Dark Ether, one of the last practitioners of the rare school of dark magic, ethereal magic, wants nothing more than to be known far and wide across Equestria as the greatest sorcerer who ever lived.

After writing countless reports on the nature of magic and spells and failing at every turn to get known through them, he one day finds what he thinks is the key to his destiny: The Blackheart Forest. If he can successfully travel across Equestria to reach and ensnare it with his magics, he stands to become the Lord of the Void--master of the ethereal realms.

But only after he pays a price for it.

The only thing he needs now is a helpful overseer to set him on his way, and that's where you come into play.