While Equestria was cleansed by Balefire at the close of the Pony-Zebra War, most of Equus remained unscathed. Resting across the Celestial Sea: the coastal city of Griffonstone; and homelands of the Griffons; continued to prosper long after Equine-kind was thought extinct. Two hundred years, and a change in regime later; an ideological divide has split the Griffon race among themselves. This divide led to the exile of hundreds of griffons to the barren wasteland that was once Equestria.

With tensions building between Griffonstone and the Exiles, all-out war seems all but inevitable. Two brothers must prepare themselves for what may come, but in this ever-increasing turmoil, is everything what it seems?