 So I did a research paper I see that here I have my own So apparently a thousand years ago One thousand years ago give or take there's a crystal umpire. Hey, how long ago Was nightmare moon I sent to the moon about a thousand years ago Been imprisoned for a thousand years it has been a thousand years since I have seen you like this That's interesting the the relatively close timing of those two events so one could hypothesize that perhaps in the fighting of Sombra the first time around maybe Luna learned some dark magic and such she became nightmare moon, but The reason I don't think that already is that look at Sombra We saw him when he came out in the form of a big black cloud with eyeballs in it black cloud Also a vampire and more importantly his also wave also vampire. He has like fangs, too It doesn't mean he is a vampire. I didn't see him drink any blood. He sounded like he was kind of like In the few words he says save very much at all But what I noticed was that when he used his magic right it was it had this particular sort of greenish hue Like this particular way kind of like how the Celestia and Luna hair pretty much black It was seven points. It was black and red at some points was black and green Yes, so look at when Celestia used dark power to show Twilight what that was like and to kind of explain to her what was going on and then when Twilight used the same dark power a Same sort of effect happened So I think what we're starting to see is that there are two in fact distinct types of magic the magic that's powered by love and Friendship and the magic powered by Something else yeah, cuz I mean if friendship is magic, how could these friendless villains be all magical, right? So maybe hate loneliness greed fear it's a Star Wars mind-killer's situation could be doon could be So but the reason to bring that up is that when Luna became nightmare Luna There wasn't any of that. It was the same sort of color magic mostly the magic of evil That's just the magic was dusty from being on the moon so long and guess what ground up moon rocks are pure poison So this crystal Empire, right? Okay, so they obviously knew it was around at least some people well Celestia maybe Luna Yeah, it's like they knew and somebody the thing is okay The guard didn't know all the guard knew who came in to report it was that I was told to tell you it has returned I am simply to tell you that it has returned Who told the guard Luna someone knew Luna was there had to be someone from the north had to tell the guard that it Has returned now that we know it's none of the crystal ponies because they really they were all Dopey-Doo drops up there Reconnoitering in the north that told the guard to tell Celestia that it has returned really Celestia has spies I mean look she's got all these people got somebody spying on Twilight Sparkle Make sure she doesn't go all dream gray and destroy everything. She's clearly got people spying now notice how she sent I mean she didn't go deal with it herself She didn't send Luna She knew she knew it wasn't that big a deal. Maybe maybe not it could have been a big deal She sent Cadence and shining armor like she's yeah, then she was tired of having a living them in her house So notice how castle so think about what's going on. She there's a this empire came back The I guess it wasn't protected So she immediately sends Cadence who cast that spell and sits on the throne Doing the Celestia thing would something similar happen if Celestia wasn't in counterlot. I don't know I really want to know though how this city came back. All right. It's like okay. There was a crystal pony Empire it's a city. It's not an empire. Well Rome was a city and an empire That's the same with it. New York is a city and a state Anyway, this might be the capital of an old empire sure I mean look they had look at the only the capital reappears They had armor and weapons that look slightly more advanced than what we saw from the hearthworm and Eve play They had Lancers they it was definitely in the crack Summer props not the real deal Yeah, but I think it was definitely a Greco-Roman sort of old empire the hairstyles when the crystal ponies came back We're reminiscent of some of the old hairstyles you saw in the flashbacks sure anyway, so the crystal Empire returns It's like wait a minute. So it was around for a long time Yeah, it had someone ruling it. We don't know who then it got invaded. I was invaded and it was enslaved and Then Celestia and Luna went to save it and they did but it was cursed So the curse made it disappear for a thousand years But not before he was able to put a curse upon the Empire a curse that caused it to vanish into thin air So what does Dracula's castle do it comes back it disappears and comes back every how many years I don't know whenever Dracula fucking feels like it's not times a year after it went away I have a feeling this was literally a you know with my last breath I curse Zoidberg situation Yeah, Sombra was not dying but being banished as he flew away. He's like fuck you guys So you're ready for some maths. I'm ready for some math Celestia Luna disappear How long thousand years on the moon right all right after a thousand years you were right? Yeah This disappeared a thousand years ago, right if this disappeared a thousand years ago and it reappeared after Luna was Luna again It had to have actually it was exactly a thousand years It would have had to been defeated after Luna was nightmare moon and not before Therefore it was had to be over a thousand years ago or Her timing on your moon trip. She hadn't extended or or shortened sentence or it could be I mean how long ago did you eat breakfast? I didn't So when was the last breakfast you had over 24 hours ago? Okay, so you're rounding it could have been 28 hours 26 What do you if it's a thousand years if it was a thousand years eight months and four hours What are you gonna say you're gonna say a thousand years But it doesn't matter if it was that close in terms of right then maybe you can only there's no doubt There's a connection between the events. Maybe so one way if it's just a coincidence Maybe you can only banish someone for a thousand years. Maybe there's just a way the cosmology works But now I see where you're going maybe What caused nightmare moon to occur had something to do with what happened in the Crystal Pony Empire I have at least one random guess all right, so she went and she say they saved the Crystal Ponies Right defeated Sombra then the Crystal Ponies, right? You know everything there was before Luna and you know Celestia showed up was all crystalline All right as soon as Luna showed up. She's like all right nighttime bitches and the crystal pointers like what the fuck We're not shining anymore fuck this shit. She's like I just saved your asses now You don't like it that the fucking moon shows up. I'm fucking pissed. I have a more subtle theory Okay, so my theory is this when look at what would happen now So Celestia sends cadence to sit on the throne there's no king or queen there anymore So I'm assuming that cadence is going to rule anyone who was wings and a horn can just sit on any empty throne Apparently so I have a feeling no one will complain So I really think that cadence is going to be living in the crystal empire. Yes being the queen no there Well princess well Me princess if we go back in time Maybe Luna and Celestia went perhaps the king and queen were originally a part of this empire Maybe King Sombra was the father of the princesses and there's something much bigger than it went down So you think that they would be a little more upset if that was the situation I have a feeling that was long enough ago Well, it does make you think though right because they didn't seem to really destroy King Sombra Sombra They didn't even destroy discard we combined our powers and rose up against him Turning him to stone right destroy anyone, but I mean he was basically just okay He's still basically in those areas around the crystal Empire. He's still out there just hanging right right? Yeah, he was banished up there, but so maybe that's why you know He's not even turned to stone or locked up or sent to the moon He's just it's just all right Just don't come into our city hang out in the snow mr. Fortress of solitude But he also didn't go down and mess up with any other towns. He's really only up there So we must be bound one of those weird guys. He doesn't like it when it's warm. He only likes the cold so If we look at what happened back in the day, maybe Celestine Luna went they defeated King Sombra They said you know, they write it everything I'll bet Celestia left Luna to sit on the throne the way she's leaving Cadence And then what you said went down Luna tried to rule them. She's the princess of the night It didn't go so well it reminded her how you know, maybe she thought when she was in Canterlot before that everyone avoided her that everyone was afraid of her But shunned and slept through her beautiful night that this was a way to like turn a new leaf now She'll be the real princess everyone to love her But the bitterness in the young one's heart had transformed her into a wicked mare of darkness Nightmare moon that didn't happen and then she went into the basement got dark magic I still want to know the politics here right you got this empire. What's what's equestria? It's it's a country. It's a continent. Maybe what is it now clearly? It's a principality So perhaps this was the empire with a king and queen from long ago stuff went down it disappeared equestria was just one of possibly many kingdoms that came up our guess principalities that cropped up and Maintain control kind of a call gall and Britain had to kind of go down their own when the Empire received pretty sure the real story a French of his magic is the conquering of the entire planet by Equestria it's like hard-swarming Eve happened. It's like okay. We got scared away by monsters. We moved to Canterlot everything's all good right well now those monsters were sent away. They could they reconquered their previous land They just moved away from look at even old flashbacks, right? They're pushing out so recently they're sending out conquering. Yeah, exactly. They say subsumed the crystal Empire What's next they're gonna subsume the chorus the zebras so sombras out there Also the cold and snow and all this other BS is out there So even if he weren't there they need this magical power constantly running to keep the crystal Empire City warm warm Habitable all these things now cadence could do it with their princess powers, but only for so long They needed that a lens like it was basically like a capacitor or a lens for love and friendship The whole purpose of the crystal fair is to let the spirits of the crystal ponies Can power the crystal heart so that the So I think it's a capacitor because notice this Everyone in all the crystal ponies sure they're crystalline. All right. We got that right they don't have there's no unicorns There were no Pegasus crystal ponies. They were all just earth ponies, but crystal right so Really they couldn't do any magic on their own. They needed something to do it for them So earth ponies can either they just have the innate magic of you know ponies So they needed this crystal heart absorbed all of that magic for them It was like the collective horn that none of them had and then it led the princess or the king back then so now I have an even deeper theory so back in the day King Sombra ruled over everyone clearly and and also late in the day All right, but see they specifically said that that heart was a relic That means it was someone's heart some pony heart, which is why it was so big horses of gigantic hearts So perfect except it was shade. I guess that's what pony hearts look like at least I'll pony hearts had to be the heart of a crystal pony And it had to be very old older than a thousand years because they were using it before Sombra showed up the last page of the book mentioned a crystal heart is the Ferris centerpiece So I used my magic to cut one out of a crystal block So perhaps King Sombra is infinite wisdom knowing that he could not maintain the shield forever You know the Empire is finally falling maybe just for due to longevity or whatever So he removes his own heart and then he sets it up as a relic to be able to maintain the power outside of himself No, but then by not having a heart. He slowly becomes corrupted by dark forces Here's what really happened right and this is why you're wrong about the vampire situation He looks like a vampire. He's probably not actually a vampire King Sombra was king of the crystal ponies Right and he really had a diocletian situation. He didn't he you know No one else could keep the shit running right and no one else had was he you know He was a unicorn. Yeah, he's a royalty. He was a king none of these crystal ponies were unicorns So who could he appoint nobody right? He was fucked. He couldn't even choose between like two sons or anything like that So you know what he did is he became a lick right? That's what he did He became a big old lich which means he took his heart out and that is the phylactery, right? But being heartless now his friendship powered magic Wayne now It's not just like a lich because a normal phylactery the actual soul is in there Then you're acting separately, but that didn't seem to be the case in the situation Well, how do you know maybe I think it depends on the nature of what a crystal pony is the only things we know is That the crystal ponies without the love and friendship around them and possibly the sort of precursor technology machinery of this city Notice all those like etchings and the lines and how when they all Reactivated the the heart they like bowed down to the ground and like lit up with it There's definitely precursor stuff going on there Well, that was a mechanism that was set up by the ancient king of the crystal ponies who could very well be King Sombra, but then of course he set it up and it defended against himself He was such a fore-thinker right? He's like alright. I'm not I'm gonna die So I have to set it up so these people can run their own shit, which is why no one was living in the castle, right? You know there wasn't some crystal king who disappeared right who was the last or maybe fought against King Sombra He said shit up so they could run it themselves Well, maybe he set it up and then he disappeared because he knew he was heartless and would eventually one day Well, you know and maybe that or maybe it was just he set it up This will defend against pretty much anything Including me maybe if that has to happen and he did have now that is prescient because look at what Celestia and Luna We're talking about before they told Twilight to come she will succeed at her task And when she does we'll know that she is that much closer to being ready I have every confidence you will succeed and when you do I'll know you are ready to move on to the next level of your studies in the end It must be you and you alone who ultimately assist Princess Cadence and shining armor and doing what needs to be done to protect the Empire this is going to be a big test and You know they're going to like this is the next phase for Twilight. She has to be ready She has to do this all by herself like little brother And what's interesting about that is at the very end when everything was restored again and they tell her she passed the test You're being selfless and everything which probably is really important because Twilight's magic has gotten Way more powerful lately. She can teleport without problems. Just trivially. She can alter gravity on a fundamental level She can learn the evil spell just by seeing it That was a little trick Celestia taught me. She saw Celestia do it once And it'd be like if Skywalker is hanging out with Darth Vader Darth Vader does force lightning once and looks like badass and immediately does it pretty sure she's past the She's already had the Empire's tricks back. We're entering return of the Jedi territory But I think this was the test of is she suitable for whatever bullshit's coming and you know that bullshit's coming in about 11 episodes It's a bullshit's coming. How did they frickin if they know it's coming? The Celestia and Luna are so fucking lazy. They all never do shit on their own ever So this is why I wonder if Celestia knew more than she let out No wonder I know and they're always getting trapped in shit, right? It's like Celestia nightmare moon shows up up Celestia's gone, right? Oh discord shows up up Celestia's, you know can't do shit. Well, no, she didn't do anything Trapped in a cocoon up. No She could have fought chrysalis off if chrysalis hadn't been so powerful due to how how much love was in shining up armor. Yeah, great so Notice how when twilight went into the basement and used the evil magic because that was the obvious thing it opened the door to a trap Only good magic opened the real door. So here's what I suspect It was king somber who set that up that is his heart he hid the heart there and made a trap for himself if dark magic was used it would open the door to a false reality and Hopefully trapped the person in there forever But instead twilight was smart enough after spikes snapped her out of it to use good magic and get to the actual place where the Flactory or whatever was hidden. That's it's you need some sort of explanation like that to be like why did he was he able to hide it? But not destroy it and you know, well, I hit a banana and then I could not find it But I might just be dumb. I think you might be But at the very end when you know Twilight had passed the test. She's clearly selfless. She's able to wield power with responsibility Look for look out for others above herself, you know all these kind of basic things to be a princess especially a conquering princess Luna pulled out this big black book And I wonder what that book says. I wonder if there's some sort of prophecy or some sort of plan that's coming to fruition They apparently like to keep a lot of secrets up there Anything in any of my books there wouldn't be You remember it ever existed at all You know all sorts of no sees Luna looked kind of uncomfortable with what was going on too I so I have one final sort of theory I think this is a test that Luna was also given and I think that Luna failed it became nightmare moon I think that is why Luna was so uncomfortable when twilight was being given the same test Two more things to back up this theory. We know it's a relic, right when part of somber's horn got cut off by the shield Turn into a crystal. You did Okay, only it was a black crystal and Celestia, you know obviously could turn she had that piece of the crystals in her throne room that could turn into the evil black crystal Or the good crystal, but then clearly, you know, they call them the crystal ponies I think they just you know, you saw at the end everyone was crystallized including spike, right? It's I don't think a crystal pony is it's just an earth pony pretty much It's not anything special, but it's an earth pony living within the radius exactly you if you live in the crystal area Yeah, you're fucking right. That's the same. You know, that's she could take the crystal piece back to the question It's all right It's there's nothing special a crystal pony isn't special other than it's a way excuse for them to sell an extra toy You know, we need to sell crystal ponies now because we already sold all Pegasus is earth ponies and no Pony is that's a special place kind of it's not a different race of ponies It's regular earth ponies who are living if any earth pony went to the crystal place. They would be a crystal Yeah, it doesn't you know a crystal pony is like saying oh a New Yorker It's like you leave New York. Yeah, you're not you're not New York So if this artifact is required to keep this place safe partly because it's in you know the frozen well I don't think it's that artifact required to keep it safe It just happens to be that they need a way to keep the place safe in the frozen north That's every place has some sort of thing keeping it safe So I think equestria itself like canner lot in particular in the areas around that the thing that's keeping it safe Is just Celestia with raw power or she's got something that she's hiding still Well, I think a lot of things keeping various parts of equestria safe. So the Everfree Forest is keeping itself safe I still think it is by design the sisters are leaving that place Completely untouched for a reason. Well, you know, you want people living in your old castle But why not why not? I mean your secrets are there. I don't think there's any secrets there I think that is just to remember what happened before as they never repeat it The point is that's a common theme in the show from episode one is that if ponies aren't taking care of a place The place just basically goes there, right? If you don't you need Earth you need Pegasus taking care of the weather You can't even you need even ponies take care of the animals, right? If there are no ponies there actively constantly working to take care of a land That land goes to shit and evil immediately and it's either becomes wild or is the Everfree Forest evil It's not it's just wild. It is this rule, but it is not me There's evil shit there, too What that that big kitty Manicor pretty much any place that isn't actively being taken care of by ponies Just falls apart and into ruin or evil or something and anywhere ponies live They need to actively protect and shield and defend and care for and such Right, which is why pony expansion is not easy, which maybe is why you know, Celestia You know you just elude her as a conqueror for maybe she's expanding as much as possible because anything they have is so tenuous So you see most conquerors would justify what they're conquering saying that it's a war of consolidation A unified empire is stronger than a bunch of disparate pieces. So maybe she's kela saying preparing for a coming war