People tend to put faulty logic on the spot.

Yes, and if you knew more about the subject, you’d know that the Force does have a (unknown) will of its own and trades dominance with those who are said to ‘wield’ it. Regardless of what you want to equate it to, it calls the shots.

Non-sequitur. I’m not saying it is the Force (not that even this “calls shots” in any comparable way to one that a political figure would, which is why I brought it up).

If I lived in the Middle Ages and had enough space for a living room, I’d be the lord and could go wherever I damn well pleased.

lmao

I’m an atheist, so this is a problem I’d have to face regardless. And by “convince”, I mean “escape”. See? All the more reason to go on an adventure.

Wow, I bet nobody in medieval times who was accused of witchcraft ever thought of that.

It’s called winning a fight, and your introduction was European serfdom, which is not a significant difference.

Naive 21st century first-worlder on Derpibooru comment section vs armed Tatar marauders. I wonder who would win. There is actually a fair amount of difference between a slave and a serf btw.

It’s an acceptable hazard. A lot of modern jobs are potentially fatal. The payoff is sometimes almost worth it. Also, you’re basing a lot off an assumption here.

This coming from the guy who assumes this magical map out of nowhere actually points to somewhere significant, or is even real and not a hallucination of some sort.

We’re talking about taking directions from a giant magical map that mysteriously manifested in the middle of a floor. So no. That would be completely arbitrary and pointless.

If we’re going off some made-up logic that makes the Sonichu universe look plausible, then you might have a point.

Even if that message was conveyed to you through an intimate part of your body which was branded with a mark identifying you? What would you do if it didn’t stop? Cut off the tattoo/brand thing?

Assuming we’re still in medieval times, probably sear it off with a hot iron before bleeding myself to balance my humors or beg a priest to purge the demons from my body.

The map in question is about 30 feet wide, glows, generates 3D images and makes noises. Have fun hiding it.

I mean I’d hide my involvement with it. Actually, it sounds like a golden opportunity to have someone I don’t like burned at the stake for witchcraft.

And out-of-place gushing doesn’t help yours.

Destiny is a far more abstract concept than something that expressly gives orders to the royalty, or anyone for that matter. It’s certainly not something you can say has formal station or authority like some ethereal high king. You’re better off comparing it to the Force in Star Wars or Chaos in Warhammer.

If you were in the Middle Ages, you’d probably be a serf and you’d have to convince your landlord that you’ve stumbled upon this miraculous magical map and he should let you out of the manor to pursue its mark in this unheard of land.

And then you’d have to convince the Church not to burn you at the stake for witchcraft or heresy.

Even if you somehow manage these two things, you better hope you’re not enslaved by Tatars on your way there,

and god forbid you’re forced to hunt in some lord’s forest and kill some lord’s game when the little rations you’ve managed to buy with puny peasant rations run out.

Did you look into this in the context of reality at all?

And to answer your question, I’d probably hire someone else to do it for me, since I’m probably quite wealthy and well connected if I have the privilege to go to a university in medieval times.

I’d also keep the magical map thing very hush-hush because, again, the Church.

Petty aggression does not help your argument.

It was never stated outright, however it is made very clear that the tree which the Elements, the later Box, and most lately the Map is at least sentient and is the highest known authority in the show, if only by virtue of being the proxy of destiny. It tells the Princesses what to do, and they do it. Their use of the Elements are equivalent to the appeals of fantasy clerics to their gods.

If I lived in the Middle Ages, and magic was real; as opposed to our modern world where I can just check any map generator for information on the area, and have a dozen other ways to entertain myself? Sure. I wouldn’t know anything about Siberia at the time, and I would be immensely curious.

It’s easy to make judgment calls about how bad a decision is from so far outside the sidelines we can barely see the game. Imagine if you lived in a world where you were one of the most educated people in it, and you found a gap in your knowledge of geography, revealed to you by something that seemed to be linked to your very identity. Wouldn’t you want to go look?

Naive and sheltered by plot armor, more like.

I don’t remember when it was stated that the Elements of Harmony were a single conscious mind and being with a higher station than Celestia, herself, despite Celestia using them as tools at her own whims.

If a neon-lit map popping up in your living room from out of nowhere told you to go to a specific spot the middle of Siberia, would you pack up and leave without the slightest examination of what is probably there in the first place? Sounds like a good way to get lost and freeze to death.

Because she is inquisitive.

Because the map, being the evolved form of the Elements of Harmony, holds a higher authority and power than the Princesses.

Given that these events happened in the same episode as the map’s initial formation, I would hazard that that was exactly what she was doing.

Why would a Princess follow the pointless directions of a pointless magic map that points to places in the middle of nowhere?

Why would such a thing even be present in the holding of a government figure when it would be better suited to a novelty store?

Surely, the ever so studious and quizzical Twilight Sparkle would have taken the time to verify that this map is a piece of useless junk that sends her on dangerous, pointless quests.

Why? It would mean your performance as a leader is equivalent to your citizens’ performance in their respective roles absent their talents.

Probably because it was a random magic map and not Celestia’s foreign policy that drew Twilight and Co to said tiny communities?

I’d be ambitious too if all I had to show for my leadership and worldview was a puny do-nothing city-state in the middle of nowhere.

Which leads me to question how Equestria’s foreign policy can be so skewed that it puts oddly specific emphasis on tiny communities that couldn’t possibly affect Equestrian interests but apparently oblivious to a massive army of changelings that all want to storm the capitol.