Vuren Sundown lived in an age before princesses and alicorns. A time where an ancient clan named “The Sundown Clan” carried out the deeds to raise and lower the sun as a collective group.
Vuren was renowned for her exceptional ability with crossbows, capable of shooting a bolt through an inch wide hole from nearly a kilometre away. She also seemed to be quite charming, confident, and brimming with intense passion. Earning her cutiemark in marksmanship, love, and passion; she also captured the heart of a young stallion from the far eastern lands. His name, was Aegis.
Together they had a child, naming her Veen Sundown. They were a happy family. A perfect one, even.
But it wasn’t meant to be.
Vuren’s talent in charming, and loving others went too far. Pressured into it by another stallion, she cheated on her husband, leaving Aegis in wreck. Vuren, unable to live with her guilt, left the village and the clan, running away, leaving a four-year old Veen alone with her father.
Living in the forest now for years upon years, she knew she messed up. She knew she never should of done it. She knew she shouldn’t feel sorry for herself, or sad for herself. This was her fault for doing such a thing. Yet she couldn’t help it. She felt all those emotions surge through her. She let it destroy herself.
And yet, those powerful emotions echoed through the deep, dark woods.
An ancient, powerful foe that had leaked into this world. An entity not seen before in this world before, linked with time itself.
One not of this realm, yet still connected. It found her, and possessed her. In a desperate attempt to fight back, she tried to cling onto memories she still held. But that only made it worse. So, so much worse. It allowed the entity to utilize Vuren’s memories, and use them. Making their way back to the village Vuren hadn’t been to in a decade, the Entity started purging. Killing, and stealing souls to consume them and turn them into something else. Singlehandedly, a Sundown possessed by such incredible eldritch power, amplified it’s strength to nearly godly levels.
The entity used the last of their strength to encage the survivors inside the village into an alternate dimension linked with the original one, letting the village be accessed by thousands of other realms.
Knowing the incredible power it gained by possessing a Sundown, it kidnapped her, bringing her somewhere dark, deep, lonely, and depressing.
It wanted to turn her into a champion. An even stronger weapon to use against the rest of the world. Use her to feed them souls.
First came the mask. An indestructible mask made out of strange, higher-dimensional metal. This mask had a special property. Anyone who wore it would be subjected to a personality opposite of their own, leaking into their mind, letting it slowly take over, leaving the original intact at least, but not in control
This mask also carried other effects to it. Letting her see through the weaves of time. Future and past, and increased reaction time to ten milliseconds. All the cost of slowly transforming into one of those entities themselves.
These ancient, higher dimensional entities wanted her to be as strong as she possibly could be. With nothing holding her back, and nothing to stop her from her goal.