Equestrian rule had been torn to pieces. There was no law, not anymore. The only city not in the turmoil was Canterlot which had closed its gates to the outside world. A force field was also put up to stop pegasi from getting in. Canterlot was not frozen like everywhere else. Canterlot still had law. Canterlot still had sanity. Basically, Canterlot was heaven right now. How had this come to be though? How had law and order failed and broken apart?
Here is that story. Ten weeks before the "freeze" Celestia and Luna had made a compromise with their nation. The Equestrian ponies were to pay double the taxes in order to support the capital city. Of course nopony liked this. Most hated it in fact. Many began to believe their monarchy was corrupt. Then the Great Equestrian Revolution. At first there were only small protests, but then it got even worse. Officials and aristocrats who hailed from Canterlot were beaten or killed brutally in cities all over Equestria. Luna wanted to send out their army to fight the "savages" but upon receiving word that huge mobs were approaching the city, Celestia made a different order.
The gates to Canterlot were closed immediately and a force field was raised. Celestia knew a revolution like this would surely destroy the capital, so she decided to protect it. The mobs did come, though they couldn't get in. They camped outside the walls for two weeks. Guards were sent out to disperse them from the walls but it never worked. The revolutionaries always outnumbered them. All guards were caught, their horns or wings broken, and then thrown off the near by cliffs in a sort of public execution. Guards were eventually never sent out again.
More mobs joined the ones already outside the walls and soon a crowd the size of a small army lay outside Canterlot. Celestia and Luna both knew and had known for a week now that their power as rulers was gone. They no longer had control over anything outside Canterlot's walls. They know only had a city state under their control and thankfully those who lived in Canterlot were loyal. The sisters decided to wait the giant mob out.
The mob stayed for a few mote weeks. Eventually agreeing that the monarchy was going to do nothing to stop them or let them in, they decided to leave. Before they did though, they all declared their independence in front of the walls. They screamed it at the top of their lungs. Then they all left. The gates remained locked and the force field remained standing. Celestia knew that if either fell, Canterlot would be immediately invaded and destroyed.
Equestrians now had their independence, which turned out fine for a while. City state systems were set up and life continued on.Everypony was happy. Well not everypony but those who rejected the revolution were severely punished, usually by death. The happiness only lasted for a week though. Celestia had a way to punish Equestria for its betrayal to the monarchy. Before she did it though she sent letters to all the elements of harmony, asking them to come to Canterlot immediately. After two days without a reply from anypony, Celestia had to go through with her plan, elements or no elements. She cast a spell that made everywhere outside of Canterlot a frozen wasteland.
Letters were sent to every city explaining what had happened. In them Celestia stated that the snow and ice would be lifted upon surrender to Canterlot. After a discussion was held with all leaders of every city and it was decided they would resist any and all monarchy. The sent notice of this to Canterlot and Celestia only sighed. She knew Hell was about to break loose, but that was a part of them learning a lesson out there. Still, would they ever surrender?
It didn't take long for that Hell to break loose though. One week after the freeze crops died out. Food became something more than money itself. Fights broke out over food and sure enough, lives were soon lost. The leaders of the City states tried many things to calm down their citizens, but soon small revolutions broke out and all the leaders were mauled to death by groups of angry ponies. Mayor Mare was the leader of Ponyville. Her remains were put in a box and placed below a layer of ice in a near by lake
Now civilization completely fell apart. Anypony could do as the pleased as long as the weren't caught by others. If they were, they were usually killed if they were doing something their captives didn't like. Houses became abandoned and most pony folk stayed on the move trying to survive. There was no law out there in that wasteland. Unspeakable crimes were committed and the convicts were never punished.
The name Equestria no longer existed too. The name was too "happy" for the land's current condition. Plus, it reminded most of the cursed monarchy. Many names were constructed for the land but only one stuck. That name was Nevermoore. That name had a history all its own that seemed to compliment the current conditions.
Hooften Nevermoore was once a famous explorer of the world. His most infamous adventure was going to the Arctic region of the planet. Before he left, he forgot one thing. His sanity. When he and his crew arrived in the arctic region he ran the boat into the first iceberg he saw. The boat sank and those who didn't drown froze to death. It was the most unsuccessful, disastrous adventure of Nevermoore's career, which in turn ended in those ice cold waters.
The land of Equestria now reflected his name well. Their leadership had failed them and now they were left to freeze to death. Some ponies even lost their sanity like Hooften. The new name was grim, like the land. It was rather long, like the land. It was eerily cold, like the land. It was the perfect name for the cursed land.
This leads now to six stories. Stories of survival and pain. Stories with gruesome details. Stories belonging to the mane six. None had made the trip to Canterlot in fear of death. Now it was their task to try and tame the dangers of the newly crowned Nevermoore wasteland. Only problem though was that they were completely seperated from each other. The stories that will be told may not be happy, as life in the wasteland isn't so. It's realistic, which means that bad things happen.
Will all six mares survive Nevermoore?