, so I like this story. I actually like it quite a bit. I have no clue why though. Not a single clue.
I haven't a clue what you're doing right, but keep doing it. You're awesome."
-Vibrato con Amore.

Long ago, before the present Equestria existed, an isolated young kingdom known as the United Triarchy of Equestria was ruling with the land with newfound friendship. While it was far from a utopia, it was the best nation that the world had seen in a long, long time.

Meanwhile in the city of Canterlote, Clover the Clever breaks every element of her life in one simple move: she takes a walk after her bedtime. Now, she is lost and only wants to return home.

Due to the revisions and re-posts of the original two (now one) chapters, all comments remaining are from the older version are not relevant to the story, but will spoil it. Contribute to the TVTropes page! The current version is Highly Recommended by PresentPerfect! Read the spoiler-filled review of the old version from PaulAsaran you can check out here. His feedback helped create the new version.

(New readers, unsure where to start? The Education of Clover the Clever is best.)

The stars can see the future, and they don't like what they see.
Beset by signs of a great evil approaching on the horizon, Princess Luna and a young unicorn who speaks to the stars set out to uncover and prevent an unknown disaster.

Star Swirl the Bearded: the greatest wizard nopony has ever heard of. Why is that? What did he do? Why do so few now remember that he existed at all, and why do those who do remember him say he was one of the most important unicorns of all time?
A mythical retelling of Equestrian history.

23.02.2014 Featured on Equestria Daily!
Prequel to a more popular and completed sequel, The Education of Clover the Clever. Feel free to read either one first.

Cover art by VSabbath, used with permission.

With her war proposal denied, Chancellor Puddinghead decides to grab her secretary and go searching for a new land.

When Princess Twilight convinced Starlight Glimmer to travel back in time with her to visit her idol, Starswirl the Bearded, neither could have expected the surprising turn that events were to take - or how hard it would be to reveal the truth.

NOTE: this takes place during season 5 BUT the Friendship Castle, Starlight Glimmer and Rainbow Power does not exist.

"There's a storm approaching…just like last time."

All they wanted was to find the ruins of a lost empire, but find out more than they barged in for…

Cover art by: yogurtyard.deviantart.com/art/Waiting-for-the-storm-305549186
Link connecty thingy isn't working so just take the link itself T_T

As the Pre-Equestrian Era approaches its end, a new society surfaces. Corruption prowls the land and the encroaching Gryphon army seeks to lay waste to the three pony tribes. However, a much more dangerous threat is dwelling within, a threat that could destroy everything that ever existed and will exist.

Two millennia into the future, Equestria is entering a new, prosperous age. When the researchers of the Canterlot research branch initiates a project that will allow ponies to peer into history, a secret sealed since before the Hearth Warming is unveiled. An experiment with recreating tangible virtue history goes wrong, possibly changing the very history of Equestria... for better or worse.

ON HIATUS INDEFINITELY
Beware of spoilers in the comments section. Artist is here though the image source can no longer be found (removed from deviantart).

In ages past, just after the defeat of Discord, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and Commander Hurricane thwarted an invasion of Infernal beings from Tartarus bent on capturing Equestria's magic and enslaving her people. The cost of victory was high, though, and while Celestia has persevered through countless crises since then, the losses on that Infernal battlefield haunt her to this day.

But Paul Harken, a modern-day student of the occult from Earth, will soon give Celestia a chance at the salvation she so desperately desires, even as Equestrian history threatens to repeat itself. While attempting to summon the demon who ruined his life, an error in the ritual instead delivers Twilight Sparkle into Harken's summoning circle. At first confused and then concerned, the pair finds themselves on the run, pursued by a secret order of demon-hunters, and their desperate attempt to return Twilight to Equestria only plays into the hands of a far older and more sinister foe.

Now with editing goodness provided by the insightful and observant Fana Farouche!

Cover art by the insanely talented SilFoe and used with permission -- check out her gallery, she's awesome!

[Gore] for battlefield scenes and rare appropriate moments, not overwhelming or gratuitous bloodshed.
[Sex] for innuendo, references and a bit of tension. Nothing more graphic than PG or so.
There's no [Tragedy] tag, but this is going to be a bumpy ride, and you can count on bad things happening to good people/ponies before it's all over.

Even chaos had to spawn from somewhere.

Preread by RTStephens.