Background Pony #609C
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Given what they said in the comics, I theorize that Star Swirl was studying the Elements of Harmony, though he calls them by different names; hope, beauty, bravery, strength, healing, and sorcery. Given Celestia said he never learned the true value of friendship, I suspect he was trying to learn how to use the Elements, but never quite sorted it out, and that he was reasoning that they embodied power, rather than moregensubtle traits. Just my theory though.
Given what they said in the comics, I theorize that Star Swirl was studying the Elements of Harmony, though he calls them by different names; hope, beauty, bravery, strength, healing, and sorcery. Given Celestia said he never learned the true value of friendship, I suspect he was trying to learn how to use the Elements, but never quite sorted it out, and that he was reasoning that they embodied power, rather than more