Princess Celestia and Princess Twilight Sparkle travel to the Griffon Kingdom to meet the Griffon King. They seek to negotiate a formal treaty, but past mistakes, even millennium old, may make an alliance impossible.
Princess Celestia tasks Prince Blueblood with organizing this years Grand Galloping Gala. Things are going fine, until a grey mare with odd eyes tries to present a muffin for his sampling pleasure.
With Celestia gone, and all of Equestria in disarray, it’s up to Prince Blueblood to set out and find her. In a harrowing journey, he will suffer, he will bleed, but will he find who he is looking for?
On the night of the Grand Galloping Gala, Thunderlane takes notice of a petite earth mare, playing an enormous fiddle. Intrigued by her, he decides to introduce himself to the mare called, Octavia.
On the anniversary of a day Luna would rather forget, she stumbles upon an earth pony engineer who is has been hired to fix up the castle, who reminds her why she resists the dark temptations.
The weight of immortality has proven too great for Princess Twilight Sparkles’ weary back. Princess Celestia will do anything she can to save her student, but her only option may be to let her go…
Following her humiliation at the hooves of Twilight Sparkle, Trixie is left broken and alone. All alone in the world without a friend to care for her, she descends into a state of depression and remorse.
Discord has returned, stronger and madder than ever before. Imprisonment has made him savvy, and he shall set in motion a plan not to kill Celestia, but to ruin her in the eyes of those she loves most.