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Are you familiar with such a thing as a fatal fault? When you see something and suddenly feel an urge to create — the same something but better. Without said fatal fault that festers the original concept and stops you from fully enjoying it.

Some time ago, my friend SMT5015 came across Equestria Divided, an AU setting of Equestria that had tried to give a more realistic and grimdark view on Equestria as we know it. Everything was nice but… In his opinion, Equestria: Divided in strive to appear more like Warhammer Fantasy failed at two things: by shameless brutalization of the Equestria of modern times we see in the TV series and by exploiting the characters to gain easy attention. The idea to build up something like this was born. Moreover, there as well was Sensko who had also tried to come up with “pony battles setting” idea, only more sensible and distant in time from the idyllic modern Equestria adored by so many people. You can find his rosters of units at Derpibooru, though the tag lacks a lot of relevant art. So what’s next? SMT5015 had a closer look at Sensko's art, an icon of Total War: Warhammer at the desktop and an immense desire to make better.

By the present moment, SMT5015 has detailed a great deal of Three Tribes Universe’s lore; he wrote several stories set in it and drew about five political/national factions for a pre-Equestrian era that predates the world of three pony tribes and the Windigo Crisis. The matter is that he does it in Russian, so I’m going to help him a bit with translation and composition of rosters.

Examples of the art:



Now we’ve worked up a two-part English roster of Hel tribes. Hel is the northernmost part of the Old World where ponies would later migrate from to Equestria, fleeing the oncoming windigoes, but for now it serves as a nest of barbaric invasions and raids to devastate everything that lies south. Hel army consists of savage, survival-hardened sapients like ponies and gryphons, and of more sinister creatures born by the evil goddess of hate and cold.

SMT5015’s DA
SMT5015’s Derpi

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