Minarus was an average miner working in the Canterlot mines when he overhears his sister Luna is promoting equality of classes, driven on by his friends, he joins the army and is immediately raised to the rank of Officer, years pass as he witnesses the suffering and horror that occurs in the trenches of Equestria from rotting corpses left to die, horrible illnesses spread amongst men, poison gas that melts the eyes and flesh and creepy-crawlies devouring the living and the dead... Each event driving him to madness and recorded in this diary...