Along with the status of certain death.

I'm sorry to report that I will not be continuing the story of Fading Echoes.

I encountered the all-too-common problem of sailing into a wall, only my compass was pretty much broken from the start. I could never come up with a set story to tell, only occasional bits and pieces of encounters that couldn't really be tied in.

Maybe Echo's mental trauma on behalf of Unity would have created some sort of unconscious pseudo-link with it. The "memories" of casting specific spells would have thus been explained. There wouldn't be any "communication", but memories and the like may have been shared.

Vista...

Damn it, I really had a good story for him. Classic tale of Pre-War tech corrupted in horrific ways. His tale, however, is one that I could place into many alternative FoE fics. I'll get onto it later, but suffice to say, we will not be seeing the end of this well-dressed stallion.

Speaking of which, I present the artwork done by the excellent poCHAINgun.

Emerald Blizzard, or just Emerald as I began to call her, was an OC sent as a request back in the days of chapter one. She was pretty much a color palette, and I didn't know what to do with her. Once I went back and started rewriting, I could fit several possible roles for her. A sister she loved killed. Vengeance would be key. It would have melded well with Echo's planned hatred towards alicorns. (I was planning on making him quite bigoted towards them) Probably not a love interest. Sneaky assassin, yes.

She also would have been killed. By who, what, when, I don't know. But she was going to be the redshirt.

Cirrus. Never got around to developing him. Was supposed to be some sort of "Enclave, but not really" guy. Felt too Sue-ish, with him being human, snagging nice armor and bringing in heavy aircraft right in the beginning. He may see a different role in the future.

I talked about a changeling once. Nope. That was post-season 2 excitement leaking through. I would have messed it up royally.

That's just characters. But that's all I really had. I could make a character, think of how they'd react to situations. But I couldn't MAKE those situations properly.

That was slightly more than a year ago.

A lot's happened since then. Namely, I think I could try again. Wipe the slate mostly clean, save the nice bits. It's be a new fic, one that isn't Fading Echoes. It won't be the same story, not by a longshot. Some characters will be making returns, but not in the same roles. Vista will be the most unchanged.

Humans, at least those from "the real world" are not going to be a part of this. They're too limiting.

I can't say when a new fic will be out. I can really only say a one thing about my ideas.

It's about time, and there's no time like the past.

Author's Note

If there are any questions, suggestions, complaints, death threats, promises of muffins, etc.

Throw them at me though the comments or PM.

Fading Echoes has faded away. But the stories are not quite dead.