It was as if entire sections of history ceased to exist. One record recalled the birth of the pony race in the near mythical Valley of Dreams but did not recall what caused the races to leave it and become disunited. Another record recalled the union of the three tribes but was blank for dozens of pages before recording the birth of the Empire and the alicorns. Indeed, despite claims of having ruled over the known world, the most complete maps of the empire at its fullest extent never showed anything further west than the Black Isles, nor anything further east than the distant coasts of the Arybans and the continent the Zebra call home. There was just too much Masquerade knew for a fact that neither her empire, nor the kingdoms of the present, did not know.