After the fall of the three tribes in the North, and after the great migration, the only place in the world where ponies were found was Equestria. This has not remained the case however. There have always been explorers, those restless souls that can only live free, looking forever to the horizon. And when they returned with word of fertile lands, there were always settlers: ponies who sought opportunity for growth, and found it by helping build a new place where ponies could thrive.

And though Equestria is wide, and parts of it remained unsettled to this day, not all pony expeditions have elected to remain within its borders. It is through the undertaking of one such group that this tale came to be known.
This group left the bounds of Equestria two hundred years ago. They crossed the eastern sea and came to the new world there. They arrived at Pinto bay, which had been settled some decades before and now supported a thriving port town. From there they trekked further east, until they arrived at a wide plain that remains nameless to this day. There they set down their caravan and began building their town, which they named Fargone.

Part of the Once upon a Pony series.