My theory on the mysterious merchant of the displaced stories · 7:16pm March 18th
the merchant seen at the beginning of the animated "Aladdin" was Genie in disguise. So if a Genie, an elemental spirit with phenomenal cosmic powers doomed to live in an Itty bitty living space can disguise themselves as a humble merchant, what's preventing a spirit of chaostrapped in stone from manifesting in another reality and bringing random bronies to Equestria sometimes to help other times to stir things up. Whatever the wayward Q or Lord of Chaos gets something to do while being a bird