Talk:The Crystalling - Part 1/@comment-26168272-20160328173616

A lot of people are talking about how this episode supposedly "proves" that Celestia and Luna are ascended alicorns, which contradicts The Journal of the Two Sisters. I don't think so.

In the book, "The Journal of the Two Sisters," it says that: A.) Celestia and Luna were alive before Equestria's founding, and B.) That they were born alicorns, but by the time they became the princesses, they were pretty much the only alicorns left (with it specifically saying that they were raised by alicorns, but no mention of exactly where those other alicorns went).

This leads me to believe that the two can be reconciled as such: The reason Celestia and Luna said what they said is because they weren't born in circumstances that were ever recorded or researched by the other pony races because it was before the commoner ponies ever interacted with alicorns, and they don't know anything about it because you obviously can't learn anything about the unique properties of your race's births if you were abandoned during such an early point in your childhood and had no one to explain (people don't exactly remember their own births, and Celestia could have been too young to be clued in on anything about Luna's).