Starswirl the Bearded has vanished and Clover the Clever believes she knows why. To a worried and distraught Celestia, she recounts the story of how she first met the legendary wizard, and how it was also the very last time that he ever saw her.
Star Swirl the Bearded will eventually be regarded as the greatest of his age, but first he must find the Two Sisters and save the ponies of the Age of Discord!
Twilight Sparkle asks Discord about his past, but Discord dismisses the question, and when Twilight decides to follow him, she finds out unexpected things about his past.
While browsing the Star Swirl the Bearded wing, Twilight Sparkle learns something tragic about the history of Equestria and the meaning of her cutie mark.
The stars can see the future, and they don't like what they see. Princess Luna, accompanied by a young and beardless unicorn named Star Swirl set out to uncover and avert an unknown impending calamity.
Twilight Sparkle traverses the Arctic with Sombra as she tries to learn about the mystery that was Starswirl the Bearded's life. But are these secrets what she thought they would be? And just who was Starswirl anyway? Sombra seems to know, but why?
If Starswirl the Bearded mentored Clover the Clever sometime before the events of "Hearth's Warming Eve" and mentored the Royal Pony Sisters sometime after, where was he during the coming together of the tribes and the founding of Equestria?
My name is Starswirl and I am an earth pony. This book is simply a collection of memoirs about my life. It details my work in theoretical magic, and the events surrounding my rise to fame and fall to exile. This is my life.
As Princess Luna succumbs to her internal struggle, her torn emotions spiraling her down a path of evil, Star Swirl the Bearded desperately works to set things right once more.
The course of time has been changed... and as the war of the sisters begins, will Star Swirl's involvement change things for the better, or has the mage doomed Equestria to an even more terrible fate?