Has this ever been addressed?

So, I googled what a Balor was for... reasons.

I think we should be greatly concerned that Little Miss Cotton Candy mane here can summon THIS v

Very very concerned.

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[Eonflare]

... The stuff you find.

[River Road]

Well, at least it took care of the thing that Minuette's spell brought to this world.

[FrostTheWolf]

Sounds like an idea for a short story with Twilights reaction being "wait what!?"

[ZephyrStrife]

Well... since it's MLP it was probably a little more cute and cuddlier than what D&D portrays them as... I mean, they do have a gateway to hell after all that's only guarded by a dog with three heads, I'm pretty sure something occasionally found a way out

[master-of-mayhem]

Ah, Balors are no big deal. Just load up on fire resistance and some Cold Iron Weapons to get round the damage reduction. Now Pit Fiends...

[El Comal]

V vs B pronunciation
Balor is a monster
Valor is Worth in spanish

[Royal Brisk]

Clearly I need to look into the MLP card game for the flavor text.

[Serpentking789]

So she summoned the D&D version of a Balrog? I have two follow-up questions:
1) How does one summon a high-level demon without realizing it?
2) What did she think using the blood of a virgin and/or goat to draw a pentagram surrounded by Daedric symbols was going to do?

[Serpentking789]

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Yeah, and speaking of monsters that are mentioned offhand in the flavor texts of the FiM TCG, the so-called "scariest cave in Equestria" from Pinkie Apple Pie is apparently home to both the Multibear (from Gravity Falls) and a ponified version of Batboy (from the Weekly World News, a popular humor-parody magazine/ fake supermarket tabloid).

[TheGeekyOne]

Well. We should indeed be concerned...

[Some random Rapidash]

Oh... That explains why Fin Balor is called Fin Balor...

[Chris Kingsley]

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The blood symbolises life, the pentagram symbolises arithmancy and the daedric symbols are the interface. It's clearly a fertility test.

[H3lios]

Its probably a reference to the fact that the D&D spell, "Gate" isn't always clear on the fact that it summons a Balor depending on which version you play.

[Serpentking789]

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Huh... okay then, now I understand why she was confused. I mean, you'd think a spell called "Gate" would create a portal to somewhere or make a temporary opening in a wall.

Now the better question is "Why the fuck does a spell that summons a high-level demon not have a more straightforward name?" Maybe something like, oh I don't know, "Summon Balor/Balrog"?

[H3lios]

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Technically thats what it does, it created a portal to another plane. But in older versions of D&D it was used mainly to summon the strongest of planar entities like balors. Thing about the gate spell, it doesnt in any way put the traveler under the casters control so when using it to call a balor, its best to just cast it and run.