After a tragic accident, a human ends up in Lord Tirek's body, as part of an attempt to reform the villain after his recent escapades. While the hero of our tale is trying to make sense of his new surroundings, the rest of Equestria thinks that the most terrible threat that their world has ever seen is back...
And the powers that be are definitely not happy about it.
New Cover Art By Shadow Bolt

This is a prequel to the Discord's Master Plan series. Many people may have noticed that Prince Blueblood and Princess Cadance are referred to as Celestia's nephew and niece respectively. However, we never see the siblings of Celestia that would be the parents of Blueblood and Cadance. (Luna would not be the mother of either of them because the coat and mane colors are too different. Also, they would not be siblings for this same reason.)

This story is about the forgotten sisters who are the mothers of Cadance and Blueblood, Floriana and Animia, respectively. It will explain the journey they went on to retrieve the Stones of Power and what happened to them after a certain Lord of Chaos showed up.

Each chapter has its own Google Doc linked in the AN. This may be useful for reading on the go. I've also created a full version of the new edition which can be reached here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fGhNaXyfSTnVMjyNZssaYAMTeNnj3sdW5PSE8WEsYGM/edit?usp=sharing .

Characters that are not included in tags are Starswirl The Bearded, Clover the Clever, Night Mare Moon, King Sombra, Queen Chrysalis, Lord Tirek, Sior the human, (princess) Twilight Sparkle, and Spike (briefly). Cadance and Blueblood are also in here but they don't have speaking parts because they are only foals.

Human tagged because the character in question is a human but due to events in What You Don't Know, he will be a pony at the time of his appearance in this fic.

Crossover tagged for future chapter(s) including Doctor Whooves.

This story was already written once but the previous version was deemed extremely terrible by myself and thus I decided to do a complete makeover. If you want to read the previous version, you can find it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cnucplgJczIboODVZOEpndpJ2YbhG3xDzMq3oID699I/edit?usp=sharing . However, for continuity sake in the sequels, what you see below is what will be used when references to this fic are made.

If you wish to be a proofreader/content editor, PM me or leave a comment and I will provide you with the password.