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@Zabilac
Likely yea, esp since alluras ability is unstoppable when anywhere other then starlight ridge

@Shimmering Spectacle
Actually they are the first gay mlm pone couple ;P

I wonder if the NuMane 6 defeating the villain the first time and letting them go and ignoring them so they can come back stronger than ever is going to be a thing? It’s happened with Opaline and it’s happened with Allura.

@Briarlight
Yes yet gay couple wise, they’re not the first in mlp.

@PuffyDearlySmith
There’s just one word that was getting the worst of her, which is greed.

@DerpyFast
Yeup. Love her

If they do explore Skyros I would like to see new alicorns explored you know the ones that have always been up there and had had little to no contact with Equestria and then there is a another flashback that shows what really happened with Opaline plus Luna and Celestia

Realizing that Diggy and Sander are the only full couple we have ever seen in g5 😭

@Briarlight
This makes me wonder if they only put it on hiatus?

@Zabilac
Yeah. Though that came before covid.

@Mr.Myoozik
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@DerpyFast
I mean people are still gonna complain about something and base breaking does imply that it has a side that supports that decision

The Characters they don’t own (allegedly). A species being copyrighted is not the case given that they’re all Misty mythical creatures from throughout history, or just regular animals. Nobody can copyright that.

In fact some of them (like the seaponies) were used in previous generations before even 4.

@Background Pony #6E9F
Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll get an answer to this question regarding other species, as far as I remember correctly, most of them appeared in later seasons and Hasbro doesn’t have the rights to them.

An interesting point. We know from S10 that the other races had harmony trees, which we can assume were original together trees before they were crystallized by the real harmony tree in Equestria, and that they were very important to the ponies - and other races. There are many indications that Twilight’s empire - the friendship empire - was based on these trees which served as portals, magical “batteries” and other things that could be critical for the different realms. When the harmony tree naturalized, this must have happened to all other trees throughout the world. It is possible that the tree in Bridlewood was the only survivor perhaps because it was still young when naturalization occurred. All other trees had root contact with each other. And it is possible that the corridor to the Isle of Scaly was the remains of a tree so that the roots hollow out and become magical tunnels.

Opaline could steal magic, and her knowledge made it impossible for the other races to defend themselves against her if they wanted to protect their magic from her.

The dragons needed the Dragon Stone to prevent Opaline from draining dragon magic, when she had Sparky abducted, she had to steal the Dragon Stone to create an opening into the dragons’ shared magic. It was her element that made her the natural predator against the dragons, who had become her prey. Spike had to leave and joined his people to protect them. The other races may have done the same, because according to Discord in the IDW comics, Twilight had permission to collect the magic in the world, and it could mean that she had created similar “focuses” for the others such as the Unity Crystals and the Dragon Stone.

There are many civilizations around, which may have been isolated as a result of the naturalization of the together/harmony trees all over the world, and some of these consisted of different races in mutual societies like with the ponies themselves. Abyssinians, centaurs, diamond dogs, griffins, hippogriffs, sea ponies, kelpies, kirins, breezies, minotaurs - there must be at least twenty different races with advanced magic, including the ponies themselves. Was Twilight so strong that she could create at least twenty “focus” like the Unity Crystals? Most certainly have much less magical potential, but they were mostly as a security measure against magic thieves like Opaline.

Fortunately for them, Opaline knew that the strongest magic was among the ponies, so she chose to ignore the others, possibly as long as the empire lasted when the different realms could help each other. But then the ponies lost their magic, possibly because they had begun to forget, and an inexplicable naturalization that knocked out the world community took place. As Opaline said sourly; “glittered out”. By then Twilighet was long gone.

Maybe Spike was awake when this happened, without understanding how. Now maybe he does. And Opaline - as soon as the magic returned and she sensed a new alicorn - was given free paths towards her goal. Fortunately, she was simply too greedy.

@Zabilac
Makes me curious as to wether the other races have magic stones of their own.

@Background Pony #B68A
We kinda had that theme currently ongoing.

I kind of want an episode about Pipp and Sugar Moonlight’s social media rivalry.

How should I tag Steven?

This speculation is interesting, when we first saw Opaline in the IDW comics she was a unicorn, pushing Fluttershy and starting what would split Equestria apart. The Mane 6 managed to stop the development, but not before Opaline had done great damage and when she learned how to steal magic from the dragons by harnessing her element, fire, she had become unstoppable, especially operating undercover just like Cozy. Twilight managed to defeat Opaline and humiliated her, but judging by Spike’s reactions, this came at a price. Twilight did what she could without being able to capture Opaline who tried to return to Skyros, who may have refused to help her or Twilight. We know that Twilight was alive after the Unity Crystals were created. She had said herself that she had done her utmost to create the Unity Crystals, but we now know that she had done much more. Maybe she was the one who put the dragons into deep magical hibernation, and that was probably the last time Spike saw her.

She did all this without help. This demonstrates that Skyros may become a problem in the future. Cozy may have come from Skyros and may have been banished from there by losing her alicorn powers. Opaline had also lost her alicorn powers and could only get them back by acquiring a lot of magic, so it means that the alicorn power in an alicorn is internal, which can be sealed away. Twilight had sealed Opaline’s alicorn magic and also taken her magic, it was only after she took the Dragon Stone which she uses to steal magic from the dragons (it had to be activated with the help of Sparky) that she could use her alicorn powers. Cozy received an overdose of magic from Grogar’s bell and can reactivate her alicorn powers. When Pinkie had Grogar’s bell, she didn’t become an alicorn.

It is possible that Opaline could keep her wings by using her together tree or the dark harmony tree as some call it, as it contained a lot of latent magic. Which was awakened at her expense by the ponies. But we know she had magic - likely unicorn magic - as she didn’t have alicorn powers in the past.

Cozy and Opaline have something in common, their remarkable hairdressing style.

@Background Pony #6E9F
With cozy being able to use alicorn powers with ease, it’s a possibility that she was once one, until is punished for misusing it

We complain, yes, but we’re glad Spike is back. If the TYT 2.0 gives him some muscle, a shorter neck and makes him a little bigger without changing the design, that’s perfect.

Interesting… Opaline and Cozy were both busy taking magic from the ponies to bring them under control, and also believed that friendship means power, and that having friends is a matter of having power in their possession. This does not testify to personal convictions, more like shared thoughts between several people. We never learned where Cozy came from, how she could be so manipulative, ruthless and evil at such a young age. It is speculated that she was not an ordinary pony, and it is possible that the royal sisters and Twilight sent her to Tartasus because they did not know where she came from. Also, Cozy was unusually talented as an alicorn after she gained these powers, while Twilight struggled to master her new powers.

The two also had similar strategies to achieve their goals, unlike others who were not so clever in their strategy - especially Tirek. They spare no means to take what they believe is their right and goal, we don’t know where the pony skull came from when Cozy showed it in S8, and Opaline only spared the ponies’ lives because they were “resources”.

Should have thought they both came from the same place, Skyros. Perhaps there was a school of thought there for a long time, which Cozy and Opaline may have been inspired by when they want to attack Equestria to take all power by taking control of the magic among the ponies. Besides, Spike had said that Opaline transforms into a fire alicorn, and this could hold so much. Was Opaline stripped of her alicorn powers when she was banished from Skyros? Spike may have said that the battle was between friendship and enmity until Opaline attacked the dragons. We don’t know, only that Opaline is distinguished as an alicorn by the drawings in Spike’s home.

These are similarities between Cozy, who is one of the biggest mysteries in G4, and Opaline, who had made Equestria’s collapse possible by creating conditions that would make the magic disappear in the event of a mistake. When Twilight had won, she - and Spike, who was completely distraught because he knows how the Unity Crystals work - had not expected the long-term separation of the crystals when the guardians neglected their obligations.

Regardless; Skyros is emerging as a potential problem in Sunny’s future. If Cozy and Opaline had come from Skyros, and if the alicorns refused to stop Opaline or to stop Equestria’s collapse, it is clear that if the New Mane 6 were to get there, they might find the biggest and worst friendship crisis in all of MLP. Maybe the G4 alicorns can be of great help, but what if they have ascended to become the sun, the moon, the Wishing Star and the crystal heart? Perhaps the mysterious magic that had ensured that the Rainbow locket - which even Skyros will fear - would come to Sunny, will be of great help.

Since the Rainbow locket from G1 exists in G5, there’s obviously a story there. Megan got it from Moochick, a strange gnome sage so that she can protect the ponies, and he was a mysterious gnome connected to the ponies’ past before Megan’s arrival. Regardless, the Rainbow locket is the most powerful weapon the ponies ever have under their control. It was able to attack and capture a powerful alicorn that was so strong, that she probably had several alicorns’ strength in her. (assuming at least 3 alicorn strength) And it’s deadly in that it kills as seen with Tirac.

TYT 2.0 should delve into this, G1 instead of G4, as the rights crisis around FiM will not affect it. There is much else that is not affected by DIY’s rights control of the shows from S4 to S9. Sunny may have to confront new alicorns in the future.

@TheQuietMan
but in this case they complain about Spike’s redesign in which (at least 90% of the fandom agreed that it wasn’t cool) but they didn’t complain(at last no a Lot) about spike herself