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#283126 Japanese Teeth Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:00:43 AM from Meinong's jungle

@Veni: From our perspective, yes, but from within the show they were always around, just Behind the Black. The Crystal Empire is explicitly stated to appear out of nowhere even within the context of the show.

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#283127 storyyeller Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:01:37 AM from Appleloosa

I don't think they have titles. They just happen to be the bearers of the Eo H.

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#283128 Super Gex Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:01:42 AM from Connecticut

I like the theory of Donut Steel being a red herring villain.

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#283129 Ace Of Scarabs Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:02:55 AM from Singapore

Totally tossing a wild guess out here, Old Crystal Kingdom vanished from History like the Mirage Village.

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#283130 Veni Vidi Pony Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:03:05 AM

Maybe it's the Equestrian equivalent of Brigadoon? Only show up every once in a while?

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#283131 Purple Dalek Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:03:16 AM from the Moon

You'd think Celestia would have given the mane six knighthoods (or whatever the female version is) by now. I mean, they have saved the world, like, three times.

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#283132 Veni Vidi Pony Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:06:32 AM

I mean, they were setting up a fair in honor of the crystal ponies and the released song explicitly states that the empire's history is known: "We can save the crystal ponies with their history".

edited 15th Sep '12 10:08:29 AM by VeniVidiPony

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#283133 Meta Four Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:07:43 AM from home

You'd think Celestia would have given the mane six knighthoods (or whatever the female version is) by now. I mean, they have saved the world, like, three times.

Maybe that happened at the award ceremony after defeating Discord.

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#283134 Ace Of Scarabs Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:08:47 AM from Singapore

As far as I've heard, they vanished from knowledge suddenly at one point. Perhaps they have something special?

Mayhap the premiere will be setup for an overarching B-plot that builds up for an epic S3 finale, with Cadence and Shiny facing off with the villain to save Crystal Kingdom, thus cementing Cadence's birthright claim to the throne through her bloodline and awesome.

edited 15th Sep '12 10:11:43 AM by AceOfScarabs

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#283135 Applelight Limited Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:13:20 AM from Manehattan to Canterlot

@ knighthood

In my mind, the mane six are knights. They were knighted after the discord incident, and it's why they get chosen to do tasks such as hold the Canterlot HHE's play and deal with the Crystal ponies. It's not really that much of a big deal though. They just live their lives as normal, with the occassional job chucked their way...mostly for twilight actually.

This is just me though.

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#283136 Ace Of Scarabs Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:14:20 AM from Singapore

Celestia DOES send interesting intel to Twi from time to time, like the (late) warning about Cerebrus wandering off guard duty in It's About time

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edited 15th Sep '12 10:19:14 AM by AceOfScarabs

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#283137 Japanese Teeth Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:22:45 AM from Meinong's jungle

There's also the fact that she tasked Twilight with getting rid of that dragon...

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#283138 Applelight Limited Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:24:57 AM from Manehattan to Canterlot

@ JT

That's right.

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#283139 Ace Of Scarabs Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:27:47 AM from Singapore

I reckon it's part of Twi's apprenticeship under Celestia.

Scream, AJ flavour

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#283140 Purple Dalek Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:30:03 AM from the Moon

"Students must risk their lives frequently to get an A."

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#283141 storyyeller Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:31:30 AM from Appleloosa

Do you think Pony Mystery novels ever have characters actually named Red Herring?

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#283142 Ace Of Scarabs Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:35:08 AM from Singapore

@Dalek: It's to test Twi's ability to handle actual problems. At some point theory only goes so far.

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#283143 Super Gex Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:41:39 AM from Connecticut

Then, Red Herring turns out to be the villain.

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#283144 d Roy Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:57:32 AM from University at Buffalo

Hey, people.

I read the past few pages and where is this Cadance's relationship with Crystal Kingdom coming from?

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#283145 Ace Of Scarabs Sat, 15th Sep '12 10:59:51 AM from Singapore

It's S3 spoilers, the Crystal Kingdom Hasbro's been marketing in the toyline will come out of nowhere like Mirage Village.

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#283146 d Roy Sat, 15th Sep '12 11:03:34 AM from University at Buffalo

Seriously, what's with this series and introducing really major characters and plot element out of nowhere (This is a rhetorical question).

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#283147 Ace Of Scarabs Sat, 15th Sep '12 11:07:53 AM from Singapore

To Sell Toys

edit: hey whaddaya know, they redirected it :D

edited 15th Sep '12 11:08:36 AM by AceOfScarabs

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#283148 d Roy Sat, 15th Sep '12 11:09:43 AM from University at Buffalo

@Ace - It makes me wonder;

Are there toys for Discord as well?

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#283149 storyyeller Sat, 15th Sep '12 11:14:17 AM from Appleloosa

If there aren't official ones, I'm sure bronies have made some.

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#283150 Perpetual Lurker Sat, 15th Sep '12 11:26:17 AM

@d Roy By "introduce out of nowhere", you mean a grand total of three things, two of which being characters with adequately explained (or soon to be explained) backstories, and one place where the fact that it appears out of nowhere is a plot point? I don't think there's anything wrong going on here, and you can't make a trend out of two instances.

edited 15th Sep '12 11:26:45 AM by PerpetualLurker