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With it having been about 4 months since Secrets of the Dragon’s Tear ended and plenty of comics since then that follow-up on what was revealed in the story. What the story brought to this blog is probably big enough to justify an all new FAQ page to itself. I do have an FAQ page already that’s more then 7 years old (But have been updated accordingly after Return to Saddle Arabia and with Ain’t Never Had Friends Like Us). But I imagine what’s been added to since SOTDT started and how it’s still generally had a large effect on the direction of this blog going forward it’s important to get the important points out there.

This FAQ page also serves as a sort of “Secrets of the Dragon’s Tear — tl;dr (Too long didn’t read) edition” to help others that I understand may not have the time to read a 32 chapter story… (Even if course there may be a decent amount of text. But there was a lot of important stuff in the story that it’s hard to tl;dr it any more then this) Most of what’s important is just in the final 12 chapters of the story. Although the first 20 help give some proper context on how things get to where they do. And some of what happens in the first 20 may eventually get followups too, just they don’t have as much of an immediate impact compared to the last 12.

I do however at least want to answer one right here on this post (it’ll be repeated in the FAQ to make sure it’s seen either way. But figured I’d answer something of a misconception (Mostly in some of the comments on the Derpibooru versions of some images)

Do you think any of the things in the story is canon for real?

No, I have never ever said I believe things that are canon to this story are also canon to the show. That would be impossible. A lot of the stuff revealed will seem crazy to those looking at it from a first glance. Just think about it like this: I don’t believe Sunset Shimmer is Starlight’s mother (And her being deceased for that matter too) is canon anymore then I believe Twilight is a genie in canon. They’re both just aspects of this blog, and I have no intention of making people believe that it’s the case outside of the blog. It’s just the direction I decided to take the story based on certain factors that will be somewhat detailed in the rest of this FAQ

I understand the confusion for anyone who just randomly comes across a recent comic without having seen the story. Perhaps adding to the confusion results from this blog having been very canon-adjacent for the longest time in which it’s implied most of what happens in Seasons 3-9 happens nearly the same way in most cases. This story however takes place after the show (Or perhaps more specifically, after the final two-parter, and before the flashback parts of The Last Problem about Twilight’s coronation becoming the sole ruler of Canterlot)

Yes, some particular parts of the future seen in The Last Problem are going to be quite different as a result of this story too. Though not different enough that the general point of the episode is all that different. Will you get to see the future shown in The Last Problem as it happens in i Dream of Twilight Sparkle? All I’ll say is… maybe ;)

But anyway, The intent of making the story was to cover most of the remaining holes to get a complete picture of all 9 seasons tied together for the purpose of the future of this blog. From how Spike’s egg got to Equestria, just about anything to do with Starlight Glimmer, and more. The fact that it answers some of that stuff may also contribute to the misconception that maybe I think some of this is how it is in canon. But I repeat, it’s only the direction I decided to take a certain aspect of the blog’s story. It only answers what the blog’s answers are for the missing info in the show. Most of this stuff is now up to fan fictions to answer. And it should be expected to be wildly different between fiction to fiction

There are small cases where the blog has differed from canon before, such as Trixie being good friends with Twilight prior to No Second Prances (To the point that Twilight would actually have had no such problems with Starlight becoming friends with her). It’s just now that the blog takes place in a post-show atmosphere, thus everything that’s all new is not going to be based on much of anything canon with little-to-nothing to go on but educated guesses and/or storylines I feel would be fun to pursue

So before more people put words in my mouth that I’m trying to push the blog’s story as canon should pay heed to what I have to say here and just treat it as any other Alternate universe fanfic/story. Even if in this case, a lot of what happened in the show still happened (The only huge cut is the fact the Equestria Girls movies/series did not happen. Which barely got a significant mention in the show anyway)