Far from Canterlot and forced to work in gem mines for cruel Diamond Dogs, a young unicorn named Bone Marrow's pursuit of his cutiemark reveals a unique talent: raising the dead.
Meet Tombstone. He's a lich and wants nothing more than to destroy Equestria. Then he meets certain Princess of Friendship. Can a pony that's held a grudge against his own kind for a thousand years possibly change his ways? Celestia doesn't think so.
Dark magic is a powerful and banned art believed to be long forgotten. Unbeknownst to the common Equestrian citizen, that art is very much alive and practiced in secret by less harmonious individuals.
Given the successful befriending of Discord, Princess Celestia deems that no longer will villains be defeated but instead reformed. Brought back from the dead and stripped of his powers, Sombra only wishes he could have stayed dead all along.
Willow, a young doctor in the making, decides to do anything he can to save his mother. Though his plans fall apart. His brother disowns him for his actions, and Willow is quick to leave the only home he's known. His best friend, Amber, follows
Blue Bones, prince of Whitehorse, the biggest city in all the Frozen North, is secretly a necromancer. When his father, King White Hoof, discovers this Blue Bones is exiled to a far away land. Baltimare. The thriving port city.