Twilight you know Clover the Clever was a student of Starswirl so he had to be alive before her. Starswirl didn’t die until after Luna was banished. Therefore what Celestia just told you must be a lie because Starswirl survived all of this.
“The play also leaves out quite a bit of internecine warfare. The unicorns tried to summon Lavan the All-Smelter to reduce their foes to greasy burnt patches upon the land, but Chancellor Puddinghead beat them to it.”
“What!?”
“I chose the cast for a reason, Twilight.”
The correct, boring answer of course is that each pony faction is just represented by two characters, since you can’t have thousands of extras on the stage.
Celestia you ass. C’mon Twilight you should be able to figure out it’s just a fictionalized version of the events. Based on a true story, etc, didn’t actually happen that way.
The base summaraization of all George R.R. Martin media.
“What!?”
“I chose the cast for a reason, Twilight.”
Unless you are staging a really grand play, of course. but you’ll need a bigger stage. and a bigger budget too.
Cruelarious?