A new religion is spreading across the continent of Equestria at a rapid rate; its most powerful members said to possess knowledge and secrets of powers so dark that they must first ''unburden'' themselves by leaving an offering of their own flesh and blood to their God.

Legends often say that they have power over the dead, that they are able to bring souls back, but the legend also says that a deal must be made and that deals are only made to individuals that have something that they need, and what they need is often very dark, a price deemed too high by many.

A deal was made with this dark and secretive cult to retrieve a soul from the Well of Amun-Ra, this soul was meant to do more than die in a fight he could not win against an enemy he could not kill. This soul is that of a Thestral and is far more valuable alive than dead, a soul that has the best kind of leverage: hope.

After his soul was retrieved from the Well of Amun-Ra by a higher power, he finds himself given the opportunity to find the one he loved in his previous life in exchange for devoting his life to The Lunar Empire in the service of Princess Selena but unbeknownst to him the Princess has other plans for him...

This Thestral that goes by the name of Brigand must now make a new life for himself after being given a second chance, although the events in his new life cause his past to rapidly catch up with him as a pony who is meant to be dead can only hide the truth for so long so he must dig up his dark past and eventually confront it head on or be consumed by it forever.