Something is stirring to the north.
Dispatched north by Celestia with explicit instructions to secure an alliance between Equestria and the Crystal Empire by any means necessary, Shining Armour journeys towards the very roof of the world in search of Queen Umbra. Yet this is a foreign land, and a foreign culture, and Shining Armour is about to discover that in the Crystal Empire it takes more than politics to secure what one desires.
Shining Armour searches within the depths of the Everfree for his target, unaware he has become the Nightmare's Tribute.
Shining Armour plunges the depths of the Canterlot sewers for the remnants of the Changeling swarm; unaware that he holds the attention of their queen.
Sent north to secure an alliance with the Crystal Empire by any means necessary, Shining Armour has his first encounter with the beautiful, yet dark, Queen Umbra