Crucial information.

I should probably stop posting chapters after midnight. Somehow I forgot to add in the most important part of all. I have just made an addition to the author's notes at the bottom of the new chapter, but I repost it here for those of you who have read the chapter already.

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: The Queen of the Golden Sands.
The Mared has been added to the procession of fallen shadows in The Education of Clover the Clever chapter 7: Crisis of Infinite Star Swirls.

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BONUS ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Unity Through Revenge
Revenge makes strange bedfellows of the unlikeliest of allies. The Queen of the Sands. Tirek, The Mother Of Spiders. The Galloping Gruncid Glartch. The citizens of Saddle Arabia. The villagers of the Zebra Kingdoms. The Court Nobles of Everhold. Mrs Sunny Daisy, whose potted prize-winning namesakes became the unwilling test subjects of Star Swirl's new Anamorphic Spell. They all linger together in the Rift, discussing ways to redress the various wrongs Star Swirl perpetuated against them.

Star Swirl made countless enemies across Equus, and with the additional inventions of the Mirror Portals and the Time Travel Spell, across the entirety of the Multi-verse and time itself. They are all joined together in one mind by the overwhelming desire to punish Star Swirl. Many Equestrian theoretical physicists, cosmologists, and thaumotologists believe "Revenge Against Star Swirl" is now one of the fundamental forces of the multi-verse along with "Friendship/Love/Harmony", "Strong Force", "Electromagnetism", "Weak Force", "Gravitation", and "Gleep".

Back in Equestria, many Equestrian historians have theorised that the rapid restoration and thaumoturgical renaissance of the Zebra Confederacies and the Saddle-Arabian Caliphate after their cataclysmic environmental upheaval and devastating civil wars was due in part to their cease-fire and subsequent alliance precipitated by their desire to band together and (try to) punish Star Swirl...

[Daedalus Aegle]

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*Applause*

I'm reminded of something I wrote in the comments to chapter 9 of Clover the Clever:

Star Swirl's abilities as a diplomat are highly underrated. He was able to unite all the great nations of this time period in agreement upon this statement, which I have been asked to present: "We, the Global Community, reject unanimously that wanting to kill Star Swirl the Bearded necessarily makes us evil. Seriously, have you met this guy?"

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I wrote in the comments to chapter 9

Ah HA!

That is where it was! I remembered reading something to that effect, which is what inspired my previous comment. I looked high and low through the story text of Clover and Crown for it to no avail...

[Daedalus Aegle]

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Oof, always annoying when that happens. Or when you can't remember the exact wording of something, and none of the things you search for hit anything

I've just spent all evening writing up some story notes for this storyline, as a little extra juice to post along with the epilogue. The notes amount to 1300 words

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've just spent all evening writing up some story notes for this storyline, as a little extra juice to post along with the epilogue. The notes amount to 1300 words

Looking forward to it.
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Now you just have to beat those notes into submission...
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[Daedalus Aegle]

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The notes are fine, I think, but the epilogue itself... I want to give it one more round of editing before I post it. Because I am a glutton for punishment.