Talk:Rainbow Dash/@comment-7737993-20140810201134/@comment-10390252-20140811181720

This fits in with my fanon that pure-blood Pegasi are traditionally not raised by their birth families. Once they are fledged, they are taken 'under the wing' of a mature Pegasi, who teaches them flight and the ancient arts of war. The objective of this tradition (which dates way back to centuries before the first Hearth's Warming) is that a Pegasi warrior's alliegance is to his or her whole people, not any specific clan or family.

That said, remember that the various canon of MLP Gen 4 are not always the same. Just because Blaze is Dash's mentor in the CCG, does not mean that this is the case in the comics and show continuity.