Talk:The Crystalling - Part 1/@comment-25270260-20160326205546/@comment-182470-20160326220125

If you're that unsettled by how this episode seemingly screws around with alicorn lore, allow me to put those worries to rest with these points:


 * The Journal of the Two Sisters says that the original two alicorns, Celestia and Luna, were around long before Equestria came to be. When they were surprised, they weren't saying a natural alicorn birth was flat-out unheard of; simply that it's never happened in Equestria. So, assuming Celestia and Luna are indeed pure-born alicorns, this could possibly even suggest that alicorn-kind may not be entirely of this world.
 * When Rarity said she thought alicorns needed to complete a task in order to earn their wings, she wasn't speaking out of alicorn expertise. Up until Magical Mystery Cure, she said she'd never known of any case where a regular pony like Twilight became an alicorn. Clearly she was unfamiliar with Cadance's backstory, which is present in Twilight and the Crystal Heart Spell, and acknowledged by the show's staff during one of their SDCC panels. Not only that, but Cadance was originally a Pegasus, meaning she had to earn her horn, not her wings. So no, Rarity is no alicorn expert; she was simply stating her own second-hand experience with them.