Talk:Hearth's Warming Eve/@comment-27578467-20161008073241

Huh, just noticed something. At the beginning Spike says the story takes place "long before the peaceful reign of Celestia", but then Clover the Clever talks about Starswirl the Bearded as being her mentor. At least in the comics (which I know aren't technically cannon) Starswirl is depicted as being alive in the early days of Celestia's reign, so if he was old enough to be a mentor at a time long before Celestia's reign...

Then again I'm not terribly invested in making sense of the backlore, I just happened to notice that.