I've been following Jordan179 for a while now, mostly to read his excellent world-building blog posts. In his posts, he often comments on how things work in "his" Equestria, the Equestria of the Shadow Wars universe; a universe which depicts the conflict between the ponies we know and love, and malevolent cosmic entites. Since I've been curious about it for so long, I decided to start reading the Shadow Wars 'verse, by order of publication... and since I'm reading them, why not comment as I go?

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This is an essay I wrote shortly after the premiere; it still contains most of my thoughts about Starlight Glimmer, so I thought it would be worth posting. Worth noting is that this was originally posted on another website; I've edited it to take account of that, but apologies if some context has been lost.

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I've been following Jordan179 for a while now, mostly to read his excellent world-building blog posts. In his posts, he often comments on how things work in "his" Equestria, the Equestria of the Shadow Wars universe; a universe which depicts the conflict between the ponies we know and love, and malevolent cosmic entites. Since I've been curious about it for so long, I decided to start reading the Shadow Wars 'verse, by order of publication... and since I'm reading them, why not comment as I go?

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I've been following Jordan179 for a while now, mostly to read his excellent world-building blog posts. In his posts, he often comments on how things work in "his" Equestria, the Equestria of the Shadow Wars universe; a universe which depicts the conflict between the ponies we know and love, and malevolent cosmic entites. Since I've been curious about it for so long, I decided to start reading the Shadow Wars 'verse, by order of publication... and since I'm reading them, why not comment as I go?

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During Testing Testing 1, 2, 3, we got the names of a few famous Wonderbolt commanders, such as General Firefly and Admiral Fairy Flight. Among the names thrown at Rainbow Dash (and the audience) was a commander Easyglider, a pony who was responsible for creating a lot of the choreography used by the Wonderbolts, both then and now.

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So, I want to re-read it, so I can give a proper review/analysis, but that doesn't stop me from making a recommendation, right?

Right. So in the spirit of such, I just want to say that, if you haven't read Flash Fog by Kwakerjack, you really should. It's a great piece, and one of my favorites of this site.

So... the Shadowbolts appear in the second part of the pilot as a temptation for Rainbow Dash, before vanishing in a burst of purple smoke. They were another example of Nightmare Moons Magic (like her altering the trees and making the cliff collapse), so there might not be much more to them.
I prefer my idea.

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...because she read the Daring Do books?

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...named Skull?

I mean, this isn't a headcanon or anything. I'm just surprised that a fandom which is so crazy for references as this one hasn't got a pony Bulk and Skull.

...because Suri lied about her past in Ponyville?

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