My Little Fortress : The Legend of Golden Heart

My Little Fortress: The Legend of Golden Heart - A Local's Jargon

By: Pnoy

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Journal,

Dissapointed, I tried to make my way to the site described by the joural and by locals. But there was a tremendous raging river inbetween me and the site, a detail that was left out. If I am going to get past this obstacle it is going to take me some time to find a way around it.

But as night drew closer I was forced to break off from my search and to seek saftey overnight. Golden Heart must have been an outsider not to know about the Bogeyman and to regard the stories so lightly. Any adventurer caught out at night by themselves in the wilderness was surley doomed. Many heroes of countless triumphs failed to overcome the Bogey menace, and since the last known pony willing to take on the role perished decades ago. Ponies have been living in fear and controlled by the night since. The hero succumbing to the same fate that many of the ponies forced to live on these vile lands are destined aswell.

~Adrian Hoof

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Celestia was able to maintain a beautiful world for plenty of ponies for a long time. But times have changed and industrialization requires more resources and more pony power. Our cities grew and developed, driven by the forces of magic our world took shape. Many tools and utensils, forged of concentrated light from the power of every unicorn's magic. Structures arched monuments, testaments to our archeatechatual feats. But as we grew we need more space, and space Celestia could not afford to give us, her powers at her already stressed limits.

So in order to continue the expansion of Equestria many ponies were sent out in colonies across the unsettled, magicless lands. having to take a step backwards in our progress due to the lack of magic aura in the lands to power our magic craft we were forced to put many pony's lives in danger while they waited in the unknown without many of the neccessities they were accustomed to.

Help and expertise was sent from the Earth and Pegasus pony clans to help the unicorns establish a magical presence by helping them settle the savage lands until they got the magic "terraforming," they depended on. As a workaround the civilization started shipping tools crafted from their magic to the colonies to help in their development.

After some time the magical empire figured out they were able to enchant items and the magic stored in them persisted in the magicless realm.

However it wasn't long until the colonies were plagued with diseases and other natural dangers they weren't exposed to from their lives under Celestia's bubble. Menacing beasts started to attack colonies claiming many ponies' lives. Celestia upon receiving news of several attacks responded by dispatching regiments throughout the colony's range. Many generals controlling the armies established fortresses to aid in patrolling and securing the lands.

Although their efforts have gone a long way in taming the lands the forces in the region remained uncontrollable and ponies still found themselves in harms way on a regular basis.

So to help relieve the mounting crisis, Celestia with a council joined by the Elements of Harmony came together to formulate a plan. After a few days the commission came up with a plan tasking the Elements of Harmony with founding an underground expedition and freeing the land based on evidence of an underground world that may be the source of the sinister enviroment.

A map which revealed the location of the only known entrance to the underworld had foretold of an ancient curse based on the decriptions left on it. it was a code only Celestia was able to transcribe with the help of her student. It told of a wicked Unicorn, its heart blackened by a mythical object and its ability to corrupt the purest.

During Celestia's studies of the note left on the back of the map she realized Sombra's lover, Ester, was the wicked unicorn. She had attempted to usurp Celestia in the pass with an occult movement, but when Celestia defeated her movement, she vanished. She wasn't heard of, or seen since.. But it appears after her vanishment she hadn't gone into retirement.

Whatever the case was, they had to find the hidden location and overcome whatever evil was behind this. But unfortunatly the map was torn and with it the destination they seeked. After Celestia's agents gathered some information that they managed to find the location of the missing peice.

The missing peice was only to be with Golden Heart, an earth pony who appeared to be an aspiring adventurer and hero, a not so typical adolescent struck with wanderlust. A local hero in his home town, where it was easy to get information on him. locals told many tales of his heroism even as a younger stallion.

Informants reached out to his family who wanted little to do with their investigation. It turns out they weren't so much interested in Golden Heart getting into a life laden with peril and dangers, let alone setting out by himself. And the news of his tragic and untimely death couldn't of made it any easier.

It appeared as agnets were close to finding the location of the map fragment they seeked, he had taken it with him aspart of his belongings on his 'ponysal crusade,' as many local ponies described he mentioned it as. He appeared to have been on some sort of enlightenment that was cut short.

And so without the map peice they couldn't find the location to the hidden gateway. That is where I come in. They hired me to retrieve the map fragment, as I am a hardened and experienced survaivalist. From the intelligence they supplied me they gave me a description of Golden Heart, that he is suspected to have the map on him, and his suspected whereabouts. I am to find him and retrieve the fragment.