In the beginning, there was chaos.

The land of Equestria lay in ruin. Pegasus, Unicorn, and Earth ponies alike suffered famine, disease, and war. Rivers flowed backwards into the mountains, drying the plains and freezing the peaks solid. The sun and moon shared the sky, never setting, scorching the earth, burning the forests, and boiling the sea. The Pegasus' clouds evaporated away and the air was too hot to fly in without their feathers catching fire.

All ponies were forced to dwell in shadows. They suffered. Some even went mad and murder, cannibalism, and mutilation became commonplace. Life in Equestria was a living Hell.

And at the throne of this chaos sat Discord, laughing with glee. The pain the ponies endured as mountains toppled down or as their neighbors went insane brought him joy. He couldn't get enough of it.

Some ponies tried to resist Discord. Some even sought to cast him from his throne. But these ponies underestimated his power and his cruelty, and it wasn't long before they were destroyed or tortured into insanity. The ponies in Equestria slowly gave up hope that there would be any salvation. The world was so without hope that ponies began to give up on life itself, laying down an letting themselves die. Their bodies piled up, decaying rapidly in the scorching sun until all that remained were their brittle, sun-bleached bones.

Finally two daughters of the sky, a Alicorn of the sun and her sister, of the moon, could no longer stand idle and watch the ponies suffer. Against the will of their predecessors the sisters descended to the earth. The eldest commanded the sun to take refuge beneath the horizon to allow the air to cool. The younger commanded the moon to wash the world with its gentle light and shift the tides, calming the sea and bringing the rivers back from the mountains.

The water quenched the drought-stricken earth. The eldest Alicorn raised a gentler, kinder sun. It's rays nurtured the quenched earth and helped plants sprout. The forests began to grow again, the plains stopped burning, and very, very slowly life began to return to Equestria.

But the Equestrian Hell would not be fully healed until the two sisters confront Discord. And now, the time has come to face him.