There is something different about the world somehow, something fundamentally off about everything. Or, at least that's the nagging suspicion in the back of Twilight Sparkle's mind. But she must be mistaken, this was her academy... Wasn't it?

As the clouds of the Everfree slowly start creeping across the sky of Equestria, the true consequences of King Sombre's magical reawakening begin to manifest. For the first time since his banishment, pony kind must now host the Pony Grail War.