Equestria is consumed by an endless winter. A misguided stallion named Sombra has risen up to proclaim himself king among the country, but for no reasons constructive: He stole away an entire city and unleashed an unspeakable evil upon the land. Premature deaths for children, a disgusting massacre for all . . .

Now, the country is home only to those deceased, vengeful toward all they can comprehend in their dampened frame of body and spirit. They incessantly wander the land without aim, but when a small group of mortal nomads emerges to seek the capitol of the Frozen North, they know not but few violent purposes — either to spare them from repressed horrors, either to kill. The group's straits are dire, but a gifted Unicorn among them leads way to the city, where those who survived hope to raise a new generation; a new era for a time that, unbeknownst to them, was already dead.

But whatever came of it . . .