Sometimes, it's weird learning you have a nephew in law. It's also weird learning that he's a changeling, and the son of the ponies who attacked your kingdom. What's a sun princess to do?
You know the story of Nightmare Moon. Or so you think. What many do not know is the story before she was banished, My name is Shadow Moon but everypony over the past thousand years have called me Twilight Sparkle and this is my story.
A dark, dystopian dramatic thriller set in an alternate universe with a divided Equestria, and a tale of redemption for a traumatized young soldier of Queen Luna's army.