While she'd become a ruler, he'd become an ambassador. Many a previously isolated community had reacted with shock to a young dragon strolling into town, announcing himself a representative of Equestria, and yet he often made that shock work for him, turning it into a sense of intrigue and using it to get the creatures he met to listen to what he was saying. He'd been making friends all over, and more than once, the curious creatures who Ember had found gazing at the volcanoes in wonder had admitted to her that it'd been him who'd put the idea in their head.