May contain embarrassing situations, dirty jokes and heavily charged moments, but no blunt clop.

Spoilers may be in comments. Read at own risk. I have major surprises building.

A man is pulled across the dimensional rift to Equestria by a powerful artifact created by the royal sisters. What had been fiction became reality, where humans were just myth and fiction to ponies.

Princess Celestia and Princess Luna have only suggested it had to be for a reason.

But even they don't realize the full scope of what is to come.

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Book 1: Pathfinding

A man went out in the forest to enjoy some solitary immersion with his favorite passions like he'd done before. Upon finding a small orb on the forest floor that couldn't be natural in the middle of nowhere, an attempt to pick it up caused him to black out.

He awoke near blind, recovering in a hospital to strange voices and goings on. The return of his sight brought endless questions when he discovered he was in Equestria, answering questions from Princess Celestia herself, with Twilight Sparkle recovering in the same room from some sort of magical backlash when she had saved him falling from the sky.

Now in a world where he's supposed to be just a myth to the ponies, he has to make sense of reality in a new one, with no safe way home. There's a lot to sort through in a world he thought was just fiction.

And this journey has hardly begun.

(Working on major rewrite for B1. Redone Chapters: 1, next - Prologue)

Book 2: Rising Effort

Protect the Bearers or all is lost.

The strange, powerful voice that spoke through the image of the Tree of Harmony had so commanded him in the vision he isn't quite sure was just a vision. With glimpses of the possible dangers to come, a man out of place has his work cut out for him.

With innumerable questions about his life on Earth and how he arrived in their world, external threats are not his only troubles. His romance and soul link with Princess Twilight Sparkle bears questioning when he seems almost perfect for her desires and her bodyguard. Even to the point of wondering if he was somehow built for where he has found himself.

Drafted into the Guard by Celestia & Luna alongside the Bearers during the Royal Summit, he now awaits a special team being assembled that will arrive in Ponyville in another week. They are coming to help him protect the girls, and train both them and himself for the coming storm that threatens to consume not just Equestria, but Equus itself.

None of them know just how close to their doorstep danger already is.

Book 3: Taking Damage

Beginning summary presented when reached.

Book 4: Conflagration

Beginning summary presented when reached.

Book 5: Final Safeguard

Beginning summary presented when reached.

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Author comments from here:

This story will be finished.

It's a long road though, and due to the free-form nature of how I'm writing this story, updates are made when finished. Breaks can been days or months, but this story will be finished.

This is a long-term personal project for me. Particularly with the first book, which I am gradually doing extensive editing and revision on. It has been a process of me learning how to write.

Also, there will not be any blunt clop in this story, but this gets kind of complicated in later books and operates in context of the verse of this story. Outright clop just feels distasteful when it's not the intention of the story. Sexual situations will be present, but generally, I am trying to keep the sex itself alluded to or otherwise bypassed if there isn't a specific reason to involve it. Of course, later books will have more complex dynamics going on with these things. Sexually charged situations can have powerful story value, depending on how they are done.

~Could always use another proofreader/editor, drop me a line~

This story is predominately told from the perspective of my primary OC. Some otherwise indicated chapters will also do this. I try not to have a chapter change perspectives in the middle unless it's for a specific story reason in a scene. It should be easy to tell, as perspective shifts to third person perspective for any other characters.

This is initially set somewhere between S4E24 Equestria Games and S4E25/26 Twilight's Kingdom. I am largely ignoring the MLP movie, Equestria Girls, and the various comics because I have little exposure to them.

There will be cheese and cliche here, but those are merely tools. Not everything is as it appears at first, and small details or random name drops are sometimes laden with meaning or importance to reveal later. An ordinary earth pony stallion (or mare) could be tremendously important, despite living thousands of years ago. Small hint: The preceding sentence references to specific characters of the verse. Simple statements might actually a pony cultural saying with history. I'm not doing things without purpose or reasoning despite my free-form writing approach, even for things that are a bit out there.

I borrow from and reference other fics at random in various ways. Only people that happened to know them will ever notice, if at all, as I am not making them stand out for the most part. And above all, I believe a story is read NOT for fancy, 'original' things on every page but for the unique adventure found in any given story. Why the bloody hell would we all keep looking at stories in all their forms when we know 99% of them have a happy ending if not for the adventure of the journey?

The cover art I found was rather fortuitous, resembling the Tree of Harmony on a kite shield and all. Until I've decided on something more customized, it will be the PH verse placeholder.

Cover art found here: http://imgkid.com/sword-and-shield-tattoos.shtml