Terminal World

by Erol carstein

Inspired by Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds. Canterlot, the last equine city. A vast, atmosphere piecring metropolis were your level of comfort in life depends on how high up you are born. When a ghost from the past turns up in the morgue, Twilight Sparkle, a pathologist from Neon Heights. must face her past, and an even that will reshape not just Canterlot, but the whole world

1. Prologue

And in that time, before the gates of paradise were closed to them, mares and stallions were as foals.

And so bountiful were the treasures and fruits of paradise that they lived four-score years, and some lived yet longer.

And in that time Equestria was warm and blue, and many were its provinces.

So it was that the Pre Equines came together and built Canterlot, so that they might transcend the mortal plain and become one with the divine.

Up and up they built. Until so vast was the spire, so majestic in its grandness, that it pierced the heavens themselves.

And so it was that Faust turned her eye to the Godscraper, and sent her alicorns to watch over it.

For none who are mortal may possess the key to become immortal.

But the Pre Equines of that day knew no honour, no loyalty, only greed.

And so did they rebel against the alicorns, and waged war on one another for control of the Godscraper.

And in her anger, Faust did turn her fury on Equestria.

So it was that the Eye of Faust burnt through the world, and the gates of paradise were sealed.

They have not opened since