Talk:Crystal Empire/@comment-5581937-20130916091057/@comment-26973802-20131006055041

Here's a thought. Nightmare Moon was clearly established to be banished for a thousand years, but not precisely. We don't know what time of year it was that Celestia banished Nightmare Moon, but she escaped on the longest day of the thousandth year, not on the precise thousand-year marker. King Sombra could have been months before that. Maybe Discord came somewhere in between, since Celestia and Luna didn't seem to be wielding the Elements against Sombra like they did when they turned Discord to stone