Since their discovery generations ago the Smokey Mountains of eastern Tenneighsee have been the exclusive domain of the Hooffields and the McColts. It's not that either clan bans outsiders from entering their valley, it's just that very few ponies are crazy enough to volunteer to become collateral damage in the war between the two clans.

Each successive generation has found it just a little bit harder to find a special somepony as a result. And then one fine spring day Daisy May McColt found her true love in Gaitlinburg...

...Too bad he's a Hooffield.