Talk:Stygian/@comment-25559529-20171029194140/@comment-33230757-20171117135000

They planted the Tree very early in the days of the Pillars. Their "abscence" doesn't necessarily mean "when we're stuck in limbo." They could have planted the tree just for when they grew old and died. So we don't know that they planted the tree because of the Pony of Shadows.

Also, I don't think the same writer would write two separate legends about two ponies of Shadow. It also could explain Star Swirl's banishment of Stygian so hastily. He would find hard to trust Stygian because Luna, someone he thought loved and cared for like a daughter, turned evil and got sent to the moon.