It has been almost 1000 years since the banishing of the Two Sisters and the rise of the Empire of the Horn. In that time the Empire has expanded its borders and holdings on top of an army of slaves. Now they have only two enemies: folly and hubris.

The name "Crystal Empire" had struck Twilight as odd, a single city doesn't constitute an empire, but she'd ignored the thought in favor of defeating Sombra. She really wished she hadn't done that.

May God forgive my sins

The Equestrian Ecumene has stood for thousands of years; it is an unbreakable monument of harmony. It is frail. As darkness calls and the light fades a new evil rises. It is powerful, overwhelmingly so, and it is foreign to the Ecumene

Thestrals are quite unusual, to say the least, living separate from the rest of the world. Quietly playing the game of civilization amidst vast nations. But not one little thestral, this is his story.