During a gathering with her fellow alicorns, Celestia recounts a story about a time long past involving a lonely mare, and a burned stallion.

Set before Equestria's founding, and the arrival of Luna and herself when the world ate itself for no reason, two ponies met that would shape the future of the world. How a freak, and outcast came to eventually learn there was more to life then a little grove in the forest, and a greater purpose to life then tending to a garden. A story that Celestia, former ruler of Equestria claims to have shaped her into the mare they've come to know.

EDIT: This will be a slow burn romance/clop story with clop chapters marked.

Another attempt of mine to write a more mature story with a heavier premise as the backdrop. The tone, and writing are meant to reflect this (or so I hope), and hopefully convey the stark difference between antiquated and modern Equestria from the view of somepony that has experienced both. What helped inspire me to write such a story was partially influenced by the original Marvel Comics of Conan the Barbarian, and how its world is filled with a level fantasy mysticism I'm adoring.

While this story won't completely be filled with that level of magic, adventure, and near surrealism at times, I hope what is written will be convincing enough to bring a world to life.

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