Forever underground the creatures of greed and cruelty have lived, they fancy themselves to be the richest creatures in all of equestria. But what is truth is that their gems they mine, have a terrible price. Ponies from small villages would go missing every few years. these ponies became slaves to these miners, used to pull carts and locate gems for their unquenchable greed. The ponies were bred and the children carried the work of their parents. It was in the greatest mine of all that our story starts, with the birth of one red foal. His mother named him Haze, then she was sent back to the mines not a day after. it was a year later she died