Perhaps she felt sorry for Cozy Glow, released her, tried to reform her, and was overthrown. Cozy Glow then proceeded to drain all magic from Equestria…

@Vengir
or she a adult and she their teacher?

Neither the top ones and the one below look like a horse. More like piggies a bit.

@Background Pony #00AD
Agree.

I hope G5 ponies can finally free Cozy Glow and redeem her where G4 ponies failed massively.

@Terminal Red
Cadance and Flurry would still be around. Flurry definitely since she's still young and she's a born alicorn so she's one of a kind.

@Background Pony #81C9
And luna and celestia. Don't know about cadence and flurry heart.

change expression then who knows ?

Luster Dawn is probably an elder or already dead. Only Twilight, Spike, Discord and stoned villains might be still around

@JCV
I wasn't agreeing with him at all

@Background Pony #2F52
he is a very fine lad, glad you agree

@FoldabotZ
The term "generation" refers to the toys, not the animated shows. This can cause some confusion, understandably, as for example the little known G2 never had its own show, and that "G2 show" with ponies living in modern times (or at least modern in 1980's terms) actually belongs to G1. This is the first time MLP is not going to discard its continuity when moving on to the next generation, but for instance Pokemon is in G8 now and it still follows the journey of the same Ash and Pikachu that it did in G1-7.

@Background Pony #9114
You're a fine one to talk

Wouldn't "G5" imply new continuity unconnected to the previous one? Like in Transformers where the Unicron Trilogy(Armada, Energon, Cybertron), the Bay movies, Animated, Prime/Robots In Disguise are unconnected to G1 as they are to each other, save shared characters and basic plot? If Luster Dawn were to be the new main character of a new series, it would still be G4 not G5.

@JCV
He just spam these comments on everything he doesn't like :/

@Background Pony #2F52
It's funny you think that's an insult.

@Background Pony #F5EC
Silly seasonwunner, don't act like you make the rules

Plot twist, Luster dawn is the mentor of those three.

@Terminal Red
It is a continuation, but we don't know how far into the future. My guess is that Equestria is still ruled by Princess Twilight Sparkle, but maybe Luster Dawn is still alive. Or maybe even she is still just a foal.

@Background Pony #8180
I mean, I don't think Hasbro doesn't take into account the seasons they have done after 2017. They will probably only update what they had already planned by counting those events from subsequent seasons. Just guessing tho

But do you know that work on the G5 started in 2017?(or even a little earlier) So it is logical that not everything that happened in G4 will show up in G5. A similar situation to the g4 movie which also omitted some of the threads from a few seasons…

And also in animatic you can see that mane6 looks normal. They don't look like in the epilogue, but like before it.
Maybe a school of friendship will appear in G5, but the world in the G4 epilogue will not.

@Terminal Red
It is supposed of be in the same world

Is g5 a continuation of the G4 continuity? Maybe you'll be a historical character.

Don't be sad, little Luster Dawn. At least you have a place in the fandom.