On Echoes of the Past · 12:21am Jan 10th, 2021
There was a time, I'm really quite sure, when new comics didn't take so long to reach my door.
But I admit it can send a couple days down the chute that I no longer check the mail after each evening commute.
In any case, I now have issue #92, and so talk about it is what I shall do.
I'm not one to ignore an explicitly stated moral (unless it's plain wrong and demands quarrel) and so there's a lesson I clearly must rhyme: friendship is a magic unbound by species, place, or time. It's found in all lands, from the highest mountains to the desert sands, and with the proper effort it's never truly lost, even when it seems it's been crumpled up and tossed.
But of course you want to talk about our favorite crystal tree, apparently just one of a five-part Harmony. It's—well, it was—in the Forest Temple, no doubt, which still leaves the Mountain Temple as one we know little about. I don't like to look ahead at all, so I don't know when the next part of this saga will fall, but presumably we'll see that temple soon once we catch up with Dash's crew's balloon. Beyond these three there should be a Cavern Temple with the diamond dog tribe, and the Abyssinian temple that I lack a guess about how to describe.
But what I do not yet see is how there came to be five Trees of Harmony; friendship may not be tied to any particular face, but the Equestrian Tree was created by a specific group in a specific place. Did others copy the seed and plant it where they felt there was need? Does the presumed original Tree have magic far beyond normal shoots so as to replicate itself far beyond its roots? Were the Pillars of Equestria but one team to receive this idea such that they thought it was their own dream?
And who is this temple-monitoring group; are they creatures we want in the loop? I hate to be suspicious, but with how little we know, I have no choice but to ask whether they are friend or foe. Do they have a sixth display, or are they hiding in some temple somewhere out of the way?
I love Somnambula, I do not fake, but one shouldn;t emulate her vis-a-vis getting eaten by a snake.
One will note that 'Shy was too craven to pose for the mysterious temple wall engraving.
Do you think there's pictures of non-Equestrian heroes somewhere, or is Equestrian cultural supremacy always in the air?
It's odd that Crystal winds up facing only four trees in the picture above the basin. Four is aesthetically pleasing, true, but five's aesthetically pleasing too.
Okay, yeah, I'm getting really tired of this, so I'm done.
Oh god, poor Silverstream and the Seaquestrians, they're going to have to deal with the water temple level!