1. Marksaline the Necromorph Queen

The beginning of all things

The beginning of all things start in darkness. Or rather the light that makes the darkness what it is... There was once a tragic experiment created by the darkest of magic's by a cult of Necromancer's. The cult wanted to proof that even the darkest of magic's could be used for the good of anyone using it with good intend.

The way they keep going it was waaay beyond evil, but since they used it for the benefit of everypony and non pony races, would there experimentes proof everycreature wrong, saying dark magic can't spawn good things statement as false.
Yes, they graverobbed thousand after the last two wars. Both sides had bury all the killed soldiers and civilians in the Pony vs Griffon wars in seperate mass graves, but at least they would care for the fallen.

Care for using there body in a one of a kind experiment in their City Necropolis, that would birth a dark Alicorn of Necromancy, that would proof that even the darkest of birthrights could be used responsible if the foal of darkness would be raised right. Even if they might have to overthrow the Sun Alicorn in the process...

Anyway, they used over 20.000 pony corpses and 2.000 Griffon corpses with a lot of other materials to create a body with the help of a artefact of a black spirale converging on the top.

The result pleased them very mutch. A little Alicorn foal was ~~created~~ born from all the ingridiants. To there dismay was the foal nothing, but a dead corpse. They cursed profoundly about their failure, after actually creating a artefical Alicorn filly. Magic scans showed that it body was perfectly constructed. Despite not being alive, did the body don't begin to decay.

Twenty years after the creation of the Alicorn foal of darkness was no progress accomplished. The body was still liveless, but to every member of the Necromancer cult delight, did it not decay in the slightest way, rather it stayed exacly the way it was when created when getting damaged after 30 hours.

They experimentes a lot on the corpse of the artefical alicorn foal, what they learned was very useful in medical knowledge for treating living creatures tissue. It's body would reform even when cut into pieces.
That alone helped them found a false organisation through medical knowledge. One that was the leading experts on medical advancements and the healing of mental illness after they tested how a brain even in a dormant state reacted to electricity or magicaly manipulations.

The black spiral hidden within the city had filled their minds with revelations far beyond anyones imagination.
With its knowledge could many illness that had no treatment be treated if not completly cured.

The main part of the funds the organization made focused on there false public image for one goal. Bring life to the alicorn foal of darkness.

Twenty years after the creation of the 'Necromancer's of Light' was the sun alicorn Celestia still none the wiser of their true goal.

The Alicorn foal, Marksaline the Necromancer Queen. She would bring the light born out of darkness. The cult was proven right and it's belives true with there success of their offical face to the world. Dark magic was no longer a banned practice, even when strongly controlled by the sun alicorns lackies.

In time would their cult grow riches and influence, as to gain access to the royal sealed banned archives, 'the shadow library'.
All they had to do is play nice, benefit everyone around them no matter the race and humbly request access. It made no matter if they had to do so on a weekly basis for two centuries to come.
The foal of darkness was still preserved by the black spirale artefact, awaiting its awakening.

230 years after the creation of Marksaline the Necromancer Queen, did the cult leadership archived their goals. Princess Celestia granted them access under very tight observations of everything they read and learned from it.
To her growing dread did the 'Necromancers of Light' never give her a reason to disband the offical face of there cult and hunt down everycreature using dark magic openly or in secret. Her gamble of them revealing themself had backfired hard.
Something unexpected even after all this time.

After Princess Celestia giving the 'Necromancers of Light' access to the banned knowledge of the highly restricted royal archiv known as 'the shadow library', did they even gained more wealth and influence than anypony beside herself.
Most detailed charts of the medical sciences and magical mutations had filled gaps in their understanding of the bodies of ponies in particular.

Illness of mind and body was often effectivly and moraly acceptebel treated by their organisations facilitys, now their treatments timelines could get even be slightly reduced to increase their treated and cured individuals. No matter what the sun alicorn mare tried, she never found enough evidence to burn them and their secret cult to the ground.
Especially for the vital medical service only Equestria could offer, making them to valuable to dispose of them.

Even 500 years after the creation of the 'Necromancers of Light' did not a singel major event allowed her officially do to what she had planned to do from the first day of their organisation officially was founded, she could neither take over their organisation or simply burned it to the ash.
By now she even started to doubt that despite her prior experienced tragic past with dark magic users it seem to indicate that carefull and responsible use of even the apparently most mindbreaking and cruel looking treatments could manufacture more than formidable result in helping her citizen and her allies.

Inside Equestria did dark magic user often give enough reasons to hunt them down and make examples out of them, when Celestia personaly burned them alive in a public execution to show how invested she was in keeping her nation and citizens safe.

Still... The 'Necromancers of Light' never slipped up that would rectify retaliation by law to keep order.
In time did Celestia started to belive in their offical goals and tolerated their methods. As long it would be benefishal, would she stomach her own hypocritic nature towards these deviants. Once they would slip up bad enough... would ash be all that remain of their leadership.

She had eternaty at her side and in time she would be proven right... eventually.
Leave a hero travel long enough and eventually he might leave his path and become a villain by their own actions or the action of others.
Just like ~~her~~ Sombra in a time far...far in the past.

(Edit needed) years before Nightmaremoon and Luna's predicted return did the 'Necromancers of Light' succeeding in something that never before was accomplished. The restoration of life in very recent deceased individuals (not longer than 30 days).
They unfortunately needed help from Zebra shamans from Zebrica to do it right, but they could bring the dead back to life. Not as undead! But truly restored individuals. It was a long process, cost enough to build a small mansion for eatch individual and devoured a lot of time but...
The end result was worth it. Nothing could be found against this amazing discovery.

Somewhere a stone statue chuckeld in delight.

The 'Necromancers of Light' revisited the alicorn foal of darkness with their gained knowledge and most importly learned why they never had successfully bring the foal to life.

A soul!

The foal never had a soul. She was like a puppet without strings to pull it's movements. That revelation had cost many Zebra shamans their life, but that was a small price for the cult to have found and identified how to bring the foal to life.

Marksaline the Necromancer Queen would be alive very, very soon...

Exacly one year later did all preperations were completed to create a soul with a blood ritual and some true belivers offer to sacrefice themself for the greater good. They would be noted alongside the founders, as the parents that give Marksaline life.

The ritual was performed at the Summer Sun Celebration as to keep Celestia occupied, in case the ritual magical cloaking would fail and their ritual was discovered. The Facility was extreamly well hidden and cost the cult almost two fortunes, but if they would archiv their goal?

It would be totaly worth it burning the underground facility to the ground if they bring life to the filly and flee with her to another facility to raise her in secret.

Unfortunately did the ritual successfully managed their goal, while it costing everyone in the secret facility their lifes. Above in Necropolis did many simply dropped dead.
After a initial panic did after half a year returned order to the underpopulated City.

When Celestia performed her yearly Summer Sun Celebration, did the world around her seem to scream in silence for a few seconds, when she was at the peak of her performance. She fullfilled her duty for the event and than teleported away.
The realm of accending had a new visitor!
Cadance was the last Pony to archiv Alicornhood and accended. Celestia would welcome her newest royal familie member very, very soon...

Cadance feel the disturbing of the ascention realm and waited for Celestia. After a few minutes teleported her Aunty directly into the throne room to pick her up. Together would they welcome the newest Alicorn to their royal familie.

A little filly found herself in a strange void of space. It was filled with light and rainbow colored clouds. It was quite the beautyful experiences to awake surrounded by lifeforce. Her spectral body feasted on it, but no matter how mutch her body tried to devour, there was more of it. At some point did her body was sated. Magic and life filled her every inch of her coatless and overall hairless body. The filly was as skinny as a pony could be without coat, mane or tail hair.

Her leather wings shined in a dull crimson light. Her crimson slitted eyes checked her every inch of body she could see in its range of vision. The foal than noticed something on its forehead. Two dull horns converging toward eatch other with space in between. It was humming with life energy. On it was apperently naturaly grown in glyphs.

If anyone could read they they would read:
- Make us hole...
- Life in death...
- Death in life...
- Discord was here ♡
- Isn't she to die for ?!
- Death is just the beginning...

Celestia and Cadance shifted together into the realm of ascending and found it feeling slightly emptier and less bright than before.
But they dismissed it for in the middle of nowhere was a littel crimson Alicorn Filly.

A mortal would find himself here, after a magical event would destroy their body and mix it with their soul. When the soul would leave the ascending realm would its soul be transformed into a immortal being. That physical vessel existed without a soul, since that thing was just used for up for its creation.

Once the Alicornhood would awaken after the manifestation of the Cutie Mark and the purpose and aspect it would control in the future be revealed.

It was so with Faust, Nightmaremoon, Luna, Celestia and Cadance.

The youngest to ascend Pony was about 15 summer old. This filly could not be older than two at best. Impossible to archiving ascending, yet there it was. Right infront of them. This was Impossible, yet it happend anyway somehow.

Celestia and Cadance could not imagen how a already Alicorn would ascend inside the ascension realm. It's mind was empty of memorys. The only image was a black spirale glowing with yellow glyphs of unknown origin that throw crimson red shadows. When the Alicorn watch for minutes this one looping image, did they could have sworn to have seen a faceless smile inside the crimson shadows of the artefact. Surprisingly did it don't bring dread, but a feeling of warmth and being surrounded. Never to be alone again... A hole in their heart, they never know about that would be filled with a promise.

~~I will make you hole again.~~
~~I will fill the light with darkness.~~
~~I will spawn darkness brighter than light itself.~~
~~Two will make one.~~
~~One will make two hole beings.~~
~~I am your past and your future.~~
My - name - is - Marksaline.

Author's Note

Light in the darkness.
Dark light brighter than it should be possible... At it's brightest it would still not blind anyone.

Stay Snuggly ♡

Edited the last time:
14.04.2024