Talk:Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2/@comment-24223616-20140522070405/@comment-7345250-20140522071131

I think Celestia was exaggerating about that part. With consideration to the comics, Starswirl understood friendship very well, but he did not understand love. He alone stood between Celestia and her lover, and so she may still resent that side of him; thus she remarked that he misunderstood more than just her passion. Moreover, the comics indicate that Starswirl spent all of his time on his magic mirrors, so it is likely that he abandoned the spell book early on. Had he not found a series of alternate universes, he might have become an Alicorn himself.