With our little game interrupted, Twilight quickly got to the point of why she had called me to her castle.
“The first reason as to why I asked you to come here today, is in order to schedule a time to reveal you to the populace. Now, I’m going to reveal you to Ponyville within the next week, but I’m going to leave the larger scale reveal to the Princesses once you’ve been introduced to Ponyville.” Twilight explained, I nodded slowly.
I knew I would have to be introduced back to the populace if I was to go back to being the protector of Equus, and that along with that, my return would have to be revealed to Celestia and Luna.
“The second reason, is for some insight. Now, I know that you know about these Fallen beings, .” She continued, again, I nodded. Information about our possible future foes would be a good thing to tell Twilight and the girls.
“The Fallen are a race of nomadic scavengers, little more than pirates. However, there are semblances of ancient nobility, such as a caste system and their king-like Kells.
The Fallen are broken into six houses, each with their own Kells. The House of Devils, The House of Exile, The House of Winter, The House of Kings, The House of Wolves and the House of Judgment. Each are just as dangerous as the rest, but there are some I know more about than others, for example, the House of Kings are more secretive than their brethren, preferring to not reveal themselves unless absolutely necessary.” I explained, scribbling detailed pictures of Vandals, Dregs, Servitors and other Fallen troops and machines on a large blackboard that Pinkie spontaneously pulled out of a nearby cupboard, claiming that she had stashed it there in case of ‘exposition emergencies.’
“Although, for them to come to Equus would require something big, and THAT is what I’m afraid of, because of a foe that I faced before I was sealed in stone. A Technological Terror known as the Vex.” I stated, a grim look on my face as I started to draw the various Vex troops upon the blackboard.
“They are a mostly self-aware race of machines with limited control over time and space, able to appear out of seemingly nowhere. They are incredibly dangerous, especially those in a place known as the Vault of Glass; Their own domain. Not much is known about the Vault.” I said, finishing the drawings of the cyclopean mechanical monstrosities.
“Are these ‘Vex’ the Beings of Darkness that Princess Celestia told me about in the stories about you?” Twilight asked, examining the drawings and flawlessly copying them down onto paper.
“Yeah, let’s just be glad that they disappeared along with me” I said, nodding. I put the chalk Pinkie supplied me back in their container and placed it on the rail thingy on the blackboard that you keep the chalk on. (I never bothered learning if it had a proper name or not)
“So when are we gonna introduce him to Ponyville?” Rainbow asked, playing around with one of the little Bookasai that stuck around after our little Book War.
“Either today or tomorrow, whenever suits him I guess” Twilight replied, shrugging her withers slightly. I grinned under the helmet that I still wore. (It was habit to keep it on, I felt vulnerable without it)
“Today works fine, I gotta come out of hiding anyway if I’m gonna protect everypony” I said.