Equestria is split into Six Houses, one for each of the lineages of the six heroes of old and Queen Faust that beat the Windigo Queen Chione at her own game using Heartsbane and banishing her to cold slumber. Now eight thousand years after the battle that created the land of Equestria that has brought peace to the land- she has awoken.

But unlike the days of old, the rulers of Equestria are split in their own games and tricks. The newly annexed Empire of Crystallos headed by their Princess in mourning and her daughter are causing stirrings in the North, the Queen's Inquisition that follows the word of the Faustian dynasty keep the peace in the six holds, and the Usurper, Princess Luna is building a thestral army in the south.

Ponies are mistrustful of each other and so the land is right for the spread of the same hatred and strife that made the six heroes of old almost lose hope.

This time the winter cold might be here to stay.