Talk:Siege of the Crystal Empire/@comment-36752332-20190409114426/@comment-29981995-20190409202635

I actually had an idea. Basically, Siege takes place just as it occurred in this arc. Sometime afterwards, Grogar begins really putting together his plans for an evil alliance. Using a more subtle version of the amnesia magic that affected the Crystal Ponies, he blocks everybody’s memories of the events of Siege. He then creates a clone of Sombra as he was at the time of his defeat at the end of The Crystal Empire, with no knowledge of Hope still being alive to motivate his eventual reform.

This is based on the storybook line that Grogar is powered by fear, which Sombra would generate more of if he was remembered only as a cruel tyrant. Having an evil Sombra show up after he’d reformed would cause more confusion than fear. The only involved ponies not targeted for the block are good Sombra and Hope, who are off who knows where looking for Amore’s fragments.