Talk:From the Shadows/@comment-36752332-20190423143941/@comment-29981995-20190423195119

We don’t know when exactly this comic takes place; all we know is that it’s some time before Uncommon Bond, as the book which depicts the Pony of Shadows at the end is presumably Star Swirl’s journal which Sunburst obtains in that episode. As for why Starlight would have gone to Canterlot, who knows? Maybe this arc takes place at the same time as the Legends of Magic issue where she visits Sunburst there. Or it could be something else entirely; Starlight has a life outside of hanging out with the Mane 6, and presumably there are plenty of things somepony might want to do in Canterlot that you can’t do in Ponyville.