Equestria is changed: I feel it in the magic, I feel it in the earth, I feel it in the sky, Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. It began with the forging of the Great Amulets. Three were given to the Unicorns, magical, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven to the Earth Ponies, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And Nine, nine amulets were gifted to the race of Pegasus who, above all else, desire power.
 
For within these amulets was bound the strength and will to govern each race. But they were all of them deceived for another amulet was made. In the land of the Crystal Empire, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark King Sombra forged in secret a Master Amulet to control all others. and into this Amulet he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life, the Alicorn Amulet, One Amulet to rule them all
 
But there were some…who resisted. A last alliance of the three types of ponies marched against the armies of Changelings. On the slopes of Mount Doom they fought for the freedom of Equestria. Victory was near, but the power of the Amulet could not be undone. It was in this moment. when all hope had faded, that Celestia and Luna, daughters of the queen, took up they parent’s swords. King Sombra, the enemy of the Free Ponies of Equestria, was defeated
 
The Amulet passed to Luna…who had this one chance to destroy evil forever. But the hearts of ponies are easily corrupted. And the Alicorn Amulet has a will of its own. It betrayed Nightmare Moon to her death. And some things that should not have been forgotten…were lost. History became legend…legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years the Amulet passed out of all knowledge.
 
Until, when chance came, it ensnared a new bearer! The Amulet came to the creature Gollum, who took it deep into the tunnels of the Rainbow Falls. And there, it consumed her. The Amulet brought to Gollum unnatural long life. For five hundred years it poisoned his mind. And in the gloom of Gollum’s cave It waited. Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a Shadow in the East…whispers of a nameless fear. And the Alicorn Amulet perceived…its time had now come. It abandoned Gollum. But something happened then the Amulet did not intend, It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable, A pony…. Clover the Clever of Ponyville. For the time will soon come when ponies will shape the fortunes of all.