"IT IS THE -- ASTRAL CALENDAR ERROR. FOR MORE THAN SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS THE PRINCE HAS SAT UPON THE GOLDEN THRONE OF EQUUSWEYR. HE IS THE MASTER OF THE EVERFREE PEOPLES BY THE WILL OF HIS SUBJECTS AND MASTER OF EQUUSWEYR BY THE AUTHORITY OF ITS WEYRMIND. HE IS A HIGH TEMPLAR BURNING WITH POWER FROM THE ETERNAL CORE OF EQUUSWEYR. HE IS THE FOAL SOVEREIGN OF THE EVERFREE PRINCEDOM, FOREVER LOST WITHIN LUCID DREAMS FROM WHICH HE CANNOT WAKE, SEEING THINGS FAR BEYOND MORTAL KEN, EVEN AS THOUSANDS OF SOULS PLEDGE FEALTY TO HIM EVERY DAY.
YET EVEN IN HIS DREAMING STATE, THE PRINCE IS FAR FROM HELPLESS AS HE MAINTAINS ETERNAL VIGILANCE, WATCHING OVER HIS PEOPLE THAT THEY MAY NEVER COME TO HARM. GREATEST AMONGST HIS SUBJECTS ARE THE CUSTODES DE TEMPLARI, THE TEMPLAR GUARD, CYBERNETICALLY AND PSIONICALLY ALTERED SUPER-UNICORN SOLDIERS. HIS OTHER SUBJECTS ARE LEGION: THE EVERFREE EARTH PONIES, THE SKY AND TREE PEGASI, THE EVERFREE UNICORNS, AND THE MYSTERIOUS PSEUDO-ALICORNS CALLED THE WEYRTOUCHED, AS WELL AS THE CHANGELINGS OF QUEEN AMALTHEA AND MANY GRIFFONS; NOT TO MENTION EQUUSWEYR ITSELF AND ITS ARMIES OF COUNTLESS MACHINES...
TO BE A PONY IN SUCH TIMES IS TO BE ONE AMONGST THOUSANDS. IT IS TO LIVE IN THE CULTURAL MELTING POT OF THE MOST TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED SOCIETY EVER CONCEIVED. FORGET SUPERSTITION AND FEAR FOR THERE IS THE POWER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. FORGET WAR AND HATRED FOR THERE IS PROGRESS, UNDERSTANDING AND REASON. THE EVERFREE FOREST IS A PLACE OF MYSTERY AND HIGH ADVENTURE, WITH THE EVERFREE PRINCEDOM AT ITS HEART STANDING AS A BASTION OF TRUE HARMONY. IN THE EVERFREE PRINCEDOM THERE IS SANCTUARY. THERE IS AN ETERNITY OF PEACE, KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING, BROKEN ONLY BY THE IRRITANT OF CERTAIN ALICORN MARES..."