Before the Alicorns, before Equestria, before even the princesses themselves, ponykind had worshiped goddesses, deities of the earth, sky and of space and time itself. Lost within the annals of time itself and any records at all pertaining to or relating to of this subject, is a story of the first Alicorn, the foal who'd dared set out into the unknown world, questioning the existence and will of the goddesses themselves, and was given the the powers of a god himself, though at an extremely high cost. Delve into the abyss, leap into the deepest depths of Tartarus itself and learn what it truly means to be a god. This is the Epic of Byzantium, the rise, corruption and fall of the first Alicorn...