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Princess Amore has been murdered by the soon to be King Sombra. He faces off against the elite crystal guard as his wife Radiant Hope watches in horror.

Her mind is racing with where it all went wrong and what she could have done to stop this before another thought worms its way into her mind.

A thought that leads her down memory lane and perhaps... a different path.


Edited by... no one as of yet.

Cover art - A cropped version of a piece by Polina_Graff on FA goes by LeonErdman on deviant art. Check them out, their stuff is absolutely gorgeous.

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Story Inspired by: My Little Pony: Friendship is magic #36
You don't have to read the comic to know what's going on, you just have to know who Sombra is. And also know that Radiant Hope is not an OC. She's an actual pony in an official comic.

The gore isn't that bad.

King Sombra frees his people (er...pony-kind?), turns all his enemies into relics, and embraces his title...

King of All Monsters.

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Set before the Crystal Empire episodes, Equestria is in a state of chaos. When the Mane 6 find a small portal deep within the Everfree Forest, Celestia decides to go in herself, bringing her loyal phoenix Philomena with her. There, she is transported back to the past and the Crystal Empire, finding someone she'd only heard about in legends to help.

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Princess Cadence lives the life many dream to live as the princess of the Crystal Empire. After growing up in the Crystal Castle alone she dreams of her prince charming to come and be her new king. Her expectations are tossed aside when she meets her betrothed, the umbrum prince, Sombra.

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This story is a sequel to Are. You. SERIOUS?!?!?!


After the fiasco with Discord, Chance is once again reunited with his old friends, Celestia and Luna. Reconnecting with them was all well and good, however it is during his visit with the royal sisters where Chance is forced to come to grips with the harsh and bitter truth of the things that have come to pass since his slumber.

Tagged as AU because [REDACTED]. Nahh, just kidding. Because character death.

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Equestria's history has been altered. Changed and evolved into a complex web of lies and deceit. The truth, over a period of a thousand years, has become buried so deep that no pony can ever recover it. The Princesses themselves remain ignorant and blind to much of the darkness their parents allowed to fester. The tales contained in this volume tell the whole truth, no matter how dark and grim. Only through reading this tome, will the truth be revealed. I pray that the veil over your eyes may be torn, so you may behold the naked, terrible, and glorious reality of the past.

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This story is meant to explain the changes I made to equestrian history for my novel, The Power of Truth. The story will contain countless viewpoints. Ranging from court scribes to King Sombra himself. I will try to update this story alongside of The Power of Truth. You do not have to read this to understand The Power of Truth, and vice versa. Dark tag once again does not mean grim dark. If you did not get the time period from the information above, this story is set around one thousand years ago, in my own version of ancient Equestria.

> Warning- This story is really an emotional piece. I write the chapters once and revise them once. I put a lot of feelings into these, so they are not my best work. But I hope that some of you can relate.

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The son of Princess Amore has lost everything and has to find his place in the world of a thousand years ago. Hoping to find a reason to move on, he wanders aimlessly everywhere accompanied by his faithful escort, a female warrior from his homeland, in a relentless search for traces of the past they left behind. In the course of their journey they meet a musician of extraordinary abilities, who unexpectedly joins them, determined to bring his art to every corner. Together, they gather their courage and embark on a dangerous mission to try to save the Crystal Empire, in which they must overcome the adversities along the way, discover themselves and build together not only their own destiny, but that of all of Equestria.

Turbulent times were upon the Equestria of a millennium ago. Dealing with the consequences of one evil after another and working for the sake of harmony required enormous sacrifices; sometimes the efforts of the good were in vain and the cost very high. At the end of one dark stage, much had been lost, but one sunny day heralded the beginning of an era of celestial peace. There is just so much that time erased, so much history lost from one generation to another, that the passing of the years managed to tear the roots of the past from the memory of those who live today; although some long-lived beings keep the memories of yesteryear as scars and carry with them wounds that never finished healing.

Lives, forgotten events and unanswered questions; much finds explanation in these very pages, in the epic adventure never told by any other manuscript in history, because you had to be there to live it.

To understand the present that surrounds us, one must first look beyond the crystal.

Cover Image courtesy of my friend @Bluedino82

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