Equestria was once a land of wonder where magic could do things beyond ponies wildest dreams and the Gods walked among mortals, It was an age of power, magic, and balance, it was the Era of Immortals

Then an event that became known as The Shattered Aeon happened and the world was never the same. What The Shattered Aeon was scholars have debated for centuries as records of this time and before are few and far between and they paint contradicting stories. All that is known is that when it was over the Gods had left the Material Plane to reside in their own divine realms never to return.

Survivors of the The Shattered Aeon were left to pick up the pieces and rebuild carving out their own kingdoms in what used to be the nation of Equestria.

It became known as The Fractured Era.

Twilight Sparkle was born to a poor family in one of these nations known as The Thronecrest Dominion and left home as a teenager to earn money for her family putting her magic and intelligence to work as a soldier for hire.

Now though Twilight is a wanted mare in the Silverspire Republic after being framed for the assassination of an Ambassador by a client, Twilight has to stay one step ahead of the authorities, bounty hunters and assassins sent by her client as a loose end that needs to be tied.

As two nations are on the brink of war Twilight Sparkle must rely on rival mercenaries as the only people she can trust, as she has to fight to stay alive by pulling back The Shadow Veil that hides the crimes of her ambitious former client.

Greeting everyone and welcome to my first real attempt a fully original AU world for MLP and I hope you all enjoy what I hope will just be the first book in a new series I am calling The Chronicles of The Fractured Era

Anyways brief bit about how this came to be as i was inspired to write this by a mix of The Sword Coast by AdrianVesper
Some art by IRUSU
And a Reply to that art by a user named Blue Spector who I can't link to do to their Twitter account being NSFW
A bit of Pathfinder
These four things came together to inspire this and I thank all Four of them for the Inspiration.

Cover art is by Audrarius

Anyways Ill let you all get to reading.

The world is full of legends of ponies facing great evils or overcoming impossible odds in the name of good.

These legends live on forever in history.

This however is a legend that was overshadowed by the events surrounding it and lives on not in the history books, but as a simply story ponies tell each other around a campfire or over a mug of cider.

While much of the story has changed over the centuries the core of this legend has remained the same.

This is the legend of Lieutenant Raven Sheild and how on the night of Nightmare Moon's rebellion, she and a small band of soldiers stood in the path of a mad alicorn.

Have you ever had one of those days?

You know where you go to sleep in your bed and wake up the next morning in a forest not only as a different gender but also a totally different species with no clue how it happened?

No?

I suppose it's not exactly something that usually happens.

Anyways my name is Scorched Wing, least that's the name I took as I can't remember my old one for some reason, and this is the story of how I went to sleep as a human in a world where technology and logic ruled and woke up as a talking horse in a world where magic rules and logic took a permanent vacation.

NOTE: I usually write in Third Person but this fic will be in First Person so please give me some.leeway as I'm not the most expirance with this perspective.
NOTE: Chapters are uploaded unedited.
NOTE: This is being written as a break from the types of stories I usually write so that I can clear my head, as such updates will be random and pretty much cover whatever I think up to have happen.

A creature finds itself in a raging fire following a cry for help.

Twilight Sparkle was using radio signals to view the stars of the night sky when she picked up a signal of some sort.

After a few days of working she managed to get a clear signal.

What she heard on that first day caused her to invite her friends to listen to the strange signal the next day.

Over the next few days Twilight and her friends listen to the final words of a group of aliens as they try to survive on a planet that has died by their own hands.

Now with a READING

Note: I was inspired to write this after reading several other stories about the Mane 6 listening to radio signals from space. This will be a short story.