Shard, daughter of King Sombra and a mother her father told her died giving birth to her, has lived her whole life in her fathers palace, never allowed to go outside or even glance out a window, but when she finally sees the outside she begins to see her father for the tyrant he is and and learn the truth about her mothers death. She must leave and find someone that can help her and it is obviously going to be her fathers greatest enemies, The Princesses Luna and Celestia, of Equestria.