Talk:What Lies Beneath/@comment-1031724-20181118224151/@comment-1031724-20181119040047

True, she represents the light side, but it still freaks me out a bit that she put them in a test that will kill them if they fail, either by starvation or being crushed in Gallus's case.

Of course now they've been recognized by her she empowered them to save Equestria once, and will likely do so again to defeat Tirek when he and Cozy Glow inevitably escape Tartarus (and knowing the Tree, this is likely to give us another glorious (and overdue) villain death with him, maybe even Chrysalis after 7 years of waiting). But the Young Six would have died if they failed the test that won them this recognition, unless the Tree was only bluffing, but even if she was, there's still Gallus.