"My name is Krystal Clear, and I live in a hole in the ground.
Well, it's a system of advanced caves that originally were pre-war, later expanded and eventually cut off from the tunnels connecting it to other caves around the Frozen Wastes, but it's more interesting to say it my way."

Equestria may have suffered directly from the war, but nopony there has any idea of the war against the elements occurring far north, in what once was the proud, beautiful Crystal Empire. There, a heart long forgotten waits, buried beneath two centuries of snow, as descendants of survivors fight both the constant snow and each other to survive in the brutal frozen wasteland of the North.

Meanwhile, forces running deeper than the scars of the past begin to awaken under the ancient land, memories of old and nightmares long since dead taking root once again...

Based on kkat's Fallout Equestria, set in a place utterly unreferenced in the original fic, this is my first fanfic. Credit to Cascadejackal for the temporary cover art, and for massive help with editing and bouncing ideas with.
(Marked Teen for gore, possibly will change it as worse things happen in later chapters.)