"It is vast improvement, Twilight Sparkle. I saw your rehearsal of the Hearth's Warming story. The world was very different than what you showed. Your view has been skewed by a cultural perspective of years of peace and tolerance. The reality was darkness of a most malicious nature. Life was different back then, Twilight. It only started to resemble what you would recognise as pony life after Equestria was formed. Even then, it was not until after Discord fell that we were able to shape the social fabric to something you would be familiar with today."