Have some Fanfic Fuel · 9:00pm Oct 28th, 2017
Finale spoilers.
So, Stygian stole the relics of the Pillars and attempted to perform a ritual that would let him take on their powers... And then he becomes the Pony of Shadows and seemingly chooses to take on the form of a dark alicorn...
Hmmmmm....
To quote the thinker from the flash...'I'm thinking'
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you are missing some things thoe he talked to the shadow as he said something is responsible for all of this
lunas fall to nightmare moon is another example soemthign is a living example of dark magic and spreading corruption
They did appear to be prototype Elements of Harmony, especially given how they were used against the Pony of Shadows.
well...not necessarily
Stygian's side of the story is coming out in the next LoM* comic soooo there might be another explanation.
(I may be wrong)
*legends of magic
Yeah; I'm expecting for Stygian to turn out to be the Sunburst to Star Swirl's Twilight Sparkle - A brilliant scholar but without spectacular power to back that up. Maybe the Alicorn Ascension spell was something that Star Swirl and Stygian were working on together and, when Star Swirl ran into the road-block of not understanding the Magic of Friendship, he gave up. Stygian wasn't about to give up and went down an ill-advised path to try to circumvent the spell's failure.