Talk:Princess Cadance/@comment-25969955-20150104231340/@comment-10390252-20150108160418

To quote Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner - "It means what it is".

IIRC, in The Crystal Heart Spell, Cadance's parents were exiles in a non-Equestrian pony city called Marelan (obviously a pastiche of Milan). I think that there is a definite policy of making everything about her pseudo-Italian, although not Italian enough for there to be seeming hidden messages.

Remember that her name isn't Italian; it's Marelanese, which just sounds Italian.