When Grogar woke up he felt something soft pressing against his side and something round and soft in his right hand, so he lightly squeezed what was on his right hand and was rewarded with a moan. He opened his eyes and looked down and saw Faust resting her head on his chest, her soft breasts pressing against his right side, she was wearing a purple see-through nightgown, only a nightgown and nothing else, while his hand was right over her cutie mark.

As Grogar looked at Faust the memories of a smiling filly playing in a field of flowers while he observed her flashed in the forefront of his mind, also in that memory beside him was another alicorn mare. She had the same cream-colored coat and blue eyes as Faust, but she had a short blonde mane instead of long red one. That was Faust’s mother, Lady Bonnie.

After Grogar saw that memory he lifted his right hand from Faust's cheek and used it to move a strand of her mane that was over her eyes, eyes that opened soon after.

“Good morning master,” said Faust as she looked at him with those baby blue eyes before she yawned, it was cute in Grogar's opinion.

“What are you doing?” asked Grogar just out of curiosity.

“Just warming my master at night,” said Faust as she laid her head on his chest again, of course being careful with her horn.

“C’mon, it’s time to wake up,” said Grogar gently.

“Do I have to?” said Faust like a child that didn't want to get out of bed.

“Do you want me to wake you like I did when you were late for your lessons?” said Grogar in a teasing tone.

*Sigh*”Ok,” said Faust as she sat up on the edge of the bed.

Grogar did the same before he got up and started to stretch his arms and legs, it seems his body had recovered, not completely but enough for him to move normally. While he was doing his morning exercises Faust just sat on the bed observing her lord. Soon the Lord of Tambelon finished his exercises and it became clear that he only needed time for him to recover his magic. Soon after that, he walked to the windows he, opened the curtains, opened the doors made of glass and walked out of the room onto the balcony to see the city.

Tambelon was a beautiful city that appeared to be made of stone and metal but somehow managed to mix medieval and modern styles, all of this beauty shined under the light of the first of the twin suns on the sky rising from the south.

“Beautiful isn’t it? How the city grew in your absence, my lord,” said Faust as she hugged him from behind pressing her breasts on his back and rested her head on his shoulder as she gazed at the city with him.

“Indeed it is, by the way, was there any strange item near me when I woke up?” asked Grogar as he remembered the items he was Displaced with.

“Yes, there was a bag beside your throne with many items, it is on the desk in the room,” said Faust as she let go of Grogar.

The Emperor walked back inside and spotted the bag on a desk on the opposite side of the room, with the entrance at his right and the bed at his left. Then he went to the desk, opened the bag and put all the items on the table. Faust just sat on the bed and looked at her lord as he organized the items on the table before he picked the metal cube.

“Activate,” said Grogar and the cube started to glow.

*ping*

The Mother Box made a simple sound but he somehow understood what she was saying, yes the Mother Box was a sentient being with a female personality.

“Hello to you too, can you scan the books?” asked Grogar.

*ping*

“Good. Do it,” said Grogar.

The MB floated from his hand to above the table, she started to emit a beam of light over the books before she stopped.

*ping*

“Thank you, you can rest to assimilate the knowledge and also could you map the ‘surroundings’ of this part of the multiverse?” said Grogar to the MB. Before MB’s lines stopped glowing a small chain grew from one of her corners, considering that she was the size of a sugar cube, to him in his new size, now she looked like a keychain with a hook.

Grogar left MB on the table, then picked the Key of the Gate of Babylon and the All Black Necrosword, he felt them bond with him. He felt them invade his mind in search of something, whatever they found caused both them to approve of him and disappeared into his new dimensional vault.

With that done Grogar decided to take a bath. So Faust led him through a door near the corner of the room into a luxurious bathhouse with a small private pool filled with crystal clear water, after that she stood near the edge and motioned for the pool. Unceremoniously he took off his pants, the only piece of clothing on his body and the only piece that resisted the ravages of time. The only reason that it resisted this long was the runes and glyphs etched onto it.

Grogar felt the refreshing water against his body as he sat near the edge inside the pool with the water just at his shoulders and his back against the wall, nothing better than a refreshing bath to start a new day.

“Is the temperature of the water of your liking, master?” asked Faust just outside of the pool.

“Yes,” said Grogar as he relaxed on the shallow pool with the water level just below his neck, then he lifted one of his arms above the water and motioned for Faust to join him.

After a little more insistence from Grogar Faust used her magic to teleport her nightgown back to her room before she joined Grogar and teleported a small tray with what they need for this bath.

“Do you wish for me to call more servants to wash your body, my lord?” asked Faust as she knelt beside her lord in the pool, completely exposing herself to Grogar.

“Maybe another day. We have to speak with the Regent Council later today,” said Grogar as he closed his eyes, Faust nodded and proceeded to bath herself while Grogar did same.

Few minutes later

Faust was using her magic to hold a mirror in front of her while she brushed her mane, also she occasionally looked at Grogar who was now with a new pair of black pants. The alicorn felt power radiated from her master, he was almost at the level when he defeated her. Normally mortals couldn't feel the way his power intertwine with the very fabric of reality in this dimension, but she could feel his power permeating the entire world. The only ones that would be able to feel something were the mortals with a powerful connection to nature and users of magic that were powerful and skilled enough to detect the shift in the world’s energy.

“Much better, don’t you agree?” asked Grogar looking at Faust, he felt reinvigorated.

“Indeed, my lord,” said Faust as a chromatic aura appeared on her horn and in a flash of light she was wearing a black greek dress similar to the one from yesterday, then she added and asked, “It’s almost time for breakfast, after that we can meet the council, are these suggestions of your liking my lord?”

“Yes, they are,” said Grogar.

“I look forward to getting to know my new lord,” said Faust as she placed one hand over her heart and bowed.

“You speak as if I’m not the same Grogar you knew,” said Grogar.

“Of course you are not, you are his new incarnation, the one that inherited his power and memories when you took his mantle and name, so you are Grogar, you are still my lord and master,” said Faust as she kept her stance of respect and submission.

“So, you know,” said Grogar simply.

“Yes, I can feel your soul and it’s fundamentally different from the original Grogar but there is no functional difference between you and him,” said Faust.

“Indeed,” said Grogar as he walked out of the room.

Once out of the room he let Faust guide him to the room where breakfast would be served. In there was a group of maids of different species waiting to serve him.

“Good morning, Lord Grogar,” said the maids while they bowed.

“Good morning,” said Grogar looking at the maids, one of the reasons he liked the villains more than the heroes, they always get the best followers.

Grogar sat at the head of the table he and suggested the maids to “surprise him”. In the end, they brought a feast and he ate almost everything since Grogar became the demiurge of Tambelon didn’t require food or drink but eating helped him recover faster as did sleeping, plus he could do it just for the pleasure.

The way Grogar ate a feast almost by himself reminded him of the anime Toriko was the character could eat outrageous amounts of food even by Shonen standards. But of course, he ate in a manner befitting of his status as Emperor and not like some shameless glutton. The food helped him to recover a little bit more of his magic since it was converted into energy almost immediately, it might take a while for him to be at full power.

*ping*

The Emperor picked the Mother Box and put her on the table. Then he noticed that now she had a glowing circle on each facet with constantly shifting between colors and the details on each facet around the circle were different.

“Leave us,” said Grogar to the maids and they did so by leaving Grogar alone with Faust.

“So how do you feel? Also, could you speak normally? I think what you are about to tell is something Faust should hear,” said Grogar.

“As you wish my lord, I took the liberty of absorbing the objects that were floating just outside of the barrier of our local dimensional cluster, the ones called Tokens,” said MB in a female voice.

“Good, you can deactivate yourself if you want, I will call you when I need something,” said Grogar before he affixed the MB on his belt again and looked at Faust.

“As you heard there is a lot going on outside of the barrier of our universal cluster, so be aware of any interdimensional visitors in the future,” said Grogar.

“Yes master,” said Faust.

“Before we meet the council, there something I want to tell you. Faust, you have been a good servant so I will reward you, ask me anything you want and I will do it for you so long it doesn’t prove to be a problem in the future,” said Grogar.

“I have one wish, but I don’t know if you will approve,” said Faust.

“What is it?” asked Grogar while Faust had an apprehensive look on her face, conflicted since she didn't want to upset her master and tell him her desire, but she had that wish since she was a small filly without a home.

“Could you bring back my mother?” asked Faust and waited for her master’s anger, but instead of preparing a punishment for her he had a look of intrigue and curiosity.

“I will think about this carefully, you will have your answer at the end of the day,” said Grogar as he got up.

Faust also got up in order to guide him through the castle to the Council’s chambers, on the way Grogar summoned the Necrosword and let it sink into his hand, then that he created a cloak of shadow and darkness, he just left his head without the hood.

By the time they reached the Council’s chambers Grogar could hear voices on the other side, then he opened the double door and he entered followed by Faust, which caused the owners of the voices to stop talking and bow to him.

“Lord Grogar, it seems the rumors of your return are true,” said a topless 15ft tall male anthro red dragon wearing armored pants and without shoes.

“Indeed. I assume you all are the Regent Council, the ones responsible for keeping things mostly under control,” said Grogar as he used his magic to create a throne for himself on the head of the elliptical table with half of the council on each side while Faust stood by his right side.

“Indeed we are, Your Majesty,” said a female gryphon that was half white tiger and half snowy owl who appeared young, but she had a lot of magic so maybe she was older than she appeared and he could see leather armor beneath her brown cloak.

“So what is the situation of my garden?” asked Grogar as he used Gilgamesh from Fate as an inspiration, he was the ruler of a world after all.

“Garden?” asked an old male minotaur with gray fur and mane but still muscular and healthy. He wore a greek like armor without a helmet.

“Yes, this world is my garden and it flourishes because I allow it. Everything and everyone that lives here belongs to me,” said Grogar doing his best impression of Gilgamesh.

“And they call my kind greed,” said the dragon to himself.

“And no matter what they fight over because if it's in this world than it’s mine,” said Grogar after he heard the dragon's comment.

“Even so, we need to announce to the empire that its true ruler has returned,” said a pony mare with an orange mane and gray coat wearing a white greek dress but the most surprising fact about her was that she was an alicorn.

“And you are?” asked Grogar.

“I’m Gray Forest, once a student of Lady Faust,” said Gray Forest as she bowed her head in respect.

“Which reminds me, I wish to know the names of the ones that kept some semblance of order in my garden while I was on my great journey,” said Grogar.

“I’m Hard Rime,” said the gryphoness.

“I’m Minos,” said the old minotaur.

“I’m Ixen Jeski,” said the dragon.

“I’m Kyron,” said a centaur similar to Tirek but with light blue and white fur instead of red and black.

“I’m Bara gra-Urag from the Razorback clan,” said a female trogg, she was a 7 ft tall anthro boar woman with a muscular and voluptuous body that wore leather armor.

“I’m Lexi from the Mountain Carver clan,” said a female diamond dog that had a slender body with bigger paws, she wore a yellow jacket and a spiked collar with a dog tag.

“I’m Queen Phyllia,” said a 10ft tall changeling queen with a brown mane, brown slitted eyes and was wearing a green blouse with a floral long skirt.

After the introductions Grogar learned about the current state of his empire, all the laws he made when he let his forces live here were still in place, in fact, he made them integral part of this dimension so if any of his laws were broken the dimension itself will give the appropriate punishment, this freed Tambelon from the need of prisons, mostly.

Grogar learned of the different groups, clans and species throughout the land as well as their history and culture, apparently, millennia of adaptation and magic helped different species to appear, some branching out of an already existing species, either through evolution or hybridization, and others created as result of some magical experiment.

Old Grogar took in not only many cults that worshiped him but also those that were rejected by their societies for being different. He did that because he came from a time where differences didn't matter since all suffered under the gods of yore. That and the fact that they had so much unappreciated potential.

And it seemed that this action resulted in not only the Tambelonian version of many species having far greater diversity than the Mundusian counterpart but also in the growth of species that were probably extinct on Mundus by now, as many of them were dying off because of conflicts with another species in one form or another when they were recruited.

One such example was the Tambelonian gryphons that were a combination of any bird and any feliform or caniform unlike their Mundusian counterparts that were just a combination of an eagle and a lion, not only that but they develop into different subspecies and new species as well, the same applied to the sphinxes, chimeras, gargoyle and manticores, all species that were closely related to the gryphons. Now they have the normal or classic gryphon, opinicus gryphon, axex gryphon, keythong gryphon, hieracosphinx, hippogryph, reverse gryphon or anzu, criosphinxes, hesiodic sphinx, lamassu, pygmy gryphon, semargl and simurgh.

Many non-sentient magical species, many of which were on the verge of sentience evolved and created their own culture in the millennia that passed, unlike their Mundusian counterparts who never evolved past that animal phase, they were smarter than average animals but were just animals nonetheless. The best example was the manticores.

Additionally, Old Grogar didn’t let any species control the weather, they could lessen its impact but not control it, as a result even species like the breezies became stronger and unlike their equestrian counterparts they use many forms of magic instead of just “pollen magic”. That also meant that they had divergent evolutions.

It was just sad to see that the breezies of Mundus became so fragile that even a strong breeze or a leaf was a great danger to them. They were not this weak on Old Grogar's time since they had to be strong enough to survive in the world instead of relying on the environment controlled by ponies, which was the reason why equestrian breezies were the fragile beings that they were today.

At this point “breezies” was a misnomer, nowadays they were known as “fairy ponies” and they could be classified by the magic they use. Interestingly they were closely related to the changelings, in fact, changelings fall in the same category, they could be considered “normal sized fairy ponies” or flutter ponies that were corrupted by dark magic and became more insect-like.

Other species like dragons, chimeras, gargoyles, nagas, merfolk and few others evolved and adapted further thanks to the magic of Tambelon. Species like ponies, zebras, giraffes, deer, caribous, minotaurs, goats, arimaspis and few others stayed mostly the same throughout their millennia in Tambelon, but they acquired some extra features that were very subtle while others were very pronounced, again through either adaptation, magic or hybridization.

And lastly, many normal animals that came to Tambelon from Mundus also developed sentience –many but not all of them–, again through either adaptation, magic or hybridization that was either by design or accident. That was the origin of what was now known as beast folk, beings that evolved from those beasts. There were folks of canine, feline, avian, rodent, lagomorph and lizard variety.

Interestingly alicorns and draconequus reappeared on Tambelon, but they were not like the Old Gods, they were just long-lived and powerful mortals, more in line with a demigod and for them to become a “complete god” they have to undergo a “second ascension” otherwise they remain mortal.

In the end, Grogar opted to visit the major cities to announce his return personally and with that, the council meeting ended, so he left the chambers. He went to the throne room to make some preparations.

As Grogar sat on the throne with Faust standing by his right he opened a ‘window’ in the air, it was like a screen but the edges were made of green and red smoke like energy, to see the Equestria that has the strongest connection to Tambelon, besides he needed to know where in the timeline he was.

On the window he saw the city of Canterlot, it looked just like in the show but with anthro ponies going about their normal routine in this afternoon, when he moved the window to the castle he saw Celestia in her room as she read some documents and heard a gasp.

Turning his head he saw Faust with her hands covering her mouth as tears ran down her face.

“Why do you cry Faust?” asked Grogar because he didn't know what caused such a reaction.

“I’m sorry my lord but it has been so long since I last saw her, my little filly has grown into such a beautiful mare…,” trailed off Faust as she continued to cry. Grogar waited for her to calm down, after she composed herself she spoke, “Sorry that you had to see me like this.”

Using his right hand he lifted her chin slightly with the tip of his index finger.

“Be proud of this feeling it means that you care about her, it means you are her mother, there is no need to apologize,” said Grogar because he knew the importance of family, both from his life as a human and as Old Grogar.

“Thank you, my lord,” said Faust quietly but loud enough for Grogar to hear.

Turning his attention back to the screen and with a swiping motion six smaller windows appear, three on each side, showing six familiar ponies.

On the upper left he saw Fluttershy giving food to Angel, she was a 5ft 7in tall pegasus pony mare that had a butter yellow coat, a light pink mane and tail both slightly longer than the average pony and teal eyes, she was wearing a green sweater, pink pants and was without shoes in her home.

On the middle left he saw Applejack kicking some apple tree on her farm, she was a 5ft 9in earth pony mare that had a light orange coat and a blonde mane tied with a red ribbon near its end, a similar ribbon of the same color at the near end of her tail, she has forest green eyes and was wearing a light brown Stetson hat on her head, loose overalls, a flannel shirt and simple horseshoes.

On the lower left he saw Rarity looking at a paper with a design she had yet to finish on her desk, she was an elegant 5ft 7in unicorn mare with marshmallow white coat, azure eyes and well kept and stylised purple mane and tail in vertical curls who was wearing a simple blue blouse and a light blue skirt.

On the upper right side he saw Rainbow Dash practicing her maneuvers, an athletic 5ft 5in pegasus mare light blue coat and a rainbow-colored unkempt mane and tail, which gave her a more wild and careless look, and magenta eyes, was wearing a black sports bra, shorts, fingerless gloves, bracers on her elbows and knees, and lastly simple horseshoes.

On the middle right he saw that Pinkie Pie was making cake only to stop and look around, Grogar shifted the energy of the scrying spell and she just shrugged and got back to her cake. It seems she has some form of sensitivity to magic around her but he could bypass that with the correct form of energy, she was 5ft 6in earth pony that had a pink coat and darker but still pink cotton candy like mane/tail and light blue eyes, she was wearing a white t-shirt with many splashes of color and yellow pants that were covered by her apron.

But the most telling was the window on the bottom right, the one observing Twilight Sparkle, a 5ft 5in unicorn mare that had a violet coat, purple eyes, her mane and tail were dark blue with a purple and a pink streaks, she was wearing a simple blue t-shirt and skirt with stars on it while she read a book on her old tower in the castle and Spike was dusting some of the shelves, meaning he was in pre-season 1, before Nightmare Moon’s return.

“My lord, why are you spying on those young mares? If you want a mare then you just have to ask either me or one of the servants, besides they can barely be considered adults, unless… you prefer mares that young,” said Faust, the last part rather coyly.

“No Faust, they have an important role to play in the future, I’m just trying to find where on the timeline this Equestria is,” said Grogar.

“You can predict the future?” asked Faust.

“More like calculate, I could use the same spell to see other timelines but this Equestria is the ‘closest’ to Tambelon and the one where we came from, essentially the Mundus 0 or Mundus Prime of our cluster in this region of the megaverse,” said Grogar.

“I see,” said Faust.

Grogar concentrated on a particular object and opened another window but this on the past of the Equestria 0, there he saw a unicorn mage doing some ritual and in the center of the magic circle was a familiar red stone.

“Yes! Soon enough I will have the power to overthrow that foolish mare, soon Celestia will learn her place, on her knees before me,” said the mage causing Faust to growl at that, throne who just threatened her daughter.

“Who is this fool my lord?” asked Faust.

“He is unimportant, what is important is the item he created, or should I say, he is creating,” said Grogar as he let a black smoke come out of his right hand, that smoke moved through the window and into the stone.

“And what item is this?” asked Faust, only for Grogar to point to the window.

When the ritual finished the mage picked the gem and placed it on a black necklace with the image of a unicorn on the top and wings on both sides.

“Finally the amulet that will allow me to rival an alicorn,” said the mage in a tired tone.

“The Alicorn Amulet, a fitting name don’t you think so master?” asked a voice coming from the door on the dark chamber as it was opened.

“Oh it’s just you, my apprentice, come we must test this,” said the mage as Grogar closed the window.

“Why the amulet is so important my lord?” asked Faust.

“It’s not the amulet it’s the trap I placed on it, I will place a few more traps on different locations at different times for later use,” said Grogar.

“I see,” said Faust before she asked, “What was the fate of that fool?”

“He died, stabbed in the back by his apprentice, who wanted the power for himself, this cycle continued until the amulet ended up in a store for antiquities,” said Grogar as he opened another window to show the amulet in a display in a shady shop, after that he closed that window.

Faust was confused by this but her lord probably has some plan that will be set in motion later.

Grogar closed the six smaller windows as well and moved the main one to show a familiar three-headed dog guarding a gate that led to seemingly nowhere, but he knew better.

“Is there any place on Tambelon that has a gate like this?” asked Grogar to Faust while he pointed at the gate, he could search for himself but it would be easier and faster if Faust knew about.

“Yes it appeared in a desert island a few miles west of the continent, the mages placed a barrier around it because we didn’t know where it led. All we knew was that the design was similar to the gate you built to connect to Equestria in the past,” said Faust.

Grogar opened many windows showing Luna, Celestia and many mages doing some kind of research, all of them seemed to be from different points in time.

“Apparently your daughters created that portal based on the pieces of my original portal, they hoped it would lead to a barren dimension that they could use as a prison. They never realized that they reestablished a connection to Tambelon, so they name this prison Tartarus and placed many prisoners there,” said Grogar.

“That would explain the appearance of the individuals that now live on that island, we kept the barrier up and never interacted with them,” said Faust before she added, “Also of special note on that place is a centaur that can steal magic from others.”

“I know about him, just keep the barrier up, I’m not interested in the prisoners, for now,” said Grogar as he closed all the windows except the main one.

“I shall inform the main guild of mages of this development,” said Faust as she summons a scroll and a quill.

While she wrote without looking using her telekinesis Grogar moved the window to show Cadence spending time with Shining Armor, not interested he moved it again to show Starlight on her village, again not interested he moved the screen to show Chrysalis as she directed her drones.

“Those Changelings are almost dying of starvation, what use they could have my lord?” asked Faust as she looked at one of the few Hives left on Mundus.

“They too have a role to play and besides more willing soldiers for my army,” said Grogar.

Throughout the day they checked different locations on Mundus, also took the time to evaluate the situation of Mundus' many kingdoms and the species that lived there.

Most of what Grogar saw he already knew but he wanted to be sure, Grogar also discovered that they had the Summer Sun Celebration recently, so he has at least a year until the return of Nightmare Moon, plenty of time for him to learn about his new empire. Then he lightly tapped the Mother Box and mentally requested the opening of two Boom Tubes.

*ping**boom*

The Mother Box opened two portals in front of Grogar just at the base of his throne and waited. It wasn’t long before smoke started to come out of the one on the right while from the one on the left a cold mist came out, after that two equine shapes came out of the portals one made of clouds and mist while the other was made of smoke and shadow, a windigo and a umbrum. They looked like their respective elements condensed into anthropomorphic shapes.

The windigo was the first to see Grogar and kneel just after that.

“Father,” said a female voice as she lowered her head before continuing, “It’s an honor to see you again.”

The umbrum leaned its upper body forward in a show of respect before saying in a female voice, “Lord Grogar.”

“The windigo I can understand, but why are you showing me respect, I expected you to resist,” said Grogar as he leaned his head on his right hand while his right elbow rested on the armchair.

“We umbrums owe our existence to you, not unlike the windigos even if in our case it was unintentional,” said the umbrum still in the same position.

“Now I’m curious,” said Grogar.

“I’m as well,” said Faust as she was noticed for the first time by the visitors.

They almost attacked her but they felt Grogar magic in her so they assumed he was somehow controlling her.

“The umbrums were born from the negative energies left behind by those that died in the Great Cataclysm, an event that wouldn’t come to pass had you not killed the gods of the old world,” said the umbrum.

“That’s a fascinating story but that’s not the reason I summoned you two here. I have a proposition for you, join my army, I will give your species new bodies and I allow you to live here in my world,” said Grogar.

“Of course father, all of your sons and daughters will rejoice that we can serve you again, we thought you abandoned us after we failed to freeze the three pony tribes,” said the windigo with great relief.

“I'll be honest with you, your kind served their purpose, the fact that you evolved pass that is what surprises me. You didn’t fail your mission, you evolved past it and now you can join my followers here on Tambelon,” said Grogar.

“Thank you father,” said the windigo with conviction and gratitude.

“And what about you?” asked Grogar looking at the umbrum.

“I would like to wait and see how the infiltrator that we send to the Crystal Empire will fare before answering,” said the umbrum.

“You mean the foal you disguised as a unicorn, he will fail, or better yet he already failed his mission,” said Grogar as he chuckled.

“What?! How is that possible?” asked the umbrum alarmed at this news.

Instead of answering Grogar opened many windows showing the defeat of a certain unicorn umbrum by the two sisters.

“I pulled both of you from the past, a week before this battle. As far as Equestria’s history is concerned, this was the last sighting of a umbrum before they vanished. The ones that weren't sealed that is,” said Grogar.

“So we are destined to be wiped out,” said the umbrum not even trying to hide her frustration.

“I said 'the last sighting of a umbrum before they vanished’, it was never said how or to where,” said Grogar.

“So we vanished because we are destined to be here,” said the umbrum as she looked at the one she owed her existence to, time to repay the debt. So she answered, “We accept your offer Lord Grogar.”

“Good, take these rune stones,” said Grogar giving a small stone with a rune carved in it that he materialized to each one of the two before he continued, “Gather all those that want to come here. But be warned once you pass through the portal you all will have bodies of flesh and bone to better serve me and to live in Tambelon. If you don’t want that to happen they simply remain in Mundus and wait for your death. You have a week to decide. The choice is yours.”

As soon as Grogar finished his speech tendrils of energy came out of the portals and pulled the windigo and the umbrum back in before closing.

“Now we wait,” said Grogar.

Hours later

The suns of Tambelon were setting giving way to multiple moons and auroras.

Grogar and Faust spend the day seeing multiple turning points in Equestria’s history, he even saw other timelines to compare. After that they walked into a ritual chamber, a circular room with a circle carved in the floor, this room was located in the basement of the castle.

“If the power of your mother was used by me, then I can find her soul and revive her,” explained Grogar to Faust.

“And if you didn't use her power?” asked Faust.

“Then her soul still on Mundus. The chances of her soul being whole by now are almost zero,” said Grogar and Faust nodded accepting such possibility, she was just happy that he was willing to try.

Grogar used his magic to find a specific soul and after almost half an hour searching in every corner, every layer of Tambelon he couldn't find Lady Bonnie.

“She is not on Tambelon,” said Grogar and as Faust was about to give up he opened a window to Mundus again and reassumed his search.

They don't know how long it took but Grogar searched nearly the whole globe and didn't find her soul.

“I found her. It seems her soul managed to survive until the modern day,” said Grogar to Faust just as she lost all hope of seeing her mother again.

“Where?” asked Faust with renewed hope.

Grogar moved to the side to show her the window, it showed a familiar crystal structure in a familiar cave in a familiar forest not far from Canterlot.

It showed the Tree of Harmony.

Author's Note

Grogar knows about other Displaced but doesn't want to deal with them for now, but the tokens are stored inside the Mother Box and she can open Boom Tubes to other universes and timelines, here is how it looked:
(Jump to 0:23 to see and hear just the Boom Tube)

Also, check out the artist that made a complete 3D model of the Mother Box on the picture, HERE.

Many of the species listed on this chapter are from actual mythology or from other fantasy settings, I just removed/replaced the human features from them.
All sentient species on Tambelon are Type 3 or Type 4 anthro when it comes to body type. The ones from Mundus are almost all Type 3.
Grogar, Rime, Minos, Forest and Ixen are a Type 4 while Faust, Lexi, Bara, Phyllia and Kyron(the humanoid torso) are a Type 3.
If you are interested in learning more about it just click here.


Faust’s mother is a reference to Bonnie Zacherle. If you are curious the trogg’s name is in orcish from Elder Scrolls and the dragon's is in draconic from D&D. Also I might change this chapter later and it hasn't been proofread yet. Sorry if it's a “Infodump”, but I wanted to focus on the world building first by establishing the world and some of the species living in it. I was inspired by D&D and Zootopia.
Also check some of shepherd0821's other artworks.