Krakel is a little filly who was born deep in the dungeons of Canterlot. Her mother, Grim Rose, a mare locked up for being too powerful for the outside world after killing many and escaping all the mental wards she'd been sent to, met her father there. Dashing Fog, a changeling captured during the fight on Princess Cadence and Shining Armor's wedding day, immediately fell in love with Grim Rose's dark, disturbing background and attitude. When she became a teenager, the Princesses decided she can live without her parents and brought her away to learn the ways of her new world, one not made of stone, darkness, insanity, and hatred for the Light. This is her journey through that world her parents taught her to hate.