Feels like a made up history of each race. Especially the Changelings, whom didn’t even have any civilized culture prior to their “purification”.
Unless however, there was a point in time before Chrysalis where the Changlings did have one. Or there may have been other Changeling hives elsewhere.

what

@northern haste
 
I don’t read the comics but I don’t think the holes could have been from the Starweral.

@Shepherd  
When exactly?

The storyboard art also has a little more detail on Gallus’ “fingers”.

@Inkan1969
 
I think that’s already out the window.

@Background Pony Number 17
 
But that fan theory would be contrary to the Changeling origin story in the comics.

@Masem  

 
Good thing

@Danilo  
@Background Pony #8C66
 
There’s a fan-theory that the “new changeling” look is actually their original appearance. According to this theory, the changelings we’ve seen from “A Canterlot Wedding” to “To Where and Back Again” are actually a corrupted form of the species, caused by Queen Chrysalis’s evil magic. Thorax learning how to share love rather than just absorb it like a parasite caused him to revert back to his “true self”.
 
So far there’s no indication the fan-theory will become canon, but you never know; it’s possible.

King grover

@Background Pony #8C66  
Let’s say you have a new background artist, hired S7, and you tell them “Give us a queenly portrait for the changelings”, with the only examples they know they are working with being the reformed ones. I could easily see that being a possible mistake.
 
It was clearly caught before the full production was made.

Why would they even consider having a new changeling there? The rest of the painting are what actually appear in-show, so it’s not just a crudity for the sake of an animatic. Why did it get as far as it did?

very good change, it would really makes no sense if was the new changeling look