Princess Twilight Sparkle is very much in her infancy as a stateswoman. She's only been on the throne for three years, and she's still getting used to the responsibilities of being a royal, but Princess Celestia has other plans. Twilight Sparkle must travel to the Khanate, a conservative theocracy that is teetering on the brink of war. Now Twilight has to make a last ditch effort to prevent the continent from tearing itself apart.
However, royal duties fall by the wayside when she runs into an old friend in the most unlikely of places. As the world goes to hell in a hand-basket, two young women try and rekindle the spark of an ancient flame that had long been thought extinguished. The problem with flame is that it provides light, and in a country of shadows like the Khanate, certain people might not want that light to fall upon their plans.
Something is moving in the shadows of the Khanate. Someone else has a book of matches with which he plans to set the continent ablaze. How far will Twilight and Rainbow Dash go to prevent the world they love disappearing beneath a pall of smoke and ash.
Comments and Critiques are welcome.
Cover art by the fantastically amazing Bunnish.
Other Illustrations by the equally amazing Marik Azemus
Proofread by the No less amazing Stygian359, The Discernist, SP Meta and Curified.
Approved for the Goodfic Bin.
19 Chapters:
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Introit: The Foundations of Modern Equestria [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 28th, 2016
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Chapter One: Insurgent [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 28th, 2015
2,025
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Chapter One: Insurgent (Cont) [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 28th, 2015
1,890
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Chapter Two: Per Ardua [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Mar 9th, 2014
5,287
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Chapter Three: Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro Patrio Mori [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 28th, 2015
2,198
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Chapter Four: Attack [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Mar 29th, 2014
3,832
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Chapter Five: Reunion [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Feb 27th, 2014
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Chapter Six: Reconciliations. [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Mar 4th, 2014
3,110
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Chapter Seven: Change of Plans [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Nov 21st, 2013
4,586
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Chapter Eight: Complications (*) [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 14th, 2014
2,274
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Chapter Nine: Defence Reforms [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 2nd, 2013
3,774
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Chapter Ten: Masked Red [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Apr 9th, 2014
5,717
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Chapter Eleven: Detonation, In Which Things Explode [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 25th, 2016
2,466
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Chapter Twelve: Twist in the tail. [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Apr 6th, 2014
12,046
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Chapter Thirteen: Paws for Thought. [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Apr 26th, 2014
15,804
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Chapter Fourteen: Entanglement [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 6th, 2014
12,195
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Chapter Fifteen: Wrong Turn [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 12th, 2014
13,535
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Chapter Sixteen: Regroup [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 16th, 2014
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Annex A: On Valorossiyans. [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Apr 3rd, 2014
835
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Equestria is teetering on the brink of war. Twilight Sparkle is sent in to try and salvage the situation. Along the way she meets an old friend, and together they try and save what they had as the world around them burns.
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Twilight has arrived in a foreign land to secure peace between Equestria and the Khanate, however not everything is as it seems in the shifting mire of treachery and mistrust that is the Khanate.