Talk:Dragon Quest/@comment-25559529-20160704225516

I've seen people have a problem with how Twilight can't find a book about dragons because they're so "rare".

I don't. What did we know about dragons in MLP before this episode? They are long-lived, they can grow based on greed. In this episode, we learn that they migrate every year.

The first one we know because of a letter Celestia sent to Twilight, and Celestia is who knows how many millennia old. And I believe Lauren Faust once stated that the reason Celestia raised Spike was just to learn more about dragons.

The second one we know because of Zecora, who, much like Celestia, knows a lot of stuff our heroines don't.

And the third one is just something ponies observe; there's not much they can learn from simply watching them migrate. Dragons appear to be lazily reclusive -- at least, adult dragons (apart from Torch) do.

In fact, in the first episode, Fluttershy, the animal expert, says that she didn't know such a basic thing as the fact that dragons could talk.