Equestria is a world of life and light, of green hills and deep forests. A jewel of the universe, a gem so rare that the requirements for its formation are astronomical.

But it was not always so, and it had help in beating the odds to become the world it is today. Many things are hidden by history, and ponykind is about to be exposed to one of them.

For life on Equestria is not normal, marked and changed as it was long ago by beings greater then any of the worlds current inhabitants. And now that a question and a request have been asked the ancient guardians left behind by those great beings must guide their lesser kin to the great test that was left behind.

And what will happen once the great test has been taken? That not even the goddesses of the sun and the moon can say.