Discord, in a last ditch effort to end a great war, has cursed the world. Ponykind has forgotten the war and moved on as a young man tries to live his life. His jaded past leaves him closed off from everyone until he ends up with a new roommate...

On Hearth's Warming Eve, the Cutie Mark Crusaders ask Twilight for one story. She indulges them with a long lost old mare's tale, older than that of the mare in the moon.