This story is a sequel to The Line Between Fire and Light
With the revelation of the nature behind Twilight's golden eyes reveled she is no longer ascending to the throne of Equestria. But life moves on, and some begin to look to things they once never imagined. Or imagined differently.
New horizons can be seen. New adventures to be had, with new dangers.
But lessons no longer needed hold secrets Celestia intends to keep hidden. Secrets that Twilight feels must come to light.
This story is still not half done, and, like it's predecessor, is prone to additions and extensions. Updates may be far between. I welcome feedback and questions.
Thanks to the A/B Testing group for their help.
And thanks to the MLP community in general for their support.
Tags not in the Series section (will update as necessary): Tenchi Muyo, Slayers
Do you know if the A/B Testing group is only restricted to MLP stories?
I don't know if they are, but they should mention in the rules, or you could ask in the group. I just assume that they are.
Why are twilight's eyes yellow in the cover art? I thought they were supposed to be purple
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This story is a sequel to The Line Between Fire and Light, and in Chapter 52 Twilight asks for help, and her eyes are the mark of that help that she got. Kind of a permanent brand from the being that answered her.
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Is there any benefit to having golden eyes, or is it just a reminder of the being's help?
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Actually, yes. They (specifically the gold in her eyes) now act as a magical amplifier for her, and make her a source for a non Equestrian magic that previously the only source they would have was a gem that James has with him.
There's also the draw back that they allow her to be possessed by the Lord of Nightmares (No point being cryptic as it was a key point in the finale of the last story and it's mentioned in this story already.)
The Gold allows these things by being a fragment of the Lord of Nightmares herself.
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I haven't finished reading it yet, but I wanted to have an answer now.
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I see. Well, I wouldn't say that bit of knowledge spoils things as when it becomes relevant I've all but spelled out what's happening.
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this grain of knowledge only aroused my interest in further reading, and, by the way, a great fan fiction, I postponed reading it for a long time because of its size and now I regret that I did not read it earlier.
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Thank you very much. And don't worry about postponing reading it, it's size got a bit out of hand so I completely understand. Originally I only planned it to be about half as long (even ending on what's now chapter 37,) I just kept getting ideas.
I do believe the last (may as well call it an ark) is probably my favorite part, particularly the climax in the last chapter. I do have a twist in that ark when things get serious that I won't spoil, and Twilight is at the crux of it. But definitely not how it happened in the show.
Also the fact that Grogar's magic mimicked how I had been describing James' magic to look is a complete coincidence but I lean into it a bit by having chaos based magic inherently infused with gold flecks/lightning (Which now shows up in Twilight's magic.) As the Giga Slave describes the Lord of Nightmares in the spell "Lord of Darkness who shines like gold upon the sea of chaos."
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I will continue reading, I am torn by interest in what will happen next.
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Does this mean that this story will be shorter?
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That's the plan right now. But if I get some good ideas for arcs I may make it longer. (Or would it be better for me to do arcs as separate stories?)
Anyway, as it stands now I do have a planned ending point for this story.