The unicorn Magna Bellatrix was one of the greatest warriors of her time. She has mastered the most advanced of the known arcane arts, fought in the most bloody of battles, and had slain the most nightmarish of beasts and monsters few minds in this old world could ever dread to think up. But for all the admiration she has gained and the glory she has earned, Magna somehow craves more.

And it seems her unfeasible desires have received an answer. Of late, her dreams have been wracked by queer visions. They tell her all she has longed to hear -- that she would meet her destiny in dead, macabre lands never before beheld by pony eyes. More than euphoric to greet her fate head-on, she abandons her kingdom, trekking southward into the depths of the life-barren wastes far beyond its iron borders.

After a long and arduous journey, she finally arrives at a great and foreboding black structure straight from her dreams. Reeking of alien energies, it seems to protrude with a foul but beating life of its own from the colorless and bleak terrain. Fearlessly, Magna enters the jagged structure, only to find that a single fell entity lay within. And he has been waiting a great many years for her esteemed presence, and hers alone...