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// Prologue: Seed of Truth 
// Story: The Powers That Be 
// by Cold Cuts the batpony 
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Much that once was, is lost, for few now live, who remember it, though they too, would find it difficult to recall.

It began, long before the formation of Equestria, before the world was brought to balance.  In a time when the two sides of light and dark, were as plain as two sides of a coin.

The four great alicorn rulers, immortal and immutable, allied themselves with light and dark respectively, and warred bitterly. Two sisters took the side of light, and two brothers dwelt in darkness.  Fighting raged endlessly, and it seemed as though the darkness would overtake the light, and the whole world fade to black.

Until one day, the darkness receded, quite without explanation or cause. Light spread across the surface of the land and peace reigned, for a time beyond measure.  To the common ponyfolk, it seemed that light had won, and the brothers of dark were forgotten, discarded to myth and legend. But all legends have a seed of truth. And it is in this seed of truth, our story begins.