History Webcomic / TheNightTheMagicDied

* FromBadToWorse: [[https://www.furaffinity.net/view/11492449/ BOY.]] SPOILERS ahoy, so click at your own risk!

It was completed on August 15, 2014, and can be read [[http://arofatamahn.deviantart.com/gallery/38603698 here]].

* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: The climactic battle at the end takes place in an absolutely breathtaking one, starting [[http://arofatamahn.deviantart.com/art/FiM-TNtMD-Page-112-Big-God-Damn-Heroes-432566516 here]] (spoilers). [[spoiler:It takes place in space as Gralo is devouring the magic of cosmos.]]

* FromBadToWorse: [[http://arofatamahn.deviantart.com/art/FiM-TNtMD-Page-93-Running-on-Fumes-396948210 HOO]][[http://arofatamahn.deviantart.com/#/art/FiM-TNtMD-Page-94-Wait-It-Gets-Worse-396961046?hf=1 BOY.]] SPOILERS ahoy, so click at your own risk!

* OutDamnedSpot: {{Implied|Trope}} as it happens behind closed doors, but according to WordOfGod, [[spoiler:Celestia frantically tries in vain to wash the blood stain from her hoof after cracking Nahmat's skull.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Princess Celestia''']]: It won't wash off... ''WHY WON'T IT WASH OFF!?''

* TalkToTheFist: [[spoiler:Celestia cracks her hoof down on Nahmat's skull towards the end of her long-winded "[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech slander]]" against her. It nearly kills Nahmat, [[OutDamnedSpot to Celestia's later distress]].]]

* VoodooShark: TheReveal that [[spoiler:the universe outside of Equestria is dead]]. Intended to explain the [[spoiler:geocentric orbit]], which the writer found an illogical concept. [[spoiler:Since the stars freed freed Nightmare Moon in the pilot, how did they do so if the universe was dead so there were no stars?
* WalkingWasteLand: [[spoiler:Gralo, who's capable of draining everything magical out of his surroundings. Ironically, he can't affect nature, making Everfree and places like it the only safe haven from him.]]

* PlotHole: [[spoiler:If there were no stars, what freed Nightmare Moon in the pilot?]]

* VoodooShark:
** TheReveal that [[spoiler:the universe outside of Equestria is dead]]. Intended to explain the [[spoiler:geocentric orbit]], which the writer found an illogical concept, create more plot holes without adding much of anything except making the DarkestHour more dark. [[spoiler:With the universe dead, there were no stars to aid in Nightmare Moon's escape (which is never explained).]]
** [[spoiler:Gralo dulling everyone's wits]] is also this, as [[spoiler:there was no indication of it before hand, Gralo had simply been blending in well while Nahmat did a very bad job of making herself trustworthy.]]

* VoodooShark: TheReveal that [[spoiler:the universe outside of Equestria is dead]]. Intended to explain the [[spoiler:geocentric orbit]], which the writer found an illogical concept, create more plot holes without adding much of anything except making the DarkestHour more dark. [[spoiler:With the universe dead, there were no stars to aid in Nightmare Moon's escape (which is never explained).]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Garret. Give him a faulty wand and watch him cover himself in polka-dots.

* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:Gralo tries to eat Celestia and Luna's magic during the final confrontation... but unknown to him, Nahmat has given them Insight, allowing them to alter their magic as Shining and Cadence have. They promptly send a spell of their own back down the same channel and reawaken the hearts he's stolen, causing them to escape ''in mass''.]]

** Nahmat's abuse of her psychic powers [[spoiler:makes any evidence she can present by giving Shining and Cadence Insight not be trusted because she could've just brainwashed them.]]
** [[spoiler:Gralo tries to steal Celestia and Luna's magic, but they now have Insight and altered their magic as Shining and Cadence did so he can't absorb it. Instead, they fire it back down the stream into his stolen magic where they reawaken the hearts he'd taken, which promptly escape in mass.]]

* NeverSayDie: {{Averted|Trope}} for the most part (hell, [[CaptainObvious it's in the title]]), but [[spoiler:the ambiguity of how she survived Celestia's punch is enhanced by this exchange]]:

** Nahmat has it to at times. Despite her anger that others don't trust her, she ultimately did little to actually warrant anyone's trust to begin with. [[spoiler:She was actually lying from the get go: she's just a BountyHunter hired to track down Gralo, not a member of law enforcement as she said.]]

* AuthorTract: Happens a few times when the author makes Nahamat their mouth piece for their frustrations at the actual show. This is also the ''entire'' [[spoiler:the universe outside of Equestria is dead]] plot point. It serves no purpose other than to be a manifestation of the author's beliefs about [[spoiler:a geocentric orbit making no sense]] and to make the DarkestHour more dark. [[VoodooShark It even creates more plot holes than it addresses.]]

* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:What Nahmat does to Celestia after the princess overrules her defense in favor of Garret; see TheReasonYouSuckSpeech below.]]

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Nahmat behaves very self righteously and frequently abuses her power on those who lack it or any defense against it, and is lying about who she is. That is all exactly what Gralo does on a lesser scale.]]

* VoodooShark: TheReveal that [[spoiler:the universe outside of Equestria is dead]]. Intended to explain the [[spoiler:geocentric orbit, which the writer found an illogical concept]], all it does is create more plot holes without adding much of anything to the actual plot except making the DarkestHour more dark. [[spoiler:With the universe dead, there were no stars to aid in Nightmare Moon's escape (which is never explained).]]

--->'''[[spoiler:Gralo]]''' ''(to Cadance)'': [[spoiler:What I've done is take away the magic your aunts have been using to hide the reality of [[DeaderThanDead your]] [[DarkWorld universe]]. There is no sun, there is no moon, there are no stars. They all died long ago.]]

** Nahmat has it to at times. Despite her anger that others don't trust her, she ultimately did little to actually warrant anyone's trust to begin with.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: In her world, Nahmat is a noble agent of the law trying to bring a mass-murdering criminal to justice. In Equestria, she's considered an evil enchantress who's not above harming a seemingly innocent griffon and anyone who gets in her way. It doesn't help that her first impression involved MindRape of a national heroine.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Gralo tries to steal Celestia and Luna's magic, but they now have Insight and altered their magic as Shining and Cadence did so he can't absorb it. Instead, they fire it back down the stream into his stolen magic where they reawaken the hearts he'd taken, which promptly escape in mass.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WordOfGod states that the comic was originally a fanfic that he never published.

* MoralMyopia: [[spoiler:Gralo will rip the hearts out of an entire world for power without an ounce of remorse, but [[VillainousBreakdown gets furious when the Princesses]] dare to release his stolen magic.]]
** Nahmat has it to at times.

* AuthorTract: Happens a few times when the author makes Nahamat their mouth piece for their frustrations at the actual show. This is also sadly the ''entire'' [[spoiler:the universe outside of Equestria is dead]] plot point. It serves no purpose other than to be a manifestation of the author's beliefs about [[spoiler:a geocentric orbit making no sense]] and to make the DarkestHour more dark. It has no impact on the over all plot and had it never even been in the comic, there'd have been virtually no change to it at all. It even creates more {{Plot Hole}}s than it addresses.

* [[spoiler:DarkWorld: Once you take away the magic--in this case, Celestia and Luna's magic--it's revealed that outside of Equestria, ''there is nothing''. Their universe is literally dead.]]

* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession: How Gralo passes himself off as Garret.]]

* [[spoiler:ForcedIntoEvil: While hiding in his body, Gralo forces Garret to turn the ponies against Nahmat with misleading information and keep his beak shut.]]

* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Title]]: The title is a ''literal'' one. [[spoiler:Not only does Gralo steal the Mane Six's magic, but he also steals Celestia and Luna's... and reveals that the ''entire universe'' beyond of Equestria is dead, and that the Princesses have had been using illusions of the sun, the moon, and the stars to keep it a secret. Ultimately, though, Gralo has his stolen magic released, restoring everything.]]

* [[TalkToTheFist Talk to the Hoof]]: [[spoiler:Celestia cracks her hoof down on Nahmat's skull towards the end of her long-winded "[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech slander]]" against her. It nearly kills Nahmat, [[OutDamnedSpot to Celestia's later distress]].]]

* HeroWithBadPublicity: In her world, Nahmat is a noble agent of the law trying to bring a mass-murdering criminal to justice. In Equestria, she's considered an evil enchantress who's not above harming a seemingly innocent griffon and anyone who gets in her way.

* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:As uncalled for as her behavior is, Nahmat makes some valid arguments in her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech against Celestia, including: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1FriendshipIsMagicPart1 imprisoning Luna in the moon for a thousand years instead of freeing her from Nightmare Moon]][[note]]though Luna defends Celestia, saying she was disconnected from all the Elements of Harmony, meaning she couldn't save her if she wanted to[[/note]]; [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 shunning Twilight after she accused the fake Cadance of being evil]]; leaving it to others to fix both messes; and never apologizing for either event.]]

** [[spoiler:Celestia's silent, horrified expression tells all when Nahmat makes her relive her memories of how she neglected Luna and Twilight in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1FriendshipIsMagicPart1 Friendship Is]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2FriendshipIsMagicPart2 Magic]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 Wedding]]", respectively.]]

* AuthorTract: Happens a few times when the author makes Nahamat their mouth piece for their frustrations at the actual show.

It was completed on August 15 2014, and can be read [[http://arofatamahn.deviantart.com/gallery/38603698 here]].