Timeline of the Eclipse War

1 DW-1st of April-Celestia is attacked by a mutant snail which she barely survives by killing the beast with the dagger. Starved, she reluctantly eats some of the snails flesh, the ultimate taboo for the herbivore ponies. Little did she know the snails slime was hallucinogenic and she will hallucinate for the rest of the time she is in the cave system.

1 DW-3rd of April-Swordn Shield returns to Canterlot and is celebrated as a hero. He threatens to court martial Sun Shine but is unable to find a replacement. As such, she is given charge of the capitol while he leads to the defence and offence of the empire. Celestia hallucinates that she can see another her standing over Luna, eating her like a carnivore.

1 DW- 4th of April-Luna spearheads a number of skirmishes and manages to force the UCI back using magic and her mages. She discovers in these battles that the UCI seem to not send unicorns in battle, giving the republic an advantage in the form of magical power. Celestia hallucinates that she is back in Canterlot victories, with the head of her sister and of the first at her feet. She also finds herself surrounded by mass graves, full of women and children as well as soldiers. She seems to fine this very funny, which terrifies her.

1 DW-5th of April-Celestia sees the first and attacks him, only to be transported to a Canterlot were she is dead and the red flag of the Ideal flies overhead. What surprises her most is that everyone is happy and joyful instead of fearful.

1 DW-6th of April-Celestia is supposedly confronted by her sister. She tells her how everything is her fault and that she will burn for it. She also tells her that the only way to save herself is to take her own life. Emotionally broken, she attempts suicide by jumping over an underground cliff. However, she survives the fall and follows a light at the bottom that eventually leads out of the caverns.

1 DW-7th of April-The first arrives back at the UCI and is very disappointed by the failure to achieve a quick victory. He was hoping that stalemates would stop the advances of his foes, not downright defeats.

1 DW-7th to 13th of April-Under the Firsts command the UCI are able to stop the advance.

1 DW-15th of April-Celestia stumbles up to the gates of Canterlot, near death. She is rushed to the castle where the Empires best doctors spend a good eight hours in surgery to bring her back from the brink of death. They succeed, barely, and she is put under in her room under constant supervision by doctors. This news shock the whole empire but while it plummets moral, the fact she was found and is alive keeps the empire together.

1 DW-16th to 21st of April-After much examination the doctors aren't sure how long it will take for Celestia to recover. There no instance of an alicorn getting injured like this has ever been recorded so they simply don't know. However, if it took as long as a normal pony, they explain to the public it would take around three months and in these three months there will be a power vacuum. Despite Sword n Shield being in command this whole time, now the princess is both found and unable to rule the nobility step up and declare the empire under their rule. This causes some trouble as most of the military still wished to be in control, and as such it is agreed upon that for the next week different factions of the empire will be sorted out so both parties get what they want.

However as negotiations go on the nobility keep getting more then the military mainly because the nobility automatically gains control if the princess dies and as such most people are acting as if this just happened. More so because the nobility outranks any military officer in the Empire social structure. However a couple of days before the end of the week, after some long thinking and experiences he has a long emotional talk with Sun Shine about what exactly the Empire stands for, he finds out that before the week is even up, let alone bargains met, the nobility has gained control and declared themselves rulers of the Solar Empire. Marching into the palace with a whole platoon of Royal guard loyal to him, he finds the throne room converted to seat twelves of the nobility selected to represent the nobility.

The castle is heavily guarded and full of nobility supporters, as well as the city. The nobility tell him to stand down by order of the empire. Swordn Shield explains that the empire is about hope. About the simple ideal of doing the right thing. About doing its best to further a better tomorrow. He then declares that the nobility betray these ideals and as such are traitors to the Empire. He orders the nobility to stand down from their position as leaders of the empire or they will be charged for high treason and executed. The nobility, surprised at a military officer challenging their power, tell him to recall this order or it will be seen as high treason and he and his men will be executed. He refuses. Before aggressions could be made and the Solar Empire consumed by civil war, Celestia, body broken and bruised, limps out to the throne rooms and orders both parties to stand down, as there is only one ruler of the empire. All bow at her presence and do as commanded. This event proved the instability of the Empire and how close it came to complete destruction not by one of its foes, but by its own people. Change had to come, and it did.

1 DW 22nd of April-Celestia takes back control over the empire, but due to her injuries she can only spend around an hour in the throne room every day. All this extra time allows her to think about what her sister and the First said to her, along with what she saw in the cave. Eventually, she begins to right down certain changes she wishes to announce when she has recovered.

1 DW 27th of April-Celestia recovers enough to take over the empire again fully, and her first order after getting back this power is to put in place a new policy that will take power away from the nobility and give it to the military so they cannot take over the empire on a whim again. More so however, laws involving  what can be defined as a “traitor” are laxed. Basically, it allows free speech against the empire to no longer be looked down upon, personal beliefs are encouraged and. Most importantly, conscription is abolished.

This sends a wave of panic threw out the kingdom as military officers  are afraid that having no reliable source of men could mean their defeat in the war, while the nobles are outraged as this is the first time power had been taken away from their position since the empire was formed. In fact, everyone except her own guards started bickering as soon as the announcement was made in the throne room. Public opinion on this decision was mixed. Some said it lessened the might of the empire, others said the princesses will to offer change to better the lives of her subjects. In the end, the change actually helped the empire as rebellions stop now that groups relies that they don't have to resort to violence to get change and this idea that the princess is now giving more power to the average pony increases volunteers.

1 DW-29th of April-Without talking with her generals or the nobility, Celestia sends two messages to the Luna Republic and United Communist Ideal. Despite almost all of her subjects in power wishing for nothing but these “traitors blood”, she asks not just for a cease fire, but a peace agreement, ending the war for good.

1 DW-3rd of May-The First receives the message and is shocked to find out Celestia is still alive, but agrees to go to the summit. He believes that the UCI is winning the war and is in the perfect position for negotiations.

1 DW-5th of May-Luna gets the massage and agrees to go too. She believes she can get her sister to stand down and surrender the empire and make it part of the republic.

1 DW- 10th of May-Celestia is pleased with their responses and announces happily in the throne room that soon the war will be over. Many are shocked and angry upon finding out. The Solar Empire had stood since the entrapment of discord! It had fought of changelings, diamond dogs, griffins and rebels! It had stood the test of time yet it was to negotiate with two groups of pathetic wanna be rulers? They believed they should continue to fight and crush them in the name of the Empire, just as Celestia had taught them to.  However, Celestia was queen. She had always been queen.  Whatever she said went.

1 DW- 18th of May-Both factions leaders and generals meet in the Crystal Empire, setting up camps on a clear field instead of meeting inside the city. This is mainly because Luna and Celestia don’t want to upset the ruling council if things go wrong, and the First doesn’t want any chance of the other two finding out about his deal with them. They all sit down in the main tent and discuss a possible treaty.

While Celestia swears she wishes to change and wants nothing more than peace, Luna doesn't believe her and the First simply doesn't care, since if they did all make friends a queen would still rule Equestria, something his entire faction is against choosing to put him in power instead of simply being sworn in by some kind of blue blooded nobility into the leading role, is against. Luna explains that her republic has been proven vastly superior to the Empire, that she has proven untrustworthy, and that at the moment, she will accept nothing more than full surrender. She might have acted differently if she had spoken to Celestia alone, but she was representing her people in front of another nation’s leader, not to mention had the gaze of her best generals on her, judging her actions. She walked in not as a sister, but as a leader. The First was not as unwilling to negotiate. He agreed to an alliance to with the Solar Empire...If she steps down and the empire is annexed by the UCI.

Celestia refuses. As it goes on though, the First and Luna get into a verbal fight about why each of them fight in this war, the First calling Luna a spoiled child her started a war over s sisterly spat while Luna calls him a cowardice tyrant who only desires power and nothing else. In the end, both storm out and leave, though before going the First agrees to a two month long cease fire with the Empire after Celestia promised to consider a counteroffer to his original terms. While they were in the main tent, some of the Empires, Republics and Ideals finest had time to spend with each other. Viola, Black Dye and Sun Shine originally started off quite aggressive towards each other but after working together to help an armorer’s boy find his lost ring, they actually bonded, though were tragically never to become friends due to the powers which they serve. Blackmare and Swordn Shield were even more aggressive towards each other, but where shoved together by the sisters before they enter negotiations. Though strangely enough, before going their separate ways they did share a kiss.

1 DW-23rd of May-All factions return to their capital cities. Luna contemplates what to do now and decides if peace is what Celestia is truly looking for, than she'll be less likely to attack. That is, until she changes her mind. So she believes now would be a good time to take on the UCI, but in order to fight such a technological powerhouse she needs an ace in the hole. Ground forces are no match for UCI firing lines and now they are in a peace agreement with the Solar Empire, its borders will be locked down while the amass resources most likely for a massive push into the republic. She goes for a walk to think about her plan, but it soon leads to her questioning if her sister really did mean all the things she said. However she comes across two fillies fighting, a Pegasus and a unicorn. She watches as the Pegasus would quickly swoop up rocks from the ground, then fly up into the air and drop them on the unicorn, which couldn't aim that high up to hit accurately. This inspires Luna to come up with her own military plan to take on the UCI.

1 DW-24th of May-Luna describes her plan to her generals. Since they couldn't take the UCI by the ground, they will take it by the air. However there was nowhere near enough Pegasus to take the ideal by themselves...So instead of strafing or landing, they will instead keep at a high altitude and drop magical explosives onto military bases and cities weakening them till the point where they can take them on the ground. This was met with much applause though Blackmare found the strategy a bit cowardly, though admitted it was a good one.

1 DW- 27th of May-Bombing runs on the UCI start. While the UCI have developed anti-aircraft guns their designs are based of human ones so long range guns are nothing more than a deterrent since they can't hit such tiny targets. Short range anti-aircraft would be far more accurate and dangerous, but now the pegasus are using magical charges from such a great height these guns find themselves out of range. This means the UCI's only defence against these raids are the red wings, the griffin air force.

While the UCI had many pegasus it was decided early on that operation Javelin would make them obsolete so they were integrated into the army instead of an air force. However the griffins reputation on their amazing air combat make it too good an asset to ignore so those who chose to fight in the air over the ground were made into the red wings. However while these were skilled fighters they were also low in number. Basically they could not be everywhere at once while since the Republic had the largest air force out of the three they seemingly could! The only problem the republic air force had was that while they could send thousands of pegasus on a single raid an individual pegasus could only cause a tiny amount of damage with such small explosives. Another thing was they were incredibly inaccurate, since it was basically like throwing a stone at a building from a balloon up in the air.

1 DW-2nd of June-Raids get worse. The research station for project Locus is bombed. The project was to use magic to make an organism that would devour crops and reproduce at an amazing rate, at which point they would be released into the empire and republic to starve the two other factions. They were having issues however with producing a way to stop them once they had taken over. Eventually, one of the scientists came up with the idea of using music made with instruments exclusive to the ideal, ones that the first had introduced that were originally human designs. While these indeed attracted their attention, no way to outright destroy a massive swarm of these creatures was yet to be produced beyond using fire when the station was bombed into the ground, destroying years of research and releasing three of the prototype “Parasprites” into the environment. The project was scrapped and its resources sent to developing Javelin and Templar.

1 DW-4th of June-After some time Black Dye comes up with a plan to end the war once and for all by sending over three thousand pegasus to Stalliongrad and bomb the palace. Although there was a good chance of the First escaping or surviving, destroying the palace would hit hard at the UCI's already weakened moral due to the raids. The red wings did manage to stall them just outside the city but most of them made through. However, project Javelin was prepared for a field test and was nearing completion, and now the capital was threatened it was deployed to stem the tide. As the pegasus flew in from the west, they soon found hidden out of view by the palace, three armored airships enter view. Completely made of steel, they each had a balloon the size of two busses high and length. Under them were chains connected to an armored hull as long as the balloon.

Attached to them were four quad anti-aircraft guns and on the stern a massive flank cannon. It managed to keep afloat and steer as if it was a windless day due to the use of magically charged crystals which countered the weight of the metal and being at the same height as the pegasus meant the weapons on these blimps were devastating. They ripped through the attackers who had no idea what they were fighting and believed it to be some kind of monster. In the end it was a disaster as over half the pegasus where killed or captured, the rest fleeing for their lives. Project Javelin was deemed a success and went into mass production, producing different variations which differed in size, speed and number of weapons it carried.

1 DW-5th of June-Blackmare verbally attack Luna at the senate’s meeting after the failed attack calling her out for not getting wind of such a massive weapons project, let along the weapons launch hours before the attack. Luna defends her leadership and the two butt heads. It ends with the Senate agreeing with Luna, but this only causes Blackmare's slowly growing hatred of his savour to get to breaking point. He begins talking with Black Dye about weather Luna should really be in control of the Republic.

1 DW-8th of June-UCI start bombing raids of their own, dropping military grade bombs with as much impact and damage as those used in the world wars. These are far more effective than the Republics plan of having pegasus simply throw magical explosives. It is discovered the blimps have one weakness which is if a group of pegasus sneak up to the ships, or attack from above where there were no weapons they could land on the air ships and engage in a boarding action, this leading to the Red Wings being called back into action to protect the ships from close engagement. There was also another major flaw. Most blimps had to set out from Stalliongrad, where, at the time was the only location to house air docks, and fly all the way over to Luna towns and cities. Since magically enchanted crystals were used to defy physics and make the ships perform like they do, once the magic started to fade, similar to how a battery ran out of power, they had to return to the capital, as without magic the blimps just became metal bricks with an air pocket inside them. This meant they couldn't reach Baltimare or many of the southern cities and towns.

1 DW-15th of June-Eventually, the Republic comes up with a counter measure.  Using towers magically charged by republic mages, they focus the power into a single beam and fire them high into the sky. These beams rip right through these blimps but they do have some major problems. First they were extremely expensive to build and maintain, with only the major cities having one. More so, it takes a lot of power to charge each shot so it takes time for the beams to form and fire. Finally, because of the design they cannot be reversed engineered to be mobile.

1 DW-19th of June-Now the cease fire with the Empire has stopped, the First sends a message to Luna, that they should join forces at least for a month, and together use both the republics pegasus and the UCI's blimps to bomb the Empire to the ground ending the war once and for all. He is certain Luna will not except, but believes it might cause the Republic to split.

1 DW- 24th of June-When Luna gets the message, she of cause says no, but this infuriates Blackmare. This was the republics best chance of a quick and easy victory over the Empire and Luna would not even hear the First out? This leads to a very heated discussion as Blackmare has had enough taking orders from Luna, telling him and his people what to do despite her abandoning Equestria and running away to hide with some orphans instead of staying and fighting! He was the one who stood up to Celestia centuries before the war! He gave everything including his identity in order see her head on a pike, yet it was Luna, her sister, that was supposed to lead them to victory!?! He should be the leader of this Republic, not her! Luna explains her choice is final, and for the first time since leaving Equestria she also loses her temper.

All this fighting in a war she thought would be over in a few weeks, all the rich and the powerful second guessing anything she said, and the fact that the senate had slowly become more and more corrupted all caused her anger to grow. She had saved him AND his people from death and destruction! The First was a lying bastard who only wanted power for himself and he was going to make friends with him? She had left her home, her friends, even her title as princess in order to give her subjects a fresh start and he was going to tell her about sacrifice!?! In the end, Blackmare crossed the line by comparing her to her sister, and saying that she was “Unfit.” Luna loses it and attacks him. Soon, Blackhoof and Republic soldiers start brawling in the palace, each believing their leader to be in the right. In the end, Luna managed to defeat Blackmare and in her anger, supposedly kill him.

This was the first time Luna had taken a life with her own two hooves and this hit hard. The fighting stopped and the Blackhoof were rounded up. After a few hours of thinking and regretting, Luna decrees that the Blackhoofs are to be exiled from the republic, and the government reformed so the president, she had a far longer seat of office and more power to stop anything like this happening again. While the average citizen was unsure of this, her fanatical followers were more than happy and that was enough. She declared the Luna Republic no more, and the New Luna Republic formed. After being sent to a morgue, the body of Blackmare went missing. Black Dye swore to defend the Republic with his life and as such, he chose to takes Luna's side during the brawl. As such, he was allowed to keep his position.

1 DW-26th of June-Celestia has recovered from her wounds, her horn growing back and her wings back to normal. However doctors were unable to remove the bullets from her wings and she will now feel pain when flying for extended periods of time. A chariot which will be pulled by pegasus is commissioned for travel, but the bullets have much more psychological effects. She constantly feels them between her wings, acting as a cruel reminder of everything that happened the day she received them.

1 DW-28th of June-The surviving black hooves arrive at Stalliongrad. Their leader, Jade Emblem, offer the first a deal. If he offers her a position of power and promise to protect to protect the Blackhoofs they will join the United Communist Ideal. He agrees. She asked her to become his left hand. She agrees.

1 DW- 18th of July-Fighting starts up along the Empires boarders again as the cease fire ends. The UCI attack first using long range artillery, however the Empire has adapted new strategies to deal with the technological differences and it is less affective then before. While the UCI are ready to start the conflict again, the UCI are somewhat reluctant to make any major pushes, either stalling for time till more of their projects are completed or putting all their effort into attacking the Republic.

1 DW-27th of July-Jade Emblem and the First get very close. They enjoy each other’s company and Jade goes out of her way to keep herself close. Viola gets jealous and digs into her background. After hitting some dead ends she discovers that places she talked about she never visited. She believes that Jade had been taking different aliases but for what reason she does not know, plus these aliases are not connected in any way. In the end, it clicks and she fingers out there’s no connection because she's not a pony, but a changeling. She rushes back to the palace and manages to stop Jade from killing the First in his sleep, after being let in by the guards dew to their friendship. The first, against Viola's advice, locks Jade away as oppose to execution, though she does not realise the First has his own plans for the insect. Viola is still celebrated for her commitment to the UCI and given the title “Protector of the Ideal.”

1 DW-28th of July-Before going into this entry it should be explained how the Changelings communicate. The hive mind connects all changelings together, based around the queen. Unlike ants or bees, the hive mind does not direct changelings, but has two effects. First, it compels changelings to do whatever they are told by the queen. Second, they are always aware of other Changelings positions and locations. There are three ways to disconnect with the hive mind. First is removing the changeling's horn, as it acts as an antenna. The horn does grow back and with a different setting for detecting waves, in a nut shell, if the hive mind was a radio channel, then a regrown horn was set to a different frequency.

Usually steps were taken in the hive to reset the horn and re-connect it to the mind, but outside the changeling could easily free itself. Second was suffering a concussion, which can rattle the brain and reset the horns connection.  Finally, when a changeling is separated and knows vital information, a “kill me” Order is given to said changeling. Their organs shut down and die. However, there’s a 95% chance that the body simply reads the message wrong, probably because its comes through the air as opposed to being told directly, plus considering the changelings natural will to live, and they simply fall asleep, waking up a few hours later, but for some reason this results in them having a much smaller intelligence, similar to a dog.

There is a side effect to all these. Since one of the effects of the hive mind knows the location of fellow changelings, they never feel completely alone. However, when their connection breaks, it’s like being alone for the first time in your whole life. Some changelings are known to even be driven insane by the isolation. Oddly, changelings who get freed threw ignoring the “kill me” order, they can regain their intelligence by taking the form of smarter creatures, like other ponies. The First decides, studying Changelings a little before starting the UCI when we put upon himself to learn about all the Equestrian sentinel races to choose potential allies, that he wishes to use the changeling to further the ideal, and orders her horn removed.

1 DW-2nd of August-Up to this point, Celestia has refused to go on the offensive against the Republic and UCI. However, after a heart to heart talk with Swordn Shield, she caves in and agrees to allow offensive operations to take place again.

1 DW-3rd of August-Jade goes into a deep depression, alone for the first time, imprisoned and without purpose. She is put on suicide watch. The First admits to Viola he plans to turn Jade into an assassin.

1 DW-6th of August-The Vanhooven Defence- Since Celestia did not allow any advances or counterattacks the UCI commanders thought it meant she had given up the will to fight, evident by her physical and mental well-being. This meant while they were more reckless in their attacks, it also meant that they were also careless. When Celestia allowed offensive operations to take place once again, the road to Vanhoover was practically undefended.  Sun Shine led an attack force deep into UCI territory with no one the wiser. Vanhoover was on the sunnier side of the UCI, as was its only major warm water port.

It was important for trade and as a naval base, despite the fact the war had not taken to the ocean, it was still essential for stopping pirates. Viola was sent there a few days earlier since the First sensed Viola's disagreement with what he was doing to Jade, and decided it would be best if she was out of the capital until Jade's training was done.  Her job was to oversee the update of the fleet. Most of the ships were sailed using ballista’s or primitive cannons, and so they were being replaced by ransacked pre-WW1 designed battleships, which could outrun and outshoot a whole fleet of pirates.

Most of the fleet just before the battle had been beached outside the city, where they were supposed to be broken down into materials to be recycled, but they never had the chance when they Empires army came into sight. The battle itself was actually usual fair strategic wise, with the Royal guards using siege weapons to soften up the walls and then assault them en mass. The defenders of the city were vastly outnumbered but Viola had given them a major advantage. Although the ships were not taken apart they were disarmed, so Viola organized her engineers to install these weapons on the battlements. The shear amount of siege weapons and placements made it very hard to gain any ground, however Sun Shine had a brain wave.

Putting her siege weapons on the beached ships, she ordered half her army to sail out an assault by see, before unloading on the docks. However, Viola had seen this coming and before retreating into the city, she had gotten the workers to stack the ships full of gunpowder. Once they had set sail, a swarm of heated shots, fire arrows and magical fire bolts blew up the whole fleet. With half her army gone as well as her siege weapons, she retreated. While Viola had won the day there were side effects to the battle that made in more of a tie. While Vanhoover was defended, the land between the city and Canterlot was taken by the Royal guard. Now the docks were right on the edge of the UCI and now for the first time since the start of the war the Solar Empire had actually taken land back.

1 DW-6th to 10th of August- It is around this time that Blackmare reappears in the Crystal Empire, apparently either faking his death or perhaps his so called immortality brought him back from deaths embrace. He manages to get control of the rebel group and convinces the group to becoming more aggressive and open. He also tells the people that by breaking their neutrality once the war was over the Empire or Republic would come after them as revenge, or would simply attack them now to destroy a strategic advantage that the UCI possessed. This hits a nerve with the people as this was something they feared for a long time but didn't have a say in the matter, resulting in the group gaining many followers . Blackmare, in order to avoid being tracked down by the Republic, changes his name to Sombra.

1 DW- 8th of August- Jade gets out of her depression but denounces her name, along with whatever name she had as a changeling. Free of the queen’s influence, she wishes to start fresh. The First starts visiting regularly and her assassin training begins. The First also suggests the name Elizabeth, a human name, which she takes.

1 DW-11th of August- the Chrystal Empire's council send out a bounty for Sombra for ten thousand bits, dead or alive and contact the UCI over the matter. The UCI reply by sending a few hundred soldiers to support the local guards. While this isn't much compared to the amount of ponies fighting in the war, it is twice as much guard the city had originally and the council is quite pleased.

1 DW-13th of August- The First starts teaching Elizabeth about UCI and general philosophy.  However, to his surprise, she has interesting counter arguments to his philosophy of order. This amuses him and he spends more time with her.

1 DW- 14th of August- While many small battles and skirmishes happen between the three major factions, conflict breaks out in the Chrystal Empire. One of the mines come under attack by the rebels and is ransacked. Shortly after rebel stir up trouble in the streets of the city and a riot erupts. Now they hold a mine, Sombra starts experimenting with crystals, knowing about their strange magic power and wanted to harness it so he could return to the Republic powerful enough to destroy Luna.

1 DW-16th of August- The city seems to be more and more up in arms over the matter, slowly getting the impression that the council want to line their pockets over protecting them. This causes the heart to dim, which terrify the council.

1 DW- 17th to 21st of August- More skirmishes break out between the guards and rebels. On the 21st day the heart goes dark and the people riot on the street demanding the council step down, which, afraid for their lives, do. Sombra declares that the empire needs a king, and he will take up the role to lead the empire into a better tomorrow. The new King Sombra continues to ship crystals to the UCI despite what he said earlier to the people, but only half as much as the previous government. Instead, he keeps the other half for his own personal experiments.

1 DW-26th of August- The First himself come to negotiate the terms of this new trade agreement but no matter what the first says, including threatening to go to the Republic about his true identity, he does not budge, even declaring at the end of their negotiations that he will now send only a quarter of the original amount. The First sends a messenger to Luna about him. Council members make their way to the Solar Empire and beg Celestia for help which, due to her new calmer and more merciful nature, organises to take the city back.

1 DW-31st of August- Luna gets the letter and prepares to march out. Luna already had men in reserve when she received the letter while Celestia had to bring men back from the front lines. As such the both left for the Chrystal Empire around the same time.

1 DW-2nd of September- Sombra gets word of the two forces heading towards the empire. desperate, he forces magic built up inside the crystals directly into his body, draining all the magical essence from them turning them black. However, along with vastly boosting his power, it also vasty alters him, changing his body, as well as his mind, into the form most well-known.

1 DW- 3rd of September- Sombra goes on a rampage through his own kingdom, enslaving everyone in the city, affecting both their bodies and their minds before hiding the crystal heart away in a secret room in the palace. He then gets the now enslaved ponies to mine crystals, which he then sucks the magic out of and boost his strength.