Post by Nightbow on Jan 9, 2012 3:17:43 GMT -5
The purpose for this thread is to keep track of our story progression. I you need to know what is going on and the time frame it's placed within, consult the relevant chapter.
You may post any questions about the story arc and current chapter here.
One fateful morning, Princess Celestia receives word from Whinnyapolis, the big sister city of Ponyville. Strange things are going on – ponies are disappearing and it is rumoured that monstrous creatures have been emerging from the forest, along with whispers of an omen that spells the doom of Equestria.
When Twilight Sparkle is sent there to investigate the cause of the events, her friends journey with her through the dangerous Everfree Forest to the Elder Forest. After battling an unknown force of monsters known as Stone Backs, they eventually encounter a powerful winged unicorn that is to blame for conjuring the monsters from other universes.
The pony is as big as Celestia, and her pelt is white. But despite it being just as snow white as that of Celestia, it radiates something eerie rather than pure, only amplified by the dark aura that makes up her night-black, star-less mane. With her dark eyes, irises as black as the eclipsed sun on her flank, she seems to represent something dark and twisted. Something that is recognized only in the faint, terrifying glimpse of darkness that lies within us all.
The stranger presents herself as Queen Eclipse, lost daughter of Gaia – the mother of Celestia and Luna. She declares that all of Equestria soon will fall before her. The worthy will be spared, and the strongest of the trash will spend their lives in her servitude as they build her new empire upon the graves of their friends.
With the Elements of Harmony assembled, Twilight Sparkle thinks that she will be able to stop the evil force. She performs a difficult magic ritual that she finds instructed in Eclipse’s spell book, with hopes of banishing the corrupted alicorn to the realm from which she came.
Celestia realizes her mistake too late. When the Princesses of Day and Night arrive, they find the six ponies lying lifeless in a pool of oozing black sludge, spreading throughout the Elder Forest in the form of a dark flowing ribbon, neither liquid nor gas. Celestia and Luna manage to fish their friends out of harm’s way and make sure that they arrive safely at an inn in Whinnyapolis.
Deeply shaken as they wake up, Twilight Sparkle and her five friends are told by Celestia the story of how her mother, Queen Gaia, sacrificed herself in order to seal Eclipse in Opaque, a dark realm. Now, after the passing of five millennia, she has slipped out from her prison. And what is worse, Twilight Sparkle has accidentally torn a slit in the fabric of time and space.
Ponies from all over Equestria mobilize in order to defend the land and prevent the evil from spreading beyond the forest. As they patrol its borders, strangers start showing up. Lost and confused, none of them know how they got there, and some of them can't remember who they are or where they came from.
Some Equestrians fight bravely for the celestial sisters, while some start to believe that Eclipse has been unjustly stripped of her position. Some turn to her from fear of her power.
In the mean time, Queen Eclipse has taken full advantage of the event of The Rift. As she finds the otherworldly ponies wandering the forest, she persuades them into joining her forces, saying that if they help her to reclaim her rightful stance in Equestria she will be granted the power to send them back home.
Some ponies, regardless of sides, are pointing hooves at Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie for having caused The Rift and, potentially, the doom of Equestria.
You may post any questions about the story arc and current chapter here.
.: The Rift :.
Every book of history
Has a dark chapter
But the difference that you and I make
Has yet to be written
Eclipse, the exiled sister of Celestia and Luna, makes her return and claims to be the rightful queen of Equestria.
After a short and intense battle that causes a rift through time and space, strange things start to happen.
Every book of history
Has a dark chapter
But the difference that you and I make
Has yet to be written
Eclipse, the exiled sister of Celestia and Luna, makes her return and claims to be the rightful queen of Equestria.
After a short and intense battle that causes a rift through time and space, strange things start to happen.
One fateful morning, Princess Celestia receives word from Whinnyapolis, the big sister city of Ponyville. Strange things are going on – ponies are disappearing and it is rumoured that monstrous creatures have been emerging from the forest, along with whispers of an omen that spells the doom of Equestria.
When Twilight Sparkle is sent there to investigate the cause of the events, her friends journey with her through the dangerous Everfree Forest to the Elder Forest. After battling an unknown force of monsters known as Stone Backs, they eventually encounter a powerful winged unicorn that is to blame for conjuring the monsters from other universes.
The pony is as big as Celestia, and her pelt is white. But despite it being just as snow white as that of Celestia, it radiates something eerie rather than pure, only amplified by the dark aura that makes up her night-black, star-less mane. With her dark eyes, irises as black as the eclipsed sun on her flank, she seems to represent something dark and twisted. Something that is recognized only in the faint, terrifying glimpse of darkness that lies within us all.
The stranger presents herself as Queen Eclipse, lost daughter of Gaia – the mother of Celestia and Luna. She declares that all of Equestria soon will fall before her. The worthy will be spared, and the strongest of the trash will spend their lives in her servitude as they build her new empire upon the graves of their friends.
With the Elements of Harmony assembled, Twilight Sparkle thinks that she will be able to stop the evil force. She performs a difficult magic ritual that she finds instructed in Eclipse’s spell book, with hopes of banishing the corrupted alicorn to the realm from which she came.
Celestia realizes her mistake too late. When the Princesses of Day and Night arrive, they find the six ponies lying lifeless in a pool of oozing black sludge, spreading throughout the Elder Forest in the form of a dark flowing ribbon, neither liquid nor gas. Celestia and Luna manage to fish their friends out of harm’s way and make sure that they arrive safely at an inn in Whinnyapolis.
Deeply shaken as they wake up, Twilight Sparkle and her five friends are told by Celestia the story of how her mother, Queen Gaia, sacrificed herself in order to seal Eclipse in Opaque, a dark realm. Now, after the passing of five millennia, she has slipped out from her prison. And what is worse, Twilight Sparkle has accidentally torn a slit in the fabric of time and space.
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Ponies from all over Equestria mobilize in order to defend the land and prevent the evil from spreading beyond the forest. As they patrol its borders, strangers start showing up. Lost and confused, none of them know how they got there, and some of them can't remember who they are or where they came from.
Some Equestrians fight bravely for the celestial sisters, while some start to believe that Eclipse has been unjustly stripped of her position. Some turn to her from fear of her power.
In the mean time, Queen Eclipse has taken full advantage of the event of The Rift. As she finds the otherworldly ponies wandering the forest, she persuades them into joining her forces, saying that if they help her to reclaim her rightful stance in Equestria she will be granted the power to send them back home.
Some ponies, regardless of sides, are pointing hooves at Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie for having caused The Rift and, potentially, the doom of Equestria.