The world-renown glassmaker known as Prism Glass is often tasked with one of Equestria's most important duties. To record its history with her art. Every piece, unique. Every pane, special. And the methods she uses to capture those moments? Even more so.

These are the stained glass stories behind each of her works.

This story has a special upload schedule, as it will only update one chapter per completion of my other stories.

This story was created to honor and commemorate my lovely artist DamayantiArts for all her continued support of my work and for her sincere expression of friendship, care, and understanding she’s given me.

This story is also being used to showcase all of her drawings as well as all of her unique and wonderful ideas she had for the story, so this is a collaborative effort between the two of us.

This story is a sequel to The Boy, The Sword, and The Stone

Tantabi

Incarnations of a powerful magic user's potent feelings, born and nourished by their regrets and anguish. Magical manifestations so strong, they gain a mind of their own, influenced by their original's darkest desires and most primal of instincts. Their ultimate goal is to fulfill their user's most heartfelt wish, unhindered by mental constructs like morality. Thankfully, or perhaps unfortunately, they are caged within the user's mind upon creation, and they can begin to influence and even overtake the user over time. Although cases of this happening have been incredibly rare since the magic needed to create one is far beyond the capabilities of normal creatures and ponies, there have been a few recorded cases of it in the distant past.

Ancient texts speak of a chilling theoretical possibility. From the very words of a pony who had been inflicted with one, translated to the best of my ability: "The magic mist had grown too strong. It rent the heavens of my dreams and nearly tore into the waking world. The damage it would have unleashed would have been catastrophic, had I not stopped it."

The scroll I took those words from is old, and unfortunately, the answer to stopping a Tantabus has been weathered by Father Time into illegibility, but all my research on them has given me one undeniable answer: I pray Equestria will never find itself facing even just one of them. The world would not have a hero big enough to save it then.

Cover Art was drawn for this story by DamayantiArts on Deviant Art. If you like her work, let her know!

Additional tags for involved characters: Luna and Celestia.

There exists a magical sword stuck in a stone deep within a forest. All who visit try to take it for themselves, but none prove worthy to pull it from me. As the stone that sword is embedded into, I feel sorry for them.

I don't get to choose whose worthy. Most don't even know I'm there. But I've been witness to every attempt. I know the heart of the creatures who visit and what they wish for. Most come with heartfelt desires of heroism and grandeur. Some few come to prove themselves, hoping to be better than they were yesterday.

And while many a kind soul has appeared that I personally would've proven worthy had I the option, still yet, none have had the strength to pull it. And now here comes the best of my champions. A small boy, with the most heroic of dreams and the most heartfelt of desires.

And the deepest wish to be better than he was yesterday.

Illustration was created by DamayantiArts on Deviant Art for this story.

Marianne Evergold is a kind-hearted girl with strange tastes, for she's the only person she knows whose favorite character is... Diamond Tiara. Snotty, bratty, childish, and vain? Perhaps. But she adored her all the same. The confidence with which Tiara carried herself was something she never had. In her eyes, Tiara was truly graceful and picturesque. And while she understood that drama needed a conspirator and Tiara was just the natural calling card for the show's writers, she never liked the idea that she was truly evil. So when the show ended its last season with her being turned to stone for her years of villainy and almost bringing Equestria to ruin... Mary could not accept it.

The only thing she could never understand was... why did they never give her a proper redemption? It always felt like they would. Yet they never did. And if by some miracle they ever did, she would never get to see it.

For she finds she awakes one day in the lands of the colorful Equestria. Far from home. So very far from friends. And so, so very far from family.

And in the horseshoes of Diamond Tiara herself, no less.

But at least she has a goal now. To save Tiara from that fate. Already with a history of bad blood halfway into the show, it would be no easy feat to redeem her as no one would allow her the opportunity after many years of treachery. But Mary vowed to never give up on Diamond Tiara and would keep to her promise come what may.

All while Tiara herself sat back silently in her mind, sealed from being able to take control of her own body again and watching it all unfold.

The cover art was drawn by DamayantiArts for this story. Consider supporting her work if you like it.

How do you begin to teach children the cautionary tales of, well, being overly good? When should we stop pushing our lessons of virtue and goodwill to them so they can learn the valuable lesson of self-preservation? At what point do we ever learn that things like self-interest are not necessarily bad concepts?

In the colorful world of Equestria, these questions become more poignant. As I watched my friend be reduced to nothing, I understood the perversion in those unbridled ideas.

Be warned. This is your story.

It doesn't have a happy Beginning, and it'll take nothing short of a journey to Change that. But this is how life in an early Kingdom of the Formless started for you, and how it will eventually End.

The conceit and ire of a time. The origin of madness. The fires of yesteryear. And sacrifice.

This is your tale. Brought about by one tragedy. You are Fated to fight against it. To do what you must. To love, and be loved. To see what we can't with Blind eyes.

I'm truly sorry, for this is the very start of your bout.

All in order to live free and to save all of your kind.

This is a prequel to A Kindled Change. It details the events that happened before the original 2012 version of that story. Chronologically, this is the first story in the three-part saga.

The absolutely stunning artwork was commissioned and created for this story, made by the artist Skyeypony on DeviantArt. If you're so inclined, feel free to give her some support on there too. Her gallery is full of amazing work!

When we talk about the art of words, how many of them go unwritten? How many thoughts get lost to the wind? How many souls are touched by your craft? And do you feel like you've created a timeless piece that speaks to the heart?

To others, and to your own?

Credit to the artist: DiscordTheGE

For the Star Rod of all things to be so delicate as to break from a simple fire breath... well, not even the seven Star Spirits could have predicted that it could! Nor would they have foreseen that it would send the Mushroom Kingdom's long-time archnemesis, Bowser, and all of his henchmen into a different universe entirely.

This is the story of a couple of would-be heroes who... wait a minute... no. This is the story of the Koopa King himself and his trusty advisor Kammy Koopa as he tries to take over the magical lands of Equestria.

Mario is out of the picture this time, so maybe now is the chance for him to finally be able to win?

This story is a sequel to A Kindled Change

A look into the life of Changeling Princess Chrys as it follows her day-to-day life in Ponyville while she slowly adjusts to the world of ponies, under the supervision and care of a newly crowned Princess Twilight. For a girl whose only ever known darkness almost her entire life, just living amongst ponies is no easy feat.

She finds that her hardest struggles still lie ahead as she works to make a suitable home for her kind. She has to learn to balance her school life with her duties as Princess to her kin and continue to take the steps forward into her new life without regressing.

But in an everyday life filled with strange quirky ponies like the citizens of Ponyville and the cruelty of being the only changeling in a grade school... just being able to keep moving forward becomes an unexpectedly hard task!

(The lovely art was created by the wonder Mutter_Butter.)

Taking that one necessary step forward to begin changing our life for the better requires a lot of courage. We must hold out our hearts and open up to others who will help us, even if we're scared of getting hurt. Life will not wait for us, so we must chase after it with all we've got. No matter how hard, how far, or impossible it may seem. We've got to find our happiness.

This is the story of one such changeling as she takes those first steps forward, her whole world changing right before her eyes.

((Cover art drawn by the fantastic Little Tigress.))