Talk:Shadow Play - Part 2/@comment-1031724-20180515201251/@comment-29981995-20180604194021

Or Tirek could have been defeated before the Pillars were formed. Remember, Twilight's Kingdom merely says that Scorpan warned the Princesses about Tirek and Tirek ended up in Tartarus; it never says exactly how he was defeated. The Princesses could have been younger than their storybook depiction made them out to be. I could see Star Swirl having a hand in it, since he seems to have patented the "let's imprison the bad guy and hope they don't break out in a thousand years" method.