Luster Dawn has just been made Princess Twilight's Sparkle's student. The weight and stress of this responsibility weighs down heavy on the young filly. Fortunately, her mother is there to help her shoulder it.
Celestia hears of a most peculiar pony in her city, somepony who wants to do away with the monarchy and allow the ponies to vote for who will rule Equestria. A so-called ‘Republican’. This simply cannot do.
A father and his son travel into the hazardous wastes of the North for an unknown purpose. In a world split in two, light and dark, of sand and snow, and of suffering and anguish. Will they accomplish what they set out to do? Or perish in the sands?