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900 years ago, during the final years Queen Celestia's reign when everything was fantastic,
Magic, ran, out.
No one knows exactly why, but since then the world went to hell. Balance and harmony has nothing but failed.
All aspects of magic that helped us disappeared; no flying pegasi to control the weather, no earth ponies to farm to make food, and most of all, no able unicorns to control the magic to make it all better. Even other beings were crippled; gryphons and dragons lost the power of flight as well, and other races lost their magical ease in farming.
Food became scarce, riots broke out and life became stressful. After the equestrian civil war that nearly killed every one, we like Equineland went from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy. Parliament was created.
They introduced factory work and greenhouses to combat the food shortage but it wasn't going anywhere. Not all of us were strong enough to do factory work.
Oh when that day came, it changed the course of history. When a clock making stallion named Cogsworth Clockgear introduced a new idea that would help us in our battle to survive,
Machines,
Though the idea was stupid at the time, when the queen disappeared and the gryphons threatened to take over, they listened.
When the inventor died, we named his contraptions after him, we called it Gear. It has been like that ever since. We use Gears in every day of our lives, from household appliances to weapons and airships. It replaced that hole in our lives that magic occupied. The thought of magic faded out of our minds. Becoming a legend that we don't worry about any more, sure life is still hard but it became bearable. It's not what is happening now
Now, we are on the brink of war.
We have been in argument with the gryphons for a long time, and the argument has become more heated, with the new Prime Minister, Cornelius Maggle. The gryphonites leader, General Iron Claw started to threaten him for the equestrian factory secrets that made life so much better. Those communist gryphs wanted to have what we owned, our ideas on the Gears.
My name is Cogsworth Archsmith, and this is my story of how war can turn your whole life to hell.