I devoted myself to studying the magic of text: mastering Haycartes’s Method, inverting it to bring fiction into reality, and even devising my own spell of perfect redaction. It erases not only a book, but also all the knowledge ponies have learned from it. I intended to erase the Pony of Shadows from recorded history. After all, if he weren’t remembered, none would know of him to try to beckon him back into this world, and so he would truly be banished from Equestria once and for all.